U.S. URGED TO ‘WIN THE PEACE’ BY MORAL FORCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 September 1950, Page 6

U.S. URGED TO ‘WIN THE PEACE’ BY MORAL FORCE

NEW YORK, September 27—General George Marshall, America’s new Secretary of Defence, said tonight that only a programme of world betterment could win the peace for the United States, because its opponents “cannot bo defeated by military force alone.” Addressing a Rod Cross meeting at Cleveland, lie said: “In this struggle the strong weapons will be singleness of purpose, sympathy for the oppressed, and the will to submerge individual national ambitions.” Referring to the old saw that the United States had never lost a war and never won a peace, he said: “It is my hope that a united people, standing firmly behind the right as they see it and giving themselves unseliishlv to the common good, may bring a’bout a spiritual climate which willmake the present period a turning point, in American history. “A nation composed of people united in purpose, with one single aim in view—the bettering of the world — will. I believe, have the moral force to determine that this is a peace wo shall win. This is our greatest challenge.” General Marshall said that the Communist forces which precipitated tne Korean war “flourish best in an atmosphere of confusion and disintegration.” ______