Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-04-16
Behind The
Scenes In
Politics
By
Rusch
Toledo
CIO
Legislative Director

mace JndC LneTe are many
roads that lead to hell but
only one leads to heaven. In
regard to the basic issue of
today, it can be said that there
are many roads that lead to
war, but only one that leads
to world peace.
Without casting any particu-
lar aspersions upon the Tru-
man administration, m n y
veterans organizations and
the many patriotic groups who
are convinced that our saliva
ton is armed might, we can
be assured that conscripted or
voluntary armed forces and
huge armaments will not pre-
vent the outbreak of war.
There have been great ar
mament programs in the past
that were supported as an eff
fective means of preventing
war, but history shows us that
these program resulted not in
peace, but in war.
On the other hand, the sug-
gestion that the United States
simply refrain from building
adequate forces for its own
defense and take no steps to
insure world disarmament is
a very impractical one. We
can accpet as true, the con-
clusion that neither the for
stering of a huge armaments
program, nor the lack of ade-
quate defenses can do any
thing at all to stop the COM
ing World War III. We can
also accept as true the con-
tention that atomic bombs and
meteorological warfare, being
what they are, the next war
may be a victory for no one
and a defeat for mankind.
OTHER ERRORS
Ultimatums, threats, recri-
limitations and maneuvers do
not constitute the road to
peace either.
There are some who raise
the issue that totalitarian Rus
sia must be destroyed because
that nations theology conflicts
with that of the rest of the
world. The answer to that
argument is easy. The way to
defeat the totalitarian bureau
cracy in Russia is to prevent
the leadership from having
the opportunity to hide do
mestic failures by diverting
attention to foreign adventure.
AS soon as a successful or
ganization to preserve world
peace is established, the Soviet
clique will face rebellion at
home and Stalin's goose is
cooked.
The way to world peace
after all is a simple one, al
though the b a C ! es are
many. A world federation in
which the affiliated nations
concede enough of their SOW
ereignty to make it function
is the only possible solution.
1t is possible that sufficient
changes can be made in the
structure of the United Ma
tions to develop it into such a
world federation. A World
federation which directs the
worlds only armed, force is
the only plan that can work.
History offers an important
example for our guidance. In
the year from 1888 to 1889
there was every chance that
the former English colonies
upon the Atlantic seaboard
would disintegrate into a
group of quarreling states.
Then in 1889 the Constitution
was drafted, and the United
States became a Nation.
FEDERATION
IT is equally important to-
day, that the nations of the
world become a federation.
Under such federation the
principle of the veto, wherein
one dissentent delegate can
thwart the will of the major
ity, will be abolished. Only
under a world federation will
be possible. The
point need not be labored that
the same roads that lead to
war also lead, in all probabil-
ity, to the destruction of civil
ization.
The road to peace requires
the establishment of an effec-
tive world federation of ma
tions. There are many roads
that lead to war, but only one
leads to world peace.
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