Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05


sionism and depict
ed them all as in.
citements to war. ="
Now may / be
permitted to say something?
Just whom do they, or you, have
in mind who is qualified to make a
foreign policy that would keep our
country out Of war with Russia or
any combination of enemies?
We have had some great
scholars In the last 81 years and
yet they have led US into two
world wars already and we are
in danger Of being blown into a
third one. II takes no great gem
tus to get a country into war.
That third world war, if may be
permitted an opinion, would be the
end Of US as the Republic of the
United States Of America. If the
Russians didn't Obliterate New
York, Philadelphia and Washington
and all the heavy industrial centers
Of our East and MiddleWest, they
would break our economic and/or
financial system. Then we would 60
into an American version of the
anarchy that has been common in
much Of Europe since 1917 and 1918.
Emerging, we would be either
fascist or communist.
r,,J In their rough out
u"'" lines, I know the
for precedents as well
A.BOmb as anyone. know
the American people
better than most others do. because.
for many years, / have moved
around more. hope nobody is going
to say that Roosevelt knew them
us-better.
Wen, in a way he did, and that's
a fact.
He knew us in the way that .
sheepman sitting on a = corral
fence with a buyer, knows the
brutes in his pens. / know US as
one Of the brutes. have been
startled and chivVied this way
and that so often by a process
OF emergencies, as Roosevelt
came to call them, that don't
stampede any more.
II the Russians ever do let us
have the atom bomb / probably
won't even know what happened,
but neither will the rest Of them-us.
Now / suppose am being naive
in taking on this way about the
atom bomb. But know some gen.
erals who are just George Spelvin.
American, under their soldier suits
who almost cry over the blase in
difference Of the Americans to the
danger Of sudden war from the air.
Better spend the money for the
planes and men and assure our
selves a chance, l say, than save it
and be caught like sitting ducks.
Who are our experts in statesman
ship, world diplomacy and military
tactics?
Training wan 0e'iesSl ad,,oa.1 MaFshali
for V.M.I.. which is
Leaders about a junior-col-
Iege, at a time when
the smell Of war still hung over the
fields around. His foreign expert
ence in the Philippines as a second
lieutenant may be thrown out as
just a camping trip. He was fine
administrative officer under Perish.
ing in the first big war, and Perish.
ing liked him so wen that Marshall
was invited to negotiations and
scraps with the British, French and
Italians. That was good learning.
Marshall got a look at the weakness
and sordidness Of European soldiers
and politicians early enough in his
mature life to learn something by il
/ don't think he learned much
though. ...
He served three years in
China, as a TegimentaI soldier.
not a statesman, mind you, and
didn't make buck-geneFaI until
1885. All his larger experience
has come since 1888 and through
out this experience he has been
compromised by his subOrdina-
tiOn to the great statesman
whose GROWING achievement
was Pearl HarbOr.
What kind Of statesmen and diplo.
mats were working for our side?
Vandenberg is a respectable ps-
triot who went to high school and
the law department of the Univer.
sity Of Michigan" according TO
Who's Who. 1 take it that he got no
degrees, not that I would hold that
against him. Neither did Mr.. Tru.
man nor Lincoln. He was an editor
in Grand Rapids for % years and
he has been in the senate for 20
years.
Who else have we had? We had
pray for US, Joe Davies, aappinR his
wattles and scratching gravel
among the snickering Muscovites as
the husband Of the richest woman in
the world.