Evening star., 1941-10-21
U.S.Must0utproduce U. 5.
Nazis' European
Slaves, Warns Hill
Senator, in Forum ToIk,
Claims Copitol and
Labor Logs ot Task

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"The Defense of Our Country"
was the topic of the Radio Forum
address last night of United States
Senator Hill. Democrat, of Alabama,
a member of the Military Affairs
Committee. The Forum, arranged
by The Star and heard over Ma
tional Broadcasting Co. network
was heard locally over Station
WMAL. ,,
The text of Senator Hills address
follows:
The nations of Europe are slave
states today because the leaders ana
the people refused TO lace the
reality of their peril. If they had
ioined together and pltted ther
united strength against Germany
thev would be free men today. IN
stead of slaves. But they stood
enart deluded by wishful thinking
and Hitler took them, one by one
Now they are become as driven
cattle toiling under the whip OF
their German masters. They nave
within themselves no more power
IN throw off their chains than yoKeo
oxen to shake off their yokes.
II seems incredible that gang
of bloody murderers could nave
seized the power Of nation ana
all the inventions and discoveries Oh
science and turned them upon the
world 1t seems incredible that any
nation would willingly set out upon
a. career of destruction, plilage ana
enSlavement. The German people
could not have done it if they had
not been obsesSed with the deluSlon
that they were a race Of Supermen.
Their leaders told them they were
q race superior TO all others and
thev believed it and acted upon II,
and have murdered and enslaVed
millions Of men and women as II
thev we're inferior beings of no
account.
War of Continents.
The forces which have gathered
around Hitler and found expression
in Hitler have grown from puff OF
wind into vast WhirlWlnd OF de-
struction. The war has become a
war of continents. 1t cannot END
until the world is Hitlers or Hitler
is overthrown. 1t is stupid beyond
all expression for us in America TO
think we can escape a conflict with
Hitler. Other nations thought the
same thing and today they toll in
BONDAGE.
If Hitler cOnQuerS Europe, II ever
he stands the supreme and untram-
meIed master of that continent,
and England lies broken at his feet,
he will turn upon America. The
greatest plunGerer Of the ages Will
then attempt to plunder the richest
country the world has seen. Our
wealth, our factories, our food and
our way of life will be to him ?
challenge and an affront. The world
will be too small to hold victorious
Germany and a free America.
The vast machine which Hitler
has constructed must run upon the
bodies of free men. He could not
stop it if he would 1t is built not
to produce but to destroy. 1t must
move forward to enslave producers
because j. is barren end cannot
produce. If it stops, it will shake
itself to pieces. The men VINO ere
ated that machine must grind others
with it or themselves become its
victims.
That machine cannot be stopped
by human bodies 1t is vulnerable
only to other machines. The Poles
and the Yugo- Slavs; the Greeks and
the Serbs, have shown us that stout
hearts without the modern imple-
ments of war cannot stop the mon
ster which clankS its destructive
way over Europe.
Spies Do Advance Work.
The mechanical moster has its
who prepare the way for
it. Lying prODagandiStS, SaboteurS
and spies precede its approach.
They are already in our midst.
They are working and burrowing in
all the countries Of South America.
The method they use is old 1t
was employed by Julius. Caesar
nearly two thousand years ago. 1t
has been used by many cOnquerors.
1t is simple: Divide and conquer"
is the rule they follow today, and
they have been clever at their task.
The plodding German mind has
measured our strength and our
weakness. They apply thmselves to
the weakness in our armor. They
know that a nation divided against
itself cannot stand.
The division in America is in large
part the result of German penetra-
ton. 1t is easy to see that now they
stir up racial hatreds in the United
States. They foster strife between
capital and labor. They play upon
the hearts of the weak sentimental
lists. They encourage the delusions
of the isolationists. They would
make of America a nation of warning
creedS and factions. They would re-
produce in America the conditions
which devitalized France and made
her an easy prey.
And we in America have played