Editorial
EDITORIAL Ten Years After June 6 is the tenth anniversary of the Allied landing in Normandy. We publish here in full the front-page editorial of THE NEW LEADER of June 10, 1944. The similarities...
...But their administration of them has proved a complete failure...
...The politics of democracy requires a deeper knowledge of humanity than the politics of dictatorship...
...Modern mechanical development started in England and spread overseas with British migration...
...Much of the high-sounding theorizing of the geopoliticians is revealed as nonsense...
...They could knock civilizations down but could not build them up...
...But neither one gave any inspiring, unifying political ideal to accompany and motivate the mighty military drive...
...Hitler and his cohorts have failed for four years over a comparatively compact territory including Central and Western Europe...
...But when Hitler challenged us to a battle of the machines, he must have had an inadequate picture of the industrial power which he was calling into hattle array against him...
...The different arms of our services click into place as we advance to the attack...
...And, as he sought to dominate by the tank and plane and mobile gun and every other form of high-powered lethal instrument, it is by these that he shall die...
...We understand how to arrange coordination of varied armies...
...They failed to organize Europe...
...The United Nations do not even have any joint council through which their members can express their desires and negotiate settlements...
...In fact, at this crucial moment in world history, political factors are being handled by the old and discredited method of muddled and hasty improvisation, and...
...Hitler made his try for power by the super-development of the machine...
...We can now begin to sense the realities of modern war at the point of its highest development...
...Our hesitancy, our fumbling in giving the cue for this drive is our outstanding weakness...
...Little or no preparation has been made for the organization of a unified Europe...
...How far we shall have proved ourselves superior to the Germans in oilier respects remains to he seen...
...Both of them knew the date of D-Day, and both of them addressed the world before and after the dramatic attack on Fortress Europe...
...We know how to kill better than we know how to live...
...The similarities and the differences between the state of mind revealed herein and the situation ten years later are, in our opinion, worthy of serious contemplation...
...It requires the voluntary cooperation of widely varying types of men and cultural groups...
...With their clanking monsters and regimented men they have conquered a score of nations...
...Within a month or two moulds or six months, we shall have proved the superiority of our arms and armies...
...Our machines, our skilled workers, our assembly lines, our factory management have been our chief source, of pride...
...The United Nations will soon be responsible for the reorganization, not only of Europe, but of mankind...
...In America, it began early and developed with all the advantages offered by the resources of a great new continent...
...These priceless gifts can be attained only if countless ancient hates and rivalries are blanketed under some new drive for unity...
...But thus far we have not learned how to organize the peace...
...On the coastline of Normandy, it is army against army, but it is also Pittsburgh and Detroit against the Ruhr and the Saar...
...Our minds went back to the bitter days of Dunkerque, to the shudders of fear at Hitler's "invincible" war machine...
...Germany, coming late into the field, has for three-quarters of a century proved an ingenious and resourceful rival...
...Then came the time of pulling ourselves together, of building a new army and a new navy, of training men and building machines for a long, tough war...
...The successful organization of men requires far higher gifts than the development and use of machines...
...too often, by unilateral action...
...That was four years ago-almost to a day...
...AFTER THE LONG TIME of waiting, the announcements of last Tuesday released such a feeling of excitement as comes but seldom to a nation...
...The means to success in this gigantic undertaking cannot be produced on an assembly line or in any training camp or war college...
...D-Day marked the culmination of four years of stupendous effort...
...For, despite all German claims, industrial technology was born, and reached its apex of achievement, in the Anglo-American democracies...
...Both Churchill and Roosevelt are great war leaders...
...Politics is a higher art than that of war...
...D-Day was prepared for with billions of cost and infinite care...
...by comparison, haphazard and amateurish...
...After the great sacrifices of these past years, humanity is crying out for peace, prosperity and security...
...The preparations for pence seem...
Vol. 37 • June 1954 • No. 23
