Evening star., 1941-09-30

territorial arrangements between
Germany and Poland. Still enter
tanning that hope. the provisions of
the Embargo Repeal Act, which
limited our shipping and established
combat zones and prohibited the
arming of merchant vessels, were
adopted.
However, when Denmark was
crushed-when Holland, peaceably
sailing upon its canals, was brutally
bludgeoned-when Belgium, daring
10 stand upon its own soil. unoffend-
ing and neutral, was attacked by all
the cruel weapons of might and
murder-When Norway. living amidst
its mountains and fjordS, believing
that it was distant from the bloody
arena of war, was aSSailed from the
sea and upon the land and from the
air by millions of missiles of death,
the world began to see, and the
United States began to realize that
HitlerS war was not to be a localized
War-that 1t was not to be war
to secure the rights of the NaZiS to
Danzig or to a crossing of the Corri-
dor. We began to see that 1t was
a war to destroy the rights Of all
other nations, wherever their bound
aries might reach. however peaceful
their conduct, however innocent
their lives, however guileless their
behavior. We began to see that the
Hitler ambition, that the NaZi terror
paused at no boundary, hesitated at
no sea, halted before no mountain
range. but. with an ambition greater
than Lucifers. with a savage lust
for power, surprising that of Chen
gis Khan, with bestial appetite for
loot and plunder and mastery, su-
perior to that of Attila, the Hun,
hurled their swarming armies upon
their nelghboring nations in cam
paign of world conquest and world
dominion. If the classic examples
of Poland. Denmark. Holland, Bel
gium, Norway, Yugoslavia, Greece
and other nations are not convinc-
ing, the astounding case Of Russia
removes all doubt. Russia, a sup
posed sympathiZer, though not a
participant in the war, without pre-
text and without warning, was bar
barously and suddenly attacked by
all of the might and terror of the
NaZi armies. Russia, living upon
her own soil, having no part in the
war, guilty Of no aggression against
Hitler. was made the victim of un-
expected and murderous assault.
Spies Offer Evidence.
That same ruthless and relentless
spirit; that same overmastering am
bition, that same cruel and barbar-
Gus purpose, animate the fleets of
submarines and of surface raiders
that Hitler has sent out upon the
seas that belong, not to him. but
belong to all the nations of the
earth, to master them, to drive from
them the ships of all nations that
do not fly the Nazi flag, to murder
the citizens of all other nations that
do not accept his rule and that do
not bow the knee to his monarchy
of military might.
But there are those who say that
Hitler has no designs to attack or
to conquer the United States or the
nations of Central and South Amer
lea. To these credulous minds. I
would point to the trials in the
courts of the United States in New
York. of a horde of Nazi spies. If
Hitler has no designs upon the
United States; if he broods no in
jury to our people; if he contem-
plates no hostile action against us,
why does he fill our land with spies
to practice their espionage and
sabotage and to poison the minds
of those of our citizens who may be
unsuspecting and credulous. I point
to Nazi infiltration into the coun-
tries of South America. The press
has lately informed the world of the
discovery of Nazi intrigue and Nazi
conspiracy against number of the
republics OF the Western Hemi-
sphere. These republics, vigilant
and jealous Of their sovereignty,
have discovered these plots and
these nests of treason and have
taken steps to extirpate them. If
Hitler has no designs upon the soy
ereignty, upon the security and
upon the territory and institutions
of Latin America. why does he set
up foci of infection to spread his
poisonous doctrines throughout the
constitutional systems and the life
of our Latin American friends and
neighbors?
All of these revelations, this un-