We Testify

WE TESTIFY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS quot Hemisphere Policy quot from quot Pan America quot by Carleton Beals. Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin and Company. quot If America Enters the War, What Shall I Do quot by Harry Emerson Fosdick. Courtesy of The Christian Century. quot A Personal View quot by Henry Noble MacCracken. Courtesy of the Vassar Alumnae Magazine. quot Is Britain Fighting Our War quot from quot Hell Bent for War quot by General Hugh S. Johnson. Courtesy of The Bobbs-Merrill Company. quot Are We to Rule the World quot by Oswald Garrison Villard. Courtesy of the Christian Century. quot Dare We Look Ahead quot from quot Confessions of an Individu alist quot by William Henry Chamberlin. Courtesy of The Mac millan Company. quot The Wave of the Future quot by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Courtesy of Harcourt, Brace and Company. 10608.15 CONTENTS PAGE THE EDITORS Foreword ix HERBERT HOOVER 3 The Immediate Relation of the United States to This War CARLETON BEALS 15 Hemisphere Policy ROBERT M. HUTCHINS 37 War and the Four Freedoms HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK 49 If America Enters the War, What Shall I Do CHARLES A. LINDBERGH ......... 63 A Letter to Americans HENRY NOBLE MACCRACKEN 85 A Personal View HUGH S. JOHNSON 93 Is Britain Fighting Our War ROBERT E. WOOD 107 America s Foreign Policy Today vii viii CONTENTS PAGE AMOS R. E. PINCHOT 123 Letters for the People FRANCES GUNTHER 137 For a Free England JOHN T. FLYNN 151 The Great Retreat IGOR SIKORSKY 169 The Nature and the Objectives of the Soviet Com munist Government BURTON K. WHEELER 187 What if Germany Seizes the British Fleet NORMAN THOMAS 199 Why Our Country Should Stay Out of This War ROBERT A. TAFT 215 Shall the President Make War Without the Approval of Congress OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD 233 Are We to Rule the World WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN ....... 243 Dare We Look Ahead ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH 275 The Wave of the Future, a Confession of Faith ADDENDA 293 FOREWORD Any attempt, during a period of war hysteria, to main tain and present an attitude of detached reasonableness is accompanied with great difficulties. Yet the value of such reasonableness and cool logical thinking is, particularly at such times, vitally and perhaps tragically important. After the Great War, it was that volume by Sidney B. Fay, quot Origins of the Great War, quot that did more than any other one thing to rid our minds of erroneous conclusions and prejudiced judgments. During the time of its prepara tion, Dr. Fay was regarded as little better than a traitor. But he continued on his chosen way, collecting documen tary evidence, weighing reports, checking facts, revealing finally the thousand and one secret and often appalling engagements contained in those documents which the several governments had omitted from their White Papers and no mention of which had ever appeared in the world press. The product of that great labor stood and still stands as the best verified published record of what went into the making of that great holocaust. Perhaps there is today, somewhere here in America, an other great scholar who is, with clear eye and unpreju diced mind, watching and recording those events and re portsor lack of them which are so confusing to most of us. But to the editors of this volume, it seemed apparent that such a record, invaluable as it undoubtedly would be, could still fail us in one most important way. It could cor x FOREWORD rect our erroneousjudgmentsafter the fact but it would do so too late to save us from the dire calamity which such wrong thinking might, meanwhile, bring down upon our heads. What America needed, we felt, was the best presenta tion that could be assembled of the arguments against our immediate involvement in the European war...