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Show FOR A UNITED AMERICA! The threat of war faces America more sharply than in many years. The last time the United States went to war it was for the salvation of certain ideals of liberty and democracy for which our nation has stood from its beginning. Those ideals had been developed de-veloped in other nations, who were fighting to preserve pre-serve them. Today the menace to the human liberties which we group, broadly, as democracy, is far greater than it has ever been. None can doubt that if the free governments of Europe are destroyed de-stroyed by the totalitarian terror that has been unleashed upon the world, our time will come next. But all our armaments, our navies, our planes, our coast defenses, will not avail if we ourselves, the American people, are divided against one another. When our liberties are threatened we must be united in our determination to defend them. We are not Fathers lies in reconciling the "old Americans" with the newer stock, and bringing the latter into a deeper understanding and fuller acceptance of the essential standards of human equality and liberties which are the very root of democracy, the new Council is launching a non-partisan, non-sectarian, ail-American campaign of education against intolerance, against religious and racial hatreds which tend to make this a divided nation. This is a useful, indeed a necessary service if America is to be truly prepared to defend itself against a foreign foe. united so long as there exist among us suspicions, hatreds and intolerance, one of another. As important as guns and ships and planes and soldiers is the ironing out of differences which cause Americans to distrust each other. To that end the Common Council for American Unity has been formed by a group of distinguished distinguish-ed Americans, some of old Colonial stock, many of recent immigrant descent. The head of the Council is Louis Adamic, a naturalized Yugoslavian Yugoslav-ian who has become famous as an American author. au-thor. His book, "My America," breathes the spirit of democracy and liberty as few other writings of recent times have done. Pointing out that America's hope for the realization realiza-tion and maintenance of the ideals of the Founding |