University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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- • - FROM OUR fffLS4 U0 yS ' ' l i . . . ERE in the University American air of freedom, traditions become robust with obligations upon American men and women to help make the world freer and fairer to all men; to have deep and intelligent concerns about the human beings who are stumbling toward the light of a better day. It is the personal and social responsibility of University American men and women to give all sides a fair hearing; to interpret and champion the freedom and right of despised minorities, regardless of race, creed, color, or class; to offset vested powers with social justice; to bring economic drift under social mastery; and to organize peace among nations. Though the international structure, as erected by nations, seems to be falling into ruins, the flag of international organization must be kept flying at Geneva for the better day of our human hopes. By the tragedies and lessons of the last peace we must be resolute to prepare now to help organize justice and peace after this war. In the present unutterable woes of the world, we deplore now the clearly terrible fact that the allies repudiated Woodrow Wilson ' s fourteen points, that America threw down the League of Nations, that the League failed to revise the Treaty of Versailles, and that Britain and France failed to lend a hand to the struggling German democracy upon whose tragic fall Hitler rose to totalitarian power. His successive conquests emphasize the collapse of international order now in tragic retreat across the earth. Without collective security, there can be no national security, no enduring peace, freedom and democracy in this modern world whose vast dynamic economic structure picks up wars and depres- sions anywhere and enmeshes people everywhere. America, a continental storehouse of vast and vital resources and a mighty powerhouse for stupendous agricultural and industrial production, fronting on both the wide waters and high respon- sibilities of the two great oceans, is, in the geographic, economic, historic, and spiritual midst of it all, east and west, past and present, and yet to be. We cannot be geographically isolated from the oceans around or the air above or the technological framework girdling the globe and embracing all the peoples and continents of the world. We cannot be isolated from our heritage and history, from freedom, democracy, and spiritual faith that made us what we are. We cannot be isolated from the suffering and hopes of people oppressed anywhere in the world. We cannot be isolated from democracy, for democracy hurt anywhere in the world is democracy hurt everywhere in the world. We cannot, with all our hatred of war, be isolated from a war endangering the very freedom which gave us birth and by which we hope to live and struggle for justice and peace in the world. By the responsibilities of the Lease-Lend Act and by Nazi attacks, we are in the Battle of the Atlantic. America will not retreat from that responsibility or from those attacks. By the attack on Pearl Harbor we are now in the Second World War. We are in to stay through the war and, pray God this time, through the peace. We must win the war and we must win the peace. For this fairer hope the men and women of this old, yet young University will do well their day ' s work and, under God, hold dearer than their lives the American dream of freedom, culture, democ- racy, and peace in the ever venturesome human pilgrimage toward a more decent wor ld. cA A . ' - L. ' cj - - - . — 22