Evening star., 1941-06-30
The Attack on the Soviet Union Shows
The Bankruptcy Of the Dictotors' Slogans

from non-aggression pacts, which
boil down to the promise not to
do anything until after you are
attacked.
Well 60 along with you on that
slogan. So will the Poles and
the Czechs and the French-if
their government would let
them-the Scandinavians, the
Americans, the Balkan peoples.
The Nazi Slogans.
And the Nazi slogans:
Cd I'VE fight for Socialism
against the decadent plutode-
mocracieS."
So. And the Soviet Union Is
plutodemocracy?
90 1--WE fight for the master
race of the Nordics."
So. And Churchill and Roose-
welt and the Anglo-Saxon peoples
are not Nordics and the Japa-
nese are?
t3) I'VE fight crusade against
BolSheviSm."
That, after all, was your first
slogan. And now you appeal to
Italy, France, Scandinavia, Hol-
land and Spain to join the great
crusade against Bolshevism.
But what is Bolshevism, Herr
Hitler?
A crusade against Bolshevism
would be crusade against athe-
istic paganism, against the ex-
preparation of all private prop
erty and all civil rights, against
the destruction of free criticism
and free education, against
totalitarian science and indoctri-
mated university classes, against
the Ogpu and the star chamber
court and enforced exile and
concentration camps.
Do you ask lis to believe that
you are conducting a crusade
against these things? Are you
the defender of private prop
erty. of equality before the law,
of habeas corpus, of free edu-
cation and science? Do you
think the Gestapo represents a
different idea from the Ogpu?
Bolshvism Plus.
You have taken all the de-
structive elements of Bolshevism
and added to them the one thing
the Bolshevists never had: The
idea of worldwide conquest in
the interests of a race of super
men, namely, your Germans. You
have put your noblest religious
spirits into prison, have stolen
private property wherever it
suited you, and bribed it where
that suited you better. Not even
the shred of a concept of service
to humanity is in your Bolshe-
vism, Herr Hitler.
Herr Hitler, you are running
around in the greatest circles
ever described on this planet.
But you are running around In
circles. Your new order has no
physiognomy at all. 1t is a para
noiac dream.
The wave of the future"
seems to be a whirlpool. and the
two futurist powers are riding
1t in different directions.
Inevitable Victory.
But there is a current, Herr
Hitler. A current In the stream
Of political consciousness and
historic development. That cur
rent carries to inevitable victory
those nations of men who believe
that out of the great traditions
of political freedom, cherishing
all in the past that is worthy to
be preserved, we shall move
toward a future of reason, real
ism and collaboration, between
persons and between nations, in
the interests of humanity.
Country, freedom, honor, COM
monwealth. The disciplining of
the. machine, the liberation of
the'man. That Is our new order.
And the healing of the nations
will come from those, who de-
spising slogans, have sought to
hold fast to truths, and to trans
late them, by evolutionary proc
esses, into new social and eco
nomic realities.
Bolshevism-the reactionism of
destruction-will be dissolved,
and can be dissolved, only by
those who have rock-founded in
stitutions of liberty and CO.
operation. They, and they alone,
steer their ships of state on the
strong current of the will of all
peoples, everywhere on this suf-
fering globe, for country, free
dom, honor and collaboration.
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