Evening star., 1940-10-18
The Nozi Plan
For America
Advocates Aid to Britain
To Ward OFF
Axis Threat
Bu PAYSON S. WILD, J.,

intention OF leaving this continent alone.
He has carefully planned schemes for
undermining this country and for de-
stroying our form of government and
our way OF life.
Who says SO? Fanatical friends of
Britain? Hysterical alarmists? Hitler
himself has said SO and his statements
have found an echo in Mussolinis
Fascist press. Not long ago DR.. Goebbels,
the voice of German public enlighten-
ment, stated complacently that Moth
ing viii be easier than to produce a
bloody revolution in North America.
No other country has so many social and
racial tensions. We shall be able to play
on many strings there
At the moment, the NaNs and their
allies are doing their best to lull us
into the belief that we are not included
in Hitlers list of proposed victims.
Alarmed by the prospect that America
really might send destroyers and most
effective aid to Great Britain, the axis
spokesmen hurry to assure us that if
we will only mind our own business on
this side of the Atlantic. the dictators
will not disturb us.
1t is good Nazi strategy to approach
us now with honeyed words. Our will
to assist the enemies Of Hitlerism and
to build up our own defenses swiftly
and effectively is to be weakened, ac-
cording to axis design, SO that when
our turn comes We will be easy prey.
Even while they scurry to reassure
us and tell us that We are in no danger,
they cannot help gloating over our
predicament II the British lose In the
Italian press recently, for example, the
Fascist commentators told their readers
in gleeful fashion that America would
soon be isolated without a friend in
the world and that the decadent Amer
leans would be living in dread of
combined Japanese Russian German
Italian assault!
1t suits the immediate axis purpose
to tell us that they do not want to inter-
fere with us, but If Britain falls, the way
will be open for Hitler to begin in
earnest his job of "liberating" u.s. He
has announced in advance Just what he
planned to do in regard to Austria,
Czecho-Slovakia and the extension Of
Nazi power He has put himself on
record as desiring the extinction Of the
United States as a democracy. Will he
politely forget that desire, when and If
he sees the chance, just because now
he says he wouldn't dream Of touching
US? The happenings of recent years
would hardly support such a naive
thought. Col. Lindbergh, however, seems
to have fallen victim to this un-
fortunate notion.
That Nazi-ism can be made to "stay
put" to behave. to become respectable"
has been proved absurd by all the
broken promises of its leaders. The
movement is dynamic, it is expansionist,
and it cannot and will not stop until it
hits an obstacle stronger than itself
Hitler's technique has been that of
gambling on the slowness of his in
tended victims to see their danger in
time. He picks of his opponents, singly.
whenever he can and would like nothing
better than to keep us paralyzed.
through indifference and confusion,
while he polished of England
Thus he tries to beguile us with sooth-
ing words and at the same time
cynically work to take advantage Of our
internal divisions. BY playing upon
grievances and by appealing to race
prejudices he aims to foment diScord
among us. He knows that if he divides
us among ourselves. weakens our faith
in ourselves. he will never need to at
tack us externally by planes and fleets.
AS he says, "Our real wars will, in fact,
all be fought before military operations
begin"
Surely every newspaper reader in the
country knows that the Nazi bund is
operating, that German diplomatic
agents have been active in non-
diplomatic matters and that subversive
forces are at work to discredit democracy
and to stir up feeling against Jews,
Negroes and other groups. German and
Italian papers only boast of the sue
cess of Fascist propaganda in Latin
America The smooth voices of axis
radio speakers call to South Americans
to rise in revolt and to repudiate any
ties with this Nation.
While all this goes on, and while the
intentions Of Hitler to destroy democracy
here as we'll as in Europe are on the
record and have been unusually plain,
it seems incredible that any one should
put faith in the current Nazi announce
ments about leaving us unmolested
The whole strategy is so transparent,
so plain. They hope we will fall" for it
and so conveniently assist in our own
destruction.
The announced plans of the Nazis
themselves their own words, should
convince us that it is elementary COM
mon sense to support Britain and to
arm ourselves as speedily as we pos
sibly can The battle of Britain is the
battle of America, too. If we can help
win it, We can then turn to reconstruc-
ton. Helping Britain does not mean
support for an outworn status quo. 1t
means staving of the wrong kind Of
revolutionarieS so that evolution can
come In a decent wav