REAL PEACE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 July 1943, Page 4

REAL PEACE

NEEDED BY THE NATIONS AMERICAN VICE-PRESIDENT’S ■ SURVEY. ECONOMIC & OTHER ESSENTIALS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) DETROIT, July 25. “The peace must be more than a breathing space between the death of the old tyranny and the birth of a new one. We won’t be satisfied with a peace which would merely lead us from the concentration camps and mass murder of Fascism into an international jungle of gangster governments, operated behind the scenes by power-crazed money-mad imperialists,” said the Vice-President, Mr H. A. Wallace, addressing Labour and civil organisations. Mr Wallace declared that the choice was between democracy for everybody or for a few, between the spreading of social safeguards and economic opportunities to all people, or the concentration of abundant resources in the hands of selfishness and greed. The creation of a decent diet for every family would take as much planning as the building of new cars, refrigerators and washing machines. “The world is a neighbourhood in, which we have learned that starvation in China affects our own security, and that a jobless India is related to unem- > ployment in America,’’ said Mr Wallace. “The United States must continue its splendid team work with Britain, and likewise must become better acquainted with the Russians. Effective democracy at home is a vital prelude to the stamping cut of unemployment, starvation, racial war and ignorance in the rest of the world.” The main peace-time responsibilities, Mr Wallace said, were: Firstly, enlightenment of the people; secondly, the mobilisation of production for full-time employment, and, thirdly, the'planning of world co-operation. Ninety-seven per cent of Labour co-operated fully in the war effort, and could work equally well with industry and agriculture in the future. The American people knew that the second step towards Nazism was the destruction of Labour unions. There were midget Hitlers and Demogogues who were America’s enemies. Both would destroy Labour unions if they could. Mr Wallace vigorously assailed persons who sniped at President Roosevelt, and said powerful moneyminded groups, called alternatively isolationists, reactionaries and American Fascists, sought to • destroy President Roosevelt’s domestic achievements of the past ten years by capitalising on his preoccupation with the war. “I have known the President intimately for ten years,” Mr Wallace concluded, “and in a final showdown he has always put human rights first.”