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Evening star., 1940-09-19
Hitler and the u. S.
By DIR. HERMANN RAUsCHNING.

BY DR.. HERMANN RAUSCHNING.
About the United States, Hitler
had his firm. preconceived opinion
which, no argument could shake
This opinion was that North Ameri-
ca would never take part in a Euro
pean war again, and that, with her
millions of unemployed, the United
States was on the brink of a revo-
luton from the outbreak of which
only Hitler could save her.
In June 1888, I was present at
dinner-table conversation in Hit
ler's fiat in which he gave express
sion to this view expressed. One of
the guests suggested that it might
be of decisive Importance for Ger
many to win the friendship of North
America. Certain members of the
German government at that time
had publicly emphasized the unique
value of friendly relations with the
United States, and for this reason
had some misgivinss about the
anti-Semitic policy of the Reich.
Whose friendship" Hitler
brusquely interposed. The friend
ship of the Jewish jobbers and
moneybags or that of the American
people?"
He expressed his contempt of the
present government Of the United
States.
This is the last disgusting death
rattle of a corrupt and outworn
system which is blot on the history
of this people. Since the Civil War,
in which the Southern States were
conquered, against all historical
logic and sound sense, the Ameri-
cans have been in condition of
political and popular decay. In that
war, it was not the Southern States,
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can. but also the skepticism Of
inequality Of the certain intellectual
circles who have found their wis
dom vain: scholars who have
studied immigration and gained an
insight. by means Of intelligence
tests. into the inequality of the races
all these strains are an assurance
that the sound elements of the
United States will one day awaken
as they have awakened in Germany.
National Socialism alone Is destined
to lberate the American people
from their ruling clique and give
them back the means Of becoming
q great nation"
Hitler had grown animated. AL
other conversation died away.
II SHALL" he continued, under
take this task simultaneously with
the restoration Of Germany to her
leading position in America"
I'm what sense, my Fuhrer?"
asked Goebbels.
Have you forgotten that the dec
laration Of German as the national
language was lost by only one voice
In Congress? The German COM
ponent Of the American people will
be the source Of its political and
mental resurrection. The American
people Is not yet q nation in the
ethnographical sense; 1t is a con-
glomerate Of disparate elements.
But it is the raw material Of a ma
ton. And the Yankees have failed
to create a nation from it! They
have instead kept their noses in
their moneybags. Today this is be-
ing avenged. Their difficulties will
become insuperable."
Plans S. A. in America.
DO you mean," I asked, that the
German-American, rejuvenated by
National Socialism, will be called to
lead a new American"
That is exactly what I mean,"
Hitler returned. I'VE shall soon have
an s. A. In America. We shall train
our youth. And we shall have men
whom degenerate Yankeedom will
not be able to challenge. Into the
handS OF our youth Will be given the
great statesmanlike mission of
Washington which this corrupt
democracy has trodden under foot"
Shall we not very greatly COM
plicate our own struggle In Europe
If we do this?" interposed Hitler's
guest will not the powerful fam
lilies become our bitterest enemies?
My Fuhrer, I am apprehensive that
your great plans will be shattered
before they have time to ripen."
Hitler became excited.
will you understand, sir, that
our struggle against Versailles and
our struggle for new world order
is one and the same; we cannot set
limits here or there as we please.
We shall succeed in making the new
political and social order the uni
versal basis of life in the world. Or
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% The Voice of
~ Destruction

"The Voice OF Destruction" ,orten by Dr.. Hermann
Rauchning, confdant OF Adolf Hitler during the first
OF his rise to has created widespread interest
The Euenng Star has secured publishing rights of the book
IN Washington In series The Star DiH print excerpts
from the book OF special interest to Americans those Dho
hare not read the entire book Rauchning,
"The Revolution OF Nhin often nuited to small group
gatherings at Uhich Hitler erpounded his PHILOSOPHERS
impressed waS he and by no aayS aDorab he set
doWn the conversations at their completion and from them
,1rote his startling after the
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but the American people themselves
who were conquered. In the
spurious blossoming of economic
progress and power politics, Amer
lea has ever since been drawn
deeper into the mire of progressive
self-destruction. A moneyed clique,
which presumes to be good society
and to represent the old families,
rules the. country under the fiction
of a democracy which has never
before been so nakedly exposed as
a mass of corruption and legal
venality. The beginnings Of a great
new social order based on the
principle of slavery and inequality
were destroyed by that war, and
with them also the embryo of a
future truly great America that
would not have been ruled by a
corrupt caste of tradesmen, but by
a real Herren-class that would have
swept away all the falsities Of
liberty and equality"
Equality" Rouses Fury.
That word equality" seemed to
lash him into a fury. Equality Of
whom?" he shouted. "Of the
descendants Of old Spanish ruling
families and of Swedish settlers
with the degenerate masses from
Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, with
all the scum of East Baltic and Bal
kan JeWry? But 1 am firmly con-
vinced that in a certain section of
the American middle class and the
farmers, the sound fighting spirit Of
colonial days has not been extin-
guished We must awaken that
spirit. 1t has not yet been de-
stroyed. The wholesome aversion
for the Negroes and the colored
races in general, including the Jews,
the existence OF popular justice,
the naivete of the average Ameri-
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new America will exist - our
strongest supporter when we are
ready to take the stride into over
seas space"
I'VE have the means Of awakening
this nation in good time" he added
after q pause. There will be no new
Wilson arising to stir up America
against US"
tCopyright, 1910, By q. p. Putnam's Sons.
All rights reserved. This book. or parts
thereof; must not bs reneoduced In any
form without permission)
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the traditionally Democratic "solid
South"
The conference was called by L. W.
(Pat) Casey, Houston (Tex) busi-
nessman, who said delegations were
expected from Texas, Tennessee,
Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, South
and North Carolina, Virginia,
Arkansas, Mississippi and Georgia.
Mr.. Casey said he had noted in
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Southern Democrats
Meet to Help WiIIkie
~ the Associated Press.

Dy the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. ia
group Of Democrats assembled here
today to discuss plans for assisting
the campaign Of Wendell L. Willkie,
Republican presidential nominee, in
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creaSins support for willkis In the
South. He said Nashville vas y.
lected - the logical location for
the conference "becauss It Il the
home Of Andrew jackson, who
steadfastly refused Q third term A.
President Of the United States"
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Rats have driven all other animals
on Mary Island In the South Pacific.
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(Tomorrow: Hitler's Foreign Policy }
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closely, MS genius ana MS skill pest
measured and comprehended. What
Albert Sterner once said about a
pregnant brush" is doubly true of
q pencil, or a stick of charcoal, with
which the artist fixes on paper a
vibrant impression while the spell
of its beauty or significance is still
unbroken-it is a perfect instrument
In the hands of one who is inspired.
Precisely what this means can
best be understood by seeing and
subjecting ones self to the drawings
which Mrs. Phillips has collected
from various sources and brought
together in the two print rooms and
on the stairway by which they are
approached in the Phillips Gallery
Fifty-three or fifty-four in all, they
cover period of something over $50
years-that is, from the last of the
18th century to the present. Four
of the artists represented-Ingres,
Gericault, Delacroix and Corot-
were born before 1900; quite num-
ber of the other distinguished mas
ters whose drawings are shown
worked we'll into the 10Th century,
and several of the others are still
producing. This fully justifies the
use of the word modern" and it
goes to show, also, that the art of
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Bulletin of Current Exhibitions

THE coRcoRAN GALLERY OF ART. Seventeenth
exhibition Washington Water Color Club to May Miniatures
Rosa Hooper, to May g.
ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON 2o17 I street NV
Water coos by Hazel Purcell by
Lawson to May 10.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY. 1900 Twenty-h street
NWEmotonal Design in Painting"
May Great modern drawings, to May l.
PUBLIC LIBRARY Eighth streets NW.-Drawnes by
William H. Calfee, through April.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS- Arts-Recen acces-
ons Autographs by Joseph Penne and prints by American
FREER GALLERY OF ART the Mall at Twelfth street s.W-
Permanent collections Oriental art paintings drawings prints
American artists.
TEXTILE MUSEUM, street Nw-Rugs tapestries and
.es OF ne Near and Far East Mondays Wednesdays and
Hewitt Myers, 73o Fifteenth street NV
HOWARD UNIVERSITY ART GA1LERY-Contemporary Amer
lean Art Loan collection. Anniversary exhibition.
STUDIO GALLERY, George Washington University G
street Of Autographs and colors by
THE wHYTE GALLERY, 17o7 street nw-Recent painting,
by Herman Marl, to April 80.
NATIONAL MUSEUM, History Building Tenth street
and Constitution NWNoh lobby
the Division Of Graphic Art prints by members the Washington
Landscape Club of Washington to April go
NATIONAL MUSEUM Arts and Industries Building,
Of the Mall at Eighth pictorial photographs
by Adolf Fassbender, through April.
ALLEGATIONS GALLERY. sle Independence avenue sw-
Work by artists Of the w District Open daily
to 5 pm Saturday from 10 am. to S pm.
cHnDRENs GALLERY. Independence avenue sw-work
by Greek children through April
WoMENs CITY CLUB, 73e jackson place by Hugo
linden, through April.
ART GALLERY Bulding-waer colors by stu
dents in American colleges NAV
CHALET NoNPAREI1 7lo3 Old Georgetown road Bethesda
Md-Portraits and landscapes by
GALLERY OF MODERN MASTERS 1867 Connecticut avenue
Neutrality-suspicious. Of little distinguished con-
temporary Dutch artist, Van Konijnenburg
WESLEY HALL 1903 street NW-Paintings by Naomi Iorne
to April %. "
GALLERY l. M the Grafton Hotel 1873 De Sales street
League OF American Pen Women, April Is.
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influences" as Mansard roofs, tur-
rets, cupolas and other features we
regard as not old enough to be
quaint, yet not new enough to be
picturesque. We pass them with
amused contempt, perhaps; and
they disappear before the onslaught
Of new construction, with no lam
entations from antiquarians. But
Mr.. linden probably has done a real
service in capturing likenesses of a
few Of these houses, for the time will
come when they will be recognized
as part of Washington's archi-
tectural history. We may find our
selves involved in campaigns to save
some Of them as public property. In
not few instances recently, artists
have been commissioned by the Fed
eral Art Project to wander around
their cities, making water-color
sketches of precisely this sort of sub
ject matter.
Most Of these wash drawings by
Mr.. linden have been done In the
past year or two. He also shows q
few earlier water colors Q935 to
1880, affording an opportunity to
see changes he has made in his
work.
In addition to Is paintings, the
artist shows three block printed
textiles in single colors on natural
or white linen. All have simplicity
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and architecture, place the work as
indubitably Greek. But the view
points of the many youthful artists,
as well as their methods Of tran
scribing their subjects. seem to the
average observer identical with the
viewpoints and techniques Of Ameri-
can school children.
The world is lovely place, seen
through the eyes of children still
comparatively safe and happy. The
farm and village houses appear neat
and comfortable; the fields are lush
with bumper crops; the sea in which
fishermen try their luck is teeming
with fish; the village square has
happy crowd of dancing children.
women drawing water from a public
well, and men passing the time Of
day with friends under shade trees;
marriage professions wind over the
mountains. Perhaps the most de-
lightful scenes are those of Greek
shepherds with their flocks; in most
instances. the men clad in jaunty
tunics with flaring skirts, tasseled
caps and slippers with large POM
poms; they play tunes on reed pipes
while energetic dogs keep the hocks
from wandering away. 1t is re-
freshing experience to visit the
Children's Gallery; one can see the
Greek exhibition there through
April.
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Cosmos Club Etchinqs

Benson B. Moore has made a name
for himself as painter and as a
print maker, and in both capacities
has contributed generously to sew
eral of the exhibitions now current
in this city. In addition to which,
Mr.. Moore is having special one
man show of prints and a few water
colors in the Cosmos Club by invi-
tation. This includes three plates,
made by order of the Cosmos Club,
OF the exterior of the historic build
ing and two interiors, one of the
lounge, the other of the reading and
writing room, with the purpose of
preserving their aspect for all time.
AS almost every one knows, the
Cosmos Club property has been
purchased by the Federal Govern
ment, and new quarters will have to
be found. This means, in all prob
ability, the loss of another land
mark, and although more commo-
dious quarters may be built or
found, the atmosphere Of the old
clubhouse is inherent with the pres
ent structure.
Mr.. Moore has got into his etch-
ings, both of exterior and interior,
some of this subtle quality of asso-
citation. The exterior he has etched
from Madison place NV, looking
toward H street, the old Tayloe
House in the foreground and the
house on the corner, once the resi-
dence of Dolly Madison (on the
other side of the new building which
joins the two) concluding the vista.
His detail is well defined, but not
oversttessed, for which reason the
building seems to take its place per-
fectly amid its surroundings. The
interiors, which must have been
equally, If not more, difficult of rem
ditions also are very true, and pos
sess a homely friendliness which
only long use and association can
give. To make such faithful tran
scriptions could have been no easy
task.
It was in the Cosmos Club that
both the Washington Water Color
Club and the Society Of Washing
ton Artists held their earliest exhi-
billions. It was here, moreover, that
the Washington Society of the Fine
Arts, as an organization, came into
existence, and that plans which
eventually led to the establishment
Of the American Federation of Arts
were discussed On the roster NJ tha
Cosmos Club have been the names
of numerous artists who have at
tanned national as well as local dis
tinction, among whom are the first
president of the National Academy
Of Design, Samuel S. F. B. Morse,
and the present president, Hobart
Nichols; Paul Bartlett, G. Y. Turner,
Frank Millet and many others, In
cluding William H. Holmes, artist
and ethnologist, and at present,
Charles Bittinger, National Aca.
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rapid dppucdtlOn OF color, over
which, when dry, he draws outlines
and few details in ink. Raoul Duty
Is the most famous exponent of this
technique, which has verve, spon-
taneity and sophistication. How
ever, persons who like it's color to
be confined within the subjects out
lines, may be disturbed by the fact
that, in this modern wash technique,
the ink outlines do not necessarily
fit the color masses.
A delicate little sketch of the
White House (north 'front.' and one
of the Longfellow statue are done
with minimum of color. O2e of the
best is pleasant view of old houses
(subtly differentiated as to their
brick reds) facing a park; it was
done in fresh, warm -tohed washes.
Another very good paper depicts the
charming old house at 1921 H street
NV, wedged between en apartment
building and short row OF brIk
houses.
Architectural History.
Mr.. linden has, in fact, painted a
number of portraits" of private
houses here, Of the latter half of
the 10th century, with such foreign
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Weisz Work Purchased

In the directors office at the Cor
coran Gallery was to be seen, this
past week, a water color by Eugen
Weisz, vice principal of the Corcoran
School, which had been purchased
by a group Of mining engineers as
gift to DR.. John wellington Finch,
recently chief Of the Bureau of
Mines, under the Interior Depart
ment, but now retired. This paint
ing was made by Mr.. Weisz on q
sunny September day at Tadoussac,
Quebec, where the Saguenay and
the st. Lawrence Rivers meet. It
shows q rocky hill rising above a
typical Canadian landscape, and
Is boldly and strongly rendered in
such wise that its inherent beauty
is frankly made manifest. It is un-
derstood that DR.. Finch's colleagues
in the engineering profession Sc
lected this painting partly because
Of the subject and the artists excel
lent rendition Of the rock formation
OF the high land, but to even the
unscientifcally informed, the merit
Of the work is obvious and sufiicient.
As water color, this is an outstand-
ing work of art, and by its execu-
ton Mr.. Weisz can be said to have
taken his place among the fore
most water colorists Of this country.
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white are several of special merit
such as might Pastures" by Regene
Putnam, "Columbine" by Dorothy
Claire Gleeson and "Serenade" by
lone Hirsch. There is some excel
lent work in color by Minnie l.
Briggs, Orchids" by Florence v
Cannon, who sends "Mayf1owers'
and Flying High" and by Benson
B. Moore, who contributes bird SUBJ
iects. not to name all.
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DR.. Finch is to be congratulated
upon its possession. 1t Is q picture
which should give untold delight.
Miniatures on View
An exhibition Of miniatures by
Rosa Hooper, now Of New York but
formerly of San Francisco, opened
the day before yesterday In the
Corcoran Gallery and will continue
through May 3. Mrs. Hooper, q
native Californian, studied first ut
the Art League and the Mark Hop
kins Institute in San Francisco and
later, specializing in miniature
painting, under Otto Eckhardt In
Dresden and Nine. de Billemont in
Paris. She is a charter member
and vice president Of the California
Society of Miniature Painters: q
charter member of the San Fran
cisco Society OF Women Painters
and a member Of the San Diego
Art Guild and Shanghai Art Club.
Shanghai, China. Her works have
been exhibited widely in this coun-
try, as well as in China, France and
England, and have won for her sew
eral coveted awards. Among her
sitters have been persons Of OUT
standing distinction.
The current exhibition consists of
16 portraits and figure paintings on
Ivory done in the manner of the
European school Of the past quarter
century, daintily and very expertly.
Several are family portraits. There
are two of her grandparents, one Of
her father and one of her son, 1t.
Hooper, U. 8. NJ, in uniform. There
are charming ones of q little girl
and a small boy rendered with
breadth, but finely; one Of
Frenchman, very characteristic, and
painted with great care and min.
utiae, and two Of dogs which viii
certainly fascinate dog lovers.
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which there are two here, are al
ways good; Roselle H. Osk sends
memorable etching of a young girl
out-of-doors gazing wide-eyed, into
the future-"New Worlds" from
Hortense Ferne have come two etch-
ings Of circus themes, well rendered,
and from Emily Burling Waite
Manchester tense group, reading
news from abroad, Foreign Mail"
Among the block prints in black and
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with, apparently, the minimum Of
effort.
From Institutions.
Gallery 2 contains about Is other
drawings lent by various institutions
and collectors throughout the coun-
try, supplemented in three instances
by drawings from the collection Of
the Phillips Gallery. There are two
drawings by Ingres here-one of an
elederly man. whose identity is not
known, which has been lent by the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and
the other Portrait OF Mile. Raoul
Rochette," lent by the Kraushaar
Galleries. Especially notable in con-
nection with the former is the mod
cling Of the bony structure of the
head.
There are fine drawings by Chas-
seriau Q819- 1866, one in each gall
lery. They are Portrait of Nine.
Mottez," in pencil and dated l841;
lent by the Fogg Museum, and "Por-
trait of Jules Monnerot," lent by the
Brooklyn Museum-both a good deal
in the manner of Ingres and very
fine.
Corot is represented by a landscape
drawing In line after the manner OF
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Among the drawings, portrait
Of Miss Margaret Bisland by Caro-
line van H. Bean is especially nota-
BILE for subtlety and spirit. Frank
NJ. Rines' landscape drawings also
are very engaging
Certainly, printmaking of artistic
character and quality has never
been practiced so widely or success
fully as it is at the present time,
and when the difficulties of the
various processes-etching, dry
point, aquatint, lithography and
wood block-are taken into con-
sideration, this fact, in itself, to-
gether with the standard generally
attained, is the more remarkable,