The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-05
Liberal Viewpoint
By DIR. HARRY ELMER BARNES


THE year 1884 is destined to play critical
~ role in world affairs, as we'll as in shaping
the course of capitalism and democracy in the
United States. For better or worse Hitler's Ger
many is likely to prove the pivotal area.
Hitler's autobiography and official apology
now is available in English (My Battle. By
Adolf Hitler, Houghton Miff1in Company. So
1t has been reduced greatly in size and the more
repulsive doctrines carefully expurgated in order
to make it more palatable to the American public
The impression given by the work is that The
author is a sincere fanatic and ignoramus
can not share the conventional notion of many
Of his opponents that he is deliberate monster
He seems to be an emotionally unstable person
caught up in weller of absurd dogmas which
his ignorance permit him to maintain unchal-
lenged The allies, by their imbecic policy at
Versailles and after brought about conditions
perfectly designed to promote the fortune of
man frantically devoted to the ideals which dom
mate Hitler's outlook
Those who wish to see Hitler unseated will
act wisely if they strive to eliminate the condi-
tons which have elevated him to his present
high estate.
quite different mentality and cultural out
look is portrayed in Jacob WaSsermanns analysis
of his experiences as a German Jew (NIy Life as
a German and Jew. BY Jacob WasSermann.
Coward-McCann, Inc. $3.50. The Germans of
the Hitler stripe have contended that the Jew
wishes to remain aloof from Teutonic culture
and society
MIR. WASSERMANN makes it clear that the
Iva German Gentiles will not meet even the
intelligent Jews half way but rather insist upon
emphasizing and perpetuatng the Judaism of
the German jew The book is a penetrating study
of German Jewish culture and of the personal
problems of the cultured Jew in German lands
before the Hitler program.
Those who are inclined to express surprise
that Hitler ever could have risen to power in
Germany will do well to read Mr. Dawson's COM
prehensive and scholarly survey of the results of
the allied treatment of Germany at Versailles
Germany Under the Treaty. By William Har-
butt Dawson. Longmans, Green & Co., So.
So far as know, this is the only competent
and completely comprehensive treatment of the
actual character and operation of the treaty of
Versailles insofar as it bears upon the subse-
quent history of Germany 1t includes good
summary of the effects of the treaty upon the
German colonial empire.
Mr.. Dawson is the foremost English-speaking
authority on contemporary Germany and he
writes with marked npartiality. His book en-
bodies little argument or partisan pleading. But
the facts which he so deliberately and clearly pre-
sent make it clear how the German people we're
impelled to respond to any fanatic who persist
entity denounced the versailles atrocity.
THE brochure on Communism in Germany
Il Communism in Germany: The Truth About
the Communist Conspiracy on the Eve of the
National Revolution. BY Adolf Ehrt. General
League of German Anti Communist Associations
so cents is circulated by a number of outstand-
ing patrioteers such as Harry A. Jung, Archibald
E. Stevenson and Ralph NJ. Easley. 1t ostensbly
is handed out in order to give Americans night
mare relative to the world threat of Communism
BY implication it attempts to justify the rise of
the Hitler regime as a bulwark against a food
of Communism which threatened to sweep like
tidal wave across the Atlantic and engulf the
United States.
The book highly is comparable to the war
time propaganda which represented Prussia as
being on the eve of annexng the United States.
Some OF the sponsors of this pamphlet were, in
deed, active in spreading the nonsense of 1917-18
There certainly is another implication in this
publication namely, the hint that We may find
it necessary to establish a dictatorship to pro-
tect ourselves from the menace of Communism
within.
The chief immediate danger of an explosion
as result of Hitler's policy Of revision Of the
Treaty of Versailles is to be found in the Polish
corridor This was perhaps the supreme folly Of
the allies in the Versailles settlement.
Captain Corsi writes a most ardent eulogy
and defense of contemporary Poland with a con-
siderable background of history poland: Land
of the White Eagle. BY Captain Edward c.
CorSt Wyndham Press, $3.50. 1t is thoroughly
in sympathy with Polish nationalism and makes
clear by implication the serious conflict of atti-
tudes and policies between Germany and her
Polish neighbor.