U.S.A. POLICY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1940, Page 6

U.S.A. POLICY

AMERICAN ISOLATIONIST VIEW.

"An ambassador of Christ must have some superior motive for staying out of the war.” said Dr Fosdick, America’s best-known preacher, in a recent address. "If he wants America to stay out, it is because he is convinced that only so can America, in the long run, make her greatest contribution to world-wide democracy, liberty, justice and peace. The one thing that makes it difficult for some Americans to accept this is the picture they see of Hitler conquering Europe and then setting out to conquer the world, and us in particular. If anything ever carries us into war it. will be that picture. Let me then present a picture in contrast that seems to me a thousand times more probable. If Hitler ever does win this war, it will take a long time to do it. Britain and France will not in a few months or years lie down to a Nazi triumph. And in a modern war. long continued, no one really does win. So. at the close of the present war. the situation would not offer a strong, victorious Hitler, but. would show all the contestants utterly exhausted. Europe would be a shambles, with Russia, if she keeps her morale undiminished and her resources untouched, waiting to start a social revolution amid the embers of a wrecked Europe. If America really wants to help the world most she will not join herself to that dilapidated wreckage of the nations, but will prepare herself, when peacemaking comes, to be still free, her house in order, her resources unimpaired, aligned with kindred neutrals, ready to throw the influence of a great nation on the side of a peace that can last."