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iSlood Sweat Tears . . . to 'Win the 'IVar :
More Than Thai to Win the Peace "If we cannot be sure-or reasonably certain-of a just and lasting peace, what are we fighting for? To restore the territory stolen by Hitler and Hirohito and Mussolini and Stalin to its lawful owners?" .
"Blood, sweat and tears" is Winston Churchill's recipe for winning the war: it will take much more than that (says the New York "Catholic World") to win the peace: it takes faith and charity and magnanimity-everything we have or that God can give.
Some of our fellow -citizens think it seditious or even treasonable to look ahead to the end of the war and ask,
"What then?" Others-not so sensitive or suspicious-think it foolish.
"Winning a war is a big enough job. Let's not divert our attention to consider future possible diplomatic negotiations, political manoeuvrings, territorial readjustments. Simeon Strunsky of "The New York Times" editorial staff, reviewing Raoul de Roussy de Sales' "The Making of To -morrow," says: "It is refreshing to come across a book about to-morrow which makes practically no effort to say what to -morrow will look like." He speaks sarcastically of "blue -printers hard at work making new world patterns among the flying wreckage of programmes and prophecies." He agrees with de Sales that the future is unpredictable. But what is refreshing to Mr. Strunsky may be exasperating to someone else If I were to buy a book about "tomorrow" and find little or nothing .
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For this is not a war but a revolution; and when a revolution is ended nothing less than a new world must be the outcome.
about to -morrow in it, I should feel as I did when a doctor charged me ten (lollars for telling me that he could do nothing for me. However, on the face of it, there does seem to be good sense in devoting all one's attention to the winning of the war. Nothing makes a man look sillier than talking about what he is going to do with money that he is "sure to get but never gets." "Pick up the ball before you throw it," says the coach to the short-stop. "Get the money before you spend it," used to be good advice, until the New Deal taught us that thrift is no virtue. In the light of those good old copy -book maxims, it might seem just as well to win the war before we divide the spoils. Pardon! -not divide the spoils but distribute the benefits. None the less, there is another side to the argument. Everybody says, quoting the Pope, that next time we must have not simply peace, but "a just and lasting peace," Yet, Mr. Strunsky admits with Mr. de Sales, "give the democracies victory to -day and there is no assurance that we can work out a just and lasting peace." If we cannot be sure-or reasonably
certain-of a just and lasting peace, what are we fighting for? To "lick" the Axis? To re-establish the precarious status quo of Versailles? To avenge the sneak-attack at Pearl Harbour? To readjust the map of Central Europe? To restore the territory
There Must Be No Versailles Number II stolen by Hitler and Hirohito and Mussolini and Stalin to its lawful owners? Any one of these purposes would be big enough for an ordinary war. But not all of them together would justfy the present Gargantuan conflict. For this is not a war but a revolution; and when a revolution is ended nothing less than a new world must be the outcome. I say new world. Not the "new order" of a maniac and a sadist, but a new era of civilisation, If, when the war is won, we go back to the world of 1914 or of 1940, this vast revolution will go down in history as a specimen of stupendous futility. And we shall
have World War Number III in another generation. To judge from some of the current slogans, we went into this war to get Hitler and chain him to a rock or shoot him, But Hitler is not the cause of the present catastrophe. He did not make the world in which he rose to power, That world made him, No man can produce an earthquake or a tidal wave. The earth opens and the monster emerges: the tidal wave rolls in and there he is. In 1918 there was a cry: "Hang the Kaiser!" But if we had hanged him,
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we still should
have Hitler or someone
else in the image and likeness of Hitler. The purpose of this war, therefore, is to correct the mistakes of the other world war; that is to say, to correct the mistakes of the peace that followed
that war.
The world is upside down and we must set it right side up, In other words, the peace visualised by wise men-the Pope's "just and lasting peace"-will not pop up out of the ground like a rose -bush on a stage at the wave of the magician's wand. Nor will it drop down like manna from heaven. Peace will indeed seem like heaven, but like heaven it must be earned. Heaven is won by penance, mortification, sacrifice, faith, love, A lasting peace will be an earthly heaven, but we shall achieve it only by those ame virtues, Shall we be specific? We had better, Too many writers and orators utter high-sounding principles and leave them there. To speak in the abstract and decline to translate into the concrete indicates intellectual fogginess or dishonesty. So, here goes. When we have won the war and are itting at the peace table (God speed the day!), we shall say to the pleni("Continued on Back Cover.)
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