The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1956-02-18

from the conviction that they
died, under the living God, for
something worthwhile. They
had a country with a genuine
brotherhood of man, because
1t was predicted upon the
fatherhood of God. And their
reward is now the eternal
! company OF their God.
Would you Judge the phil
osophy of country without
a God by its fruits? Then
come with me to the Nurnberg
trials and hear a Nazi com
mander calmly testify to the
efficiency with which, under
governmental orders, he sup
eryised the systematic murder
OF 100000 innocent human be-
ingS in the determination
camp at Auschwitz. Smell the
smoke of the ovens of Buch-
enwald, listen to the silence
in the Katyn Forest, hear the
rlyeting of chains in the slave
LABOR camps of Siberia. hear
the tramping feet of faceless
IombieS marching in the Red
Square of Moscow; see the
screaming fanatics storming
over the Yalu River to waste
their lives in the red mud of
Korea; behold the mangled
bodies, the rotting corpses, the
crippled minds, thu token
hearts, the crushed liberties
- the stencil of physical and
spiritual death - in the lands
behind the Iron Curtain where
modern Caesars have set up-
countries without a God. Yes.
If you have the stomach for
1t, read the recent diabolical
double-talk of Soviet peace in
tentlons and United States war
mongering, emitted by Nikolai
Bulganin and Nikita Krush-
ehev in their recent barn
storming tour through India
and Pakistan. Nikolai and Nj
kita have a country without
a brotherhood of man, pre-
cisely because they repudiate
the fatherhood of God.
In World War II American
blood was spilled and Ameri-
can lives were sacrificed for
a military victory. Our enc
mics surrendered. But then
came Korea. Our own bows
are dead. itler is dead. Musso-
llni is dead and now Stain
IS dead. But Totalitarianfsm
Is not dead. Totalitarianism is
still stalking over a major
portion Of Gods earth, crush
ing the human spirit, Sitting
human ambition, and repres-
sing the natural and inalien-
able rights of hundreds of
millions of our fellow human
beings Only the callous can
say we have liberated the
smaller nations. Only the syn
zeal can say we have secured
the four freedoms everywhere.
Only the blind can saw we
nave secured the four free
domS everywhere. Only the
bind can say that the lights
Oh human liberty have come
on again all over the world
Is this the victory for which
We fought?
The 0tne OF uictory is turn
ing to gall in our months.
the flame of peace is flicker
lng TO ashes In our hands
Surely this is not the yictorg
for Which l0e fought
CHALLENGE OF THE FUTURE
Why have we been SO Bit
terly disappointed? Is it not
because the war was a two
fold war: one of force. and
one OF ideas? The first. the
war of physical force. result
ed IN military victory in World
War II and in a stalemate
IN Korea. But second, the war
OF ideas, has hardly begun
The ideas Of our enemies are
gathering momentum on the
worldwide front. A soldier
can be shot down; but ideas
are bullet-proof. And this Sec
ond war Of ideas is even more
important than the war Of
force. Because, in the long,
run, human beings are deter
mined and governed more by
ideas than by force. What is
the challenge?
First: 1t Is obvious, that we
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