America To Lead the World Movement

U.S. CATHOLICS PLAN JUST PAPAL PEACE
American Catholics are making their own efforts to prepare the way for a just peace.
Leadership by the United States and all the Americas for a united Europe, a united world, and " a new and better era " is proposed in a report on " America's Peace Aims," prepared by several committees and sub-committees of the Catholic Association for International Peace and issued by its executive committee.
The report includes supplementary statements on the rights of men and peoples and on alternative forms of European and world organisation, both economic and governmental.It was prepared on an instruction from the executive committee to draft a statement on American co-operation for peace in accord with the Pope's Christmas address of 1939.
American leadership for a right peace should be given, the report says, at a time during the. war when Germany is not being victorious but before the war has gone on too long and should he given on the ground that while totalitarian victory will blast " the hope of a right peace for a long, long time" the war may last so long as to end in a Europe of " mentally sick people " in which some totalitarian States will probably continue no matter who Whi.r. " Peace must be planned," the report says as it rejects the idea that
" victory by the it quasi-alliance and its allies will automatically ensure peace based on justice and charity."
EUROPEAN. DISUNITY
The report holds that European disunity was the chief cause of the failure of the League of Nations and that European unity is now so necessary that the niternative to a " free and sound union " is one " hammered out by the conqueror." European unity will free a world organisation of some of its hardest work, the report states: European unity and world unity are put in opposition both to totalitarianism and to the past secularistic disunion of individuals, of nations, of Europe and the world.
The frequency and danger of wars abroad require American leadership in self-defence. the report sayl, and since American goods, whether given or withheld. are a determining element in the outcome of major European or other wars, justice to foreign countries requires American action. The new unity of the world demands world organisation in social justice and calls on inter-American leadership to secure such organisation, the report declares.
The Europe-wide economic and governmental organisation proposed in the report would affirm and protect the rights of individuals and peoples in Europe; protect local self-government: re-draw, according to needs, the lines of local autonomy, including regions of Europe; nTake Europe's economic life serve the welfare of all of Europe and fit world needs; administer special African colonies, and engineer military and economic action against any country in Europe that first goes to war or assists it.
WORLD ORGANISATION
World organisation is necessary, the report says, to help administer world unity and handle general world problems. The United States and the Americas, the report maintains, should belong to a new kind of world organisation that would keep the social, labour and cultural services of the League of Nations but adapt itself to European unity. The world governmental organisation would engineer boycotts against any country going to war anywhere or against any country assisting it and help a world economic organisation to guide economic life.
The economic organisations of Europe and of the world would in the proposal be separate from the governmental organisations and would be composed of the freely organised employer, labour and farmer associations of the different countries, in addition to governmental representation.