The Seaforth News, 1943-07-15, Page 6TMJfiSAAY, JUr,:Y 16;'1943
How to Banish
War from Europe
QYelyan in
Europe flare
fly than
�arth?„ Th
the other
it. But le
far this is
bad pre-eminence
tore only o
And even
the Japanese
as often
China has be
back farther i
an bas be
man in ever
of years
for hundreds
past. War
of Europe
was first m
against fa
petty king
ge against
feudal 1
and neighbor.
recently these
affairs, because
were very
not rendered
possible.
• than in o
uent.
Europe of the
Asia and Am
fighting each
their then small
s of ancien
were mixed, pa
tical, at ti
the root eau
same—the de
to impose
n group.
nineteenth an
incl peace
Indian rajahs
of Braitain
of vast spa
parts of
r peace to
European power
indeed, taking
greatest
her inhabitants
hate war more
portion of m
had terrible c
up of their
end of the
have rete
1 philosophy
Chinese, is
the outside f
Japan. But a
states of th
in this era
e of Euro
of power
been decide
States, whose
attained this
cod -neighed
United States
nged Powe
of wars against
Mexicans
War of 1
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blows, the
cod neighbor."
states of
fear from t
their cont
the pied
the first d
almost as
of the 'United
American r
German pow
give her safety.
attacked he
neighbor.'
strongest p
tart', whereas
ed States
tical tradition
warlike Philo
the chief
pre-eminence of T
focus of war.
I should a
there are a gr
strops or r
hostile to ,each
boundaries
torily
be settled
the
America
of
culture,
indeed
neral
ofthep
lie present
not
s eminent
Ily now
ave made
five, and,
with the
and higher
artificial,
condition
be
ih
By G. M. Tr"Britain",
"Why does re up into
War more readany other
e
continent on e question
was put to me '
'liar• -I will
try to answert me. begin
by asking how true,
Perhaps theminence : of
Europe is a fes f the twen-
tieth century. in the last
forty years have made
aggressive waras the Ger'
mans, anti en rent by
civil wars,
Looking nto history,
we see that men normally
at war with y continent
for thousands past, and
most probably eds of thou-
sands of years is riot a
thing merely or'of yester
day.
Since man an, family
has fought mily, tribe
against tribe, against pet-
ty king, villavillage, city
against city, ord ' against
feudal vassal or,
Until wars were
very small se the sov-
ereign units small and
science had distant war
and total warBut wars,
though smaller ur day, were
yet more freq
In the Euro Middle Ages,
in Africa, Asi erica, people
were always ch other to
the best of Hall ability.
The motive t as of mod-
ern wars rtly econom-
ic, partly poli mes also rel-
igious. But se was al-
ways the sire of one
human group its will on
another huma
In the d twentieth
centuries inte was impos-
ed on the and chiefs
by the power , and the
same is true ces of tribal
Africa. Great Asia and Af-
rica owe the; the imposi-
tion of Europ
China, history as a
whole, is the pacific entity
in the world; bitants love
peace and ore than any
other large ankind. Yet
even they ivil wars af-
ter the break imperial re-
gime at the ' nineteenth
century.
Americans ntly develop-
ed a peacefu y which, .like
that of the being chal-
lenged by orce of Ger-
many and Ja s among our-
selves the a American
continent araernore peace-
ful than thos pe, because
the question in America
has already d in favor of
the United St people, hav-
ing once power, are
pacific and rly.
But the U tes attained
that unchalle r in America
by a series ainst Red In-
dians, British , and by the
terrible Civil 361-65.
Having wo sent, position,
not without United States
is now a "g or." Canada
and the Latin America have
nothing .to he predomin-
ant power in inent.
In Europe ominance of
Germany in ecade of this
century was great as the
predominance nited States
among the epublics. At
any rate, er was quite
sufficient to ety. No one
would have r if she had'
been a "good
But her olitical tradi-
tion was mill eas in Britain
and the Unit the Weakest
part of poli ion has been
the military.
In the sophy of the
Germans lie's cause of the
bad urope in our
era as a . The other
main cause scribe to the
fact that deter number
of smaller n aces in East-
ern Europe other be-
cause their have never
been satisfactorily settled, and never
perhaps can to the satis-
faction of allparties.
In Latin there are an
equal numberstates, but they are
in language, and racial ad-
mixture not identical, but of
the same general pattern.
The historypast and the
situation of t make it clear
that peace is natural to mankind
though it i eminently desirable,
especially that in our clay
inventions h war infinitely
more destructive, in fact quite
incompatible continuance
of the better parts of civ-
ilization.
This highly but eminent-
ly desirable of lasting
peace can onlyattained by milit-
ary power restingthe hands of
states endowed with a pacific and
"good neighbor" spirit—such as the
United States, Great Britain, Russia
and China of today,
Peace can only rest on power, ex-
ercised by states who love peace and
who have no wish to annex or en-
slave other states,
Some day in the very remote fut-
ure peace may conte to rest on good
will alone; but for many centuries to
come it must rest on good will plus
power. The League of Nations tried
good will alone, and it failed.
The first condition of attaining
permanent peace is to win this war
completely, A settlement, however
satisfactory otherwise, would be fat-
al if it left the German and Japan-
ese war machines in being, and their
governments able to prepare another
war after a period of recovery.
There is nothing now to be said
for a peace that would leave the
Nazi system in being. For it has no
European tradition, and no interna-
tional morality whatever; it preaches
and practices a new philosophy that
regards non -Germans as having no
rights at all,
In the first place, then, the great
powers—Russia, the United States,
Great Britain and China—must stand
'on guard for an indefinite number of
years to prevent the rearming of
Germany or Japan.
The negligence of 1933-39 must
never be repeated. This guardian-
ship must in the first instance be the.
business of the great powers, be-
cause the smaller powers of Turope,
after long starvation, torture, slav-
ery. and massacre at the hand of Ger
many and her vassals, will be'able to
recover only under the shield of firm
and certain protection against a re-
turn of the enemy.
If so protected, the small states
(and France also) will one by one
recover and take their places in the
new scheme of things. If this argu-
ment is correct, Great Britain will
not be able to indulge in any scrapp-
ing of the. Army, Navy, Air Force,
mercantile shipping and agriculture
as she did after the last war.
Demobilization, yes; but complete.
disarmament, no.
In the second place, there must be
a permanent international system .(a
"World Institution" Mr. Churchill
has called it). I expect, indeed, that
the future world organization for
peace will have to grow up more gra-
dually than the League of Nations
that sprang fully documented but
unfortunately not fully armed) out.
of the head of President Wilson'•in
1919,
The new world organization must
serve not only to preserve peace but
to arrange financialand economic
policies to benefit all nations.
In these financial and economic
benefits the enemy countries must
ultimately become sharers, if we
would prevent the regrowth of
causes of war.
The education and conversion of
the German people will be an appall-
ingly difficult problem. But I believe
that it may ultimately be not impos-
sible if they find that without Nazi-
ism and without armaments life is a
great deal better worth living than
under Hitler.
should be a national mirror for the
home town, I don't suppose you are
much interested in the fact that Ot-
tawa looks orally beautiful this time
of year. So is your own: place, out
east and west, But you 'might like,
occasionally, to hoar of strange pee-
ple, strange fades, strange ideas, all
of which makes Ottawa so intrigu-
ing even if you have to stand'in line
to eat.
There could be little sidelights,
like seeing the Soviet fliers recently;
the fellows who flew from Moscow to
Ottawa—just like that, I watched
them in the hotel lobby, •in black,
knee length boots, loose fitting tun-
ics, rakish forage caps; smart earn-
est looking fellows who looked as if
A Weekly Editor
Looks At Ottawa
were watching the smartly dressed
girls in and out of tlniforins; men of
our armed forces, civilians and seem.
ed to be measuring the standards of
democracy as against. Communism. l
got` e kick out of watching them eye
the well filled cigar stand, the: )am -
mod hotel cafe.
Well, that's part of Ottawa, A little
of this, a little of that about govern-
ment activities,. legislation, Perlia
ment, none of it too wearying—but
informative.
Just recently T heardHon. Humph-
rey Mitchell in the Iioitse of Coin
neons justify the government's man-
power .policy. When he said that, 6,-
100,000
;100,000 men and women OM of a total
population of 8,720,000 aged 14 years
mighty well for Canada M_war, The
opposition calls it a "muddle," Well,
after listening in on the debates for
vr'eelis on end, it becomes increasing-
ly clear that Canadians have got to
think and interpret for themselves a
little, too. We'll try to unravel things
if possible, always keeping in persp-
ective the national picture and that
millions of others have problems and
ideas, too.
Letters in from editors all over
Canada relative to this new service
reveal that people in Canada are
'Pondering these days and want to
take the works of the clock apart
themselves. One editor suggests we
dig with both hands into a health in-
surance measure now pending which,
they had a mission in life. Undoubt- and over were in the armed\ forces' or he claims would be foisted on us by
wily theirs is killing Germans. Thoyat work, this on the face of it speaks a medical monopoly, and which in its Send us the names of your visitors
present form would'cost.the peaplo
plenty,
A Manitoba editors wante, "in
language enlightenment on matters
pertaining to fanners and the farm-
ing communities" and also :"of what
benefit will the post war reconstruc-
tion schemes be to the farmer."
,That seems to be our "simple
task" in this weekly news letter. You
must not expect miracles of report-
ing, Time, experience, in digging out
the essential facts and developing a.
continuity of understanding of what
You might he interested in out here
will follow, Undoubtedly you want
facts, and an authentic, unbiased and
interpretive slant at Ottawa, dished
out as if yourown editor was here
doing it.
By Jim Greenblat.
This introduces, from the nation's
capital, a new series of weekly let-
ters, designed exclusively for com-
munity papers of Canada and that
vast audience of reads, which never
gets out to a night club. For the
rancher, farmer, fruit grower, miner;
the semi-urbanand rural people
whose feet are directly and in-
directly rooted in the soil of Canada.
Your own editor among others has
been annoyed to high heaven with
the flood of matorial which comes
from Ottawa, much of which he can
not use. Like you he's a busy person
running the paper. He knows you
would interested in a quick catch-up
on governmental doings and what's
what around Ottawa after you come
in from chorea at night. He also
knows you do not relish long winded
reading after a hind day's work. And
this weekly feature, I hope will fill
the bill,
The Wartime Information Board
has been made aware that readers of
weekly papers are entitled to some-
thing in their own language from Ot-
tawa, and so, accepting this assign-
ment it would be interesting to get
your collective reaction through your,
editor, .
If you have any particular problem
which has its anchor in Ottawa, and
you want to know what makes it
tick, feel free to drop a line to this
column. Maybe it can be interpreted
for you, Possibly there are thousands
of others who want to know about
the sante thing. But it would be bet-
ter if none of us get too personal or
too political, Well leave that sort of
thing to the politicians.
This column to justify itself,
CANADIAN PACIFIC GOES ALL OUT IN WAR.
The phases of the Canadian Pacific Railway's
war effort are ma>sifold and far-reaching. On
land, on sea and in the air, the company'is ifiaking
a vast contribution toward ultimate victory.
Trains haul untold, tons of vital war materials
across the country, and carry and feed troops on
the move to and from training centres and to
embarkation points.
Company passenger and cargo ships, garbed in
drab war paint, are on Admiralty service, plying
the perilous waters of the seven seas. Many of
the company's vessels have been lost by enemy
action; chief casualty being the: famed luxury liner, Empress of Britain.,
Canadian Pacific Airi Lines, besides flying passengers, freight and mail, also operates six air
observer schools and one elementary flying training school in conjunction with the Royal Canadian
Air Force as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Scheme to make a major contribution
to: the Empire's fighting air power.
:.At company shops; the sinews of war are manufabtured; at one big shop, Valentine tanks were
made; at another, naval guns are being turned out.
More than 14,000 members of the company's peacetime perso¢rnel are now on active service and
to help 'fill the gaps thus created at home, women workers are coming increasingly to the fore in
taking men's places. They serve as car -checkers and "call -boys" and some have already invaded the
round -house -a once -exclusively male territory—as engine wipers, and some even nurse ambitions
to drive engines one day.
And employees are steadfastly upholding the home -front end with all-out support of Victory
Loan campaigns; Red Cross drives, war relief measures, blood donations, and by the work of
women's service organizations within the company.
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