The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-14
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLFR

NEW YORK, Dec. 13-The c.,
mans took full advantage of tho
quadrennial madness of the stn
pid Americans, but, though we los,
precious time and our resolution
wabbled, Hitler has now said tho
words which should snap the smell
From the German point OF view
they were much better left unsaid
To us they should be kick in tb.
pants.
It has often been observed tb,,
the reason why the patriotic Ger.
man is so brutal, treacherous an,
selfish is to be found in his inabili.
ty to imagine that any other na.
ton has any right which conflicts
with any interest Of Germany. That
has been demonstrated in the at.
tacks on the little nations whose
military menace was so puny that
when Hitler struck they were oh.
liberated in, so to speak, a dav.
The moral rottenness of the Ger.
man national spirit gained much
in these actions, but the expires.
sion of that vice unwittingly given
in Hitler's speech to his robots will
show a loss.
Ill Advised
In that address Hitler was LIN.
able to imagine that the peopIe
of the United States might be can.
able of patriotic effort or that their
lethargy could be due to anything
but that which he would call civic
degeneracy and fear of Hitler, He
certainly must have been advised
that, from a state of alarm last
April, the Americans had spun
of into a domestic spat over the
presidency which monopolizei
their interest to the almost total
neglect of the menace of Adolf Hit.
ler. The election over, the Ameri.
cans still dawdled in the throes Of
an awful political hangover. A com.
parative few young men went off
to military camps, some of which
were unprepared to house them
decently; the two big labor or.
ganizations met in rival conventions
to exchange sneers, the rearma-
ment program begged down and
the President of the United States
now found conditions so relaxed
that he could crank up warshp
and 60 off on cruise.
A more favorable condition, from
Hitler's standpoint, it would be i'm.
possible to imagine, for it is not
denied that this nation must be
Britain's arsenal, shipyard and
farm, not some time but now. Hit.
ler realized this better than the
Americans, who had begun to
humble again about Britain's old
sins against Ireland and the Beers,
forgetting that Hitler was the enc
my of the United States. 1t was
nice to forget, to excuse neglect,
laziness and greed on the ground
that Britain had called this con-
try Uncle Shylock-on the ground
that, anyway, European wars were
an old story and the Atlantic was
5000 miles wide.
Time Was Ripe
Charles Lindbergh had said that
we could live on friendly terms
with Hitler victorious. and there
were those who clutched at that
hope, too. 70. altogether, but for
the innate evil of a predatory breed
whose historic brutality is SO Who'll
ly packaged in the character Of
one bad man this nation might
have snoozed on. The time surely
was ripe to let the Americans
browse, but Hitler, fortunately,
took this hour to declare that, con-
trary to his past preaching, this
was war against capitalism,
war between two worlds, two phllo'
sophies, his and ours, naming the
United States.
So the struggle against Jewish
Bolshevism, that shrieking fraud,
becomes openly at last war OIL
German Bolshevism against the
only system under which freedom
exists. And from Hitler comes 'he
admission that any means ever,
that Bolshevism which he reslleo
for years, is legitimate to serve
the brutal aspirations of killer
nation.
The right to live, of which he
spoke, is right of Germans ohly'
not of Czechs or Belgians, Danes
NorWegians, or Poles, ana any
wrong done in the name OF Ger
many is right, because th' super,
race of chosen people alone OIL an
the world have rights.
Every foul and stec = attrlou'e
formerly imputed to that useful oia OH
goblin, World JeWry. is dlscoVefsa.
now at work in the interests o.
World Germandom, Americans als
put on notice that the America
world, the American phllosopnm ,
must 60, because they ln'ellel'
: with the German right. This "aim t
ing has been sounded before pu'
never so openly by Hitler, VINO W. W.
viously must feel that BY no" wv IN
American nations is too far gone -
sloth, corruption and internal Ian
cor to be capable of resistance
This wasn't mere recklessness olt
Hitler's part. It was the spirit VI
the German nation expfeso"a
again it's determination TO l"ie
world Of sub-human slaves.