Show For Offense or The never-ending blah-blah as to the necessity of this nation's first peace time conscription law will not suffer a let down now that the October 16 registration day has Rather it will be carried on with renewed fervor until after November when stormy election clouds pass over and afford us our first clear view of the real issues an almost I impenetrable political mist has been hid- f For the average tion holds no ominous He considers mustering of a large standing army as a precautionary action intended to warn all would-be invaders that landing on the shores of the military bul-wark that America is will be is a fearful The conception is Average American will not be argued out of for it is what y he is intended to But the undercurrent of thought runs in contradictory The United States need fear no invasion from the nor from any possible combination of European and Asiatic Neither from within nor from without can this nation logically expect aggressor powers to successfully attack Our natural our speed and unparalleled efficiency in unit our geographical our natural defenses and our inexhaustible military potentialities present a front not even Herr Hitler would dare to even though Britain should fall into his ranks fc as another Nazi such widespread clamor for and overwhelming approbation of the conscription The answer is Conscription has been painted dark with the fear of In its true color it would never have been Politicians cannot say until after November 5 that this nation is drifting into i The is to or at least to a force when the time will aid Britain in taking the offensive against the totalitarian states against which it has been waging a gallant but losing Spring of 1941 should see an American Expeditionary force renew a task first undertaken in c 1917 that of subduing the of the German The Republican should it be victorious in will be less to alter the Parties do not control international but j rather are controlled by Willkie has will never send an American boy to fight a war in Roosevelt has made the more more intelligent will do all in my power to keep America out of Despite these neither a Democratic nor a Republican administration will be able to stand by and watch Hitler deliver the death blow to This nation has gone too far in aiding Britain and opposing the Reich for its government ever to maintain favorable diplomatic and trade relations with a Nazi dominated Truly the nation drifts into Britain cannot stem the tide of totalitarianism if Britain though in no danger of cannot A democracy controlling the other side of the Atlantic is essential the democracy which would continue to control this from a conscription is The simplest alteration from the old concept is to change the first two the last word in the hackneyed phrase for When Britain takes the she will not battle alone |