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Let's Get to J\now Each Other
By STANLEY DIXON . . . who would have peace among the nations begin with peace and understanding among individuals.
ALL the treaties in the world /"A^won't be any good unless the people of the world get to know and like each other better. The same is true in America. It is all very well to have union leaders meet with business and farm leaders. What we need is more farmers understanding the point of view of a union member because the farmer can count some union men among his friends. It is a lot easier to see the viewpoint of someone you like personally.
A large number of our twelve million men and women in uniform are going to add to the cause of international understanding by making friends with Australians, Frenchmen, Russians. Some of them will go further than that by marrying them — which is all right too, provided that both parties recognize their national differences — and no hearts at home are broken!
Perhaps the most important thing in the world today is friendship and cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union. Whether we like their form of government or not, the fact remains that modem Russia has the national will and organization to become a tremendously powerful industrial nation of more than 200 million people. If the U. S. A. and Russia stand together, the two can keep the peace of the world.
But how can we combat those who perpetually and persistently sow seeds of hatred and distrust against the Soviet Union. How many of us have ever even met a Russian?
Why not start with our young people, in high school as well as in college. Let us have a world-wide system of exchange students, with the boys and girls selected living in homes in the selected country, while the students from other countries would live in American homes, on farms as well as in cities. Unions and farm organizations might join in, and arrange for their members to spend time working in French factories and on Australian farms. Such a plan would have been impossible fifty years ago . . . but now in the air age, it could be managed. The governments concerned might cooperate, also organizations such as the Carnegie Foundation. Even if it costs money, it will be money well spent, for those personal friendships formed by these young people may help prevent another war which will destroy our civilization.
Many people oppose compulsory MILITARY training after the war ... a year's training would not fit our young men to fight robot bombs. A year's training in citizenship roight be a different matter. In addition to a thorough medical examination which