Show AIle Peace Terms Need Clarification It's on old refrain but the music can't become too The melody is in a minor key and the words haven't been written The title is About the Now is the time when clarification of the peace aims of the United Nations is needed more than ever With Allied armies pounding at the Siegfried line and swarming into and the Russians surging through southeastern with the Balkans exploding our military successes emphasized only too early that in the very near future we must turn our efforts toward the attainment of a new kind of the reconstruction of a shattered It won't be long before Americans are marching through the streets of That is a foregone But where do we go from To take one example from a score of possible how will we- interpret the Atlantic Charter in terms of What about that clause which grants to people the right to choose the form of government under which they will Will we stand by while Germany is recreated in the image of the totalitarian creature of hate that has already torn and mangled this Does the concept of self determination extend so far as for the rest of the vitally concerned with the fate of any of its to allow one country to build up a juggernaut of destruction that will one day loose another war upon The old argument in defense of our ostrich thinking Let's win the war is no longer if ever it It is we to be forced into but it is If the song we are writing is to be one we can sing with we must add to the tympani and trumpets of our tanks and planes the flutes and violins of a few million fashioning a and practical symphony for a free D. C. |