Evening star., 1935-08-04
VS.. European Ideals
Declared Issue for SO Campaign

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Britain and France are taking: we
would be affected to some degree, no
doubt; but there would be no notion
of having America set up, in a revolu-
tionary way, what Mr.. Roosevelt called,
in his message to Congress last Janu-
ary. "a new order of things a
new economic order"
Clear Issue Seen.
The issue in next years presidential
election will be whether America shall
retain, fundamentally and with sub
stantial completeness, the form of So
ciety and government it has had from
the beginning. or whether We shall
adapt to America the new form Of
society and government that has arisen
in Europe.
One of the discouragements about
making this clear lies in the fact that
the new order in Europe has taken
three different forms, Fascism in Italy,
Nazi-ism in Germany and Communism
in Russia But the things which these
three have in common are more than
the respects in which they differ. One
principal thing they have in common
is suppression Of the rights of ali in
dividualS, of all minorities, all groups
Suppression not only of their political
rights but of their ordinary rights
Another is disappearance, or reduction
to impotence, of the legislative branch
of government. Another is disappear
ance of courts as we know courts in
America, as instruments of justice
which protect the citizen against the
government.
There is not space to develop this
here. 1t is sufficient to say that be-
meath the three forms is in large part
a common pattern. And it is that pat
tern that new model of society and
government, that is now in competi-
ton with the old American model.
For the moment the trend in America
is toward Fascism or Nazi-ism, rather
than toward Communism. But what
would happen in America, I think
unless the trend is arrested, In which
case we will keep our familiar form
is that we should have first a period
Of something much like Fascism, and
then pass into Communism.
Roosevelt Address Recalled.
Decidedly, to a degree that would be
sensational if the people realized it,
we are moving toward what Europe
knows as the authoritarian state"
Just what do people think Mr..
Roosevelt meant when, in his address
to Congress last January 4, he said:
I'VE have undertaken a new order of
things; the outlines of the new eco
nomic order rising from the disinte-
grafton of the old are apparent?"
And when he told Congress year
before that he is going to bring about
"a permanent readjustment of many
of our ways of thinking and therefore
of many of our social and economic
arrangements.
A new order" only arises in the
world once in several centuries. The
one that has arisen in Europe during
the last II years is the first one since
the French Revolution. When it Is
proposed that America shall have a
new order of things" the only one
that can be meant is the new one
common to Russia, Germany and
Italy. That is the only new order"
there is.
Some New Dealers deny that the
new order they propose is identical
with the new one in Europe. Ger
tainly, it is not identical. 1t is not
identical in the three countries that
have adopted it and are now prac-
ticing it. Each country, as 1t adopts
the new order, modifies the new to
its own conditions. For example, in
Russia and Germany the new con-
ception, includes an attitude toward
religion. The government aims to
control religion, as in Germany, or
the government exterminates the old
religion. as in Russia. In both cases.
the aim is to get for the state that
authority, and that Difference from
the people, that commonly 60 with
religion. In Italy Mussolini has re-