“THERE IS NO PEACE”
APPEAL TO NATIONS CONDITIONS DEPLORED “Let us face the reality. Universal military training is not for the enforcement of peace. It is asked because there is no peace ... in our consciences, our minds, our hearts, our policies, our societies,” writes Dorothy Thompson in the Now York Post. "It is asked in the frantic hope that the great nations, estimating each other’s terrifying power, and manoeuvring against each other over the moans of the real peace-lovers—the suffering, sacrificing, believing, hoping and broken-hearted people of the world — will fear to attack cacli other, lest the result be mutual annihilation. “This is our peace, for which the youngest and noblest died. Immense and crushing military power, armed with the most horrible instruments of destruction, defending an j ethical vacuum and an intellectual wilderness, inhabited by the furies of broken faiths, shattered promises, abandoned principles. rule-of-thumb policies; travesties of freedom; assassins of democracy; mockeries of Socialism; crucifixion of Christendom. That is our peace. The people’s peace.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21980, 26 March 1946, Page 5
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