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Show History's Biggest Job When this war is over the United Uni-ted States will be In no position to return to isolationism. Hard-headed economists agree that a broad program of international trade is the only sound method by which the American people can hope to service the crushing war debt now accumulating. In plainer words, we will either trade with the world, thus helping to maintain maximum maxi-mum production and empldjinent for American Industry and American Amer-ican workers In order that they may pay the taxes that will be needed by a debt-burdened government, gov-ernment, or we will retreat toward Isolation, bankruptcy and another war We have everything to gain by taking the lead In establishing a Just and permanent peace, and in breaking down artificial trade barriers bar-riers between nations. Millions of men now In the armed forces will bring home with them a new understanding un-derstanding of the problems and needs of the rest of the world. These men will have seen demonstrated demon-strated the hopeless plight of people peo-ple broken under tyrannical governments. gov-ernments. They will have seen why our forefathers fled the old world to set up the American Republic. They will bring home with them a realization that war Is a destroyer of freedom; that recurring war a-broad a-broad will ultimately clutch with bloody fingers at our own freedom. As good American business men, they will realize that we have a-head a-head of us the biggest organizing and selling Job In history If we are to help prevent future wars and save ourselves from bankruptcy and enslavement. We will have to help formulate and enforce a la t-ing t-ing peace, while leading the way in rehabilitating the world through trade. This Job has already commenced under the foreign trade policy of the American government. It should be carried forward in preparation for the day when peace returns. |