The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1958-07-25

OF thc South wind rushing warm
With the standards OF the peoples
plunRing through the thunder
storm . "
Who carries the standards Of the
people in Middle East?
No, Nasscr with hateful incitc-
ments and sword to sell them
out 10 the Soviets.
Not khrushchev who would buy
them 70 be another Hungary
Not the hysterical pcacc-makersI
at any price who think that II they
don't look Russia Will 20 away and
Nasser will be a statesman
And not the little local assasstns
and fire-brands who make lesser
seem larger causes and know not
for whom they really work
Not these but statesmen Of the
west. Of the foremost files Of time.
Of the civilization that has been
builded on rule by the people and
on excellence in people these
carry the standards and 1t is time
TO tell ourselves so
II is time TO stop acting so
equal with everybody on earth
that We are made the worm OF the
earth, stepped on In equality's name
everywhere. We have confessed our
sins so much We forget there is
virtue in us. We have faced up to
our deficiencies. hyporcricies. IN
constituencies. vulgarities. ugll-
nesses and past histories until We
are croSs-eyed before the great
mirror We make. It is time to be
proud again and 70 assume the re-
sponsibillties OF the proud, not to
rule the world as the Fascist.s.
Nazis and Communists would but
10 speak with our superior physical
force for our superior spiritual and
moral and political force
This Is what the Marines in
Beirut do. and the British in Jor-
dan and the french moving through
the Mediterranean. and the Ger
mans and the Italians as they look
on with comprehension.
It is fine to have the Security
Council discussing the crisis around
single table with opponents so
personalized and physically together
and speaking and formally
equal that world community is
advertised and an atmosphere OF
contac and communication Gre
ated.
But 1t is fine. in this ultimate
situation. while there vet is time,
while they are still free. to have
the great free lands strike through
all the obfuscations. round abouts.
infiltrations, filibusters and deceits
with sudden bugle call, Marines
at Beirut, paratroopers in Jordan.
grand assembly in the Mediter-
ranean-" mare nostrum There is
no other way and. therefore. what
ever the danger. these are the true
standards OF the people. the only
reply to creeping aggrandizement
Of enemies Of both people and
light
Once again the free world has
come up to one Of those Drinks to
which Secretary Dulles once made
a reference which Adlai Stevenson
exploited as craftsmanship be-
yond the Dulles intent. The Secre-
tary was made to seem to be boast
ing to how near he had brought us
to wars Drinks without falling
over-as if any man in his senses
would do that. What he could have
meant was that he had not fallen
over Drinks to which inescapable
circumstances had led US, Drinks
We could have avoided only by
surrenders and appeasements that
would have brought in the long run
not a brink but peridition's own
pit
Mr. Truman agrees with Mr..
Eisenhower that % it was neces-
airy to send the Marines to Beirut,
and ~ that the sending poses
threat Of world war. Many believe
this situation could have been
avoided with earlier provision
against il. Now that the thing has