TIME IS RUNNING SHORT
Time Is Running Short PRIME MINISTER Winston Churchill's most recent report to the House of Commons was a cheerful and engrossing document—as long as it recited the heart-warming story of Allied...
...I still hold the view which I expressed last time that as the war enters its final phase, it has become and will become increasingly less ideological," the Prime Minister insisted...
...The London New Statesman and Nation expressed it best recently when it said that the Prime Minister's ideology "is to maintain, as far as possible, British interests and the political and economic status quo...
...Greater concentration on the substance of the peace settlement and less emphasis on the form of enforcement will go a long way toward preventing a ghastly repetition of the tragedy of Versailles and the failure of Woodrow Wilson...
...Churchill has now become emboldened to the point of announcing that "we don't want any other people to express an opinion about [it]-" Mr...
...Said the Prime Minister when the war began...
...New Popular Front THE "smear Congress" brigade of totalitarian liberals is rapidly establishing a popular front with the National Association of Manufacturers...
...Churchill's speech became a grim and disturbing document when Churchill the Warrior and War Reporter reverted to Churchill the Tory and Imperialist...
...Churchill's imperial plan while our bargaining power was still great, while our men, money, munitions, and materials were so indispensable to Britain's survival...
...Slyly hinting that Congressmen may be "approached," the sheet points out that the Congressman's salary is insufficient "to meet his many demands," and then cryptically emphasizes, "And this is important...
...Facts are not important to committee members, the sheet implies...
...The totalitarian liberals and the fat boys of the NAM have reached common ground on another issue...
...Churchill's present position, on the eve of victory, is a far cry from the one he expressed when lie was bidding for all the support he could get...
...Churchill's counsel is followed when the peacemakers assemble, we shall be confronted with a settlement which consists of freezing and then policing a worldwide imperial status quo...
...IF Mr...
...What Mr...
...This May speech of Mr...
...he is willing to modify his insistency on the 'principle of legit-maey' (which after 1815 bedevilled Europe for 30 years until it was swept away by revolution) only when he is absolutely compelled to do so by military necessity...
...Churchill took cognizance of the criticism of his light-hearted abandonment of ideology...
...Like Metternich after the Napoleonic Wars, he fears the upheaval of .popular forces...
...One of the chief reasons for the compromises which President Wilson felt himself obliged to accept at Paris was the fact that the United States had made no effort to reach any prior understanding with its allies concerning political and territorial problems...
...The two groups long ago joined ranks in urging the necessity of an international police force to kick some peaceful and democratic ideas into the head of anyone who might demonstrate an aversion to the hallowed institutions of the status quo...
...Even so ardent a defender of Woodrow Wilson's foreign policies as former Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles makes this clear in his new book, "The Time for Decision...
...Churchill's had provoked sharp criticism in the British Isles—much sharper than in the United States where the British Prime Minister still casts a bewitching spell over the press, regardless of what he says...
...That is Congress' own speciality and encroachment in this sphere is resented...
...Welles' reminder is a grim warning that time is running out again, that we must speak out now, or forever lose our opportunity to shape the peace along democratic, anti-imperialist lines...
...The tragedy for America and America's future role in world affairs lies in the fact that neither our Government nor our press made any apparent effort to win a drastic modification of Mr...
...You must know the "likes and dislikes" of the individual Congressmen on the committee and make an appeal to each one...
...Time Is Running Short PRIME MINISTER Winston Churchill's most recent report to the House of Commons was a cheerful and engrossing document—as long as it recited the heart-warming story of Allied progress on the field of battle...
...Cut out demogoguery before a committee," warns the NAM's executive secretary, Walter Chamblin...
...Churchill was saying, of course, was that he liked a vague and general statement of ideals that was flexible enough to permit of a variety of interpretations and broad enough to cover cooperation with kings, Communists, and Franco Spain...
...By way of defending himself, however, Mr...
...Churchill had announced, with what seemed like a sigh of relief, that the war was becoming less and less "ideological," and that, with a "well-trained conscience," it was possible to make deals with kings and Communists—and Fascists like Franco...
...But Mr...
...We are fighting to save the whole world from the pestilence of Nazi tyranny and in defense of all that is most sacred to man...
...While it was undoubtedly true that so long as the war continued the United States was all powerful in view of the realization that the victories of 1918 could not have been achieved without American help...
...In this respect we are repeating one of the greatest errors of a generation ago...
...In his previous address to the Commons, Mr...
...Now it is revealed that the NAM has perceived that the halls of Congress are peopled By a gang of incorrigible "demagogues" and impecunious oafs not averse to listening to the whispers of foldin' money...
...This is no war of domination or imperial aggrandizement or material gain...
...Churchill said that he was in favor of "idealism" as opposed to "ideologies," and that he preferred 'the broad, simple, and homely ideals of peace, of justice, and of freedom" to the "crude antagonisms of ideologies...
...nevertheless, with the conclusion of the Armistice, the force of American leverage steadily decreased...
...In his speech last week Mr...
...Now, a generation afterward, in the climactic phase of World War II, "the force of American leverage" is steadily decreasing again...
...So goes the NAM's contribution to the "smear Congress" campaign...
...It is most significant that in his claims to "idealism" the Prime Minister said nothing to disavow his "kindly words about Spain" or his curt insistence on the maintenance of British imperialism...
...A mimeographed sheet recently distributed to NAM members contains some advice on how to win votes and influence Congressmen...
...no war to shut any country out of sunlight and means of progress...
...In discussing this latter subject—maintenance of the Empire—Mr...
Vol. 8 • August 1944 • No. 33
