Address By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, Can We Have Peace With Freedom During the Next Fifty Years?
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OCR Page 1 of 9CAN WE HAVE PEACE WITH FREEDOM DURING THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS?"
Can we have peace with freedom for the next half century?
It would take the legendary wisdom of Solomon to answer this
question. Nevertheless, those who selected the topic are to be
congratulated, for peace and freedom can be preserved only if our
people understand the circumstances most likely to result. in concord
among nations. No longer can peace be achieved by statesmen alone.
An informed public opinion is indispensable.
It is important to keep the two words peace and freedom joined
in our thinking as we discuss this topic. One could easily suggest
several courses of action to secure peace, but these have been tried
by other nations now among the satellites of the Soviet Union. These
countries now realize that they paid for peace wi th their liberties.
I am sure most Americans would reject the kind of peace that would be
purchased with our traditional freedom.
Our first step to preserve peace and protect our freedom
must regrettably be military prenaredness. At this time Soviet
Communism is the only real threat to the peace of the world. The
issue between Communist totalitarianism and democracy has already
been brought to military action, of course, in Korea. Whatever the
* By Earl James McGrath, 0. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security
Agency, Washington, D. C., one of the members of Panel No. 4 of the
Niagara Frontier Convocation, sponsored by the University of Buffalo,
Buffalo, New York, Friday, December 7, 1951, at 8:30 p.m.
Published in The Oklanoma Teacher, Vol. 33, No. 9, May 1952, pp. 17-18, 36-37.
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