Show americas aloofness As the headlines of our papers daily grow from caution to danger to violence olence i in the japanese chinese war aar and the threat of embroiling other nations including the united states in tw holocaust becomes more menacing each day the interest of the country and the individual citizen is aroused and we find it is chii ilnia to begin thinking and doing something about it for those of our readers who 00 will take the trouble to think about aboud tho the approaching danger 0 wo o want to reprint the main facts of a great editorial published in the new york times of november soth which condemned the governments present neutrality policy and urged in its place a policy of cooperation with democratic nations the criticism of our present policy was vias stated in these words the united states has lost its leadership in world affairs and to that fact lair largely gely can be attributed tri buted the impotence of the nine power treat treaty conference in brussels the reason for this loss ot of influence Is plain treaty breaking governments and dictators have hae become convinced that for no cause short of actual invasion will ill the united states initiate diate or join in any effective movement to assure world peace this change of policy was put forth our statesmen and leaders of public thought could aid peace mightily if losing fear of the blind peace groups and gaining confidence that plain common sense and self interest can be trusted they engaged in public exchanges to put the enemies of peace on notice that the great democracies ar are aware of what is 6 planned and will stand together against it leading citizens of the country approved the change of policy and in commenting on it some borne of them said A lange lan ge part of tho the american people have come to believe that cowardice is the best policy that the way to save the ship of state Is to scuttle it and that the way to keep out of war is by an unconditional surrender our people must be made to realize that the most powerful nation in the world cannot escape fromi from its obligations toward law and humanity by refusing to recognize them another statesmen replied with aith it is most important that americans who he desire peace must understand that it must be worked for not merely hoped tor for it can be organized it if the peace loving nations combine resolutely to enforce it an interesting comment on the editorial was a this in this war shouldering world america including the united states m imay ay yet be saved an we may really be a savior in company with i ith other stilt still decent nations of the earth if the coming ot 01 war does not break too soon but many and more resounding calls such as you have just given wili ils be needed the present is an indefinitely dasig dangerous erous situation all the worlds in arms arins and the ends t the earth are scrapping hero here we ae take lake time out imi aiu slump into another depression huddle while meale the dictators chuckle at our asthenia these are the reactions of bornt om america Americ ins ni how do you feel about it |