Evening star., 1938-11-21
Democrocies Urged
To Stop Hitler Now
Says Nuzis Hove Thrived
On Weak Policies
Of Opponents
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Indignation over the deplorable perse-
cution Of the Jews by the so-called Ger
man government rises once again in
high waves. But 1t is not logical to ex-
pect that Indignation alone will put an
end to the practices Of nations that have
discarded honor and reverted to bru-
tality to reach their goals. There must
be action as well as indignation If these
outrageous acts against humanity are to
be stopped, and action at this time means
the withdrawal Of all support that the
German government Is receiving from
England and France, whose representa-
tives at the Munich conference placed
their faith in a man who promptly be-
trayed them. Their people today are
victims no less than the Jews.
Formerly men like those now in control
OF Germany were placed in lunatic asy-
lums. Now they are free to flout world
opinion and institute reigns of terror,
knowing that the indignation aroused in
foreign countries will not be followed by
penalizing action.
Have human beings completely forgot
ten those things that led to the devel-
opment of the Nazi government? Have
they forgotten the sadistic manner in
which the World War ended? The lead
ers Of the vanquished endeavored fairly
to comply with the stipulations of peace
and at the same time procure work and
bread for their starving people. Success
was impossible because Of the determine
tion to accomplish by peaceful economic"
means that which murder by weap-
ons had failed to achieve. France and
Great Britain failed to grant to the
faithful and honest new government of
Germany urgently needed concessions
Through the resulting chaos Hitler and
his abettors came into power Today
these same nations totter to the opposite
extreme in vain endeavor to avert dis
aster by throwing victims into the jaws
of the enemy.
Hitler, secretly aided by reactionaries
in the German military forces, the junk
ers and the Bavarian government, re-
sorted to political assassinations in
which hundreds of men were murdered
before 1888, among them the ministers of
state Erzberger and Rathenau. On jan
uary 80, 1888. Won Hindenburg handed
over the government Of Germany to
Hitler, although the latter had just re-
ceived in an election no more than IS
per cent of all votes. In June, 1884, more
victims were shot to death without trial
and their bodies burned as speedily as
possible.
In the autumn of the same year Frank
Munich, chief of the Nazi system of JUS
tice, gave public notice in the juridical
congress in Leipzig that the law Is what
serves our end" Hitler never acknowl-
edged the law, and Germany Is now ruled
without law. His regime acts against
foreign countries with the same disre-
gard for law. He conforms exactly to the
device of every criminal to the end that
his crime may serve and not damage
him. This principle" is the nucleus of
the Nazi government, which creates a
fictitious basis for the killing of inno-
cent and defenseless Jews, for robbing
them of their possessions, for insulting
the Christian clergy, for Systematically
running them in concentration camps
(NiemolleD, and for destroying the ideal
of God in every religion. Since law is
what serves the Nazis, since today every
official of Germany at home and abroad
must be Nazi, there Is no ground for
surprise over the espionage disclosed only
in small part in this country.
Last year in Chicago President Roose-
velt expressed the necessity for setting
Nazidom in quarantine. We know that
pressed only by isolating victims of the
contagion. But where in Ais country
and in the other democratic( nations of
the world does there exist quarantine
against the anti-moralists to whom profit
and law are identical conceptions? DEM
agogic slogans are enthusiastically ap-
proved by the Hitler minded people in all
countries The danger must not be
underestimated. 1t is not possible to set
bounds after an epidemic has reached
nationwide proportions. The expert
enced political hygienists must adopt
measures to prevent the spread of the
dangerous Naz epidemic in this country
before it is too late.
Defense against Nazi-ism and the
other prevalent isms does not consist of
Indignation, angry speeches or prayer.
Energetic action is needed. Today the
answering followers of Hitler and his
regime are hardly more than 10 per cent
of the German people. namely, those who
have the lucrative jobs. Ninety per cent
of the people secretly long for deliver
ance from brutality, amorality, irrelig-
iosity and outlawry. Hitler will fall when
the democratic nations of the world cease
rendering sacrifices to the Nazi gods by
withdrawing support from a government
which Systematically destroys every law.
every religion, every morality upon which
civilization is based.
The major problem before the world
today is not the fate of German Jewry.
Ways and means must be found to rescue
these people from their deplorable plight.
But in addition to putting an end to the
atrocities now being committed, the civ
ilized peoples of the world demand de-
feat, by violent means II necessary, of
the gods of amorality, irreligiosity and
inhumanity. Americans think Germany