Show LIGHT OF FREEDOM I 1 those who used to forecast that if a war broke out in europe sentiment in in this country would swiftly grow martial were apparently mistaken all the evidence indicates that the great bulk of our citizens are grimly determined that this time we shall stay out and that irrespective of our sympathies Eu ropes quarrels ane not ours certainly there is reason in in I 1 this point of view for if the war goes a on for years to a bitter and exhausted end all that is be beat st in europe will be submerged perhaps for generations it is here in the western wester n hemisphere where there has been no major war for three quarters of a century that the fruits of civilization must be protected and nurtured and developed we have many big jobs to do at home irr in these unpredictable times and the biggest of those jobs is to see that the light of freedom which has been extinguished in so much of the world is kept burning here undimmed F M S the friends of russia who have shelter here and who persistently seek to undermine the american system while secure in the refuge of our liberal laws should have that security jolted in some way they are dupes or they are scoundrels and an almost imperative necessity suggests that hereafter they should be treated as such the ore ionian gonia ii |