The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1951-05-11
tablish democracy in Germany. The

rious people, accustomed to coop
Grafton, but having had no experience
in the workings of democratic gov
eminent, they were unable to main
tain the structure of freedom and
found themselves like the man in the
Bible whose devil left him and re-
turned with seven other spirits worse
than himself, Are we going to make
this same mistake again in dealing
with Russia?
We are often told that we cannot
negotiate with Russia, The Russian
Government will not keep its word,
It's guarantees and solemn promises
mean little or nothing, Does any sane
person believe that after wrecking
the Russian Army, destroying the
structure of the Russian Government,
there will emerge from Russia a group
of negotiators of great integrity who
will be more DESTROYS of keeping
their agreements and what is equally
important, will have the power to
enforce them at home?
1t would be absurd to imagine that
such negotiation would be an easy
or routine affair,
Russia has experienced enormous
changes in the last 80 years; it is
certain that the course of change is
not yet run, The centers of political
power and economic interest are far
from fixed, We cannot expect treaty |
with the government of such coun-
try to endure very long-the best
that can be sensibly hoped is i'm
perfect and temporary, but even
calm will allow the pillows |
raised by the earthquake of war to
subside a little, and every bit of |
calm makes stronger the settlement
and integralisation which can be the
foundation of something more solid,
Our negotiators will be in the po-
sition of Eliza crossing the river,
Pursued by bloodhounds, she arrived
at the Ohio, She jumped on float
ing piece of ice which could give her
no prolonged footing, but was at least
solid enough to provide place from
which she could leap to a second and
a third, hoping that fourth would
drift along and that eventually she
would arrive on hard ground The
security of a cake of ice,
even though it only deferred ulti-
nate disaster, kept open the pos
;ibility of at last reaching land 1t
vas better than bloodhounds or cold
water. She would of course have
preferred to cross by a bridge or
'erry boat, but no boat or bridge
itself, she took a poor
nance rather than accept inevitable
allure.
| am perfectly certain that our sys-
American system which ev-
rybody knows and which no one can I,
ccurately define-is, of all social !,
tructures existing today, the one
Jhich is most capable of develop
1ent; most able to maintain itself; S
nd especially that it can with fewest t
nd least dangerous repercussions al +
ar its course to meet the strains of T
Ranges in the social and economic t
alance. After all, it has lasted with h
alteration for a century e
nd half, which is more than can 5
e said of any government in the '
istory of the world-even those b
hich like the British have accepted s.
asic changes in time to avert bloody n
evolution. t;
One of the things which we have
ost certainly learned from history Il
Id from our own observation of "
ussolini and of Hitler is that die b
torships are impermanent affairs. II
ne only possible opposition to an al
Itocrat is revolution. Therefore, it te
'es not take long for every criticism W
be suppressed as revolutionary. m
q short time we hear of such o7
surdities as "capitalistic biology fc
a recent Russian contribution, 1t
lich shows that truth can always al
trun satire. TO
Germany, in 1889, was far ahead IN
the world in the study of atomic
sion as is the United States to- 1T
Y. After only eight years of Hit SC
IS government, the old and well in Do
crated scientific world of Ger ao
ny was shattered, and when sal u"
on to develop the atomic bomb,