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Show KEEP YOUR HEAD Rarely in our history has it been so necessary for Americans Ameri-cans to keep thqir heads as it is today. The most ghastly of all tragedies has engulfed Europe. It is the burning hope of the vast majority of our people that we may escape the holocaust of destruction. We have not forg-otten the World war. It sowed the seeds for the years of social discontent and depression that followed. We have not forgotten that thousands of American lives and untold billions in American wealth and resources were sacrificed. sacri-ficed. Only history will eventually reveal what good, if any, came from that war. The president has said that as long as it remains within his power, there shall be no "blackout of peace" in this nation. na-tion. In that he echoes the minds and hearts of all of us-Rut us-Rut the mere wish is not enough. Hysteria, passion, fanaticism, fanati-cism, mistaken idealism these things can be the producers of ruin and horror. American neutrality is dependent upon America keeping its head. No one knows when the war will end, or who will be the "victor". But certainly there is justified fear that all that Is best in Europe may be lost to that continent for many years after hostilities have stopped. War means that the art of peace must be ruthlessly dropped in order that the arts of death and destruction may be advanced. The preservation pre-servation of liberties which have been won through centuries, cen-turies, are threatened, in a warring world. |