The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-07-11
BY
Hazel Brannon

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The world stands still in amaze,
horro at what Adolph Hitler has done
Terror strikes every heart in gazinI
on the havoc he has wrought.
Hitter is a mad man, the masse
scream, who will not rest until h
has attacked every Democratic coun
try and killed Democracy establishin,
in its place his own conception o
totalitarian government.
As a matter of fact Hitler is onl,
doirg what every other leader of &
nation has done when he needed NOR,
territory. He has gone after 1t fight
ing.
The records show he has been one
hundred percent successful so far.
The small countries in Europe who
succumbed TO Adolph Hitler's armed
bandits were not fighting because they
hated the totalitarian state which they
knew Adolph Hitler would set up tc
govern them. They were fighting fol-
their own Independence. Regardless OF
what form Of government Hitler would
have set up over them they would
have opposed him because they didn't
want him or any nation to rule them.
They would have fought England or
the United States Just as quickly.
Probably more successfully.
Hitler needs territory for his peo-
pie and he is going to get 1t regard
less of how much blood has to be
shed, The question co~ncerningg Amer
lea mostly is the extent Of his ter
ritorial ambitions, whether or not they
extend to our hemisphere.
w the United States needed
more land for expansion in 1916 we
set forth to conquer Mexico, territory
to the south Of us. We were a Demo-
cracy and Mexico was ruled by a die
tatorship but did Mexico consider her
self delivered into the arms of al
savior? Indeed she did not but fought
AIS tooth and toe tail because she
didn't want to be conquered by any
one, The same as England, France
and the small countries OF Europe
don't want to be conquered.
But we paid scant attention to the
desires Of Mexico and winning the
war we tore off the northern half of
the country which now makes our
states OF California, Nevada, Arizona,
New Mexico, Utah and most of which
Is now Colorado.
]. Some haul, wasn't It?
There Is nothing 50 far TO indicate
that Hitler is coming straight across
the Atlantic to jump on us as quick
as he finishes in England. Rather his
natural expansion is to the south IN
Africa.
81 course we may have to fight
Hitler some time. But it looks like
the fight we are going to have with
him soon Is on economic questions,
not invasion. And the army we are now
building up should and probably will
be used to make him listen respect
fully to anything we might have to say
about economics and that great stretch
OF land south of our border. Down
South American way.
Today when England is the only
country in Europe effecting any SEM
blance of a Democracy the question
uppermost in every thinking persons
mind is the future of Democracy.
Our conception OF a Democraticl
government is a government of the
people by the people with the implica-
ton of freedom and equal rights and
privileges for all.
This country, believing in Demo-
cracy, fought one war so that not
just II nation, but all nations, could
have the privilege Of living under its
banner.
Today a number of our people are
honestly wondering whether Demo-
cracy is worth saving again.
The answer to that question, we
believe, is to be found in the hearts
and minds of the people over the
world, 1t is an individual problem to
every country inc as such should be
treated.
Ia "oiNh SdNlflS III We
it implanted in our systems so
that we will stand no other
form of government, if we love our
enough to die If necessary to
preserve it just as our forebears pur-
chased it with their lives.
Democracy thus is worth saving iii
we are worth saving ourselves. If not
both will die.
BY the same token the people of
France and England, Holland and
Belgium, and every country who has
felt the heel of Hitler, will have to de-
eide for themselves whether they will
have Democracy or not. If they care
enough there is nothing Hitler can
do to them that will stamp their love
of freedom our. They will fight for
it forever.
No condition Hitler can impose ON
the conquered countries can be harder
the conditions mposed by the