NOTE OF WARNING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1943, Page 3

NOTE OF WARNING

SOUNDED BV AMERICAN VICE-PRESIDENT ISOLATIONISM IN NEW FORMS — FLOODING UNITED STATES. NEED OF BOLD APPROACH TO WORLD PROBLEMS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 8. The Vice-President of the United States, Mr Henry J. Wallace, told representatives of farm and civil groups that new forms of “isolationism” were Hooding the United States which, it adopted as the national policy, would lead straight to a third world war and would threaten the national security. Mr Wallace outlined a five-point programme which, he said, was necessary for a permanent peace. 1. The United States must throw her full influence behind world efforts to prevent a third world war. 2. The devastated European countries must be aided in developing their agriculture and industry. 3. The Nazi teaching to German youth must be halted. 4. Just international trade relations must be established. 5. The United States must co-oper-ate with the other nations in aviation and shipping instead of seeking “Imperialistic American supremacy of the air and sea.” Addressing a conference on the Christian basis of world order at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Mr Wallace said that the future wellbeing of the world demanded not only some control of German education after the war but also effective understanding between Marxism as it was being modified in Russia and democracy as the Western nations were adapting it to modern conditions. The democratic Christian philosophy denied that man was made for war, whether international war as preached by the Prussians or class war as, asserted by Marxism, but believed that ultimate peace was inevitable —that all men were brothers, with God their father. This democratic philosophy pervaded the hearts and minds not only of those who lived by Christianity but also of those who drew their inspiration from Mohammendanism, Judaism, Hinduism, Confucianism and other faiths. There was a seeming conflict between freedom and duty, and it would take the spirit of democracy to resolve it.

Service to others which was the essence of democracy, must capture the hearts of men over the entire world if human civilisation was not to be torn to pieces in a series of wars and revolutions.

“A third world war appears inevitable unless the Western democracies and Russia reach a satisfactory understanding before the present conflict ends," Mr Wallace said. War would be certain if Prussia was permitted to re-arm, either materially or psychologically, and war was probable if the democracies double-crossed Russia. “If full employment is furnished,” he said, “we need not fear a revival of the old line of Communistic propaganda from within after the. war, otherwise such propaganda is inevitable. By collaborating with the rest of the world we shall raise our own standard of living, and help to raise the standards of others.” Mr Wallace affirmed that democracy must be tremendously more efficient in the service of the common man. COMMENT IN BRITAIN ' SUPPORT FOR ENLIGHTENED POLICY. LONDON, March 9. The British Press widely comments on Mi- Wallace’s latest speech. The London “News Chronicle” says that the Vice-President faces up squarely to the fact that a new world order has to be satisfactory to Britain, America and Russia. No country has stuck more closely to its own interests than Russia, and international war or domination of other races has never been a part of the Marxist creed, the newspaper says. “The Times” supports Mr Wallace’s advocacy of raising the standard of living in one’s own country and helping other nations to raise theirs. The “Daily Telegraph” summarises Mr Wallare’s advice as: A weather eye open on Germany, a friendly eye open toward Russia, and constructive work in one’s own economics.