ive been
twiuub organiza
up to give the world
iniiuwi<jnt peace. Various plans
for peace have been here as long
as the world has been created.
It. may not have been plans as
we know them today, but there
have been many attempts to
bring the peoples of the nations
to live in peace and harmony.
As yet, we have to see the one
that has done Just what it creat
ed to do—to have peace. If
there has been one that accom
plished its purpose, history has
• never recorded it.
•Since peace movements before
our times are not familiar to
us, we will dwell on those in our
time.
At the end of World War X,
when America became involved
to "save the world for Democ
racy,” we have had our doubts
that peace plan would .ever
work. On second thought, we
believe that it could be worked.
But there is a big IF! And that
IF will be the stumbling block
for many years to come, we be
lieve.
Back in 1919 and the early
twenties, this country tried to
get into the foreign entangle
ments of other nations. That
was one of the first principles
George Washington cautioned
his countrymen not to do!
We almost got ourselves into
the-league of Nations in 1919
and early twenties, but we had
men in the United States at that
time, who believed in looking
cut for Ameria first. These
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the late Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge of if rhuitfttn He
was the father of the present
Henry Cabot Lodge who Is
American Representative at the
United Nations. Many credit
Lodge with being the power that
prevented the U. S. from Joining
the League. History has about
proven he was the power, and
the same history has proven
without a shadow of a doubt
that the reasons why Lodge
wanted America out of the Lea
gue were right.
In- his many speeches, Lodge
contended that once the United
States became a member of the
League of Nations, we would
continually be embroiled In
some European or world conflict.
How right he was! For this
stand he was called an isolation
ist.
We have seen, only in recent
years, what Lodge meant when
he said we would be embroiled
at. the outset of trouble in Eur
ope or any other place in the
world. He contended that
America would be the one na
tion that would be called, ex
pected and Just about demanded
to enter the fight first. In other
words ,we would have to fight
the battles of our so-called
friends. Korea is a concrete ex
ample of that thought on his
part.
What did the League of Na
tions prevent? To our knowl
edge, nothing. Japan was a
member of the League. Yet
when she marched into Man
churia in the early thirties, no
other nation offered to stop her,
except of course, China, the
country invaded. There was
supposed to have been ways of
doing this, without firing a
shot, but what did the member
nations do? NOTHING! After
many threats of what the Lea
gue was going to do, Japan
thumbed her nose at that wofld
body and went on.her way to
wage war against China for
many years.
The irony of all that, is that
the United States was blamed
outright, by none other than our
“good friend England.” The
British yelled their heads off
that If we had been in the Lea
gue with them, Japan would not
have dared enter Manchuria.
That is the old British diplomacy
down right down the line. There
is no doubt that if we had been
in the League and had been un
fortunate enough to have had a
sucker In the White House, we
would have been at war with
Japan long berfore Pearl Har
bor. In fact, the British even
double-crossed the United States
regarding the attempt to stop
Japan’s Manchurian conquest.
When our Ambassador called
on the Imperial Japanese Gov
ernment, to deliver a warning,
that we would enter the fight
on the side of China, as had
been pre-arranged with the
British, and they were to do
same, we were left with the bag
to hold. The British Ambassa
dor made his can, and instead
of telling the Japs, , that there
would be war, with England and
the United States fighting with
China, he contradicted the
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the years.
Franklin Roosevelt came up
with the bright idea of the Unit
ed Nations, and having at his
command a bunch of party con
gressmen who thot he was a lit
tle god, voted America into that
world organization. So when
trouble came In Korea, Harry
Truman stuck his neck out, and
sent our young men to their
deaths In that hell hole. On
this point we have said and will
again, that if the Congress at
that time, had been Interested
first in welfare of the United
States, it would have impeached
Truman for violation of the Con
stitution. He got by with, call
ing only a police action. Tru
man had no son nor grandson In
Korea being shot at. But when
such lead-slinging and murder
that is going on, in Korea is not
a war, God help the world when
It does become embroiled in a
'war.
As you know, England is a
signatory power of the United
Nations. Her part to the Ko
rean conflict is realy disgusting
to an American. England’s to
tfte
ken contribution, as well as
other United Nations members
to the Korean mess has about
convinced us that we were suck
ers to be pulled into It without
first finding out just what our
allies were going to do and when
they were going to do It. Why,
our good friends are still sell
ing war material to the Red
Chinks! Yet we say, and they
say, they are our friends. For
our part we don’t want and will
not have, friends that stab us
in the back more than once, for
If we survive that once, from
then on, we are watching this
so-called friend.
In the third paragraph of this
column we said a world peace
movement could probably be
worked, but there was a big IF.
That IF Is just this: IF ALL THE
SIGNATORY POWERS, WERE
TO AGREE, AND GARRY OUT
THAT AGREEMENT, that once
a friend or foe, started a move
of aggression, that ALL MEM
BER NATIONS would CEASE
ALL TRADE of goods of any
kind, blockade that aggressor,
and give an ultimatum that if
she did not cease her aggression
immeidately that ALL NATIONS
WOULD BE AT WAR WITH HER,
and all nations would have the
SAME NUMBER OF MEN and
the same amount of equipment
on the field cf battle, we are
convinced, that when an aggres
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aor. was met face to face with
this array of war material that
she would BACK DOWN IN A
•HURRY!
This could have been done In
the Korean mess, W ALL MEM
BER NATIONS HAD DONS
WHAT THEY WERE OBLIGAT
ED TO DO—OR were they ob
ligated? We were left with load
to carry. For our part, the time
has crane for the people of this
country to wake up and find out
what is happening to us.
We realize that we are so deep
now, that we cannot easly get
out of the so-called peace or
ganization, but by the Grace of
God, if ever again, we‘are un
embroiled with foreign entangle
ments, we should STAY UN-EM
BROILED! and look after our
own land.
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15.
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