Only An Armistice We speak of World war I and World war II as though the fighting of 1914-18 had been terminated by peace, and this were a new conflict. But, in fact, this is the second main episode in a single war which began in 1914 and will earn the right to be known as the second Thirty Years war.The Armistice which we celebrate today, for the twenty fifth time, was only an armistice, and not the stepping stone to peace. We think of the war of 1914 to 18 as a nationalistic struggle, and of this as an ideological conflict. There is some merit in this appraisal, but not too much. This episode is ideological in the sense that, if we were to lose, the nations to whom we would have to scrape the kneel would impose upon us the vicious practice of totalitarianism. The penalties of defeat would be more intolerable than in what we call World war I. But so far as causes are concerned, and so far as our thinking about the bases for permanent peace is controlled by them, we should recognize that this is just one more attempt by an inherently militaristic nation Germanyto impose her hegemony upon the occidental world. Italy, of course, is a pawn, both of Hitler and of Mussolini. Finland is a pawn of her own misfortunes. Japan seeks to take advantage of our distractions elsewhere to establish her hegemony in the Orient. Totalitarianism in the form of Communism took over Russia because of the unspeakable conditions created by czarism. Totalitarianism in the form of national socialism won over the reich because it promised to restore and expand military and economic prestige. So far as most Germans are concerned, nazism is merely the machinery by which they hoped to accomplish that imperialism which kaiserism failed to achieve and toward which infant democracy seemed to be making little progress. The issue in the Occident still is, as it was up to Nov. 11, 1918, whether the Teutons by force of arms can make themselves political and economic dictators over the world. We say that they can not. On this twenty fifth Armistice day we pay tribute to the millions who died and the millions who lived through the battles of the first episode. We realize that more millions will die, and more millions will be maimed, and more millions will suffer than in the first. And we at home, too young, too old, physically unfit, resolve that this time we shall finish the job which we once left incomplete, that without viciousness but with unswerving firmness, this time we shall see to it that Teutonic militariansm is completely and finally eradicated. YANKS DOWN 17 BOMBERSIN JAP BATTLE U. S. Foils Solomon Nips But Loses Seven FightersKISKA BASE RAIDED Aussies Block Escape by Flank Move in New Guinea On Daring Trip MAJOR GENERAL CLARKFirst hand survey Yankees Roaring Near Tunisia in Africa Campaign Allied Warplanes Attack Airdrome at Tunis; Axis Masses Troops,