The Wilmington Morning Star

Fair Enough
(Editor's Note.-The Star and the News accept no responsibility for the personal views of Mr. Pegler, and often disagree with them as much as many of his readers. His articles serve the good purpose of making people think.)
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
NEW YORK. - Pessimist I may be but nevertheless I insist that there is nothing in the past or current record of human nature to justify a belief or even a hope that mankind will step out of this war into a beautiful world of mutual love and trust and universal justice or that such a state can ever be achieved. That doesn't mean that I would deplore such a condition for, on the contrary, I think it would be very nice, nor that I resent the efforts of such as Henry Wallace, our Vice President, to dream it.
But I still contend that it can't be done and that if this is so, as a man of my belief must assume, then the United States will be the patsy of the party if our government tries to make the dream come true.
It is nice to say that you believe in equality. It sounds pretty. But equality just doesn't exist and can't because some people have more ability than others, some have finer character, some have superior intelligence. Some are more energetic. Not even in a family do you find equality and in a parliament of the world the big nations would be looking out for Number One in various combinations just as political machines do in city councils, state legislatures and the Congress of the U. S. A.
The story has been repeated so often that some vast number of Americans, perhaps all but a few, believe that the League of Nations was wrecked by a few willful men who were unnecessarily and sinfully suspicious of the politicians and people of Europe. But there was more to it than that. The truth is also that the victors tried to create a lot of nations by taking a backyard from one and a south forty from another and patching them together with the result that Italy felt that she had been gypped and Germany gave herself over to self-sympathy brooding and vengefulness and Czechoslovakia and Poland acquired areas of Germans who hated their new condition and were delighted to conspire with Adolf Hitler.
How else would we do it this time? Nobody tells us except that this time we must all love and trust one another and share what we have; that if we aren't prepared to love one another, then by God we are dirty-you- knows. Is that any way to make people love one another?
Why, even in a union you find ambitious men, connivers and conspirators and bitterness, persecution and fighting although the members are supposed to be bound together in a great brotherhood of labor against the common enemy, the boss. You will find jealousy on a college football team or in a church.
The fact is that. though some of our great minds and big hearts regret as much, this is one of the big and powerful nations of the world and not equal but superior to most others in most respects.. We got that way by our own efforts on our own merits and thanks to our luck in tumbling into a wonderful new land. Also incidentally we played some pretty mean tricks on those who owned the place when our people came, and those tricks, too, are part of the secret of our success.
Those who visualize the beautiful postwar brotherhood of all mankind don't go into details and you get some cranky answers when you ask for blueprints and specifications. They say you are asking for perfection, for a dream-world delivered in a day. But if they won't even deal with the question whether Russia will dominate the continent of Europe and get sore at you for asking how can you join in the dream? Stalin isn't indulging in any such talk. He is making no commitments and on the record of Soviet Russia since 1917 we have to allow for the possibility, at least, of more Bela Kuns and Communistic terrors and substitution of Stalin's dictatorship for Hitler's because, after all, Stalin in doing the heavy work and should be tough and strong enough to establish his own idea of security in Europe when it is over.
I just think it is impossible and inconsistent to argue for the four freedoms with Soviet Russia in the combination because Soviet Russia has ning as thousands of backslid Bolsheviks who were members of their intimate councils have written what Mr. Wallace and Joe Davies can be up