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Show Youth of Today America Tomorrow Will there ever, can there ever be peace? We must begin now to plan for the post-war period. The students who are in schools today may not have to actually fight in this war, but they will have to win the peace after the war. We who are students now are future statesmen, future business men, and future citizens of America and we must be prepared to shoulder these responsibilities. re-sponsibilities. If the Allied Nations do not win we needn't worry about planning for the future, so we can only plan for victory and peace. The important thing is to make our plans now. One of the gravest mistakes recognized in World War I was the negligence of the countries to plan for the future until the future was literally upon them. In planning the peace we certainly must not forget the war. This is a conflict in which there cannot, there must not be a compromise. It will be a battle to the finish and such a finish will involve many vital problems to America and to the world. Can we rely on the Atlantic Charter? Is it possible to completely disarm all aggressive nations as the eighth point stipulates? How can this be accomplished? If, as military experts decree, the war is going to last 20 years, there will undoubtedly be another president. Will this future president carry out the Atlantic Charter? These are only a few of the problems which the post-war period will bring. These are problems prob-lems which we, the students of today, will have to solve. Remember, the United States has won six major wars but it has never won a major peace. |