Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-07-05
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This being a national holiday hope the reader will
permit us to indulge in random thoughts about the
national Nowadays the cold and the balance
of intensely both locally and abroad
it might be time to take stock.
Our defenses are geared to atomic holocaust our
foreign policy sensitive to any communist push for empire,
at home bomb shelter psychology creeps into the nation
al image This last foreign to our tradition and most
dangerous to our future
Our forefathers on this day pledged their lives their
fortunes and their sacred honor against overwhelming
Odds In great civil the principles upon which this
Republic founded tempered by the blood of it's
youth We entered the first world Realistically to
make the world safe for democracy During the depres
sion it reiterated that have nothing to fear but
fear itself Then the second world and fight
against the tyranny of facsm and for the four freedoms
In the after World War II country has ever given
freely and abndany to reconstruct the shattered
world This is heritage We not worthy of it if the
bomb shelter psychology becomes pervasve One might
go further and say that if does become So will
surely need the bomb shelters And they will be Of no
avail.
The communist colonial empire has been contained
in Europe the most important of conflict. If the
communists had been able to take Western Europe
the balance of power would have shifted in their favor
However the Marshall Plan and the Common Market now
have made Western Europe strong and auent that it.
with the United States, now presents overwhelming
preponderance of power. One might say that the
high tide of communist influence has already been SEEN
This country has not been interested in invasion of
the Soviet fear of influence by failure to act
at the Berlin wall and lack of action dur
ing the Hungarian revolution which of all modern revol-
tons resembles ours most closely
Assuming for the present that it is probable there
will be atomic between the West and the East the
next of contest will be in the underdeveoped cou-
tries Here we should also be very strong but not
The demise of western coloniaism is just about complete
with the end of the Algerian holocaust The future histor-
ian may look back the post world az having been
characterized more by revolution than by what
think of cold war"
The future of the world may well be decided in the
long run by how the newlycreaed countries develop
There have been several types of revolution There have
been the revots against western coloniasm such as the
Algerian one arising out of the people themselves There
have been others such the communist inspired ones in
Eastern Asia
Revolutions arise speaking of nationally inspired ones
out of discomfort discomfort that terror cannot hold
restraint for terror matter how inexorably applied
loses its effectiveness in time However the revolutions by
themselves do not change the standard of living of the
masses Conditions of hunger and want still prevail and
the new rulers may look for ACKNOWLEDGMENT elsewhere
such Sukano attacking the Dutch possessions which will
not add slice of bread for his people, in fact his pr-
chases OF Red mgs and tanks only further depress the
standard Of living of his impoverished country Or we can
look at Ghana where the habeas corpus basic right of
the individual is now abrogated And the presidents foes
in prison.
This is not to say that the revolutions have been fail
ues In some countries statesmen of very fine caber have
come to power with desire and ability to raise the
standard of living and the general welfare of their people,
We believe countries such Venezuela and India are very
fine examples of this type of revolution
This brings us to the point of what this country can
do so that the future of this world may be peaceful one
in which the national destiny of each country can be
sued.
We have an overabundance of foodstuffs machine
goods and ability which use judciously to help
underdeveoped countries achieve stable forms of govern
ment For it Is only when these governments achieve
stability that eventually the peoples can find peace liberty
and prosperity
These people are impatient. We have been sluggish
The work is immense. The time late On this day it is
incumbent upon us to gather strength from heritage
have the courage of our ideals and convictions and pass
on better world to posterity