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Dt SD al te fa aed By Mer eae 2 tele aL a a a ee Foe meting -5- l . America's opportunity. The peoples of ell lands say te america: Send us plows for our fields in- stead of tanks and guns to be used against US+ The Unitec Nations Is waiting, ready to a0 the job. We should start with an econaile plan for the Near East financed py the International Bank and packed by the United Nations. The dollars that are spent will be spent for the production of goods and will come back to us ina thousand different ways. Our program will be based on service instead of the outworn Ideas of imperialism and power polities. It is 2 fun? mental lew of life that 2 strong idea is merely strengthened by persecution. The way tO mancte ccmruntsh is by what Willian | James called "the replacing power of the hicher affection.* In other words, we must give the common. man all over the world sorething better than cammunicsn. 1 believe we have something better than communism here in America, Sut President Truman has not spoken for the American ideal. It is now the turn of the American people to spear. Common sense is required of all of us in realizing that helping militarism never brings peace. courare is required of #11 of us in carrying out a program that can bring peace. Courage and common sense are the qualities that made America grest. Let's keep those qualities now. adits THE NEW REPUBLIC 40 East 49th Street New York, 17, N. i.