No Peace In Sight

Villard, Oswald Garrison

No Peace In Sight By OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD THE OVERWHELMING vote in the House of Commons against peace talks with the Axis—341 to 4—puts an end to any hope of an early peace and measures the...

...Carson said he found "flourishing" cooperatives in areas where he had looked for poverty and hardship...
...Still, as this foreigner believes, we are in a more favorable position to offer our services to the belligerents than any other nation...
...Two types of service are being provided for members of Group Health Cooperative: group membership open to groups of employes, to churches, trade unions and cooperatives and individual memberships...
...That war was not as costly as the present one...
...Sooner or later peace must be made and this time the dangers and risks are far greater than in the first world war...
...We are back to where we were in 1917 when noth-| ing but a knock-out blow would suffice...
...Incidentally he absolutely denies that there is any possibility of England's carrying the war into Germany as Churchill says that England will be doing in 1942...
...The mortuary, Carson added, was formerly operated by a private concern that failed...
...Ne w York Gro up Health Co-op Gets Underway Organized to give medical service to its members for a moderate annual fee similar to that for hospital service, the Group Health Cooperative has been licensed by the state of New York and is now receiving applications for service...
...But no one in power is going to consider that now, least of all those American officials who are determined to get us into the struggle...
...The co-op leader also cited the example of Virginia, Minnesota, where, he said, "there is a fine little cooperative mortuary and chapel that provided funerals with bronze coffins at $360—as compared with $500 and up charged by commercial firms...
...In Superior, Wisconsin, the finest business building in the city is owned by the cooperative wholesale, which is doing a $4,000,000 annual business," Carson pointed out...
...History proves that well defended coasts cannot be taken from the sea...
...Roosevelt is now so much of a British ally and partisan that it is hardly possible that he will take that position...
...Two Major Races Have Been Going On In Europe MR...
...Carson Claims Private Failures Spurred Co-ops Private business failures have provided plant and opportunities ; for successful cooperative enter...
...Here for example is a statement by Dr...
...Today I do not think that it would be in the interest of my country nor of Europe to have you become a participant...
...Only Miracle Can Prevent Violent Outbreak Of Disease NONETHELESS, they should take heed of some items of news which increasingly are creeping into the newspapers...
...He declares, as does Herbert Hoover, that the stage is set in Europe for famine and that "only a miracle can prevent the outbreak of diseases that have followed mass starvation since man's earliest history...
...Five years later they took over the same company's plant...
...A reduction of $1 a year is given in both cases if the premium is paid annually...
...HOOVER never stops warning people that, at least five millions of people are certain to die of starvation and preventable disease if food is not bought here and taken to the various countries that are the victims of Hitler's baseness and crimes...
...British Peace Terms Can Be Made A Real Weapon DESPITE that overwhelming vote in the Commons there are many Englishmen and women who feel that despite all the difficulties of doing so, England ought to state just what she is fighting for and what kind of a Europe her government visualizes for the future...
...Tentatively named the Cooperative Terminal, Inc., the association will be incorporated with at least $25,000 share capital limit...
...there, but the company said the account would be too small to bother with...
...He is certain that "disease will be the final victor, accounting for the largest number of victims and carrying on long after the last gun has spoken...
...I learned that the building was erected by a private wholesale grocer who failed...
...For the present, Group Health Cooperative will offer medical service to members in New York city and Westchester county...
...It is even open to question whether the belligerents will be able to stop when they please the forces they have set in motion, or to stop before all Europe is a wreck and its civilization in ruins...
...There is nothing that can be done now except for President Roosevelt and the Pope to let it be known that they will at any time be approachable if either side wishes them to feel out the prospects for peace: and Mr...
...Then we did not have totalita-ian doctrines afloat in the world outside of Russia...
...If it should appear later that England is in real jeopardy it might be necessary to revise this opinion...
...They wanted to buy from the Pennsylvania Petroleum Corp...
...David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, who is chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee and a critic of the administration's foreign policy...
...Individuals may subscribe for $6 a quarter and $4.50 for each dependent enrolled...
...Terrific Explosions Are Bound To Come Afterward YET, THERE IS a definite limit as the last war showed...
...How Germany and Italy continue to finance themselves is beyond the understanding of laymen and of some economists...
...When I was there during the first three months of this war, businessmen and officials everywhere admitted that if this war went on for two yfers the only victors would be the communists, that Russia would be free to pick up the pieces...
...From the beginning there have been two races going on in Europe, first that between Germany and England as to which will give the other the knock-out, and second the race to achieve that before all Europe collapses into anarchy and chaos...
...It plans later to extend service to 11 southern New York counties...
...The slaughter was far greater it is true, and yet the strain on the resources of the nations involved was not as great as today...
...But everyone ought to understand that behind all this is the inescapable fact that if the peoples who are everywhere the victims of the follies and stupidities of their statesmen are pressed beyond a certain point as were the Russian masses in 1917, terrific explosions are bound to occur...
...Frank G. Boudreau, director of the Mil-bank Memorial Fund and former director of public health for the League of Nations...
...What that ; means in additional deaths and human misery no one can guess...
...No Peace In Sight By OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD THE OVERWHELMING vote in the House of Commons against peace talks with the Axis—341 to 4—puts an end to any hope of an early peace and measures the extraordinary political unanimity behind the Churchill government...
...If it hadn't been taken over by the cooperative, it would have become a ghost structure...
...Cost of the group rate is $1.50 a month or $4.50 a quarter...
...American Entry Would Only Prolong The Costly Struggle AMERICANS in particular should recognize that if we go into the struggle the inevitable effect will be to prolong it precisely as we prolonged the last war and produced a peace dictated by victors, which, as Woodrow Wilson correctly prophesied, was "as writ in water...
...Clive Garcia, for example, a member of Parliament, who says that with the right hand England should go on bombing Germany, but that with the left hand it should be holding out the exact plan it has in mind for the Europe to come...
...prises in many parts of the couri-¦ try, John Carson, Washington re...
...True, we have taken sides spiritually...
...If we do not go in we shall certainly be in a far better position to mediate when the time for peace talks comes than we will be if we are a participant...
...presentative of The CooperativeLeague of the U. S. A., declared last week upon his return from a trip through the midwest and central states...
...human beings have a tremendous power to endure suffering and the economies of nations can be made to hold out much longer than seems possible...
...That seems to me to be the truth—unless the German air force is completely conquered or is put out of business by lack of lubricants and high-grade octane gas...
...Credit unions had 2,421,000 members at the end of that year, the Bureau states...
...Boudreau reports that already there is typhus in Poland and scurvy in the Mediterranean basin...
...It will be a federation of cooperatives...
...In Kansas City," Carson continued, "the Consumers Cooperative Association started in 1929 with $3,000 capital and headquarters in a 2-car garage...
...Well, that was probably too short a time...
...Walsh Lauds Work Of Anti-War Group The Keep America Out of War Congress, national federation of peace organizations, is "doing a great service to our country in trying to consolidate the latent but unexpressed anti-interventionist sentiment," believes Sen...
...There is Lieut.-Col...
...Insurance, Credit Co-ops Flourish Cooperative insurance associations had 6,800,000 members throughout the United States at the close of 1939, according to the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics...
...Already we are told that the English have now mortgaged all their immediate cash resources with which they can pay the United States for supplies and munitions...
...Only the other day I was talking with the representative of a conquered country who was passing through on his way home and was interested to find that he was absolutely opposed to the United States entering the war...
...IN THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT Dulu th, Superior Start Terminal Market Co-op A terminal marketing cooperative for the farmers living in the Duluth-Superior trade area was launched in Superior, Wis., last week by representatives of marketing and consumer co-ops in northeastern Minnesota and northern Wisconsin...
...There must," he said, "be one great country left in the world to initiate the peace conference and preside over it...
...The new co-op terminal contemplates starting its activity with the marketing of eggs, since poultry raising is a common side-line for farmers in the area...
...The English were not able to land on German soil during the last war and they will not be able to in this one and neither will any American expeditionary force...
...That Churchill has positively refused to consider despite the fact that some military men are eager for it as a military weapon...

Vol. 4 • December 1940 • No. 51


 
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