Evening star., 1938-08-19
Washington Observations
Purge in Georgia Becomes National Issue in Curbing
Dictatorships.

Mr.. Roosevelt's insistence upon . sub
servient Congress and Hitler's views
Of democratic forms. On February II,
1888, the Nazi boss said: I'VE want
break with what the rotten hand Of
democracy has produced We must
realize that all that Is great can be
created only by an individual person.
ality; that all that Is to be preserved
must be again intrusted to ability and
individual personality. while the par
liamentary-democratic system must be
fought" To his puppet Reichstag, on
May ~, 1885, Hitler said: "The So
called democratic countries elect depu-
ties to represent some thousands of
their people. Germany has elected me
as a single deputy by 35.000.0 900 votes,
and I am rendering account Of my
deputyship before my own conscience,
my God and the German people" On
another occasion Hitler afirmed that
individual members of the parliament
may advise, but never decide. That Is
the exclusive prerogative Of the re-
sponsible president for the time being"
Contempt for legislative independence
and representative popular government
Is as complete In Rome and Moscow
a. 1t Is ut Berlin.
On November II, 1893. in a speech
on the corporate state. Mussolini said:
The legislature is now drawing to q
close. and the present Chamber Of
Deputies will have to be dissolved =.
I have never liked the Chamber of
Deputies. After all. 1t is now an
anachronism in its very name. 1t is
an institution which we found already
in existence and which is alien to our
mentality and to our creed as Fascists.
The chamber presupposes the existence
Of = world We have overturned-the
plurality Of parties and not infre-
quently the hold-up OF ministerial
activity. From the day on which we
annulled this plurality the Chamber
Of Deputies lost the essential reason
for which 1t was founded"
In lecture on Foundations II
Leninism" in April. 1924, Josef Stain
said: THE victory Of the dictatorship
Of the proletariat signifies the sup
preston Of the bourgeoisie. the de-
struction Of the bourgeois state ma
chinery and the displacement of bour-
geoss democracy by proletariAn democ-
racy There can hardly be any
doubt that the old forms Of proletarian
organization which grew UP with
parliamentarism As their base are not
equal to this task"
4 4
wonder II 1t Is not going to be a
rallying Of American public opinion
behind Senator Georges cause, of the
same irresistible momentum that sent
the New Deals Supreme Court and
reorganization plans to their doom
The implication. from the standpoint
Of national welfare. is no viii. less.
American fundamentals are m enaced
by the call for yes-man C)ngress
precisely as they were leopard Ized by
the attempt to establish . Hes-man
Supreme Court and q yes-rian bu-
reaucracy. should like to see as nom
partisan and bipartisan . pop liar up
rising to save Senator George Is there
vas to save an independent Federal
judiciary and an untrammeled civil
service. I would like to see marching
through Georgia during the next 80
days the Borahs and the Burkes, the
Wheelers and the O'Mahoneys, the
Garners, the Johnsons, the Clarks, the
McCarrans, the Van Nuyses, the
Glasses. the Sumnerses, the Baileys,
the Kings. the Vandenbergs, the Leh-
mans and the Pettingills, and all that
gallant band of patriots, who, throw
ing party ties and personal political
fortunes to the winds, struck a his
toric and victorious blow for the Con-
stitution year ago this tropical sum-
mer. For 1t Is in Americas night for