The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-30

w al LII dS criminals. vi course,
the bulk of our people are not
criminals, but it is possible for
little handful of war mongers
Twain long ago pointed OUT"
The nation will rub its sleepy
eyes and try to make out why
there should be a war and will
say, earnestly and Indignantly,
1t is unjust and dishonorab1e
and there is no necessity for it,
The handful will shout louder.
and now the whole nation.
/ Will take up the war cry and
shout itself hoarse and mob any
! honest man who ventures to
open his mouth and presently
such mouths will cease to open.
Next the statesmen will invent
cheap lies, putting the blame on
the nation. that is attacked. and
every man will be glad of those
conscience soothing falsities."
IdIItFn RepedL1ng
This pattern a&Mark Twain
saw it SO years ago is repeating
itself on a scale So vast as to
threaten the destruction of hui
m anity. The rich monopolists
have always been more ready to
sacrifice their sons than their
money but now they have reach
ed the point where they are will
ing to sacrifice both for the sake
of world control.
| 1t just doesn't make sense.
The time has come for new
party to fight these war makers.
We say that peace is mandatory
and that it can be had if we
only want it.
Universal military training is
the first decisive step on the
road toward Fascisn. We shall
fight it to the limit and all Con-
gressmen who vote for it.
A new party must stand for
positive peace program of
abundance and security, not
scarcity and war. We can pre-
vent depression and war if we
only organize for peace in the
same comprehensive way we or
ganize for war.
personally was for the hu-
manitarian aspects of the Mar
shall Plan long before it was
announced. Because I saw the
postwar need Of helping human
beings, l was accused of want
ing a quart of milk for every
Hottentot. I pushed for help for
Greece against the opposition of
the administration eight months
before the Truman Doctrine was
announced. But I have fought
and shall continue to fight pro-
grams which give guns 70 people
when they want plows. I fight
the Truman Doctrine and the
Marshall Plan as applied be-
cause they divide Europe into
two warning camps Those
whom we buy politically with
our food will soon desert us.
They will pay us in the base
coin of temporary gratitude and
then turn to hate us because our
policies are destroying their
freedom.
Would Hem Russia
We are restoring Western
Europe and Germany through
United States agencies rather
than United Nations agencies
because we want to hem Russia
in. We are acting in the Same
way as France and England
after the last war and the end
result will be the same - con-
fusion, depression and war.
It just doesn't need to happen.
The cost of organizing for peace,
prosperity, and progress is in
finitely less than organizing for
war.
We who believe this will be
called ''Russian tools'' and
Communists" Let the fear
mongers not distort and becloud
the issues by name calling. We
are not for Russia and we are
not for Communism but we
recognize Hitlerite methods
when we see them in our own
land and we denounce the men
who engage in such name call
ing as enemies of the human
race who would rather have
World War III than put forth a
genuine effort to bring about a
peaceful settlement of differen-
ces.
One thing I want to make
clear to both Russia and the
United States peace requires
real understanding between our
peoples. Russia has as much to
gsin from peace as the United
States, and just as we here fight
against the spreaders of hate
and fa1sehood against Russia,
the Russian leaders can make 6
great contribution by restr ain
ing those extremists vino try to
widen the gap between our two
great countries.
Peace Necessary
I insist that the United States
will not be fully secure until
there is real peace between this
country and Russia and until
there is an International police
force stronger than the military
establishment of any nation, in
cluding Russia and the United
States. I am utterly against any
kind of imperialism or ex-
pansionism, whether sponsored
by Britain, Russia, or the Unit
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