Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, Democratic vice-presidential nominee, declared in an article in The Menorah Journal that “the Jewish tradition, the Christian tradition, the democratic tradition and the American tradition are all one.” The article is entitled “Judaism and Americanism.”
“It is right, of course,” Wallace writes, “that both Jews and Christians should take pride in their respective heritages. But they should not allow this pride to shut themselves off from one another. The general welfare of American democracy calls us to big things. On us may depend the fulfillment of many a biblical prophecy in the trying years ahead.
“To preserve our democracy we must realize that the dictators have definite designs on this hemisphere. Pan-America must stand on guard against the desperate and the ruthless. We stand for peace in this hemisphere, but to make sure of that peace we must be fully prepared. The traditions of the past can be made into the fruitful realities of the future in terms of a broad and alert Americanism. Our motto must be: ‘Peace Through Preparedness.'”
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