St Michaels High School - Crusader Yearbook (Crowley, LA)

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CONTINUATION OF THIS MOMENTOUS YEAR, I950 FEAR AND WANTS' 'THAT ALL OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, FOR REAL' ISTIC AS WELL AS SPIRITUAL REASONS MUST COME TO THE ABANDONMENT OF THE USE OF FORCE.' WE SHOULD BOMBARD THE WORLD BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR CONTRITE RETURN TO MORAL LAW. ON THE POLITICAL FRONT THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO CALL A HALT T0 THE SPREAD OF SOVIET DICTATORSHIP, AND THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF THE WAY PURSUED TO THE PRESENT. UNTIL NOW WE HAVE TRIED CONDON- AND WE HAVE STEADILY LOST GROUND IN TIME THAT THE THREATS OF FURTHER COM- FREE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD BE MET WITH THAT STALIN WILL NOT RISK. THROUGH PRINCIPLES, THROUGH DIPLOMATIC PRE- AND OUR POLICY, THROUGH THE REALIZED ING, SCOLDING, THIS WAR CALLED MUNIST INVASION A FIRM POLICY BROADCAST OF OUR DEMOCRATIC SENTATION OF OUR CONVICTIONS KNOWLEDGE OF OUR MILITARY ABILITY, ON THE POLITICAL FRONT WE MUST MAKE IT FRIGHTENINGLY CLEAR TO THE KREMLIN THAT THE DAYS OF THE COLD WAR ARE OVER. THE ALTERNATIVE OF A HOT WAR LIES WITH THEM. PRoTI:sTINe, COLD. IT IS or THE STILL OF REPRISAL ON THE ECONOMIC FRONT, IT IS OURS T0 SHARE OUR WEALTH AND OUR ENTERPRISE WITH ALL THOSE PEOPLE YET FREE. IT IS OURS STILL TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY. PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S POINT 4 SHOULD BE VIGOROUSLY BACKEDn AND IF SENATOR BRIEN MCMAHON'S PRO- POSAL TO SPEND FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS OVER A FIVE-YEAR PERIOD IN A SUPER MARSHALL PLAN SEEMS PREPOSTEROUS, IT IS AS PIN MONEY IF IT WOULD DO ANYTHING TO PREVENT ATOMIC WARFARE, TO PREVENT A RUSSIAN HYDROGEN-BOMB 'ATTACK THAT MIGHT INCINERATE 50,000,000 AMERICANS-- NOT IN THE SPACE OF AN EVENING BUT IN THE SPACE OF MINUTESa' IF WE CAN RECOUP MORAL LEADERSHIP, IF WE CAN LET OUR VOICE OF AMERICA BE HEARD RELENTLESSLY AND PERSISTENTLY ALL OVER THE WORLD PLEDGING THE CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY AND LIBERTY AND OPPORTUNITY AND PEACE, IF WE CAN MAKE THE MEN OF Moscow REALIZE THAT THEIR LONG, COLD-WAR AGGRESSION AGAINST US WILL BE RESISTED GRIMLY AND PERSEVERINGLY, THEN PERHAPS THE ULTIMATUM OF PEACE WILL BE EFFECTIVE. BuT IT WON'T BE UNLESS DOWN ON oun KNEES AND BEG ALM DETERMINATION TO FORGIVE oun APPEASEMENT. IF ONE MAN AND THE HYDROGEN Bona MAY EvEN THAT THE PEACE OF CHRIST MAY HOLY YEAR. THAT THE HYDROGEN WE PEOPLE OF NATIONS STILL FREE GET IGHTY GOD T0 BLESS OUR CAUSE AND OUR LAPSES AND OUR YEARS OF HYPOCRITICAL GOD MAKE A MAJORITY, THEN GOD PLUS YET FRIGHTEN THE ENEMY INTO PEACE' REIGN IS THE CHIEF PURPOSE OF THE BOMB MAY NEVER HAVE TO BE USED IS A

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CONTINUATION OF' THIS MOMENTOUS YEAR, l950-- HOPE VE HAY ALL PRAYERFULLY INCLUDE. THAT VE, THE GRADUATES OF 1950, MAY STEP FORTH UNAFRAID INTO A PEACEFUL WORLD OF TOMORROW IS OUR SINCERE PRAYER, OUR DREAM, OUR HOPE, TONIGHT. --LESTER HEBERT ?, ,f I