Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-02-14 | Page 4 | Views of the Nation's Press

I Views Views' of the Nations Nation's Press A few days ago in a radio symposium on civilian defense at atthe atthe atthe the University of North Carolina Carolina Caro Caro- lina Mrs Roosevelt said I dont don't see how we can fight to tomake tomake tomake make the world better unless we make things better while we are fighting the war It Is this conception of civilian defense it seems to us which causes Mrs Roosevelt's efforts In this field to become so cluttered cluttered cluttered up with dancers and motion motion motion mo mo- mo- mo tion picture stars and morale builders that the essentials of civilian defense are pushed into the background For we are not fighting to make the world better better better bet bet- ter much as we hope it willbe willbe will willbe be made better as a result of the war We are fighting td defend ourselves good bad or indifferent ent against a ruthless cabal of would-be would conquerors When we wo say we are defending defending defending defend defend- ing ourselves we mean defending ourselves physically against violent violent violent vio vio- lent ef efforts orts to defeat us on the sea on onland land and in the air Our enemies will not ask us whether we think the United States is getting better fast enough to justify our efforts to defend it They have their own plans for improving us and if they win the war they have 30 a good chance to experiment with them Therefore it seems to us Mrs Roosevelt is confusing the is issue issue issue is- is sue when she he implies that young people must be dazzled with vis- vis of a brighter world before they will consent to defend this country Baltimore Sun Our Netherlands allies score a sound point in protesting against failure of the unified command in the Pacific to in include include in- in clude dude at least one Dutchman Theirs is a gentle reproach and the East Indies press goes so far as to assert British Ameri can predominance is defensible ble since the two great powers must give th the final blow in the war war What nettles the valiant islands is an oversight made the themore themore themore more glaring by the role their forces thus far have played inthe inthe in inthe the far eastern battle It was well enough for a British Brit Brit- ish prime minister back in the century to observe th that t In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch is offering too little and asking too much But in matters military in 1942 Mr Churchill and Mr Roosevelt have paid grateful tribute to an indomitable ally which has given much and asked little A place should be found on the high command for Gen General oral eral St. St St. Louis Post Dispatch