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Home My WebLink AboutThe Seaforth News, 1940-02-22, Page 7THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1940 THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE SEVEN { i f y yrs ✓s p6 1,. xY *. .1. �i / t t ,� v .)R f.�,. t y� r. t - a vv .1 w .. .. '" +bt a iSt rt 1 `. :# '•d'� YYY� t.r 3 i, ,-,\- ;l�`"'4 .� tri ( ..- t 4 iC '. (S fiur:licate h It ®�� ' i;': ly _� ,:1�itla f\ t s � ema We can save you money on Bill and Charge ,Forms, standard sizes to fit Ledgers, white or colors. It will pay you to see our samples. Also beet quality Metal Hinged Sec- tional Post Mutters and Index ` The Seaforth News P H O I`l 84 tr[;b j. i":' �Jt r.J .d ' ,�7�yp y°il<irL•^�f .1. w P�r1i; THE WORLD'S GOOD NEWS R';11 ecihla to Voll]• heeite every day through THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR An International Daily iVerrspaper It o s to you the world's e t t r soca r t 7 ld el sa r,1c; true Ile dntnes. The Monitor dn4s not ><ntmt aural nr nyan m; Walther does tt I^,Hare them but deg]-, eurreettcely with them. Features Por posy oral and all Rha Pamd!•, me:tiding the weekly biaga:ane Section. The Chrlct Nn 6 t>nee Pnbh'h(ne Sociely- one NOra.,,y sheet, Boston, Massachusetts. Pleasem.a er nw h:c:intioa to The Chrthtlan Science Monitor for e a periodof 1 year issue, a including a months 03410 1 monthuenn Saturday nssuc. Incneiiinq bA:gaatun Section: 1 Year 59 G0, d issues 250 Name Address Sample cope on Re4raetr ttl 1 ONE AMERICAN'S VIEW OF THE UNITED STATES' ROLE IN THE WAR A Letter Written by Mr. Lawrence Hunt, of New York City; and published in The New York Times 113 • the Editor of The New Yor1c Tko.es: Pontius Pilate still live,. At. the moment he exerelees ,greater influence. 1 our national ]felon . Sint 'foreign cncurth I ga tt aff urs than any other person living or dead. He etrides the lletigth arid breadth sof America, dinning his im- mortal philosophy of neutrality into ottr mind:; and hearts. You can -Ilene hitt ,on the platform, over the radio, to the ckiih car, at ev.onen's club meet- ings and 'labor union gathering,. You can read his words in ourreut book,, in teagazines and liowspa,pees ,Warp your hands he says. "of this nuns. 1 did once, and eave.d niy^self a lot of work and worry, That was none of my thusine- , Tfliis t; none .af yours. So wash your hands of it For the last twenty years tut Am- eri ans have tbee0 'coling ourselves, ['date tried to da in another prac- tical situation, vrhen 'we're talked abort A'merica's forei8n pmht,. \fie. :till are, 1•, lltlf surprising, A\t have •'mee deluged with a constant stream of pncpaganda adoral the "Crime of lit 'lines. \\ e ,N011, the wit and w't tt ltd tt c.t- " 9allfetic- e of Ii nl) ore .\mcri: a ('2118111in t,,te wily iutrt_,-tc, • f old \\ lrl l 11: t ., . y, England land e a...,eetill8 ecu ) \niiceti t do hi, !l tri y, the , s•i ]Jeal!' and .Stye,'• Y:uil tr. ." To lay flet,'- e nee ,.t gni'1: ]!ted stn.oe � •,,r,n .nnli In ilk. 1' tlllng a �atusc t,t'..i.tl •l., 1'.' 1:1,0111 .,f a:. is •:!tt the t't.nh,a_ many :r,m,. t pie alt "1'1 the;t nerve- jangied and it emotions jade.]. And a- a oatt '!,Ute tnxna!;ed ,t1 far to •,c l.pr. ,ni reality and the 1,111.1111 rc.1iou thtiiti.- 1f being a first-rate n,awer. I don'1 mean that ser' hate: 1,,::. the peeeee. teal vice of preaching to others, but .ce• fiat, failed Lt, exercise the 'Pvrit- anical .eirete z11 Idling o:tr :hare stns] more, if need Abe --of the hard tvorlo our very ,.rreatneis requires of us. The purpose of this letter t- to u - xe t •hriefly that 'w ;teenage citizens question some of these slogans and catch -ph ra es telt ieIi are dung' so ntur..l to paralyze the oral deicing forte of the American people. Too many of us have 'been doing 1511 thinking on foreign affairs by proxy. A , of us let the columnists tlo it. I s 1g4est that yve stuff our ear; fur while to the •stately measures, •the srntucling'brass ,'ted the tinkling eym- b tt' of varies of these. \lay be tt we do that we can hear ourselves thin:,. Lath betore 'Hitler made the "Crime of Versailles" his •fa.voritt bed, time .tory Of the 1,t'ritiatl pewee:, many re rpl..- man} ef our "intellectuals" were talk• inv and cvihnl, a!bnu t It in the teyert manner of a town] 05 4) E ,11 1 historians, irrt .nun ible • 1 int 111 and 111.gruntlyd liberals •who couldn't digest some of the ranshcr fact, , life all did their ]tit, -There els ars sante honest, intelligent and i;t,tif• •,e THE SEAFORTH NEWS SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, critici,m of it. As a treaty it had imperfections having been drawn by imperfect me mtipresenf!11 imperfect peepin.. oto, of .-hoot .for fou year, had •endure a year tha• .was not exad1) periut True, Germany lot some rather un trofitatble colonies in Africa (ie 11O14 they accounted for less than une=lal of 1 ;per cent, 'of her foreign trade) NIsare L rraiue wes restored 1 France. .\ny objections? The house Blears none, Then there were the reparations. Mucic too much. At any rate, machin- ery was set up whereby they could be sealed down to a reasonable figure and that was shortly done. Voluntiu- otts tears have been shed over the war -guilt clause. Through all the fog and smoke of -controversy one thing is clear, England and France did not invade Belgium. The war was not fought m1 German soil. "But—but-- the Germans are a proud people,.' Since when itis such pride become a cardinal and cleansing virtue:' Do you rentetrl1er what the German leaders said they were going to do to the rest of the world if they won? It t 11 dont 111111 are really lute reete+d, t n tft•st 111•11 you dig Meeh into the fti lel deetimente tote the lilt's' n aspal t- of twenty—tic, years age nut abs, 1'..:01 the Trout) of e r-,, mill whit ie important for Its to heat 11tov,1. Its„ pear at -nuc -p111 pt•,111 iu mind to tidy endangered our ideal .,,e11 Itsis n,day will one tell 111111. n, girt. fls it dies 1 i te. Despite all Llie wit th,• 1acing bothway'scnlntittiu _ 1111eions of "1.rt-1 nurotuntst Ilhil i Stlffiv, It to say that had 1 grille y nj1t• mf flabby inr •hecto cls and of won. the Trea of \'er.•eetillrs. nl slit 001,11 politic i ales 111(0 li tilsut 1 c nnuta ri,ain 111111 the t rm.tu pee,±• not the only donne fore•,:, in Amer! tr m., wool] hat. .,, i'nn+d lily!• its ! eel' iife. It '.010111 nt l:el7 enol it isn't `,e me 1 ni tlir. Slant. 1 nit There 11 u a 4 one magnificent attempt Nor did we• til It 11 p1111 F.ugluimi c l-eM111110 out of i1•• tire. \\ e 11,,AN,1 have, The propagandt,ts Who say we have done so e,tueet prove a single instance in Dur entire history as a notion to support th.dr falsehood. And yet by nsine the Na0i,Commmtist merle of repeating a falsehood again end again they have deceived sante honest, well-utetuting folk and hay, soothed those, frantic 11enpl. who caul not bean to face the ,eimple but some• times hart] truth; of life- Have you observed how these same propagate' fists will scream with rage bee•ausr' England is at nuuuents reluctant tr do the hard jobs of civilization which they r m us to „ e hitk? g I have leen eget tissing the pl•npa• gauda nMnu7 Amolica's part in the last way'. At first sight it may ee -nl lil.e beating a (lead horse lifeline'. we now have another great war and 1101101 make up our minds what to do about it. The old propaganda has been mentioned because it has tend- ed to warp 0111' present attitudes. ('nn- sicin• briefly time some of the present pidaytfalls tithhlpitfallsau that ronsttil threaten our thinking. "They're ailalike." Who says. set Suets strange bedfellows as Mnlotoft the Sevier elittte*er of Foreicn Af fairs. Hugh Johttser end one milksop dntE•llet•tuals w'hn r my yesterday were e",'tttndnt at (11Io etleilr and. the ..flier for their c iwet,ti' surrender' at \Iltuich '.tel rein letraynt" r11 Ilmithlican Spain. And to give point to their propaa.tmi t ;bey tar ns with t u1 n i eietenel referring 1 1.111 ,t, ecu i >. ti - I IIM'an, t hlhllsnn 1(1 th,• \ an htdiuns \\ - u•wer knew the horror en we. eau ieleire tit • rnnunmual raid, tate terror and degradation adatio 1 ane h t 'r the : ! n they ere nay' ut 1111 111 ±dnt8 army dist n ung out y1 the , r 1 t. 1 r the l:, , t t towns and. i ltles and en,laving a •s cherish 1:•1 1' 11 e ! ung a • hire, pert of our civilian 0.'yetlatin, :i ate, n the exieto it iteIpe n, 1 to be heu•et's of wood and drawer,, nl nn lyes. ,i. • 1 new 1,•11 •, ,' ellen*" tel 1 y t water in the. anent ut b .ort � the \lent:, carte i. t t h 11 1 Fuel -lees Sundays Li borty ',nee mon et Willhen ehulteepeare, 111' idyls, and one piece of eager ineteld of two were ammtg our major enter y . arises. e , they ilelp,fl- -iteiU d t lot, "turned the tide" and all that sort of tlhiug. But as a nation we were .;pared the agony our comrades -in - arms endured. grey point is that when we stop to think and stake a real et fort to be fair the propaganda we have been fed for several years seems a bit indecent. There is something "phony' in the contrast between our noisy pride in our fighting prowess and our self- abasement as diplomatic morcus. You know that oft -repeated phrase "America has won every war and lost every peace conference." The next time some parlor intellectual re- peats that phrase ie the pompous manner of the man trying to make a conversational impression ask him how many and what peace confer- ences he's talking about. Did cur 1111• lomats lose for the American itevolu tion, the War of 1812. the Mexican War of 1845-46. the Spanish-American War or the World Wat' (when we ducked our job by repudiating the League of Nations)? Didn't, they do pretty well in the Louisiana and Alaska purchases, the Oregon bound- ary dispute, the Alaskan fisheries core troversy. the Alabama claims, the Venezuelan crisis of 1895? You may not be able to convince him, but at least you will have the satisfaction of exploding a myth. At any rate, let's stop talking non- sense about being bamboozled" by wily fhreigu diplomats. Its just an- other way of tooling ouraelv-es and evading our responsibilities. One pf'the favorite sports of writ ere who have consciously or un- consciously misled and misinformed the American public it recent year's' has been to deride the motives which caused the purposes which inspired America's entry into the last World War. They have created lieges and scarecrows, naming tllenm "Merchants of Death and the "Wall Street Bank Ars" and depicting them as beguiling and forcing the American people against their will to enter the war. That just isn't so. and you and I know it The average American tines not give a damn what the "Wall Street Bankers" say 0r think or de except when. as in the Nineteen Twenties, some of them sold us glld• edged flypaper on which we were permanently stuck. Both our know]- Rene Morin, the new chairman of the Board Governors of 1anadl10 edge and common sense refuse to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In October of last year, he was appoint - elevate the munition manufacturers ed acting chairman on the retirement of L. W. Bipckingtonr into gods of human destiny. They make their unpleasant goods and sell them because there are people who want them and will buy them. Oe easionally some over -zealous sales• elan may have encouraged a Central American revolution. but to picture these practical gentlemen as playing a decisive role in the clestiuies of the world is plain silly. America entered the last war for many reasons. The most inunediate and compelling reason was simply that Germany. alter repeated warn ings and protests continued to sink ships without warning, with a loss of American lives, Il Germany had not sunk our ships and if American lives had not been lost in those actions we would not have entered the war. With all our faults, we Americalte have a great faith in certain ideals —a faith that has moved mountains and has contributed mightily to our greatness as a nation. When Wood row Wilson struck the moral note the heart of America responded. Most Americans did believe that we were fighting "to make the world safe for democracy." Rgletber we succeeded or Nailed is irrelevant at this point. We did fight for something worth lighting for and we need feel no regret. 01 shame for that motive and purpose. Somewhat allied to the foregoing reason were nor National itefitage and traditions. English people, trench people and American people believe in their hearts that indicidtugl freedom is one of those few things worth tight Me for and, if 110k.`11 be, worth dying' for. The German ]deal in the last war as in the present ,roe, w to di1't'.1:lit 11, 111. \ w',:alllcs 118111y 10f be•tlr.1 world --•-the Leagut of :Cations. 1)111 it iri,•nr. Woodrow W11s011, 1mug1t hard ter it. Those awful European 11111(118, our recent associates, accept• ed it. America turned it down. We watrtrd 10 preach, not work,, for a wined of pence and ordered liberty. Yens, there's this and that and a thousand and one things to be said afloat the `Crime of Vet saillee." I 1ri1 merely euggestfug a few 111111gs to retnelnher. The fairest tounlmary of lntnrica's1 participation at the Versailles pew., t'on1 ! 'ItI e wasntlde 1 1 v ' e e- 1 (l m n ria u'. ri ttha man. Tardieu: ^A war icon by foto' (mild not end in a peace dictated by one," But ''We won they way'." Sure we dict. Almost single-handed. Almost. Let's 11'y to he honest with ourselves 1111 that we may he fair 111 others Let's remember what England and Franke, and our other associate- con- tributed to the wutnine, of that. wan For instance, they fought the war for three v its while we remained neutral and waxed riot at their ex pe one. England, with a population 'me -third of inr.., lest In dead alone 101(•ly one million men: France with •1 imputation less than om third nt curs, More than a million and a half; ('anilrl'l, with a population Less time tt' Yolk State. about 1(In,etim, ht other words. had the Inued Srite's offered relatively as France bili, ver deed airn would have ex, i''ed fer Jed a half trillion men. A, it we, a ,-t;lont 711,)00. King 1 nt s Bill Jelin Bunyan Vol t lire Lefayette, tbe flight of Nem \\ordswn•tdt and i.tthy- Burns: -they are port of our heritage. They are not Pruesiatl nor Nazi nor ('ante. heist. The conquest of Austria. the ruins of ('zeelt(t•SIOSak its, the nm snore et the Poles, the attack on Finland, the torture of concentration camps, the bestial cringes against race and, re- ligion, purges, "blood baths," "Mein Kampf" and the Communist Nlani• festo--they are not English or French or American. No ---we are not "all alike." We know all about that. But how long shall we let these propa- gandists help us delude ourselves? Perhaps 'the loveliest self-delusion we are enjoying at the moment is the picture of America acting as a sweet ]holier-than-thou peacemaker when the war ends. Wo will be happy, com- fortable and "disinterested." Our for - mei' associates will have gone through the hell of a war they des- perately it'ted to avoid; they will be suffering, poor and tired out. There- fore we can do some more preaching• tell them what sort of peace they should make toot too harsh, on the Germans, because they are "a proud race"), and how they must behave if they are to be like us. Wait a minute. Suppose the Nazi - Communists win? Well, brothers and sisters, if that happens, we'll have to do an awful lot more than preaching ---far more than if we frankly and actively aided England and Franca now. It might be that we are count- ing a little too comfortably on the Maginot Line and the 13li1i81 fleet And, despite the penia frau}-pric" propagandists. we do count on them. If the allies win without our aid. by what right will we have a voice in 111 11e111.1' terms? What Will lair. Ite•en An! •rico s contribution? V few the,-rs, lots of "moral support (0) goods for c,, -1t clown, ,Again, 1 say 'lone let the propagandistsI t 'lls Is foul us.. lei's net fool reire'dves. We nhoeld at i t 1st too adult for Mat. The (meet t1 k of the Pmlhtitte Petite pt epag t1t lists is to warn ns geinst preeagrtda. Apparently they 'Iseliittr !icer s.mrleans are a simple. childlike, almost nlor,nie peolii • wle. need miter•, and guard+, to keep then] ant •. nnselti-l' It is Insidious stmt. which taken in ton large dusts„ 1- likely to cense moral impotence anti ituelle•ctllal sterility- It is reminiscent of the old Quaker's remark to his wife. ".all the world's mad except thee. and me. ami even thou art a Ilttie mad W. ire ttsic,d (0 'shat 011r. eyes to the most blazing truths, to avert aur M121• trent the plain facts of our tow t„ntpot:ug- life, to stuff our ears and to harden our hearts so that some. how. in some way, we can escape front the tough realities of this world and. as a nation. evade the tusks w•hie11 nature, Dur moral tradi• thins and the 1(-o 1forces I ul m l !sinof I g destiny set s a t 'o 1 11 to do. This propaganda against propa- ganda makes many an average cit- izen throw ell his hands and say, "What ran 1 believe?" Well—you can believe in yourself, your own eonllnnit' eenee, your own decent in- sflnts. ynitr ow•n values and tradi- tions wile]] you cherish enough to fight for. These peace -at -any -price people who, c uusc•iously ar uncon- seiou ly are giving daily aid and etI 1( t to Comrades Hitler anti Stalin will do some harm and create more c•nnitl$iom before the courageous common 'sense of \nlel•it'a says. •'1?111 ngli -you're a fake " They won't stteceed. because we'll stop thee -lying enfslves when the lour of dretrion 1s at hand Th.• (Ieohion of one present fiat ;rne. tlleanliets is to sneer .it I'itel• Mint for acting it 1.417 the role o, th,. Good Santaritati. \ocelot L- tocplt tl ,: 11,eef Sent titan 1 fool atel -seeker:, 11 eethele. , nm em,•nr,•d ivahclf hi doh._ ,te•I on - le,t eo.. t t t»ber of the : ntilyThorc t a inctns t,:1,1, h did. But the Levitt, was the 1 gory." He -minded 111: cwt. 11,01 ❑ sy•e 1ud t ht his mw- ig way. .1y 1 ,1 " 1 1 1'ae 1 t m l l 100111)115Coe 1.. Sam should •le t-,• Alain,. I don't think 11e will. Ile isn't that sort t It rn fellow. i 11 title t1ti>r he'll tub his eyes. ;taucl 111), %Ate off his stat and tilt a mine job in a hard but worthwltiIo wnt•Id. LAWREN('F. HUNT. .New York. January 2, 1940, of the yrs ✓s p6 1,. xY *. .1. �i / t t ,� v .)R f.�,. t y� r. t - a vv .1 w .. .. '" +bt a iSt rt 1 `. :# '•d'� YYY� t.r 3 i, ,-,\- ;l�`"'4 .� tri ( ..- t 4 iC ••t� �.f' ` h,. ,r:G ;r:, Y , ,.,5 e ., -t' X f .Et 1L e n. Y• - t, is ` t' r y 's ,�i� Y7 ' ... ,.1+ v '. ,:: to .r9 • . 0 9 911✓ fie, dry ' s� Yr l�u� :'Si uk• o� ..ry. �'1d"`d ,R 114 d4 f 5 I r n` "V �. ¢ 111.,.,,, ,, , .et ,:yr I'sr SOYS„G/RLS-"'.-._-�---�fl'Ot;,G.,,?�'._...• ,. GY t ,3 n "o ("venture i:} l [r i��1,t s , 114 ; ,a `1 ,I t I i 1� — y�am• t'I •35i.1d' .r_ �6ic `, 1 �j�,* �y ik,`:'!a' ..e+3 K A G% 1. 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Mucic too much. At any rate, machin- ery was set up whereby they could be sealed down to a reasonable figure and that was shortly done. Voluntiu- otts tears have been shed over the war -guilt clause. Through all the fog and smoke of -controversy one thing is clear, England and France did not invade Belgium. The war was not fought m1 German soil. "But—but-- the Germans are a proud people,.' Since when itis such pride become a cardinal and cleansing virtue:' Do you rentetrl1er what the German leaders said they were going to do to the rest of the world if they won? It t 11 dont 111111 are really lute reete+d, t n tft•st 111•11 you dig Meeh into the fti lel deetimente tote the lilt's' n aspal t- of twenty—tic, years age nut abs, 1'..:01 the Trout) of e r-,, mill whit ie important for Its to heat 11tov,1. Its„ pear at -nuc -p111 pt•,111 iu mind to tidy endangered our ideal .,,e11 Itsis n,day will one tell 111111. n, girt. fls it dies 1 i te. Despite all Llie wit th,• 1acing bothway'scnlntittiu _ 1111eions of "1.rt-1 nurotuntst Ilhil i Stlffiv, It to say that had 1 grille y nj1t• mf flabby inr •hecto cls and of won. the Trea of \'er.•eetillrs. nl slit 001,11 politic i ales 111(0 li tilsut 1 c nnuta ri,ain 111111 the t rm.tu pee,±• not the only donne fore•,:, in Amer! tr m., wool] hat. .,, i'nn+d lily!• its ! eel' iife. It '.010111 nt l:el7 enol it isn't `,e me 1 ni tlir. Slant. 1 nit There 11 u a 4 one magnificent attempt Nor did we• til It 11 p1111 F.ugluimi c l-eM111110 out of i1•• tire. \\ e 11,,AN,1 have, The propagandt,ts Who say we have done so e,tueet prove a single instance in Dur entire history as a notion to support th.dr falsehood. And yet by nsine the Na0i,Commmtist merle of repeating a falsehood again end again they have deceived sante honest, well-utetuting folk and hay, soothed those, frantic 11enpl. who caul not bean to face the ,eimple but some• times hart] truth; of life- Have you observed how these same propagate' fists will scream with rage bee•ausr' England is at nuuuents reluctant tr do the hard jobs of civilization which they r m us to „ e hitk? g I have leen eget tissing the pl•npa• gauda nMnu7 Amolica's part in the last way'. At first sight it may ee -nl lil.e beating a (lead horse lifeline'. we now have another great war and 1101101 make up our minds what to do about it. The old propaganda has been mentioned because it has tend- ed to warp 0111' present attitudes. ('nn- sicin• briefly time some of the present pidaytfalls tithhlpitfallsau that ronsttil threaten our thinking. "They're ailalike." Who says. set Suets strange bedfellows as Mnlotoft the Sevier elittte*er of Foreicn Af fairs. Hugh Johttser end one milksop dntE•llet•tuals w'hn r my yesterday were e",'tttndnt at (11Io etleilr and. the ..flier for their c iwet,ti' surrender' at \Iltuich '.tel rein letraynt" r11 Ilmithlican Spain. And to give point to their propaa.tmi t ;bey tar ns with t u1 n i eietenel referring 1 1.111 ,t, ecu i >. ti - I IIM'an, t hlhllsnn 1(1 th,• \ an htdiuns \\ - u•wer knew the horror en we. eau ieleire tit • rnnunmual raid, tate terror and degradation adatio 1 ane h t 'r the : ! n they ere nay' ut 1111 111 ±dnt8 army dist n ung out y1 the , r 1 t. 1 r the l:, , t t towns and. i ltles and en,laving a •s cherish 1:•1 1' 11 e ! ung a • hire, pert of our civilian 0.'yetlatin, :i ate, n the exieto it iteIpe n, 1 to be heu•et's of wood and drawer,, nl nn lyes. ,i. • 1 new 1,•11 •, ,' ellen*" tel 1 y t water in the. anent ut b .ort � the \lent:, carte i. t t h 11 1 Fuel -lees Sundays Li borty ',nee mon et Willhen ehulteepeare, 111' idyls, and one piece of eager ineteld of two were ammtg our major enter y . arises. e , they ilelp,fl- -iteiU d t lot, "turned the tide" and all that sort of tlhiug. But as a nation we were .;pared the agony our comrades -in - arms endured. grey point is that when we stop to think and stake a real et fort to be fair the propaganda we have been fed for several years seems a bit indecent. There is something "phony' in the contrast between our noisy pride in our fighting prowess and our self- abasement as diplomatic morcus. You know that oft -repeated phrase "America has won every war and lost every peace conference." The next time some parlor intellectual re- peats that phrase ie the pompous manner of the man trying to make a conversational impression ask him how many and what peace confer- ences he's talking about. Did cur 1111• lomats lose for the American itevolu tion, the War of 1812. the Mexican War of 1845-46. the Spanish-American War or the World Wat' (when we ducked our job by repudiating the League of Nations)? Didn't, they do pretty well in the Louisiana and Alaska purchases, the Oregon bound- ary dispute, the Alaskan fisheries core troversy. the Alabama claims, the Venezuelan crisis of 1895? You may not be able to convince him, but at least you will have the satisfaction of exploding a myth. At any rate, let's stop talking non- sense about being bamboozled" by wily fhreigu diplomats. Its just an- other way of tooling ouraelv-es and evading our responsibilities. One pf'the favorite sports of writ ere who have consciously or un- consciously misled and misinformed the American public it recent year's' has been to deride the motives which caused the purposes which inspired America's entry into the last World War. They have created lieges and scarecrows, naming tllenm "Merchants of Death and the "Wall Street Bank Ars" and depicting them as beguiling and forcing the American people against their will to enter the war. That just isn't so. and you and I know it The average American tines not give a damn what the "Wall Street Bankers" say 0r think or de except when. as in the Nineteen Twenties, some of them sold us glld• edged flypaper on which we were permanently stuck. Both our know]- Rene Morin, the new chairman of the Board Governors of 1anadl10 edge and common sense refuse to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In October of last year, he was appoint - elevate the munition manufacturers ed acting chairman on the retirement of L. W. Bipckingtonr into gods of human destiny. They make their unpleasant goods and sell them because there are people who want them and will buy them. Oe easionally some over -zealous sales• elan may have encouraged a Central American revolution. but to picture these practical gentlemen as playing a decisive role in the clestiuies of the world is plain silly. America entered the last war for many reasons. The most inunediate and compelling reason was simply that Germany. alter repeated warn ings and protests continued to sink ships without warning, with a loss of American lives, Il Germany had not sunk our ships and if American lives had not been lost in those actions we would not have entered the war. With all our faults, we Americalte have a great faith in certain ideals —a faith that has moved mountains and has contributed mightily to our greatness as a nation. When Wood row Wilson struck the moral note the heart of America responded. Most Americans did believe that we were fighting "to make the world safe for democracy." Rgletber we succeeded or Nailed is irrelevant at this point. We did fight for something worth lighting for and we need feel no regret. 01 shame for that motive and purpose. Somewhat allied to the foregoing reason were nor National itefitage and traditions. English people, trench people and American people believe in their hearts that indicidtugl freedom is one of those few things worth tight Me for and, if 110k.`11 be, worth dying' for. The German ]deal in the last war as in the present ,roe, w to di1't'.1:lit 11, 111. \ w',:alllcs 118111y 10f be•tlr.1 world --•-the Leagut of :Cations. 1)111 it iri,•nr. Woodrow W11s011, 1mug1t hard ter it. Those awful European 11111(118, our recent associates, accept• ed it. America turned it down. We watrtrd 10 preach, not work,, for a wined of pence and ordered liberty. Yens, there's this and that and a thousand and one things to be said afloat the `Crime of Vet saillee." I 1ri1 merely euggestfug a few 111111gs to retnelnher. The fairest tounlmary of lntnrica's1 participation at the Versailles pew., t'on1 ! 'ItI e wasntlde 1 1 v ' e e- 1 (l m n ria u'. ri ttha man. Tardieu: ^A war icon by foto' (mild not end in a peace dictated by one," But ''We won they way'." Sure we dict. Almost single-handed. Almost. Let's 11'y to he honest with ourselves 1111 that we may he fair 111 others Let's remember what England and Franke, and our other associate- con- tributed to the wutnine, of that. wan For instance, they fought the war for three v its while we remained neutral and waxed riot at their ex pe one. England, with a population 'me -third of inr.., lest In dead alone 101(•ly one million men: France with •1 imputation less than om third nt curs, More than a million and a half; ('anilrl'l, with a population Less time tt' Yolk State. about 1(In,etim, ht other words. had the Inued Srite's offered relatively as France bili, ver deed airn would have ex, i''ed fer Jed a half trillion men. A, it we, a ,-t;lont 711,)00. King 1 nt s Bill Jelin Bunyan Vol t lire Lefayette, tbe flight of Nem \\ordswn•tdt and i.tthy- Burns: -they are port of our heritage. They are not Pruesiatl nor Nazi nor ('ante. heist. The conquest of Austria. the ruins of ('zeelt(t•SIOSak its, the nm snore et the Poles, the attack on Finland, the torture of concentration camps, the bestial cringes against race and, re- ligion, purges, "blood baths," "Mein Kampf" and the Communist Nlani• festo--they are not English or French or American. No ---we are not "all alike." We know all about that. But how long shall we let these propa- gandists help us delude ourselves? Perhaps 'the loveliest self-delusion we are enjoying at the moment is the picture of America acting as a sweet ]holier-than-thou peacemaker when the war ends. Wo will be happy, com- fortable and "disinterested." Our for - mei' associates will have gone through the hell of a war they des- perately it'ted to avoid; they will be suffering, poor and tired out. There- fore we can do some more preaching• tell them what sort of peace they should make toot too harsh, on the Germans, because they are "a proud race"), and how they must behave if they are to be like us. Wait a minute. Suppose the Nazi - Communists win? Well, brothers and sisters, if that happens, we'll have to do an awful lot more than preaching ---far more than if we frankly and actively aided England and Franca now. It might be that we are count- ing a little too comfortably on the Maginot Line and the 13li1i81 fleet And, despite the penia frau}-pric" propagandists. we do count on them. If the allies win without our aid. by what right will we have a voice in 111 11e111.1' terms? What Will lair. Ite•en An! •rico s contribution? V few the,-rs, lots of "moral support (0) goods for c,, -1t clown, ,Again, 1 say 'lone let the propagandistsI t 'lls Is foul us.. lei's net fool reire'dves. We nhoeld at i t 1st too adult for Mat. The (meet t1 k of the Pmlhtitte Petite pt epag t1t lists is to warn ns geinst preeagrtda. Apparently they 'Iseliittr !icer s.mrleans are a simple. childlike, almost nlor,nie peolii • wle. need miter•, and guard+, to keep then] ant •. nnselti-l' It is Insidious stmt. which taken in ton large dusts„ 1- likely to cense moral impotence anti ituelle•ctllal sterility- It is reminiscent of the old Quaker's remark to his wife. ".all the world's mad except thee. and me. ami even thou art a Ilttie mad W. ire ttsic,d (0 'shat 011r. eyes to the most blazing truths, to avert aur M121• trent the plain facts of our tow t„ntpot:ug- life, to stuff our ears and to harden our hearts so that some. how. in some way, we can escape front the tough realities of this world and. as a nation. evade the tusks w•hie11 nature, Dur moral tradi• thins and the 1(-o 1forces I ul m l !sinof I g destiny set s a t 'o 1 11 to do. This propaganda against propa- ganda makes many an average cit- izen throw ell his hands and say, "What ran 1 believe?" Well—you can believe in yourself, your own eonllnnit' eenee, your own decent in- sflnts. ynitr ow•n values and tradi- tions wile]] you cherish enough to fight for. These peace -at -any -price people who, c uusc•iously ar uncon- seiou ly are giving daily aid and etI 1( t to Comrades Hitler anti Stalin will do some harm and create more c•nnitl$iom before the courageous common 'sense of \nlel•it'a says. •'1?111 ngli -you're a fake " They won't stteceed. because we'll stop thee -lying enfslves when the lour of dretrion 1s at hand Th.• (Ieohion of one present fiat ;rne. tlleanliets is to sneer .it I'itel• Mint for acting it 1.417 the role o, th,. Good Santaritati. \ocelot L- tocplt tl ,: 11,eef Sent titan 1 fool atel -seeker:, 11 eethele. , nm em,•nr,•d ivahclf hi doh._ ,te•I on - le,t eo.. t t t»ber of the : ntilyThorc t a inctns t,:1,1, h did. But the Levitt, was the 1 gory." He -minded 111: cwt. 11,01 ❑ sy•e 1ud t ht his mw- ig way. .1y 1 ,1 " 1 1 1'ae 1 t m l l 100111)115Coe 1.. Sam should •le t-,• Alain,. I don't think 11e will. Ile isn't that sort t It rn fellow. i 11 title t1ti>r he'll tub his eyes. ;taucl 111), %Ate off his stat and tilt a mine job in a hard but worthwltiIo wnt•Id. LAWREN('F. HUNT. .New York. January 2, 1940, of the