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Show Britain and France "One Nation" Under the pressure of war, the governments of Great Britain and France have entered into an agreement to pool their resources, their purchases abroad and their transport facilties. In a word, the Allied Governments are ready to act as a single power in the interest inter-est of bringing to a successful conclusion their common effort io defeat Germany. With action m the present war centering around economic offensives, offen-sives, it is interesting to observe that this is a step far in advance of the cooperation that existed be ween the two countries during the World War. Facing a threat which menaces the conditions under which their nations exist, France and Britain bind themselves them-selves together during a contest which will decide whether they are to survive as great powers and, also whether the form of government that they prefer will be able to maintain an environment environ-ment necessary to its success. While there may be Americans ,','ho do not think that the war .n Europe is a real struggle, the act thatit is a death-grapple be-ween be-ween Germany and her two opponents and that it is a con-.est con-.est to determ ne the shape ol the world to come. Should Germany Ger-many triumph, there can be little . oubt but that the Europe of tomorrow to-morrow will be totalitarian to a supreme degree. There will be little room in it for democratic peoples. Should Great Britain and France check Germany and maintain their complete independence, in-dependence, there wilt be a continual con-tinual development of democratic rocesses in Europe. We do not believe in crying out ivarn.ngs about future dangers, I ,ut it should be apparent, we hink, that a Europe, dominated and controlled by totalitarian policies and practices, will constitute con-stitute a threat to democratic government throughout the world. In this sense, the Allied nations are fighting the battle of the democratic peoples everywhere. every-where. Should they win, we ao not face any immediate danger and it is doubtful if we will need the great army and navy we are reparing. If Great Britain and France lose, it may be taken for ranted that the United States, as the last strong proponent of democracy, will have to prepare to protect its rights and preserve its interests in the face of organized, organi-zed, aggressive and powerful philosophies. |