The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-21
Less on for Americans
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 That small group Of individuals in this country who call themselves Americans but bow to the leadership of Communist Earl Browder find the foundations of their faith ruthlessly shaken by Russia's crime against Finland. They are few in number, happily, but noisy nuisances.
 It was bad enough for these miscaned Americans when Stalin made peace with Nazism for they had been preaching for years the nquites of Hitler and all his works Some fast scuttling was necessary for the Browderian Reds to bring their political philosophy into harmony with the new face Of things in eastern Europe,
 It was definitely worse when the peace-oving, phanthropic Soviet-to use the reasoning of the Communists in America-turn with savage lawless- to rend and destroy the inoffensive nation of the Films The rage of the New York organ of Stalinsm is easily understood The red faces of the Communists do not their color to the flag above the Kremlin.
 All the silly pretense, studously maintained by Communist spokesmen in this country, from Browder down, that democracy and Communism have iden- tical aims; that the best way to promote democracy is to embrace Communism; that StaliniSm and Jeffersonianism are alike in essenceal this trick fabrication goes by the board when Russia crushes Finland.
 No longer can Americans listen with straight faces when Browder and his soap-box crew argue that the Soviet state is what the American state ought to be and is on the way to becoming. Some how the Communist picture of universal brother hood leaping all boundaries and bringing mankind into a single fraternity of love and cooperative fellowship, is hopelessly dimmed by the news from Helsink
 We see the brotherhood Communist-style, leap ing the boundaries all right But the dripping sword and the bomb dropping planes belle the. Communist preaching of universal goodwill.
 Like the goat in the mountains, the American Communist is driven to leap from crag to crag, restlessly pursued by Stains successive disprovals of all his fondest fallacieS
 If what Russia did to Lithuana, Latvia and Estonia and is doing to Finland bears any resemblance to democracy honest English words mean nothing If crushing 8 helpless, inoffending neighbor is democracy, then America is Patagonia and Thomas Jefferson was an economic royalist!
 The saddening news coming from the Bal tic area will affect unintended service west Of the Atlantic if it gives Americans a sounder under standing of the merits of their own political system It may well do exactly this by demonstrating the contrasting motives behind the Soviet state. For, unmistakably, it shows Russia to be, not the friend of friendiess peoples but grasping, bullying ag gressive monster ready to bounce the helpless whenever it suits her convenience to do SO
 Communists under the American flag should blush with shame and embarrassment for the folly of their past preachments Films and other minority States their home will offer fresh thanks for the privileges the republic affords them And Ameri- cans without reference to their ethnic ancestry will see reasons for cherishing the system of demo- cratic government the Constitution gives them.