The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-12
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Shooting poison arrows at Great
Britain would seem about the last
thing any sane person would want
to do in this atomic age. And YET
there are plenty who do it.
Take a look at the world. How
many really strong nations are
there?
When war began there were sew
| eral, although France was nowhere
near as strong as she seemed on
the surface.
But you can count at least
France, Italy, Germany, Great Bri-
tain, Russia and the United States
The Czechs and the Poles were
somewhat lesser lights in the
world picture.
Now you can count as top ma
tions only the United States and
Russia.
The British Commonwealth of
Nations is a factor and will re-
main a factor only if England can
be brought to recovery as sol
vent, going concern of well fed men
and women.
Are those who doubt that in
every large and vital issue the
United States and Great Britain
stand side by side?
If Britain is not brought back to
solvency, then the United States
stands with liability instead of
an asset by her side.
There are other things than war,
too, in which to view this situa-
ton.
For example, there is the organi-
zation called the United Nations.
1t can be doubted seriously wheth-
er the United Nations can be estab-
lished firmly and in time, without
a strong and capable Britain.
On every count we need-selfish
ly and idealistically-a sound and
strong Great Britain.
These two nations stand togeth-
er in their love of true freedom and
in their determination that the in
dividual person shall not become
the ward or slave of the state.
The united moral weight of these
two nations is vital to world pre-
servation and enlargement of free
dom!
1t is true that the Western Hem
isphere constitutes a great moral
alliance for freedom, but there are
flaws and great gaps in that alli-
ance. Argentina, for example, is at
best question mark and at worst
a definite menace.
Within the hemisphere structure
Argentina is building a bloc which
points in the direction of dictator
ship, with individual freedom
counting for too little.
A great part Of Latin America
will not be solidly in the freedom
bloc until generals and cliques can
no longer fight their way to pow
er and until the ballot is free
and is safeguarded in that freedom.
The fact is that to the south our
strongest ally is Mexico, but Mex
leo doesn't count heavily in the
world struggle between right and
left.
Eventually, in every form of cal
culation, we find it imperative that
we turn to Great Britain as an
ally and if worst
comes to worst, as our one capable
ally-IF Great Britain is
not reduced to a second grade
power by reason of sheer poverty.
We had best bear that fact in mind
Great Britain is on the brink
because of the blows she took in |
World War III.
Her wealth drained, her man.
power crippled, her landscape shat
tered, she really took it on the
hin. Britain stood in the pathway |
If tyrants, bleeding generously but
When we help Great Britain we
ire helping ouselves, too, in the
struggle toward a free world-and
We don't want to live in any world
lot free.
True, Great Britain has done
many things which we cannot ap-
prove. But that is, in the great pic
ure, neither here nor there. She
.lso has done many big and gen.
,rous things.
But the important thing is that
Britain does stand for human free
lom, for the rights and the dignity
# the individual and for the right
# the majority to determine issues.
You can look far for another
Importer whose weight counts
leavily in world councils. These
wo nations need each other, even
While they jibe at each other. They
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