WORLD ANARCHY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1939, Page 2

WORLD ANARCHY

ALLIES GUARDING AMERICA. “The partisan politicians who beat the League of Nations so far as America was concerned not only succeeded m defeating the Democrat Party in 1920, as they were so realistically inspired to do, they defeated every soldier in the World War who had died to make the world ‘safe for democracy,’ and whose only justification of death was that war might die with them, and that the temple of World Peace might rest its foundation upon their graves." declared the Rev. E. Dent Lacey, an American preacher, in a recent address. “America’s refusal to join the League of Nations cracked the chalice that held their sacrificial blood! The blood of the present war is upon the collective head of all nations —including the United States, with her Monroe mo-ther-hubbard pulled around her in 'splendid isolation’ from 'European intrigue’ and ‘entangling alliances!’ Now another generation must go into a death-grapple with world anarchy, and wallow in hell, lest one maniac-mon-arch rise to rule a world of slaves! Pacifists of this position hold that only in the framework of some such organisation as the League of Nations, implemented by international police power, can peace be assured. Absolute pacifism has been bombed out of me by the devastating finality of brutal facts! Today as I walk down the streets of our peaceful American village, without fear for myself or my loved ones. I feel the protection of the great arms of government as never before, and I breathe a prayer of gratitude for the heroic living and dead and dying in cur land and all lands, who have purchased. and are purchasing, my peace with their own sacrificial blood! The guns of England. France and Poland thunder in my ears as if they were guarding the threshold of my own home!"