Evening star., 1941-04-23
Wants Nuzi Defeat
And World Union
Writer Says IsoIotionists
Are Portly to Blame
For Prevailing Struggle
To the Editor of The Star:

To rne Editor of The Star:
Next to Germany there is no country
on earth which has had so much in
fluence in bringing on the present war
as the United States has had
believe and have steadfastly believed
for 81 years that American rejection of
the League of Nations set the world awry.
Hugh Wilson may bring all the reasons
he pleases to the contrary, but I con-
Sistently believe that if we had joined
wholeheartedly with the rest of the
world in the Parliament at Geneva we
might have avoided the tragedy of today.
When economic sanctions were invoked
against Italy she could buy from the
United States without let or hindrance.
When Hitler began rearming we helped
him. My own State has done its full
share in supplying Japan with means by
which she has murdered Chinese women
and children.
Now that we all face this monstrous
thing that bestrides the world we should
meet the situation with courage. We
should do away with the Neutrality Act
No one with clear mind can continue
to talk of negotiated peace. Let us
put that aside. Not even Senator
Wheeler or Col. Lindbergh could expect
peace now unless the whole world should
put its neck under Hitlers feet.
Congress has voted money freely. Is
there nothing it can do about the stream
of propaganda that is flooding the coun-
try? 1 am sure that much OF it is di-
rected from New York. l get quantities
of it, all representing the Germans as
being innocent, almost to the point of
saintliness. The Short-Wave radio broad
casts from Germany bring me English
and American voices whose words are
calculated to poison the springs OF our
mentality, and there are many among
us who carry forward the gospel OF hate,
especially against England.
One editor in Florida proclaims his
admiration for Hitler. Another in New
York agrees with Col. Lindbergh that
it makes no difference who wins in
the war. He does not really believe this,
nor does Col Lindbergh, unless they
know little history and less OF the pSy-
chology of nations Senator Carter Glass
is everlastingly right when he suggests
that we ought to use our Navy to blast
Hitler off the face Of the earth. Anyway,
something will have to be done with our
Navy before 1896 There was a President
within my memory who would face the
isolationists with the courage of a lion.
Angry men might threaten impeach-
ment but Theodore Roosevelt would not
be afraid.
Some clergymen and certain mothers
are so welded 10 paClflSm that they
believe We should never fight whatever
happens. I am the widow of one min
lister and the mother of another, yet say
that there is no way to stop Hitler except
by force and more force. I would rather
see nv children die fighting like the
Greeks than to have hopeless future
ahead of them such as the unhappy
Poles.
There is a great outcry among the
admirers Of Hitler that the majority
of Americans are victims Of English
propaganda. But the most damning
evidence against Hitler has come from
his own acts, his lies, his destruction Of
Christianitys highest ideals.
If you want to know him as he is,
consult Germans who have been driven
out of their country.
If you think that Hitler does not in
tend to dominate the world, go back to
an earlier time and study what other
Germans planned. The Kaiser had
dreams of a world dominated by Ger
man Kultur. 1t remained for the mill
tarists of Prussia to work out a scheme
for the material conquest of the planet.
In 1911 The Next War;" by a PrusSian
general gave a detailed outline of the
continuing conquest begun by Bismarck.
One chapter in the book was devoted to
France. Therein the author said that
France must be crushed forever, so
crushed that never again can she cross
the path of Germany.
Senator Wheeler talks Of the betrayal
of the American people who are being
led into war He says nothing of Hit
ler's crucifxion of truth and honor.
am sure that many Congressman
look on the whole tragic drama, not
simply with the selfish view of saving
our material selves, but with the right
eous indignation of the Man who drove
the unrighteouS from the temple.
This war is like no other in modern
times There has been no other struggle
so decisive since Charles Martel turned
back the Saracens at Tours. We will
have to fight if England falls. Hitler
will see to that.
Shall we not use our ships before it
is too late? And when at last the
tyrants are overthrown, shall We not
join with free nations in a union wherein
the lofty ideals of Woodrow Wilson may
again have a chance to burgeon forth?
A union in which righteousness shall
be the bedrock, but one which will be
fortified by a central police force ready
to give strength to the federation of the
world.
BY no other means can the future
peace of the nations be assured. 1t is
either that or return to chaos.
MRS. META FOLGER TOWNSEND.
Lenoir, N. C.