AMERICA MUST DECIDE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23770, 25 September 1940, Page 8

AMERICA MUST DECIDE

"The hour has conic when the American people must decide whether they are prepared to face the future in a position of virtual isolation surrounded by powerful victors made strong by practices destructive of American ideals or whether they will lend to the European nations, struggling desperately against the German threat, such support as may yet enable them to halt that aggression," says a declaration on war issues published by leading preachers in the United States. "However, more is at stake than national self-interest. A German victory would destroy the liberties of free peoples and subordinate all life under the rule of political totalitarianism, would endanger every value embodied in western civilisation by tho Christian faith and by humanistic culture. We affirm that all nations including our own share responsibility for the conflict and that Allied victory would not of itsolf assure the establishment of justice and peace* But we are committed to the realisation of a community of nations founded in justice as the only firm hopo for the peace of the world,'and we hold that the halting of Nazi aggression is prerequisite to the possibility of world order."