Wayland High School - Reflector Yearbook (Wayland, MA)

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W fl!! W W 7 W W X! ' y . if if EDITGRI L PEACE AND LIGHT We are the hope of America, spiritually and culturally we must be on the alert. Do we realize how fortunate we are to be able to profess what we wish? We can cherish our religious doctrines and express our opinions, This same freedom is not found everywhere. We must be prepared to face the future by educating our minds in a way which will be most beneficial for ourselves and our fellow men throughout the world. Harmonious family and community relations are the basis for a strong America. Let us try to extend this har- mony of feeling to lands beyond our shores. The insincerity of the present day totalitarian governments must be made luminous to our fel- low men who are ignorant of the true facts of their methods of leadership. We must help other peoples to perceive distinctly our freedoms and the strength which they contain for the main- tenance of a peaceful world. To mobilize our strength for security in this age of crisis, we must establish so impregnable a moral position that everywhere men of good will may find in our objectives the fulfilment of their yearnings for peace, freedom, and abundance. It would be fatal for us to believe that security can be derived merely from a power of military weapons, for security is deeply rooted in the minds and hearts of a free people. It lies in the zeal with which they cherish their freedom and in the will with which they would defend it. While military strength fortifies a nation's will to resist aggression, it does not inspire that will. The idea is that freedom offers to man his most promising opportunities for a full life. It stems from the hope that men's yearnings can be real- ized only in a community of free nations whose objectives contain the hopes of their peoples. If we would nourish these hopes, then we must dedicate ourselves to the proposition that all man- kind possesses the power and wisdom to bring out of this divided world a place in which men can live in peace. in dignity, and in freedom. We can never accept the idea that war is inevitable. But, if war is not inevitable, neither is agreement easy. In our pursuit of peace we must prepare for a long and costly struggle. But we need never lose faith. The free nations of the world possess a power of economic and moral strength, and we have now joined in a common effort to mobilize our military forces for our defense. If we approach the difficult years ahead with resolution, we can look forward with con- fidence to the outcome. We Americans have been actively engaged in the task of constructing world security and the con- ditions of world security ever since the early days of World War II. We began our effort in a statement in the Atlantic Charter of the basic principles by which nations must live if they are to live together in peace and freedom. In this charter the American people allied their objectives with the hopes of mankind. We constructed a moral foundation on which men might base their hopes for a better future for the world. The strength of our moral position today rests upon the fact that we made every effort to reach an understanding with all nations. Through loans and other forms of economic aid, we helped nations in many parts of the world to rebuild their peace-time economies and by our efforts to dissolve differences between nations by peaceful means, we have given help to others to regain their strength by the determination with which we have fulfilled our obligations. Our faith that we can succeed is justified, For the first time in history, the most powerful nation in the world is dedicated to peace and is in alliance with other nations in mobilizing its moral force and its resources for world security. BARBARA Bmco EILEEN Cosrmto 'k'k'k'k'k'k'kir'k'k'k'k'k'k'k

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