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1ue american people, 4bOS6LueI VIII
free peoples everywhere. would do well to
ponder what Secretary Of State Dulles has
had to say about peace in his recent New
York address to the Young Women's Chris
tian Association. For his views on the sub
ject, though not essentially new, constitute a
good and timely reminder that the task of
establishing secure and tranquil inter-
national order calls for the same kind of
unity and dedicated effort that men and
nations display when they are caught up
in war and seek to attain victory through
armed power.
As Mr.. Dulles has put 1t, peace in the
lofty sense"-not the enslaving sort of
peace that the Communists strive for, but
a true world peace of justice and free
dom and economic progress-"is In fact
within mans reach" today. And In his
Judgment 1t can be achieved on some not
too-distant tomorrow If the United States
and like-minded nations act in keeping with
the realization that the limiting factor in
working for 1t is not its impossibility(a false,
defeatist notion, "but the lack of we'll
directed efforts and sacrifices which could
turn the possible into the actual
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viewed as the manifestation Of an ancient
human failing. For 1t is true, as Mr.. Dulles
has said, that while throughout the ages
men have longed for peace, they have sell
dom worked for 1t in serious, intelligent
and sustained way" Nor has he exaggerated
In describing as Shocking" the contrast
between the magnificent things they do
for victory In time of war and the grave
inadequacy, the niggardliness Of purse and
spirit cl1aracterizing their postwar efforts
to prevent new war. Certainly, although
such deficiency might have been tolerable
in the 1on-atomic past, there is now In
every country desperate need for,greater
willingness to- make the national sacrifices
whichmay be required to avoid q universal
holocaust and organize decent and endur-
ing system of global law and order
Mr. Dulles has not spelled out in detail
What he means by this, but he has cited the
following requirements, among others: (l)
Moderation and an absence of turbulence or
intolerance In international dealings; (2)
enlightened political, economic and military
cooperation for collective security through
out the free world; (3) resolute adherence
to policy recognizing that the struggle
for peace cannot be won by pacifism or by
neutralisrn or by weakness and (4)
general, popular awareness that we "have to
be ready to f1ght If need be and to have the
resources and the allies to assure that an
aggressor would be defeated"--the most
Elective war deterrent Of all
Peace, in short, good peace, is not
something that Just happens. Like the pur-
suit Of victory In war, 1t must be fought for
And If it is fought for diligently and un-
remittingly, not haphazardly or half
heartedly. it can become lasting reality
for ourselves, our children, our childrens
children and all mankind That Is the great
promise of our time. But 1t Is also an
immense challenge. and Mr.. Dulles has not
oyerstated things in declaring that We must
meet it vigorously and with sense Of deep
urgency If the world is to be Kept At enough
to live in.