Inner Hunger

The hungers and doubts of people everywhere found expression in the keen, forthright London Observer: "It is no idle curiosity that looks for the fuller pattern of peace. It is for peace that our men will shortly die. ... It is for peace that the deaths and pains of Europe's peoples cry out. And peace is not just the end of fighting; it is a way of living together.

"There are plans in the making, we know, for the occupation, disarmament and control of defeated Germany. Naturally they are being formed in quiet council. They are being concerted by all the Allies, most of whom have suffered immeasurably more by German crimes than we or the Americans have done. All this is most necessary. But these plans are not plans for ultimate peace. They are part of the process of war. . . . What follows is what will matter most to history. It is we who will have to keep, or not keep, this peace. With all possible speed we should know and discuss its terms.*

". . . What plans are there for the 'larger brotherhood' of Europe, which needs it first and most? By what process are our present foes to be brought to play the part they ought to do in that brotherhood? What surety is there that our present friends will keep their comradeship in a Europe split again after war?"

* For a penetrating U.S. discussion of the peace see U.S. AT WAR.

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