Evening star., 1938-11-15

d. c., TUESDAY, N
st. Jerome saw through his tears
when they told him Rome was burn
ing, the same influence that was
sweeping over Northern Africa when
Augustine turned his face to the
wall and died. For Alleric is back
and Genseric and Attila the Hun.
- The fact that the National So
cialists were born in civilized IA
therland, glorious Germany, rich
in cultural traditions, dotted with
churches whose lovely painted VIM
dows shone with German saints
this fact gives the present campaign
of frightfulness very profound sig
nif1cance, significance as profound
as hell
For here we see another fall from
grace. Here again we the perfect
flower of pride-love of self pushed
to the hatred of God, love of self
pushed to the hatred of Gods other
| children, to the hardness and
cruelty that has always character
lied every pagan society. For Of
fetal Germany first went pagan
and then went mad.
So that when we read the bitter
and disgraceful news day after day,
when we see the broken lives that
are washed up on our shores. we
shall share and should share in the
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uals; we shall and should burn with
resentment as Americans, before
this spectacle of tyranny-but we
shall see beneath it all the deep
significance that Augustine saw
when he wrote of the city of pride
and the city of love. Pagan bar
barism has again raised it's head,
but this time it is barbarism that
has apostatized from Christianity
and thus has learned to burn and
loot and slay with a malice unknown
to more simple savages.
Senator King-In all civilized
countries there's growing feeling
Of indignation against the brutal
and barbarous course pursued by
the Hitler government against not
only Jews but Christians Condi-
tions in Germany under the Nazi
government excite profound SYM
pathy among civilized people and
also resentment against govern
ment that revives the worst form
of mediavelism and manifests some
of the characteristics of the ancient
huns and barbarians. It seems in
credible that the wrongs, cruelties
and atrocities which have been per-
petrated in Germany could occur in
country that has occupied such an
important place in the family OF ma
tions during the last century. 1t is
manifested that the NaZi govern
ment is determined to despoil the
Jews and others of their property
and If it does not succeed in ac-
complishing their physical destruc-
ton it will force them to seek refuge
in other lands.
Protestants and Catholics and
Jews alike are undergoing frontal
attack on the essence of the Chris
tian religion, also the basis of the
Jewish religion. Certainly in Ger
many religion for our purpose we
may call Christianity and Judaism
is perilously near the cross roads
and potentially at least at deaths
grip with paganism.
The treatment of the Nazi gov
ernment of Jews in Australia and
in Germany can scarcely be par
alleled by brutality and fiendishness
by primitive peoples in the darkest
periods of the worlds history. In
this and in other lands, protests
should be made against the cruel
deeds of the NaZi regime. They
have famed civilized people, they're
crime against civilization, they
constitute an assault upon the moral
foundations of society, they degrade
the perpetrators of these foul deeds
as they defend the just and humane
peoples of other lands. There is a
recrudenscence in Germany of those
primitive and idealistic propensities
which have left such tragic records
of human sufferings.
May add that while 80 govern
ments, including our own, taking
cognizance of the tragic conditions
in Germany have sought to cooper
ate to ameliorate the conditions of
the Jews in Germany and Austria,
I regret that it did not submit in
dividually and collectively protest
to the Nazi government against its
indefenslble and wicked treatment
of hundreds and thousands of Ger
man and Austrian citizens. They
are warranted in advising the Nazi
government of the continuation Of
its persecution of the Jews would
call for a severance of all diplomatic
relations with it.
And I may add that, so far as I
am concerned, should be very glad
to see our Government recall our
Ambassador. The treatment by the
Nazi government of its citizens, Jews
and Christians, has been so harsh
and inhuman, SO violative of the
conventions of society and the rules
OF international law, the principles
of justice and morality, and I be-
lieve that our Government as well
as other governments should lift
their voices in protest against the
crimes of Nazi-ism. crimes against