The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

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Hitler's latest diplomatic bombshell,
the Russo-German trade agreement
and the proposed non-aggression pact.
If the news was not literally bomb
shell, the general effects followed
closely the description of the first
thirty seconds after a direct hit.
Nations were stunned. Diplomatic
applicants were scattered all over the
place, their tempting displays resting
not so appealingly in the cutters of
Europe, Asia and few other contin-
ents.
Pro-Russian and Communist forces
heralded the negotiations as a sure
sign of peace. England and France
were tartly told that since they had
bungled the works Comrade Stain
would take over and put the democ-
racies to shame. A uniformed Ger
many is informed that the Fuehrer,
with his little pen, has retired the
Russian bear to the showers. No word
is mentioned of Hitler's former warn
ing to the German people that any
alliance with Russia would spell the
doom Of Germany.
France and England would like to
forget the whole thing as something
that has never happened, just another
bad dream. Chamberlain is troubled
with the thought that the sins of a
mad March have returned to plague
him.
4 X X
The cooler heads sum up the events
of the past week more pointedly along
the lines of sanity. They remind:
"For Russia, treaty is matter of
immediate expediency. For Hitler, a
treaty is a figure of speech" They
give the peace-front alliance, includ-
ing Russia, a chance for completion,
not forgetting that this alliance will
fall into the category of "a figure of
speech" until tried and tested in prac-
tice. The scene has not been material
ly altered by the news from Germany
and Russia. Hitler will continue his
bloodless conquest of Poland. Poland
will fight for her right to live. And
the democracies will hold the balance
for peace or war until the litter
knife" determines the specific "stiffen-
ing" content of their collective back
| bones.
The psychological effects, internati-
onal and individual, Of the Moscow
Berlin announcements can not be dis
counted. A fair measure of the
emotional upheavals that have follow
ed would throw the advantages to
Hitler. Hitler puts one over on the
democracies. Just what effect this will
have on the final decision of peace or
war is uncertain. The effect, favorable
effect, upon the German people and all
looking to the Rome-Berlin Axis for
support can not be denied nor dis
credited. Among the democracies the
emotional effect has been disconcerting
and damaging. Plans of world security
and ultimate peace have been scatter
ed by one blow of the unexpected. Too
much emphasis has been placed upon
the logical sequences of reason and
justice without enough consideration
of the emotional consequences Of a
hitch in those plans.
Emotions must be highlighted in
the present war of threats and inter
national bulldogging. The program of
the Nazis has not been noted for kind
attention to reason or Justice. Rather
the opposite. Brutality and ruthless
ness have been the watchwords Of the
advance of the crooked cross.
x x x
A direct quotation from Hitler's
Mein Kampf can give a more COM
plete picture of the germ that is in
Testing Europe, today, than reams OF
newsstories and commentaries.
"The masses can only be captured
by a ruthless and fanatic one-sided
presentation of our nationalistic idea
The dynamic force which has made the
most important changes in history has
always been-no scientific intellect
but rather fanatic feeling of hysteria
which has hurled the masses in one di,
rection. To win the soul of the people
it is not enough merely to fight fol
ones own end--ONE MUST DE.
STROY THE UPHOLDERS OF THE
| OPPOSITE CAUSE"