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Show United Nations And Peace It cannot be reported too often that when the war ends the U-nited U-nited States will have to decide whether it will cooperate with its vitcorious Allies In the interest inter-est of establishing a firm world order. Certainly, it seems foolish to associate ourselves with Russia, Great Britain and China, for the purpose of waging war, and immediately im-mediately disassociating ourselves our-selves when the peace of the world has an opportunity to become be-come lasting. Our experience, after World War 1, should teach us something. In that struggle we went in to help defeat the Central powers but Immediately after the victory vic-tory was won, we decided to let the world shift for itself. We would assume no risk in connection connec-tion with world affairs. The result was that, without out assistance, the League of Nations became impotent. The nations that we fought with, imbued im-bued with the same pacifism, disarmed and signed anti-war .treaties while their potential enemies prepared for the present confl(pt. The history of the past quarter century should convince us that, in the event of a third world struggle, say in thirty years, the United States will be involved. What happened twice is apt to occur the third time. Consequently, Conse-quently, it seems reasonable to conclude that it is to our interest to do something to keep the peace. This will involve cooperation with our Allied nations. Together To-gether the United States, Great Britain, China and Russia will be able to maintain the peace of the world against all challengers. They should resolutely set themselves them-selves to the task. Naturally, the people of the United States will be unable to dictate to the three nations that now fight the Axis. We cannot expect to have everything decided de-cided our way. We must learn vthe art of compromise in the hope of securing concerted action in world affairs. |