WAR & PEACE: Hero Speaks

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¶"In times of great emergency, men of the same belief must gather together for mutual counsel and action. If they fail to do this, all that they stand for will be lost."

¶"Let us not delude ourselves. If we enter the quarrels of Europe during war, we must stay in them in time of peace as well. It is madness to send our soldiers to be killed as we did in the last war if we turn the course of peace over to the greed, the fear and the intrigue of European nations."

¶"These wars in Europe are not wars in which our civilization is defending itself against some Asiatic intruder. . . . This is not a question of banding together to defend the white race against foreign invasion. This is simply one more of those age-old struggles within our family of nations—a quarrel arising from the errors of the last war. . . ."

¶"The Treaty of Versailles either had to be revised as time passed, or England and France . . . had to keep Germany weak by force. Neither policy was followed. Europe wavered back and forth between the two. As a result, another war has begun ... a war which may even lead to the end of our western civilization."

¶"We must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife. Let us make no mistake about the cost of entering this war. . . . Munitions alone will not be enough. . . . We are likely to lose a million men, possibly several million. . . . And our children will be fortunate if they see the end in their lives. ..."

¶"If we enter fighting for democracy abroad we may end by losing it at home."

¶"We must not be misguided by this foreign propaganda to the effect that our frontiers lie in Europe.* What more could we ask than the Atlantic Ocean on the East, the Pacific on the West? ... An ocean is a formidable barrier, even for modern aircraft. . . ."

¶"The German genius for science and organization, the English genius for government and commerce, the French genius for living and understanding of life—they must not go down here as well as on the other side. Here in America they can be blended to form the greatest genius of all."

Projected this week by Hudson County (N. J.) Young Republicans was the first "Draft Lindbergh for President Club."