Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-30

Detroit tmes.)
WE ARE beginning TO see con-
w certed move. backed by
great deal Of money. supported by
one section of the press and one
section Of Congress and assisted
by a high-pressure advertising
campaign. 10 change the foreign
policy of the United States, stop
aid to Britain. and collaborate for
a Hitler peace"
The hating of supplies TO
Britain will be called protecting
America first and keeping us out
of war. and the Hitler victory
will be sponsored in the holy name
of peace.
The movement, already well I'M
der way, is 100 per cent Ameri-
can" and il follows to a - the
line being promoted by the Nazi
propaganda, as can easily be
checked by comparing the propa-
canda of the movement with the
Short-wave broadcasting over the
last months from Berlin and by
observing how enthusiastically the
movement is backed by the out
and-out Nazi sheet and Bund or
gan. The Free American and
Deutscher Weckruf und Beobach-
ter published in New York.
This sheet. which started out as
a predor1inantly German-language
newspaper. is now predominantlyI
English language and is attempt
ing to appeal to an increased
circle of non-German readers.
THE movement is promoted by
i what is apparently an organ
izatien and publicity holding COM
pany consisting of the America
First Committee, the No Foreign
War Committee and Scribner's
Commentator. These organizations
work closely together.
The movement contains honest
pacifists, bitterly anti-British ele-
ments. wishful thinkers who ad-
vocate that a lust" peace can
be negotiated at this moment,
scared industrialists, who dislike
a greatly increased defense pro-
gram, because they fear it will
cut into business as usual; inter-
national businessmen. who are
convinced that America can make
a lucrative deal with a New Or
der in Europe created by Hitler.
The latter is Mr.. Lawrence
Dennis. a man for whose ruthless
and logical intellect this column
has infinite respect.
With no more at his command.
as war as l know, than a weekly
mimeographed sheet. THE Weekly
Foreign Letter" Mr.. Dennis
proves the permeating and pene-
trating power of such an intel
lect. Phrases that he coins one
week and arguments that he
advances turn up weeks later in
the most unexpected places.
IT Is. for instance, fascinating to
L observe that Mrs. Lindbergh's
phrase, The Wave of the Future"
and the whole argument which she
marshals to support her Faith
that communism, fascism and naZi-
ism are riding this wave and that
their brutalities are but scum
upon it, was first advanced by Mr..
Dennis in almost identical words
he called it foam" not scum
in a privately published book,
which, however, sums up much
that had appeared in his Weekly
Letter, and contains almost verb
ally parallel passages with Mrs.
Lindbcrgh's best seller.
1t was also he who first used the
Nazi parlance of the in" and
"out' ELITES" These 'elites" are
the dominant intellectuals. writers.
teachers. lawyers, college profess
sors. who are spokesman for
democracy, and who must be sup
planted by new "elites" who ex-
press the wave of the future"
In the parlance of Mr.. Dennis
conscious or unconscious followers.
these "elites" become 1.-THE articu-
late 10 per cent In the under
ground whispering campaign this
"articulate 10 per cent" become
DR.. Goebbels' old master minds"
who planned this war; And it
seems it was not Hitler, but the
Jews
MR.. DENNIS, being intellectu-
vi ally integrated, is openly for
appeasement with the NaZis and
even occasionally, in his letters,
calls spade spade.
He does not. of course. 60
further and say that Nazi VIC
tory in Europe is to be welcomed
because it will prepare the way for
a Modification of the United States.
On the contrary, he says that the
further growth of a war economy
here will bring about collectivism
and the ruin of free enterprise.
lie does not believe in free en-
terprise. as any one VINO has read
his narrowly circulated books
knows, but the wider readers of
his letters do believe in it. and
he is interested in pulling strings
for a purpose. He understands the