The guardian., 1951-02-17

Stockholm Peace Appeal. They
picked up and Jailed advocates
Of peace: they barred from our
shores foreign advocates, even
men of the highest reputation.
"F4i~hly placed public officials
ar ary men began openly
to that if the Russians
Wou ack us we would at
tack them to keep them from
attacking us. The wild man of
Tokyo, who remembers shooting
down World War veterans in
Washington, turned Korea into
a sinking desert, and received
the President of the United
States in audience. Whatever
they talked about, the result, if
Macarthur has his way, was
not peace now or ever, until we
seize China, conquer southeast
Asia, and drop atom bombs on
Moscow. Meantime, wave after
wave of our young men are be-
ing trained for murder and
Congress is on the verge of call
ing every youth in the land for
this purpose. We are set to lick
the world according to Eisen-
hover and Stassen, the educat-
ors of youth: Dewey and Han
ley the new brand of statesmen:
and Herbert Lehman supporting
notorious General Anders in
order to make out foreign in
vestment pay with oil, planes,
battleships and artillery. We
will restore Korea and when we
are through restoration with
taxes raised from our poor,
Lehman Brothers, bankers in
Boston, and like investors will
own everything in Korea worth
owning and will draw fabulous
profits from risks they never
took, after that we will rail at
Korea for not loving us for our
generosity while the Koreans
pay for democracy at so cents
day and no land. This is
what Europe sees us set for, in
contradiction to everything we
once profeSsed - liberty, free
speech, truth and justice. To
this our masters will lead us
unless you intervent: unless
right here and now you, the
voters Of the United States say
no. Enough of this hysteria,
this crazy foolishness.
"Our slow but steady descent
into belief in complete and uni
verSal war and our determine
ton to make all men agree with
what some believe. rather than
to let them exercise their free
American heritage of choosing
truth-this literal descent into
Hell in our day and in this our
own country has been so gradual
and complete that many honest
Americans cannot believe what
they actually hear and see: They
sit bewildered, rubbing their
eyes in order to get. some vague
conception of what can have
happened to the land which
once declared These truths shall
be self evident, that all men are
created equal, that they were
endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienabIe rights, that
among these are life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiess.'
mo American born before
1900. could possibly conceive
that the United States would be-
come a land approaching uni
versal military service, with its
armed forces in every continent
and on every sea, pledged to
conquer and control masses of
mankind, order the thought and
action and belief of the nations
of the world and ready to spend
for these objects more money
than it ever spent for religion,
education and social uplift alto
gether.
"When men arise and say this
and try to prove its truth, every
effort is made by secret police,
organized spies and hired in
formers. by deliberate subver-
sion of the fundamental prin-
ciples of our law, to imprison,
SANDER and silence such per-
sons. and deprive them Of earn
ing an honest livelihood.
Avoiding all hysteria and
exaggeration, all natural indig-
nation and instructive defense
of the right Of free speech and
hatred of thought control, it IS
clear to ell Americans who still
dare think. that my description
of this America Is true and II
true frightening to all who once
thought Of this land as the land
Of the free.
'My platform then, like the
platform Of every honest Am
erican who still dares believe in
peace and freedom, takes its un-