Evening star., 1937-05-24
The Mundelei11 Dispute
Dictators Fail to Realize That American Is Guaran
teed Right to Frown

Germany for immortality Is . Frame
up-the burden Of proof certainly
rests on the German government.
Because 1t has been operating with
frame-ups ever since the beginning.
Hitler got into power in March, 1888.
on wave Of hysteria induced by
the burning OF the German Reich
stag, which the Nads pinned upon
the Communists and Social Demo-
Gratis. Afterward, In = public trial,
in which the Communist leaders
were. indicted, German court had
to acquit them, but the Na1s still
60 on saying that the Communists
did the dastardly deed, and to say
they didn't may land you in = con-
centration camp.
don't know who burned the Reich
stag, and this column doesn't wit
tingly affirm things 1t isn't sure Of, but
am willing to lay bet Of 10 to l
that history will decree that the Nazis
burned it themselves, and that there
will be available for historians COM
plete evidence to prove 1t.
And, Of course, the NaN framing OF
the Jews is without parallel any,
where. The Nazis have said for four
years that the Jews were responsible
for losing the war, the Treaty Of Ver-
sailles, the imitation, the failure Of
crops, plague, pestilence and every
thing except, perhaps, the weather.
They are publishing 4 child's primer
today. designed to teach little tots
how to think Of Jews and how to treat
them II ever they should meet one
II Gentle child sees Jewish child
he is to thumb his nose at him (the
illustrations show how, push him OF
the street and otherwise maltreat him,
and is to realize that any one with
Jewish grandmother is necessarily and
inevitably an exploiter Of the poor.
q crook, q scoundrel and q seducer.
Proficient Name Callers.
The Nazi howl Of outrage at being
called names comes with peculiar in
consistency from q government whose
chief has called the French, in print,
the permanent and inexorable enemy
Of Germany" and the "defller Of Eu-
rope" 1t comes with laughable ab-
sWdity from q government which has
called names at Russia, which In
times gone past would have caused .
war!
suppose that II you have sufficient
secret agents and pry about enough
you can find some immortality almost
anywhere. But when the present Ger
man government gets morally outraged
at the goings-on IN Catholic cloisters 1t
leaves me cold as q clam.
The NaZi movement had for years
at the head Of the storm troops one
Ernst Roehm, whose personal morals
beggared description in any respect
able newspaper. Capt. Roehm, as
chief of the storm troops, was in
charge of hundreds Of thousands Of
nice German boys. And every knowl-
edgeable person in Germany. certainly
including Mr.. Hitler, knew all about It,.
The facts had all come out in the
newspapers, as the result OF q libel
suit. But Hitler only began worrying
about Roehm's immortality when
Roehm became politically embarrass-
ing And then Hitler was indignant
to bursting point, indignant enough
to have Capt. Roehm and several hum
dred others assassinated without trial.
Incidentally assassination without
trial has another name in our coun-
try. Mr. Hitler didn't call 1t murder,
he said that for the moment he was
the Supreme Court. There weren't
seven democrats in Germany to lift
their voices against him.
What these authoritarian states,
these Bolshevised countries. can't get
through their heads is that there are
nations where the government isn't
/ responsible for everything its citizens