Universal Training For All Americans

Northern Advocate, 30 August 1947, Page 5

Universal Training For All Americans

EISENHOWER BELIEVES WAY TO ENSURE WORLD PEACE IS .. .

(Received 1.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 29. DECLARING that the world was already divided into two great camps, General Eisenhower, chief of staff, addressing the American Legion convention today, said universal military training for Americans was the only way to ensure world peace. “The world is now grouped on one side around dictatorships which subject the individual to absolute control, and the otherside around democracy which provides him a free and unlimited horizon,” he said.

“So long as deliberate aggression against the rights of free men and the existence of free governments may be a part of the international picture, we must be prepared for whatever this may finally mean to us.

phase of deflation, may be the best for both of us,” he said. Fleet Admii’al Chester Nimitz told the convention that the condition of the American armed forces did not wari’ant complacency until there was a positive assux’ance that war had been permanently abolished.

“I don’t want to be understood as seeing a global war as an immediate threat.

“No great nation is today in a position to provoke a long, exhausting conflict with any hope of gain, but time, foresight and concerted effort are all necessary in order to possess at any given time a respectable defensive posture.” DEFENDS U.S. POLICY

The United States must not endanger her secui’ity by failing to provide her own safeguards. . . .

Defending the United States policy against foreign and domestic criticism, General Eisenhower said: “We find ourselves blamed, castigated and excoriated by some for any ,and all our effort towards peace. “In our own country we hear the short-sighted cry of ‘internationalism’ implying lack of patriotism in those who struggle to maintain world condi'tions essential to the preservation of our own freedoms.” GREAT RESPONSIBILITY

General Eisenhower continued: “False propaganda from without brands democi’acy as a menace to pro-gi-ess.

“Exei’cise of the freedoms for which we fought in solemn pact is blocked in critical areas by the forceful imposition of minority, dictatorial control.”

Stressing the United States’ great responsibility in maintaining woi’ld peace, Genei’al Eisenhower concluded: “ What America does today, what America plans for tomorrow, can decide the sort of world subsequent, generations will possess—whether it shall be governed by justice or enslaved by force.” Sir lan Fraser warned the convention that Britain could no longer afford to defend the peace of the world. "We pass the torch to you and our Canadian brothers,” he said. “If in futui’e there is trouble in the world we shall be by your side just as twice dui’ing the lifetime of most of us you have been by ours. “The only way to prevent another war is for the United States and Britain to cooperate so closely that their soldiers fire the same sized bullets out of the same automatic weapons.” Sir lan said Britain would i-ecover from her present crisis even without further American loans.

He himself would prefer that there should be no new loan when the present one expired. “The hard way for both of us, including the tightening of our belt, some decline in your exports, and a