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_ 4 ager? « . a < ‘w-4e . we wae a war of nerves against Russia and expect her to take in goo’ faith our proposals to the United Nations on atcmic energy? When President Truman prociajms the world-wide conflict between East and West, he Is telling the Soviet leaders that we are preparing for eventual war. They will reply by measures to strengthen their position In the event of war. Then the cask of ‘keeping the world at peace will pass beyond the power of the common people everywhere who want peace. Certainly it will not be freedom that will be victorious in this struggle. Parchological and spiritual preparation for war will follow financial preparation; civil sivere 3 will be restricted; standards of Living will be forced domward; families will be divided against each other; none of the values that we hold worth fighting for will be secure. : Most americans fear thet the actions proposed by President Truman will lead to disaster, That is why congressional leaders were prepared in advance for the President's message. That is why the program was presented plece by plece, and not as an overall program that Americans could look at and Judge as a whole. No hypocritical appeal to the generoeity and decency of the american people should be permitted to draw us Into a commitment for which there is no end in sight. aAmeri- cans are for democracy and for economic recorstrmiction. As one American citizen I say: No loan to undemocratic and well-fed qurkey: No_loan to Greece until a representative Greek government is formed ‘and _can assure Anerica that our funds will be used fcr the welfare of the Greek people. To authorize the loans proposed by President Truman will pring the world nearer to war. To defeat these loans will not bring peace. J recognize that there 1s grave danger of eventual war in our present policy of drift. Al) nations are responsible for this drift to war; al} nations must work together for peace. , NO one wants war. If war comes OMe day, It will be because we have failed to think on the scale required for peace. Roosevelt thought on that scale. He foresaw generations of peace and Dienty. Two years later President Truman asks us to look forward to generations of want and yar, President Truman has summoned in 4 Century of Fear. I say this can be the century of the Tulrilinent of the Aierican dream. .¢ This ts the time for an all-out world-wide reconstruction: prorram for peace. This ts