Evening star., 1938-11-15
Germany Warned of Isolation
For Abuse of Jewish Citizens
Secretary Ickes, Herbert Hoover, Senator
King and Others Speak Over Radio

and women and certainly Christian
men and women, still cherish at least
a few common ideas of right and
justice. - There can be no peace
If national policy adopts as a de-
iberate instrument the dispersion
all over the world of millions of
helpless and prosecuted wanderers
with no place to lay their heads
There can be no peace if humble
men and women are not free to
think their own thoughts, to express
their own feelings. to worship God.
Civilization distinguishes between
law and tyranny. The law of civil
lied people applies -handedly
to all. You cannot have one rule
OF conduct for the rich and another
for the poor You cannot have one
law for Protestants and another for
Catholics and still another for Jews
Today we either recognize the laws
OF God or tomorrow the wrath of our
tyranny may be turned against
No man can live unto himself
alone. No nation can live unto
itself alone. The time comes when
neither man nor nation can live
without the decent respect of their
felloWmen. and anyone who RECALLS
history will remember that when
the property of any minority re-
hgion or race has been confiscated
IN the name of public policy, an
ample portion of the confscated
property has always eventually
turned up as part of the private
fortunes of the individual politicians
IN power who started the confisca
ton in the holy name of the state
1t is an old strategem of tyrants
first to make hated those whom they
intend to rob. Once before the
world has had to appeal to the rea.
son and humanity of people ovel
the heads of leaders who had alien.
ated all the rest of the world. The
civilized people of the world art
appealing tonight to those in Other
lands where assaults are being made
against civilization, to do unto other.
as they would that others do unto
them. We appeal to them not tc
judge others. lest they themselve.
be judged by higher power. We
appeal to them not to strike at the
roots Of the civilized achievements
OF man in which in the past they
too have played a glorious part. +" = =
Former Gov. Landon-All free
dom people are shocked and hor.
rifled at the inhuamnity and in
tolerance visited upon the Semetic
race in the Nazi countries. the
German peoples, if they were free
to voice their real sentiments, would
not be so cruel and intolerant. Tc
protest against such barbarism is
more than mere protest against
such action in another nation. There
is real danger of the gorwth OF
intolerance here in America 49,.
Therein lies the danger and the
mind that views brutality and in
justice with Indifference because il
primarily affects the Jews is not
awake to the real danger, so we are
not protesting simply against anti
semitism and the horrible brutality
against the Jews. We are not pro-
testing for the sake of the Jews
alone. We are protesting for the
gentiles as well. We are protesting
for the sake of all minorities that
would be caught in the era OF
persecution. Tolerence and freedom
go hand in hand. So do tolerence
and law and order 60 hand in hand
When law and order break down to
the extent where intolerance can
break out into persecution then all
) freedom of mankind is in danger.
So as freedom living humane
people, is it small wonder that we
protest against blood-curdling perse.
cution on other continents, whether
they be Jews or gentiles, or whether
they be Catholic priests and nuns
or Protestant pastors. 1t would bt
shocking. indeed, if we did moi
Edwin H. Hughes, bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal Church,
speak as a representative of thu
Federal Council of the Churches O.
Christ and OF my own church I
Adding my voice to the soficia
voice OF all my Episcopal comrade.
who two days ago declared against
the inhumanlties in Germany ane
gave their vigorous pronouncemen
to the press.
In the German Reich the out.
RACES appear to have two forms
The first is represented by a de-
liberate legal process intended t,
hinder the Jews in a commercial
way and doubtless so to harry then
; as to drive them from the land. 1
today's papers report truly some O
these poor people are at this mo
} ment trembling at the borders O.
other countries praying for tn
refuge of exile. Who Of us can be-
lieve that the God and Father O
} our Lord Jesus Christ, who was
speaking earthwise, a Jew, can lool
with approval upon the heartles
proposals in law that would worl
such hardships? The second form
, is moblike rather than lawlike
, A poor, misguided boy, tormentet
, and probably demented, fires hast,
, shot and drops the spark into tn
magazine of terror. At once tn
, revenge speeds away to visit itsel
t upon the innocent who had no NOR
t to do with the youths mad dec
5 than did any one Of my radio listen
ers.
A plea for our Jewish people no,
is in reality a moral plea for our
selves. Humanity simply canno
afford to be silent. We must al
think of a story in the Hebrew scrip
tures. Mordecai In the Book Q