The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-28
THOSE WHO PLOW
In THE SEA
BY DARIo GARCIA

The New Testament, a pos
thumous book translated into
many languages, has taken to
every corner of the hemisphere a
portrait of the odyssey and suf-
feringS imposed on our great re-
deemer: Jesus, the Galillean, or
Jesus of Nazareth, as he was
generally called by his persecu-
tors and later crucified in Mount
Calvary; compelled to carry the
cross in which he was to expiate
the crime of his preachings: A
gospel of unity and brotherly
love throughout Jerusalem and
his praying to the Father IN the
solitude OF Mount Olive.
Erich Maria Remarque, a young
German soldier who survived the
last world war, wrote a great
book, "All Quiet On The Western
Front. This book also trans
lated into many languages, traces
In an agile manner the horrors
and sufferings imposed on the
men who bravely struggled in
that ferocious fight, displayed in
the fields of Chateau Thierry,
Verdun and other strategic points
of the great world war. The Ger
mans were advancing on Verdun
in a straight line to capture
! Paris, and there conquer the goal
of ambition of a man suffering
from senile dementia, while 9TH
ers were vigorously defending the
liberty of the world. Blind and
fiery mementos in a camouflage
where all was a groan and dying
flesh. Thereby showing the
mothers, widows and orphans of
Germany, the perils and dangers
Of another war, and wildly relat-
ing how their beloved ones were
sacrificed in holocaust to the am
bilious caprice of a man who was
later repudiated and expulsed to
exile by his own people. Those
mothers, widows and orphans of
Germany whose eyes were still
wet with the bitter tears of their
weeping, took the law in their
hands to punish the culpable:
William II, Ex-Kaiser and En-
peror of Germany and Prussia,
with the revolution of 1918.
Very ironically; as the days
come closer to the commemora-
ton of the week of passion of our
Savior, France recruits all her
available men from IL years of
age up, while England and Russia
are likewise making preparation
in order 10 be ready to attack the
offensive of the Nazis in their lust
for power and domination. The
world at large in preparedness for
the coming conflict busily manu-
features munitions, planes, battle
ships, and the other weapons only
useful for the destruction of man.
kind and civilization in general
Strangely these very same
mothers, widows and orphans in
Germany who twenty years ago
saw the effect of the tragedy in
Sarajevo where Archduke Ferd-
inand was assasinated by a stu
dent making thereby cause for
Germany TO enter as the powerful
source and represent the parties
damaged; where their children,
adolescents, left their books and
studies to pick up the guns and
march to the front and perish for
a cause they did not know what
it was all about; are the same
who today incase Adolf Hitler in
a shrine of fanatical alteration
bowling to his degenerate arnbi-
tons and offer their children to
act as his pawns and die just the
same as Jesus of Nazareth did.
These innocents shall carry the
masses and fight for a cause that
shall mean slaughter for no ohter
sake than an illusory ambition
never to meterialize and futile as
all wars. Can it be that the writ
ings of the New Testament" and
~Ali Quiet On The Western
Front" with their wonderful
preachings against wars are as
useless as the efforts of those who
plow in the sea?
Key West, Fla,