Evening star., 1937-12-22
Peace Code Violations
Civilized World Slapped in Face and Has Turned
Other Cheek So Often 1t Has Become Rotary.

WOTlu ultdHS CfldOS, WHICH Is LI1e Op-
posite Of the ordered relations be-
tween men, which is peace.
Violations Have Accumulated.
do not wish, in so serious a crisis
as now confronts us over the Far
Eastern question. to seek to propa-
gandize for point of view. It is not
my desire to influence any one. I
merely wish to state the viewpoint,
which has slowly become my own con-
viction.
Unresisted violations of the codes
Of peaceful men have accumulated in
the last years one by one The civil
lied world has had its face slapped
and has turned the other cheek so
often that it has become rotary. The
treaty OF Versailles was, itself, in it's
totality, an act of aggression against
which civilized men did not sufficiently,
or loudly enough, protest. Out of bad
conscience, then, out of the after-tas
OF their own non-resistance they
accepted, with far too little protest,
the incredible barbarities of the Hitler
regime. 1t was none of their busi-
ness" that the Germans took the most
brutal revenge upon the worlds most
helpless minority-a minority with no
nation at their back to defend them,
Jumping all men and women of Jewish
blood, good, bad and indifferent. into
one category, and subjecting them to
every possible insult and humiliation.
We went and played games with people
whose open and accepted behavior vio-
lates all rules of craftsmanship We
sent official delegations to universities.
whose behavior violates every concep-
ton OF the university, as it has existed
since the Middle Ages
Dine With Murderers.
Christian gentlemen, in this era,
have sat down at dinner with murder
erS, In more countries than one, and
discussed politics with men whose
ideas of behavior are exactly those of
the New York underworld Shall I
name names? Is it murder to shoot
defenseleSs man and his wife in his
nome? Is it murder to drag an old
man from his bed and beat him to
death, for quarrel 10 years back?
All without even the pretense of trial,
And who is the murderer? Does if
make any difference whether he did
the deed himself, or sent hireling to
do it?
AS civilized men and women We
nave tailed to resist the cynical break
Ing OF every kind of international
treaty and agreement. We have failed
TO resist the impertinent and reckless
intervention of conspiratorial organi-
cations, supported in one way or an
other by foreign powers, in our own
internal affairs. We have failed TO re-
siSt, inside our own country, the flag
rant violation of the fundamental law
OF the Constitution, as it is being vio-
lated IN Jersey City at this moment by
Mayor Hague, and as it has been yio-
lated for years in Louisiana. and as
1t has been violated by Government
raids into peoples personal affairs.
The sum total of all these non-resist-
ances adds up eventually to the neces-
sity Of titanic resistance, when the
aggressions have precipitated revolu-
ton, and confront civilized men with
the necessity of either taking a last
stand. against heavy odds, or going
under, for generations.
Put Hitler in Line.
Hitler came into power in Germany,
with an extremely aggressive program,
after years of agitation against Po-
land. Most people believed that.
should Germany ever attack. it would
be through Poland, in the East, with
the so-called Polish corridor as a bat
He posed the definite question Do you
want war or peace? If you want war,
you shall have it. risht now. If you