Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-22
The Days Coming When
Workers Will Speak Out"
Reviewed BY Pete Zvara
Faith. Purpose And
Power
BY James p. Warburg, Farrar,
Straus and Co., 1S0pp. $500.

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FAITH, PURPOSE AND
POWER has been written in the
belief" the author tells us
frankly, "that a great number
of Americans entertain grave
doubts as to whether our pres
ent foreign policy, relying Chief
ly upon military power, can &C
tually lead to peace"
The answer to this hypothesis,
as far as Mr.. Warburg is con-
cerned, is a definite and positive
no. Throughout his b k he
hammers home one main point.
we cannot win peace through
war. Especially thr h an
atomic clash between the two
remaining great power-center:
on earth; the United States anc
the Soviet Union.
So. in anatomic war there
can be no such a thing as vic
tory and, after it, no hope of
just and honorable peace"
What form should our foreign
policy take? How can WI
achieve the goal that we are
supposed to be fighting for -
peace and prosperity for al
peoples?
g. to be successful" thu
author tells us, "a foreign polio,
must be primarily directed a
doing rather than preventing.
In other words, the us. mus
fight FOR rather than AGAINST
/, something, as it is doing today
J Ard that something is laid t,
other peoples, other a n d S il
their fight a 6 S t poverty
d S e a and hunger" Peopl
; must learn to understand tina
we are truly their friends; tina
! we want to alleviate their
. misery; that there is mo foo
> rotting in our buldging ware
houses while m i ] Ii S die O
starvation" that we want t
: bring peace to them. There ar
too many people in the worl
{ today, even in the nations out
5 side the Iron curtain" who fee
: that the US. wants to start a wa
J against the Soviet Union.
! Mr.. Warburg fears, and wit
! great justification, thai the i'm
j position of tremendous militar
burdens upon ourselves and on
e allies will drive us into bank
ruptcy -. or war. We canno'
| he feels, retard economic re
e covery in the rest of the worl
Y by demanding that these nation
divert their energies into a ne,
Y war effort. He feels that tn
. arming of Germany and Japa
will b o m e G against u!
A People are tired of war
' fear war;" he points out.
Ultimate peace, he feels, ca
$ only be reached through the es
/, tablishment of a world govern
: ment, through the United Ma
tons. There must be economi
: integration throughout tn
t world, or at least in countrie
(; outside the soviet orbit, IF Rus
STA refuses to come along"
e There are, of course, an
s number of questions that MI
Warburg leaves unanswered
t How can we integrate our fire
r enterprise capitalistic syster
4 with the controlled-to a create
or lesser extent - socialist syS
j TENS in other countries? HOY
l can we m i the hate
f colonial policy of some of on
e allies? How can we get our ow
Congress to give financial al
- without strings attached" =
a to these socialist governments?
i Mr. Warburg. quite aware {
this deficiency, tells us how Liz
s coin approached new and pei
picking problems.
THE d m a S of the quis
past" Lincoln said in 1862, "ar
inadequate in the stormy pre-
ent. The occasion is piled hig
with difficulty, and we must ris
to the occasion. AS our cas-
rev, so we must think anew an
act anew"
In any event Mr.. Warbur
b raises the most vital questions
n our time and his frank and luci
discussion should prove to /
highly interesting to y o n
I who cares about tomorrow.