The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-09-21
Compromise Never Pays

IF our foresight could be as good as our hindsight we
would know appeasement and comprise with eVa neVe, pays
and we'd certainly be q lou Detter oii-as uisNuu" INV
: This fact is brought to mind in reading Fruits Of Folly"
by DIR. Alfred P. Haake, mayor OF Park Ridge, Ill, ana al
noted economist, business consultant, lecturer and author.
DR.. Haake asks: "Who would have thought, twenty years
wears ago, that the failure of Secretary OF Stimson TO WIN
he support Of England and the subsequent taking over Of
Manchuria by Japan in violation of international agreement,
would start 2 train OF events vent ie aatings 70 md 2 no ssc to the he
ginnings of a third world war, with Russia and America final
ly locked in a struggle to the death for one or the otner!
"Yet that is precisely what happened the day we pulled
in our horns and let Japan have her way with Manchurla.
"Mussolini needed room for expansion. He hesitated, but
when he saw how easily Japan got away with her aggression
in Manchuria he plucked up enough courage to go ahead. he
could still have been stopped, but France refused to stand
with England, just as England had previously refused to
stand with the United States, and Mussolnl had MS war. he
took over Ethiopia.
Hitler bluffed Chamberlain at Munich. He saw Mussoini
win out in his fluff, and himself went ahead with Czecho-
slovakia and Poland, made his deal with Russia, and the Sc
cond world war was really on. Russia took her half of help
less Poland, all but ruined Finland, then Germany turned on
Russia, and the Bear became the pet of America The COM
munistc movement became respectable and even Christian
in the eyes of Russia-fond Americans.
I'VE let Russia have Berlin, although our boys got there
first. We gave Russia a free ticket to the Baltic states. In
the infamous deal at Yalta, we turned faithless on China and
gave Russia the nod to work her will in that country. The
American people were not told, of course, and a number of
years had to elapse before the truth became known.
$50 Russia emerged the favored giant, supposedly our
Friend" the champion of a new democracy" Capitalism
was held up to scorn in our own country by many of the elite
and even Christian ministers Joined in seriously proposing
aco-mingling of capitalism and communism as the new econo-
mic system of America.
Then Russia. grown strong on the diet we fed her
steel, copper, tanks, ships and God knows what not-ap
parently deliberately embroied us in the blockade in Berlin
While we flew our planes back and forth into Berlin, Russia
was taking over China. She has her eyes on India, Persia anc
other spots, but apparently Germany is next on the time
schedule.
$50, thanks to a somnambulant Department of State. we
are now being kept busy with a costly and likely to be long
drawn-out struggle with Russiainspired and equipped
North Koreans-while Russia prepares to have her Nazi
trained German Communists in East Germany take over thu
rest of Germany.
"Then,-other diversions" to keep the United State:
busy. piing up her national debt and grinding her way Il
ecOnmic depression, while Russia husbands her strength q
gainst that great day when she can pounce on a war-wor1