Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-03-27
BeuutY Al Your Beck Door
BY Roy Lee Yinger


1t is not good policy these days, apparently to
be an isolationst.
And do not believe that there is ONE high
political figure in the United States who has any
use for the Monroe Doctrine
An isolationist is anyone who favors keeping
aloof politically from all other countries
Isolationism worked for us back in 1923 when
the Monroe Doctrine came into being This doc
trine resulted from unsettled political conditions
and 1t emphasized that we should take no interest
in European affairs. European powers should keep
out of our affairs it declared, and 1t went on to
say that governments In the western hemisphere
were permanently independent and capable of con-
Quoting civilized governments, and that any act
of aggression would be sunamarily dealt with as
act of hostility and violence
1t is fortunate that Russia does not have
Monroe Doctrine
1t has always seemed to be that the United
States always felt that it could do no wrong-we
intervened (much to our sorrow) in Korea when
I'VE had no right to intervene in Korea. Do you
think we'd fold our hands and play dead if South
America decided it would have similar Korean
like civil war - and Russia decided to come over
here and help one or the other?
We should have stayed out of K0rea-United
(?) Nations or no United Nations. Were we sup
have been for we got little but token help from
other countries
Why in the world do we worry about what
happens anyway over in the Old World?
When was a little boy used to wonder why
they were always fighting across the water"
My mother set me straight on it. Roy" she said,
'those heathens have always been fighting over
there, and I guess they always will be fighting
over there" don't believe that truer words were
ever spoken They We're fighting then, and as far
as I'm concerned, they're still doing it.
Stop it? Can you do it by going over there
and fighting for one or the other? The Korean
War proved we couldn't
Stop it by sending arms = the materiel for
making war? BY giving them bushels and bushels
and bushels of money?
We are the laughing-stock of the world One
cannot buy love with money. II we are not careful
the very countries we are helping so abortively
a military basis, might come up with some per-
fectly good reason TO shoot our ammunition right
back at US. Remember, there was Pearl Harbor
1t could happen again
1t is not considered good journalism to in
dulge in cliches - but / am firm believer that
charity, really, begins at home. Does it begin
at home when we buy Japanese trucks while our
whole automotive industry is in the doldrums?
Is 1t good charity to repenish England'S money
supply when we are all too aware of the bread
and soup lines which are already beginning to
form here? Is it sensible to have given to Commu
mist Poland total of $193 million dollars within
the past year? Can there be any doubt that Poland
is anything more than province of Russia and
in case of war, a compatriot of Russia?
There is studied hesitancy in this country to
cut taxes when there is little doubt but that 1t
would help our economic situation But there is
no hesitancy in giving the American taxpayers
dollars away to foreign countries like Poland and
Communist Yugoslavia countries irrevocably dedi-
Gated to Communist thoughts and principles. Why?
To go step further - why give anything
away at all? Does anyone give us anything? Are
we absolutely certain of the good viii of our
"allies?" Couldn't any, or all of them, be our po.
tential enemies? For giving is something like
blackmail - the recipient is never satisfied with
what is given and is always contriving in one
way or another to get more.
say II a foreign country is starving or If
there is plague abroad in the land help them
and help them nightly. There isn't sign OF
anything like that in Europe today.