Evening star., 1938-06-10
AMERICAN HOSTILITY IS ACAINSTTHE
GERMAN LEADERS, NOT THE PEOPLE
Writers to The Star Give Free Expression to Their
Feelings the Subject
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The STAR
This letter is in response to that of
Mr.. H. F. Cullington. entitled, "Unwar-
ranted Attacks on German Race De-
plored."
In Mr., Cullington's letter the assump-
ton is present that the German race
has been attacked by the American press.
May I be permitted to point out. what
seems to be perfectly obvious to thinking
Americans, that hostile criticism of the
internal and foreign policies of the au-
thoritarian regime in Germany is not
identical with attacks on the German
race. No one will deny that the Germans
are an old, v1rile and honorable people
Nor does the world close it's eyes to what
German genius has contributed to the
sciences and arts. But the world also
recognizes this fact, that the German
people are again slavishly following a
leadership which deliberately misleads
its people by controlled, propagandized
press, by mass demonstrations to arouse
mass hysteria, and by scientifically dis
proved theories of racial superiority. And
the world recognizes this too, that the
German people are again permitting
themselves to be led into destructive
war which will waste their lives and their
lands and their industries, and will again
irreparably wound their pride. Because
the German race has given to the world
undoubted genius, because it has given
abundantly to the formation and de-
velopment of the Americas, because their
record in the World War was one of
bravery and patience and blind patriot
ISN'T does not follow that the race is
without its shortcomings and weaknesses.
Any race that has to be told repeatedly,
and loves to believe, that it is superior
to any other race and then proceeds
logically to disprove its own racial
theories by resorting to brute force and
discriminatory legislation to subdue the
inferior races, is not an Intellectually
superior people. If they were they would
devise legitimate and civilized means of
solving minority problems.
Two questions are posed by Mr.. Cul-
hngton, 'Is 1t crime to survive in q
world where survival is of the f1ttest"
SHOULD an intelligent race die that other
races may live?" The answer to both
these questions is, Definitely no." But
with this limitation, that it is crime to
survive by methods which are regarded
by world society as anti-social and un-
Christian, and by international law as
criminal. That it is a crime for the Ger
man people to torture and subjugate to
veritable state Of slavery the minority
races that live within the borders of its
state, so that many prefer death by their
own hands rather than suffer the oppres-
sions and cruelties of the ruling race.
Could not any minority race ask of us
the same questions that Mr. Cullinpton
sets forth in his letter? Have minorities
not the right to live? Should the Czech
nation perish so that Germanys Hitler
may realize his ambitious dreams of
empire? Must Jewish blood run so that
Greater Germany may become reality?
Mr.. Cullington continues with the
statement that "the natives in Germany
believe that while the race was fighting
for its right to life tit seems to me the
Germans were doing very well before the
outbreak of the war, yet he says they
were fighting for mythical right to
life. Who threatened Germany's right
to lifeO a certain minority (meaning
the Jews) destroyed the social, economic
and political fabric of the country, and
that this minority afterwards bought Up
business with hidden wealth, and also
turned loose q mess of anarchy called
"Communism.a Now doesn't that sound
like rehashed paragraph out of Hitler's,
"Mein Kampf"? Does it not sound as
trite and insipid as the radical youth in
his communistic infancy repeating ver-
batim the theology Of the "class struggle"
as Implanted by his mentors, with no
attempt - an individual to reach .