Between War and Peace

...named and its battle fields remain undefined...

...Like Baneuo's ghost, like Economic Royal iate, like One Nation Free end Indi viable with Liberty and Justice for All, World Wsr III is here...

...tee terrible to contemplate become* by repetition aimply a disagreeable necessity we might a* wall get Oat of the way at eaee...

...Or ehould we realistically face the fact that the conflicta ef national interest and ideology which may lead to the outbreak of war already exist, and seek solutions...

...Can compromise replace conflict...

...Russian imperialism heroines a menace spreading Into every country within reach of her military power...

...pma.- ?J ?ritain Rebuilds LONDON (LPA) — More than 1,250...

...Every German and Japanese becomes, through repeated In...

...A social event before it happens is a rhetorical concept This is its status during its foetal period, after it has been conceived in some man's mind and before it has been delivered into general Social acceptance...

...the development of World War III into a rhetorical etneept kilpt prevent a etampede back to "normalcy"· »7 it forcee ue, however reluctantly, to /at** with re?liem the facte of eur world rola* tionehipe...

...Thea* and many other ideas become, by much repetition, stereo* types thst affect the thinking and acting of millions of individuals just as patently as though they were objective fact* that could be seen and heard and felt They hemme positive forces that go into th* weaving of whatever pattern the future ia destined to unfold...

...It exists as a threat strong enough to force the United States out of its traditional isolationism and into a present close alliance with England and Russia, and toward a developing world federation of United Nations...

...It 1* s way w* mast sednloasly avoid ia connection with the fever of talk about the next war...

...Tree, its guns are not yet heard and its levies of/tsjsnps hare hot yet been drawn...

...I* another world slaughter inevitable, as an increasing number arc aayiag...

...Then it usually happens that the phraser becomes tht leader...

...000 worker* will be engaged in British homing project* by th* end of nett luno, according to Labor Minister* George Isaacs...

...World War III lives, we have reason to fear, as an anticipated reality by militarists and manufacturers in Germany, already laying plans for eventual rearmament and a resurgence of power...

...Manifeet D et tiny...

...A doctor's pre-cautionary lecture interrupts an executive's plans, and confronts him and his family with an unexpected year of leisure, in new surroundings...

...That is a question deserving our closest attention as we face the fact that already it is rhetorically past a lusty infancy and into a thriving childhood...

...There is, of course, at bottom a national discontent or need er desire, but there is no unified understanding of what it all means or of what should be done until some articulate person phrases it for the people...

...It looms as an argument potent in proposals for compulsory military training in peacetime...

...It exists as a compensatory mechanism by which the defeated War Lords of Japan are even now looking forward to "saving face" by a future revenge for present defeats and an accomplishment of goals now temporarily lost The third World Wsr ia terribly reel ia the weight with which it oppresses the spirit* ef selditr* who have fought through this wsr with no ether purpose than to insure a future of peace...

...We must light" moves by steady, progression into "Let's de...

...Now Ely Cul-bertson can calmly predict a war against Russia at our own choice in five years, or without our choice within fifteen years...

...Can we have faith in the United Nations Organisation...

...A prosper...

...There was agitation for proAibt'tioM before it was enacted...

...friend gives a (lowing account of a play he has seen, and you buy tickets and at...

...It may safely be assumed that no emotional response aver sweeps over millions of people at the same time except as it is defined and driven by speech...

...A sales manager brings a plan before his board of directors, and a new advertising campaign i? launched...

...It ia a rhetorical concept that makes its presence heavily felt...

...It* shadow has darkened the breadth of many lands...

...He addressed the Amalgsmted Union of Building Trade Worker*, outlining to them the program of housing scheduled for the next ton to twelve year* to rebuild war-torn Britain...

...It behooves us ail to be sharply conscious of what is aaid about it, and of the manner of the saying...

...Revolutions, whether military Or social, • re talked into being...

...And for thos* of US Who merely er largely listen there i* a responsibility, too, in th* manner In which we sre affected by what is said...

...Only a few weeks ago a national chorus of agonised howls greeted General George Patton'i assurance to a group of Sunday School youngsters that they would have to fight in the next war...

...It has already been talked into the foetal period as a rhetorical concept...

...Examples come readily* to mind...

...It is to be hoped that all who »peak with influential voice* are giving earnest eonside, -ation to which import their words assy have...

...Thus we may turn a historical corner and avoid meeting the monster if we dismember Germany, re-due* Japan to an agricultural island, strengthen th* United Nations, bold onto our Pacific bases, either protect the power of England or stand unequivocally for the freedom of her vassals of Empire (as particular critics may prefer) and either conciliate Russis or takt a firm stand against tht new Russian imperialism (again according to tht individual preferences of critics...

...A Senator's filibuster ends a national experiment in eliminating .racial discrimination from employment practices...

...World War III has become as real as arc most events th?t sre one step removed from our presence—that is, as real as those events that happened yesterday, or at some place away from us, or that are expected tomorrow...

...Our daily lives, In per...

...Repetition also creates belief patterns which in thsmselves become fact* we have to deal with...

...It has repeatedly been formulated into speech as a definite hypothesis...

...Townsend, Huey Long, Gerald L. K. Smith, Father Cough I in, and Pappy ("Pass the Biscuits") O'Daniel...

...It ia a substantial delegate to whatever conference ia held to determine questions ef national security and international cooperation...

...ThIS article by Robert T. Oliver ef Syracuse University ia the flrat ia a symposium ea the threat ef World War III...

...Familiarity breeds set *o much contempt aa unquestioning acceptance...

...It is just as true that social events are often talked out of betng...

...There I* a very ml danger confronting us...

...For those who have net read its signs, a brief background may bc required...

...As s social event gathers force, it may only be averted by facing it candidly, discovering Its causes, and seeking through discussion remedies that msy work...

...A youngster's enthusiastic plans to attend a dance are changed by parental persuasion to an evening of games at home...

...Secial events—that is to say, events that are the result of seine kind of derision or action bj people are typically lal Led into being...

...Still other commentators tell us that the danger of war is very real and near, but that it ran be avoided if such and such steps be taken...

...Some commentators are foreseeing a war after a new generation ia ready to fight, some think it will skip a generation, and others believe it is due within the next decade...

...This is one way in which rhetorical concept* derelo» lato action...

...It it real in that it shapes up in our minds as an eventuality to be considered...

...stances, an inhuman beast who must be fettered or destroyed...

...Similarly, prohibition bad fallen to the rhetorical level of being first a *·*>· omperimmt and then to being high and dry at one end and moioteroue at the •the, before it was repealed...

...tend the play...

...The all-important queetion ie whether it ie being talked out of becoming an event or whether it ie being talked into actuality...

...An "Irre-presaible conflict" readily develops to the stage where "We mast take a stand...

...Thus there was a term, The New- Beat, before there was such a national program in operation...

...Th* danger bas been very clearly formulated as the possibility that we may be swept into another world war...

...That is what happened to Dr...

...The proa sects for peace ssd progress seem dark just now, bet perhap* the dread a to mir bomb which might deatroy civilisation will make every nation afraid to start another conflagration...

...if it eeeuree from ue a quality »/ hard thinking and deeieive action we ehould «Iherwiee blindly o>r indolently avoid, it mag be the very inetrument through which the fact of a. future war ie indefinitely poetptnei...

...It is What happened in Italy with the rise of Fascism, in Germany with the arrival •f Hitler in power, in the United States when Roosevelt was nominsted and sleeted, and in England with the turn to Churchill when the disasters or May, 1*40, fulfilled his dire predictions...

...Land Hunger, Leben eranm, and Greater Kaet Atiet Co-Pro*perity Sphere were all political catchwords before they became mainsprings of action...

...ThIS is part of the background for the fact that World War III already exists...

...World WAR III ha* become a living fact that is posited at some undstable future time, to be fought in some unpredictable way, between Indefinable forces, for purposes as variable as the beliefs of the commentators, But for all its vagueness of outline, it is fart froni being a ludicrous er empty hypothesis, It determines decisions that affect Jur pocketbooks, our manner of living, our •motion*, and our normal expectation., of what (he future may bring forth...

...Pears of future aveataeUtie* may be repeated until they sets*** haunting phantoms that mast be de ?treyed for the security ef ear sleep, Nations cen worry themselves into war* u individuals worry themselves into quarrel* and divorce...

...It is no shadow phantom to statesmen who travel to frequent meeting* to devise seme mean* by which it stay be postponed, diverted, or, at leant, won...

...Can cooperation among nation* give aa secur-ity...

...What are the source* of clashee betweea pewera...

...Again examples erowd upon us...

...Once it was vaguely in our hearts and minds as a dread fear of what might happen, but it has now passed out of that stage...

...In thee* and many other ways the course of •vents ia daily deflected because of what seme influential people have to aay...

...Whst we say about that danger and how we say It are factors that are eves now shaping habits of thought of Incalculable influence in determining the nature of th* outcome Aro-we talking a social event into or out of existence...

...A pessimistic board director decries an expenditure from which results are largely indeterminate, and a popular radi* program is discontinued...

...tonal, national, and international relations, are constsntly affected by events that transpire because someone or a great many someones talk a condition into existence...

...Its resjjptl staffs are nofrjss...

...A President proposes a series •f legislative acts to a Congress suit a nation, and the Mew Deal becomes an actuality...

...While the wreckage of World War II •till combers Europe, sad while the death and destruction of World War II still re-echo through Asia, the third world conflict hss become a part of our lives...

...Quite on the other hand, a fear may be dissipated by analysis, An evil eventuality may be avoided by intelligent dissection followed by preventive measures...

...But its presence is both unmistakable and tejrribly real...

...Should we ignore the impending dangers and talk only ef peace and collaboration...