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Show .matter of American concern. 4 What Military Victory WiU Mean . . . Despite the record, which shows a careless failure to comprehend our own peril, there are responsible responsi-ble Americans who forget that the defeat of our enemies will be a complete victory for us and preserve fundamental American liberties, both national and individual. indi-vidual. These professional worriers who would "secure" the peace, fail to realize that the destruction of the Axis military power finishes the present job. New threats to peace may arise, -fh 1975 or 2042 A. D., but they will be met, and can only be met when they arise. to expect only those gains that logically can be expected from our victory. A new world, operated by perfect people, is not a reasonable result of the greatest blood-letting in history. The countless problems that have beset the human race for many thousands of years will not disappear when the Nazis shout, "Kamerad!" The vicissitudes that bedevil the average individual, as he mixes and mingles with his fellow man, will not vanish with the collapse of the Japanese empire. em-pire. No War To Save Oppressed People . . . Many Americans make the mistake mis-take of assuming that, because the American way includes a tolerant tol-erant and sympathetic attitude toward the aspirations of struggling strug-gling peoples, that we are fighting fight-ing to guarantee certain liberties to all men and women everywhere. every-where. ' FORWARD MARCH By H. S. Sims, Jr. IiIhII.ih,IIIii1ii;.Ii.I,I 1 . 1 1 ,. I i ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 N H II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 WE FIGHT TO ESCAPE DOMINATION OP BRUTAL NATIONS, NOT TO CREATE A NEW ORDER For what is the United States fighting ? The elementary answer, it seems to us, .is that we are fighting, first, because we were attacked and, if we had failed to fight, we would have lost our freedom and independence, both as a nation and a collection of individuals. This is the sole justification of our martial exertions. It alone explains ex-plains the acquiesence of Americans Ameri-cans while their loved ones go overseas ov-erseas to defeat aggressor nations which attacked us. Every One Has Somthing This is untrue. If it were, we would have gone to war, on our initiative long before Pearl Harbor. Har-bor. We would have been fighting Japan since the initial attack upon up-on China, we would have gone to war with Italy over Ethiopia and we would have started to work upon' the Nazis before Munich. The fact is that, instead of being willing to go to war in behalf of the victims of these aggressors, we were so anxious to stay out of war that we pursued a cowardly coward-ly policy which did much to persuade per-suade the aggrssors that they could take us in their evil stride. Evidently these folks overlook the fact that "military victory" will preserve Anglo-American civilization" civ-ilization" and permit the world to develop in accordance with liberal ideals. The contrast between th Axis dominated world and our own is sufficient to demonstrate that settlement of this question solves something. Along this line Constantine Brown, war commentator, insists in-sists that "those who know Europe's Eu-rope's problems intimately" assert that "unless a fair political settlement set-tlement is brought about, military victory will not solve anything." He says "many quarters in Washington" Wash-ington" are asking: "Will a military mili-tary victory . . . .secure the peace for which we already have sacrificed sacri-ficed so much?" Instead of being anxious to assert as-sert the fundamental liberties of oppressed peoples we were enacting enact-ing laws to cut off their means of defense, to prevent them from buying arms, munitions and implements im-plements of war from us and telling tell-ing the world in no ambiguous terms that what happened elsewhere, else-where, to anybody, was not a To Lose ... It is apparent to every American, Ameri-can, regardless of his economic condition, that he, or she, has something to lose if the United States fails to thwart the concerted concert-ed assault of Germany and Japan. No matter where the American lives or what status he occupies in the social scale, his future mode of life will be vastly altered by an Axis triumph and his opportunity oppor-tunity for self-development rigidly rigid-ly restricted. Nobody has to promise to make the writer a millionaire, after the war, to persuade him that his fortune for-tune is inevitably associated with the victory of the United States, and associated powers. No promised' millenium is needed need-ed as "bait; the contrast between what is certain, under the American Ameri-can way, and what is to be endured, en-dured, under the Nazi way, is vivid viv-id and quite sufficient to awaken self-interest. War Will Not Bring Perfect World ... There is no occasion for loyal Americans to seek other explanations explana-tions for the nation's tremendous war effort. We should not become confused as to the reasons for our belligerency belliger-ency because, if we do, we are apt to be disillusioned when the peace fails to bring us into a promised land, flowing with milk and honey. hon-ey. It is vitally important that we understand why we fight in order |