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Show Fighting Again! The outbreak of fighting in Saigon where Annamites kidnaped kid-naped two score Europeans and destroyed the market place informs in-forms us that warfare has not disappeared from the face of the earth despite our victories over Germany and Japan. The incident will be used by many to demand the withdrawal of French control in Indo-China and the public will be advised that the outbreak represents a demand for. popular self-government. Whether this is even in part the truth is not yet established. estab-lished. We should not lose sight of the fact that our wars were fought in self-defense, that in prosecuting them to a successful conclusion we ended a serious threat to our civilization and that in doing this we have accomplished ac-complished about all that warfare war-fare can do for a nation. If the peoples of the world make progress, in the years to come, it will be in spite of war, not because of it. The progress of the human race is rarely stimulated stim-ulated by fighting although some barriers may be removed a little quicker than might otherwise other-wise be the case. |