Evening star., 1940-04-01
'Cussondro' Urges
Support Of Allies
Says Protection Of American
Interests Should Dictate
Our Course in War

Interests Should Dictate
Our Course in War
To the Editor Of The Star:
deeply believe that we are suffering, the
whole world Is suffering because the
United States did not do its full duty
tcWard peace after the World War.
We have not taken count of our eco
nomic force. If we had gone into the
League and used our moral and economic
power in conjunction with other demo-
cratic countries surely there is not a
nation on earth which could have Sue
ccssfully defled us.
AS 1t Is now we might do much toward
helping the world II we as a people and
our congressman as our leaders should
dare to follow the right and not continue
to hedge and refuse to face the in
evitable. Should we thus continue, this
Troy Of mine, this country of ours, will
see woe indeed.
Mr.. Knickerbocker, the newspaperman
just back from Europe, in an interview
over the radio, expressed his astonish-
ment at the attitude some of us are
taking The President of the bank
where he keeps his ''nickels and dimes"
had asked him who sank the Athena.
l heard over short wave from Germany
that the English sank the Athena Just
as they did the Lusitania, of course to
involve America, the Germans would
have lis think. It's a queer mentality
that would throw out such a suggestion
expecting reasonable people to accept
1t. Is it thinkable that country would
sink its own ships and risk the lives of
many hundreds of its own people on the
bare chance of involving US? ANY one
who believes this should 60 in search of
the Wizard of or to see if he could get
him BRAIN
Mr. Knickerbocker also said that Eng
land has the best cause and the poorest
propaganda, while Germany has the
worst cause and the greatest propaganda.
A very natural thing. Since Hiter's
philosophy as boiled down from "Mein
kampf," is bigger and bigger lies, he and
Goebbels have no trouble in outdoing
the world Over the short wave, I hear
the calm voice of a German professor
holding up for our admiration the peace
and quiet which Germany has been able
to bring to Central Europe. 1 hear two
German women discussing the arduous
task the husband of one has been hev-
ing While trying to bring order to the
people OF Warsaw and other parts of
Poland And the JeWs-what scorn she
expressed! OF course. there was not a
word about robbing the Jews of their
property, destroying their churches,
bounding them like dogs, numbering
them or driving them out pitilessly
There was not word from the teacher
! IN regard to the shooting of Czech stu
dents, lmprlsoning others, closing their
schools and forcing men to leave their
families to work in Germany in order
to liberate German men for the front.
Thousands of Polish men have been
taken from their homes for the same
purpose. Indeed, Hitler's regime, since
the massacres of June, 1884, has shown
brutality and tyranny more like the
Dark Ages than modern times And vet
we find people who excuse Hitlerism and
criticize England as she stands fighting
for her life
Some there be who fuss about app]es
and tobacco and vent their spleen on
England in spite of the fact that she is
glrding her loins and tightening her belt
TO save her people from starvation. Are
We too selfish to sympathize with our
mother country from which we have in
herlted all that is best in our civiliza-
ton?
News comes out of South America that
great German enterprises are sending
their profits to Germany Shall we
make the way clear for agents in this
country to collect and send money bv
our mail lines to Germany and thus
help her to crush all the smaller neu-
tral nations which are so terrified bv her
brutality? Shall we send copper and
other minerals to Russia as we did
during the Finnish war? Congress
haggled and dallied while Finland was
being destroyed. Shall we continue this
inept policy while our friends are being
beaten to their knees? Shall we. for
the sake of money, continue to helm
Japan while she murders Chinese men,
women and children, ravages their land
and cuts at the very heart of their
spiritual life by thrusting opium upon
their youth?
If we should help the allies now bv
our economic means the act might save
our sons from eventually having to fight
Hitler and his combination.
Have you, gentlemen of the isolationist
faith, thought over what might happen
to us If France and England should be
beaten by an unholy alliance? Is there
one of you who would wish Hitler, Stain
and their comrades to rule the seas?
Even Col. Lindbergh would scarcely look
with equanimity on such an eventuality,
If the allies should lose, what then?
We may not fight. Our fearful Con-
gressmen may not have to fortify Guam,
but will not our commerce have metes
and bounds imposed by the con-
querors!
Perhaps we could refrain from en-
tangling alliance and dream that we
might be the conservators of civilization.
We with our queer mixture of youth and