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    "ocrText": "CAN WE HAVE PEACE WITH FREEDOM DURING THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS?\"\nCan we have peace with freedom for the next half century?\nIt would take the legendary wisdom of Solomon to answer this\nquestion. Nevertheless, those who selected the topic are to be\ncongratulated, for peace and freedom can be preserved only if our\npeople understand the circumstances most likely to result. in concord\namong nations. No longer can peace be achieved by statesmen alone.\nAn informed public opinion is indispensable.\nIt is important to keep the two words peace and freedom joined\nin our thinking as we discuss this topic. One could easily suggest\nseveral courses of action to secure peace, but these have been tried\nby other nations now among the satellites of the Soviet Union. These\ncountries now realize that they paid for peace wi th their liberties.\nI am sure most Americans would reject the kind of peace that would be\npurchased with our traditional freedom.\nOur first step to preserve peace and protect our freedom\nmust regrettably be military prenaredness. At this time Soviet\nCommunism is the only real threat to the peace of the world. The\nissue between Communist totalitarianism and democracy has already\nbeen brought to military action, of course, in Korea. Whatever the\n* By Earl James McGrath, 0. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security\nAgency, Washington, D. C., one of the members of Panel No. 4 of the\nNiagara Frontier Convocation, sponsored by the University of Buffalo,\nBuffalo, New York, Friday, December 7, 1951, at 8:30 p.m.\nPublished in The Oklanoma Teacher, Vol. 33, No. 9, May 1952, pp. 17-18, 36-37."
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