Will The Americans Go Home Again?
FTER the Great War, as everybody knows, the Americans turned their backs on Europe. They went home, and they stayed home, and one of the consequences was a second world war greater than the first. Will they do the same thing again? Nobody knows. But if we may base an opinion on what Americans are thinking at present, they will not make that mistake a second time. Fortune last month made a survey of public opinion on this very question, and what Fortune discovers to-day most barometers of United States opinion are showing to-morrow. Fortune discovered that more than eighty per cent. of the people it crossquestioned want a United States peace, and that more than sixty per cent. accept all the implications of such a peace. In other words victory over the Axis is not enough. There must also be victory over the influences that make aggression possible, and that will be impossible without American participation. It will also of course be impossible without the participation of all the other peace-loving Powers, and it is interesting to note that only 76 per cent. voted for an attempt by America alone to organise the world for peace. The survey covered seven issues, and some of the results were a little surprising: Return to national isolation ............ 11.1% Unify but isolate the hemisphere ........ 6.9% Try alone to organise world for peace 26.2% Form a new world peace league .... 34.3% Establish ties with British Empire .... 3.5% Unite with all democracies (Union now) 8.4% BeneEt NOW: ss. 4s Rises. GH: ae. eee 9.6% It is not surprising that only 3.5 per cent. wanted union with the British Empire, since no one has ever suggested or believed that opinion-on one side of the Atlantic or the other-has reached that point. But it is surprising that a movement which has been pushed so hard as "Union Now" has beena combination, that is, of all the democracies -treceived only 8.4 per cent. of the votes cast, and that only 9.6 per cent. had no policy at all. It is not so surprising, and most people will think it distinctly encouraging, that the largest group in favour of an active participation in the post-war settlement was described by Fortune as the best informed.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 154, 5 June 1942, Page 4
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