Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-28

/ think - and hope - that the Korean
situation will eventually be solved Our forces
in Korea with what meager assistance they
shall receive from other U.N. nations will
win and restore peace in that unfortunate land.
The North Koreans - with their unjustified
attack repelled beyond the 38 parallel - will
have to behave themselves. The guns will be
silenced again. And then the world will again
resume its jittery, uneasy "truce.' How long
that "truce" shall last? How soon thereafter
guns will roar again in some other part of the
world? These are the questions that bring me
back to President Reuther's suggestion that /
discussed above
For am convinced that no single nation
on earth - including our own mighty U.S.A.
- can properly "police" the rest of the world
And l am afraid that the proposals of Taft
and others tend to adopt that line - the line
to ''police" the entire globe.
nEMOCRACY, our kind of democracy, can
win only if masses of people everywhere
will support our program. And they will only
do that If democracy as we understand it re-
suits in improved standards of living for them
Unfortunately we will not be able to do
that unless we can give real and tangible as
sistance to these peoples that will result in
better life for them. And to do thatswe will
have to give them something else besides
guns =. something else beside powerful oc-
nize the aspirations of these people for bet
ter life for themselves not only on the eco-
nomic field, but on the political field as well.
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DRESIDENT REUTHER'S proposals drive in
that direction. He knows that we cannot
win this gigantic global struggle, unless we
shall win the minds, the willing support of
these people, So long as the Soviet Union is
able to win the minds of these masses of
colonial and backward peoples, so long we
shall have trouble.
Does this mean that we must permit our
military power to ebb to dangerous points?
Not at all. On the contrary by winning the
support of the masses of people - through
genuine economic and political assistance, by
helping t hem establish real freedom and
democracy our military strength would
develop to unprecedented power.
After all people are the most essential
ingredients of military power. Without people
there is no military power. Machines of war,
no matter how destructive, are harmless un-
less named by people.
We must remember however distasteful
to some, that the Legons of the Roman EN-
pire disintegrated when they could no longer
command the support of the peoples of their
far-flung empire.
And SO went the mighty Empire of Spain.
In recent history we witnessed the shrinking
of the British Empire for the same reason.
in Indo-China because the natives there have
had enough of French Colonial policy.
So 1t shall be with us. Unless, of course,
we are smart enough to learn from the bitter
fruits of history.
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FINALLY WE MUST remember. as Presi-
dent Reuther points out, that we must
provide well for our own people at home. We
must make our democratic system work. We
must be the beacon light for all people every
where That is impossible with laws like the
Taft-Hartley Act on our statute BOOKS that is
impossible if we permit witch-hunting and the
trampling of our democratic rights no matter
how well we may dry to camouflage such &C
tions with the bright garb of patriotism.
We cannot fool people Neither at home
nor abroad
The job ahead of our people is truly
gigantic accomplishments. That we have
proved during the last war. Well, we have to
prove it again.