Evening star., 1940-06-21
Reader Discusses Editorial
On Hitler's Background.
To the Editor Of The Star

MI OASh8 Ouuus
To the Editor of The Star:
read your editorial entitled Hitler
No Accident?" The tenor of your argu-
ment is that of one who still has his
eyes upon the past. 1t matters not how
or what produced Hitler, but that the
world has come to know him.
Stud the name Hitler with diamonds
and it could not and would not glitter
more. History will accord him his glory.
I am puzzled at the Incorporate way
that our press, writer's and public off,
cials have constantly nagged at Germany
and her leaders. Is it loose thinking or is
it that they don't want to face the truth?
There is no doubt about it, the old
English and French order has the death
rattles now. And new and better world
order is dawning. A good and indus
trious people are about to burst into the
sunlight of better living. Why should we
fear them? Nobody does but the cow
ardly at heart.
June 10. MRS. M. E. HOLLEY,
ouSSCSlS HICslucHI NOOSctelt
Act for Union Now"
To the Editor Of The Star:
Civilization is on its way out of the
world. If we want to keep it with us, we
must take heed of the best advice have
read in long time. 1t is contained in
Clarence K. Streit's book, Union Now"
If we would have peace, jobs, low taxes
and confidence that these benefits will
continue In the future, there is but one
course open to us. It is, as Mr.. STREET
points out, the course which was taken
by the 13 colonies in 1787-"Union Now"
The union which he advocates includes
Is North Atlantic democracies, enumer-
ated In the book. BY provision in the
constitution which 1t would adopt, this
union would form the nucleus of world
union, the remaining nations to be ad-
mitted upon their guaranteeing to their
peoples such basic rights as free speech,
press, assembly and others as set forth
in our Bill Of Rights. Within its ever
widening borders the union would estab-
hsh free trade, q union defense force, a
union money, union postal and COM
munications system, and a union citizen
ship. The member nations would sur
render their national sovereignties and
become autonomous states in the same
sense as are the States Of this country
To support adoption of his ideas, Mr.
Streit has many powerful arguments,
among them the growing interdepen-
dence of nations, their ever-mounting
expenditures for national Defense the
instability of foreign exchange, tariff
barriers to trade. To me, the most
Weighty argument in favor of his pro-
gram is this: I'm all that half the earth
which the Is (democracies) govern what
acre causes dangerous dispute among
them? No two of the Is have fought
each other since the Belgian-Dutch war
of 1880. There is no parallel In all poll
tics to this remarkable and unremarked
achievement of democracy in maintain
ing peace SO long among so many pow
erful, independent and often rival peo-
Piles :" Can we deny the need for
unifying and strengthening such force
for world peace? Would not the exis-
tence of an overwhelmingly powerful
peaceful state in the world ready at all
times to disarm the aggressor as no
league ever could, make possible the
realization of world peace and disarma-
ment eventually?
England has been pressed by the force
of events into suggesting similar plan
to include two nations, France and Great
Britain. From England that suggestion
may have come too late. However,
whether the French do or do not ac-
cept it, believe that the time is ripe
for an invitation to 60 out from our
President to those is democracies, free
and conquered alike, to form union,
Is described in Mr.. Streit's book. Not
only would this union be certain ulti-
mately to stop Hitler, because Of its tre-
mendously greater material resources
necessary for war, but it would encour-
age the peoples now suffering Hitler's
domination to organize more vigorous
underground activity because of the
promise the future would hold out to
them sans Hitler.
MRS. GERTRUDE GEBEL.
June 10.