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Show the Korean War and the Cold War. Our public misfortunes are directly traceable to our global policies. The world iS divided into two camps: the bureaucratic military state capitalism of the United States versus the rough vital Communism of Soviet Russia. The Capitalistic system and free enterprise enter-prise has showered the citizens of this country with more goods and leisure than in the history of the world. But the interventionists who want us to stick our fingers into every piece of pie in the world to see how it tastes and if we can improve it, have given us at home inflation, rising living costs, currency depreciation, astronomical astro-nomical public debt, plus crushing taxation. Our economy is undermined under-mined and our natural resources nearing exhaustion. "Never was a people slipping into the slavery of a permanent-war permanent-war statism freer from dissent, disloyalty, or the spirit of revolt than is the American people today." Permanent War Statism Merle Riche The past two decades of American world-meddling have onlv Droduced a heritage of ill- aggression by the United Nations. But even this lesson has not been enough for Americans. The Korean War brought about 150,000 American casualties. We spent forty 'billion dollars. Korea was utterly devastated. We suffered through the ignominy of a ' ' quitters peace." The stalemate that resulted re-sulted left things just about as they were before the war began as far as a divided country was concerned. The only thing the world-meddlers world-meddlers have outlawed so far is neutrality and peace. Yet we have constantly, impressed upon us that America must lead the world to peace. But after years of lavish spending and world-meddling we find this country far from being accepted as a world leader but rather more globally hated and feared than at any other time of our history. Within our own ranks we have more reaction and intolerance than ever. Our public ills have been produced or greatly intensified by our intervention in World War IL will, hostility, ; warfare, devastation, and , incredible; economic waste, j On top of it all we have to think about the e q u a 1 1 y i n c r e d i bl e i l -J workings of the United Nations. As Captain Russell Grenfell has justly and aptly said, the main lesson taught by the Korean War is that the worst possible disaster which can befall any nation today is to be defended against |