The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-03-13
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In these piping times of So
called peace suspicion fills the air.
The American people long for
an end of suspicion, but they, too,
will be suspicious until there is
good reason to lay suspicious on
the shelf.
A great deal of today's suspi-
cion is rampant among US because
of communism.
One of our generals tells US he
believes Russia is forming and
training a big army in Korea. We
don't get along with the Russians
in Germany. We don't get along
with them very well anywhere.
But we get along with them in
the United Nations Organization
better than anywhere else.
There is reason for that. The
United Nations Organization forms
a tribunal set up for the purpose
of threshing out matters and ar
irving at conclusions.
And, devoted as communists ara
to defiance Of public opinion
which is totally absent in Russia,
they do yield to it finally in the
tribunal of the United Nations.
That ought to show us that if
we have any hope of world OF
peace and order it is through the
United Nations.
Moreover, it ought to induce
some of our politicos to quit snip
ing and mud throwing where
United Nations issues are con-
cerned.
Unless we can arrive at settle
ment through the United Nations
we shall have a growth of sus-
picion that can only serve to pit
peoples more and more brazenly
against each other.
We have suspicious in our labor
movement, especially in the ClO.
They run deep and they are with
cause. We have suspicious through
out much of Latin America and
they are with cause.
The communist machine drills
and drills and is bound by no code
of ethics. 1.-THE end justifes the
means" is the red rule and there is
no other.
Communists cannot believe that,
for all we care, they can have
what they want within their own
borders, but that we will not have
their will forced upon US.
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1t is an American trait that if,
driven by deceit, double dealing
and dealing off the bottom of the
deck, the enemies of our freedom
endanger us enough we will in the
end fight back with whatever
weapons may be needed, even
though they be not democratic.
When the American people go
to war, at home or abroad, in de-
fense of freedom, they really go
to war and they go all out to win.
SO, while the air is filled with
the cacophonic echoes of deceit,
the foes of freedom might do well
to remember that deep-seated
American trait.
We have, within the frame work
of our institutions, private and
public, all of the machinery neces-
sary to the settlement of political
disagreements. If the communists
prefer intrigue, subtle infiltration
and double dealing, then in the end
they themselves may be beaten by
those same methods which we de-
test but can use in. dire extremity.
II -
There is no reaSon-nO valid
reason-why there should not be
peace on earth and decency among
nations. The United States covets
no ACKNOWLEDGMENT. The United
States has yielded more than some
of its citizens think it should yield.
This nation would yield much
more if it felt it would not be mis-
understood and regarded as
weakling seeking to buy tempor-
ary peace.
But it is tiring of yielding, only
to be misunderstood and it is tir-
ing, especially, of being ripped
from within by persons enjoying
the superior life of this nation
while clawing at its gizzard.
The communists have a habit of
yelling "red batting" at their
critics. This isn't red batting. 1t
is expressing a fact and truth.
If the communists want an end to
what they defensively call "bait-
ing" let them behave decently,
having due regard for the rights
and views of others and for the
fact that in this nation we have a
fairly won freedom which we do
not intend to exchange, through
force or otherwise, for the pow
erty-ridden, brain-confusing, des-
pot-ridden morass of communism.
That, let the communists under
stand, is statement which Amer