Montana labor news., 1938-12-01
NAZI TERROR
WELL PLANNED
Wall Street Due to Profit from
u. S. Indignation.
By SCOTT NEARING
Federated Press

recent events in Germany should
bear in mind Hitler's words: zone
must be perfectly clear that the re-
covery of lost provinces is not
achieved by solemn %invocations of
the Beloved Lord, nor through pious
hopes in a League of Nations, but
only through armed violence" Such
sentiments are repeated again and
again in the writings and speeches
of the Nazi leaders, until they be-
come a sort of refrain that may be
heard in all statements of Nazi
policy.
Propaganda Minister Goebbels in
sists that the attacks on Jewish
houses, stores and synagogues were
spontaneous. But if they were, two
facts must be explained. In the first
place, the attacks began at the same
time and took the same form all over
the Reich, in Austria as well as in
Germany proper. In the second
place, when Goebbels gave the word,
the attacks ceased as suddenly as
they had begun.
Furthermore, the police every
where protected the mobsters from
interference while they were smash
ing and burning. If the attacks were
not officially organized, they had
semi-official backing. Certainly if
the rioters had been Socialists or
Communists they would have met
with a very different reception at
the hands of the authorities. As
matters stand, the public order was
disturbed throughout the country,
some $500, O00,0O of property was
destroyed, and not a single arrest
has been reported.
The wrecking appears to have
been part of a well laid plan. The
government needed a pretext for
Selling Jewish property and driving
the Jewish population into Ghettos.
The assassination of a German off
cial in the Paris embassy gave the
signal, the Spontaneous popular
demonstration afforded the pretext,
and the anti-Jewish DEGREES, already
prepared in advance of the event,
we're Immediately promulgated.
Behind the attacks which the
Nazis have been directing against
the Jews for the past 10 years, and
which have reached their height in
this November program, the follow
ing forces are clearly apparent:
l. The Nazi government will get
considerable amounts of property
$4,000, 100000 or more).
2. Many good businesses will pass
from Jews to Nazis, at bargain
prices.
3. Dissatisfaction and discomfort,
which are widespread in Germany
this winter, will be conferred on the
Jews, instead of on the Nazis.
4. Jew-baiting will give young
enthusiasts an outlet for their sur
plus energy, and will take popular
attention away from butter short
ages and high food prices.
5. Germany will be racially uni
fled and purified and freed from
the plague Of what Hitler calls
Jewish intellectualism."
The cruel and ruthless methods of
the persecution are like those en-
ployed in %suppressing other "ene-
mics among the labor unionists,
Socialists, Communists and left
peasant leaders. They are the ia
miliar Nazi weapons of armed
violence"
Recent Nazi attacks have not been
confined to the Jews, They have
also descended on the Catholics of
Munich, Vienna and other Catholic
centers. The technique Of armed
violence is for use against all those,
whether at home or abroad, who
presume to question OF oppose The
Leader and His Movement.
Nazi excuses in the persecution
of the Jews are having the same
effect on world opinion that Ger
man submarine bombings had dur
ing the War of 1914. Now as then
the rulers of America are taking
advantage Of the ferocity and stu
pidity of the German rulers.
A struggle is being waged be-
tween German and American inter-
ests for the trade of Latin America.
During the present crisis, the chief
spokesman of American big business
- Smith, Hoover, Landon - have
joined in the denunciation of Nazi
atrocities, just as, during the war,
they joined in the denunciation of
German militarism.
The results in both cases are likely
to be the same. Popular indignation
will be aroused. The American
people will be whipped into a fury
against the "unspeakable Hun" and
Wall Street will walk quietly from
the scene with the trade of Latin
America again in its pocket.