WAR & PEACE: Story of a Tide

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Some others distrust the change but few Americans can distrust the spirit with which Editor White outlines the job of his Committee after the war is over, win, lose or draw: "We shall try then to give to American youth the same joy and enthusiasm for freedom of speech, peaceful assemblage, free conscience, trial by jury and the benefits of personal freedom that the Germans have put into their youth by teaching them national pride, race arrogance, and international hatred. We be lieve this is our really big job, bigger than saving Britain as our first line of defense —for what good will it do to defend Britain to save our own hides and have our own youth insensitive to those precious rights which our ancestors for a thousand years have bought with their blood and treasure?"