Show War is If Talk that should not even be Ideas that should not even be Throughout the world many have ceased working for peace are watching for war and it did not take propagandist Gallop to tell In all quarters there is war west against power pitted against ally attacking war talk may be a healthy it is certainly better than the complacency following World War I. Those who Not Worlds fully anticipate battle make the poorest And when we talk of mankind about to split into two worlds we should note as Walter Lippman pointed out in a recent speech the world is not splitting into two It is not splitting into two worlds as a matter of it has never yet been one Two years of and we Are wars All stories of of of the world are well punctuated with searing rampages of As long as there have been people they have had leaders and differences of opinion allowing both to lead almost into Why the little people who actually suffer have persisted to allow war is history's paramount Why we never seem to learn anything from history though we consistently claim we do is equally Today an age of machines and marvels and a brand new atomic the question marks of man's wars have overnight become exclamation points of impending The world truly revolves on the proverbial keg of dynamite as we innocently play away the while with the same old political misconstrued undermine our most recent peace with petty and prepare more lethal weapons in a subtle armaments another war is inevitable If we forget the horrors of its price payable only in death and If we think of war as glorious forgetting it takes glory to make even to fight but also that glory jeopardizes peace forgetting that for each row of military ribbons stands a row of military for each lucky combat hero a hundred are buried forgetting that we still have wounded Americans in Veteran who see in the current newspaper headlines complete mockery of their If we slacken our interest in world affairs believing allied nations only for the purposes of waging that alliances are impractical for sustaining If we fail to recognize that the doctrines of violence accepted by Europe and Asia Discontent and Hunger was a doctrine that can still find adherents in any part of the world among people discontent for want of food and economic prosperity if permitted to do If we insist on maintaining the very national sovereignty that has bred all world If we refuse to support the international higher than any existing equal the United in its struggle to balance the world's If we run back to our corner of isolationism and fail to support the urgently needed Marshall plan a blunder which would be far more serious than our failure to enter the League of If we do not remind ourselves that another war would victimize not only but our children and our children's children leaving a world of ruin for the following generations leaving no generations to If we resign ourselves to suppose that because there have always been wars there will be resigning America to a Roman And if we fail to recognize that we can end war or war can end Don |