Az Ember, 1941 (16. évfolyam, 41. szám)
1941-11-01 / 41. szám
NOVEMBER 1. Az Ember 9 AMERICA’S DUTY By EMIL LENGYEL. M hen this war is over it vili be the duty of the U. S. to organize peace.. This is not a wish nor a forecast, hut an inescapable fact. No other country will be in a position to do this .work. Germany will be in no position to do so because she will lose this war, no matter how many campaigns she may yet win. Should she win this war, there would be no world to organize. In that case the Western world would not merely decline, as that prophetic philosopher, Oswald Spengler, predicted, b u t would completely vanish. The Reich’s victory would be tantamount to the defeat of mankind. Russia could pot organize the post-war world. She is losing so much blood just now that she will lack the strength to perform this task for generations to come. Besides, Russia occupies, and has for centuries occupied, a world apart which has little in common with the western world. She lacks the capacity to organize and not even quarter of a century of concentrated attention to this problem has changed her basic nature. w~ Great Rritain was in charge of world peace for nearly three hundred years. She has favorable geographic location, endurance, and other necessary traits. But the time has come for her to surrender these functions to younger hands. Great Britain i s tired — that much is clear from the r e c o r d of this war. She has conducted herself magnificently and in spite of many reverses is probably better off today than two years ago. But she lias seldom, if ever, been able to take the initiative. Under the gifted leadership of Winston Churchill she has done the very best that was within her ken. But fire cannot he imparted to tired eyes, nor dynamic movement to flabby muscles. England should not be blamed for having done no more. She should not he blamed for having left the initiative to the enemy. She wanted peace for valid reason: the secular struggles she has carried on have left their imprint on her people. The people of the United States long lived in the hope that they would be left alone to cultivate their own garden. We and past EMIL LENGYEL. American generations wanted to turn our backs on Europe’s strifes. Great as our desire is to save others from doom, still greater is cur wish to save ourselves from Europe’s bane. We believed that in this country I we have found the blessed land of peace. Nature gave it all to make it rich. The greatest of all its treasures are the millions who see their toil reAgrded. Man can confidently face the future in this land. We have thousands of miles of Ocean to East and West. We have the strength that is born of self-confidence. We have the courage which strength lends to man. l)e we need to. concern ourselves with other people’s troubles? It is only in the last few menths that people in this country have learned that we have been chasing the rainbow. They have learned that even though the Oceans were twice as wide, there is no nature-made security from the pestilence which scours the earth. An enemy invasion would be had enough, hut it would not be the greatest danger. Countries have been invaded and enslaved, sometimes for centuries. Poland was completely wiped out once before, yet she never ceased to live: because hope was kept burning in millions of hearts. Greater than the danger of the physical invasion is the ravage done by the invasion of the spirit. Hitler’s hordes may stay three thousand miles away and yet he could be supreme throughout this land if his spirit were installed in power through his henchmen. The successworshipers would surely exploit his victory in the East, if it were to be inflicted on this world. This is one of the reasons why the United States must organize peace. There is another reason which may be better comprehended by people of practical minds. We in this country have been involved in all major wars of the western world. We were drawn into the Napoleonic Wars more than a century ago. We went into the first phase of the present World War nearly a quarter of a century ago. We are in this war too. History is our witness that we sought no strife. It was no accident that we have been plunged into all these conflicts. It is no use pretending that we belong to another planet and that the rest of the globe is no business of ours. We occupy too large a surface of that globe. We occupy a still larger part of the wealth of the earth. Our interests are worldwide, and our policy can not remain provincial. The greatness of this country itself imposes great obligations upon its people. The record shows that the first phase of the World War, which the United States entered in 1917, cost this country already some 70 billion dollars. By the time the last penny on that war will be paid, we will have spentin expert opinion— more than 100 billion dollars. We have scarcely started on this phase of the war and we already have appropriated more than 30 billion dollars. Tanks are much more expensive than barbed wire entanglements, dive-bombers more costly than automatic rifles. This war is a great moloch devouring tens of billions of hard-earned money where the so-called First World War cost only billions. Even the poorest of us have begun to feel the pinch of war costs, as taxes on many useful tilings went into effect a month ago. They will feel it moye next Spring when income taxes will fall due. People will make money and turn it hack to the government. It will he a hopeless race, in which only moloch can gain. Nor is that enough. Should this war be over without our taking a more active part in it than we do now, we shall still he unable to escape its tragic aftermath. Old values will he destroyed, new values will he horn. We are creating instruments of destruction. We need them, of course, for self-defense and we have been forced to take them against our will. We shall be short of homes and many amenities of life. It will be a harder existence. A TIZENÖTESZTENDÖS AMERIKAI JUBILEUM ALKALMÁBÓL ÜDVÖZLÖM 44 'Az Ember”-t ÉS ANNAK SZERKESZTŐJÉT. Our minds will work differently, too, and that is just as great a danger. While fighting intolerence, we are soaking it in ourselves. We are impregnated with ideas establishing new scales for man. Most unfortunately, many in our midst are already judging their fellow-men according to their blood-strains and creeds. The poison is spreading, and an insidious foe it is. It gets so deep into our system that we are unaware of the damages it wreaks. We should not he in this situation. If we are in it, much of the responsibility lies with us, Americans. 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Tök- és káposztagyaluk, hazai kasza, dekás mérlegek, tarkedli-sütö, labdafánksütő, különféle darálók, sziták, fakanalak, zsirosbödönök, centiméter, spékelőtü, valamint egyéb háztartási és konyhai cikkek. Valódi budapesti Diana és Brázciy sósborszesz. Dr. Kovács-féle nagyenyedi arckenőcs, borax szappan, púder, számos óhazai szépitőszer. H. ROT1I IMPORTERNÉL 1577 FIRST A VE., Cor. 82nd ST. NEW YORK, N. Y. TELEPHONE: REgent 4-1110 tions. Woodrow Wilson knew what he was doing when lie attempted to build a new order with America as one of its cornerstones. He knew that the League of Nations was no universal remedy, but that it was the best device to insure collective peace. Many of his countrymen did not know what lie knew. They set out to isolate the United States from the rest of the world. They set up high tariff walls which kept European goods from these shores. They built immigration walls which prevented the circulation of new blood. The Old World became glutted with excess blood and goo:1s. This plethora caused untold harm, helped insanity gain the
