Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-03-26
Behind The
Scenes In
Politics
By
Clayton
Rusch
Toledo
CIO
Legislative Director

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dawned. The a omic age
opened. Ushered in through
research intended to brini
World War II to a speedy anc
final conclusion.
While the war was still go
ing on the basis was laid fol
the organization of the United
Nations. It was recognized a
the time that defensive weap-
ons could not insure worlc
peace. This point was effec-
lively brought home by re-
ports from areas devastated
by the two atomic bombs that
were dropped on Japan.
At present the people who
control the destiny of the
world are tending to overlook
a very important fact. Namely,
that the atomic age antiquities
standing armies, navies and
air force and renders them
obsolete.
This is not only the atomic
age. 1t is also the age of bac-
THEOLOGICAL warfare. This
method of waging war is
equally destructive, cost much
less and requires much less
facilities than the production
of atomic bombs.
1t is also a recognized fact
that the means of producing
atomic bombs cannot long re-
main the sole possession of
the United States.
Yet like, many people who,
continued to think in the horse
and buggy era while living in
the mechanical age, the polit-
ical leaders of the world to-
day are acting as though the
atomic age had not yet
dawned upon us.
Until recently we could
argue that the leaders made
the wars and the people had
to fight them. In modern
warfare there are no mon
combatants."
WORLD WAR III
In World War III bombs
will inevitably be dropped on
industrial as we'll as military
centers.
Whether or not anyone can
win World War III is a de-
batable question. Whether or
not civilization can survive
World War III is also debat-
able with most of the evidence
supporting the negative.
Therefore, it would seem to
me that the answer cannot be
armaments or armed forces.
1t is of course a cold fact
that force is necessary to
maintain peace. The predatory
must respect the rights of So
ciety, but this force must be
a world police force, directed
by a world federation and not
the armed forces of individual
nations.
The only way to world
peace is to reorganize the
structure of the United Ma
tions to make war impossible.
This will require abolition of
the veto and the substitution
of majority rule, with each
delegate C arryi n G votes in
proportion to the number of
people represented.
1t will be necessary that the
tions concede
enough of their sovereignty to
make the United Nations an
world federation.
The nations of the world
have the same choice today.
short of the establish
nent of an effective world
federation of nations can stop
the next war.
The only argument ever put
forth against this program is,
How do we stop the spread
Of totalitarian Communism"
The answer cannot be a
world war in which everybody
oses' There is a better an
wer. Democracy is a better
ystem than totalitarianism.
We who believe in it must
make it work by inSuring in
Iustrial as we'll as political
democratic rights to our
,eople.
Encircled by In dustrial
democratic nations the Soviet
Dictatorship will inevitably
,e defeated at home. The
United States can aid this pro-
ram by helping to prevent
tarvation in western Europe.
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