Evening star., 1941-07-09
Fear Of Consequences Of AII-Out Attack on
Britain Held HitIer's Motive for Soviet War

dropping parachutlsts behind
lines-and deploring the fact
that there is death penalty n
Russia for listening to foreign
broadcasts. This, according TO
the speaker, is a sign of weak
ness
Political Offensive Fails.
But the political offensive of
the Nazis is failing except as
few opponents of the President
back it up in this country.
The speeches of Churchill. the
Pope, Roosevelt, Willkie, Eden
and Bishop Joseph P. Hurley,
who vigorously derided the idea
of the holy crusade. indicate a
complete collapse of the Nazi
diplomatic offensive. The most
effective answer to the sudden
ridiculously hypocritical pro-
Christian campaign of the Nazis
is made by the Catholic bishops
of Greater Germany against Nazi
practices, including the confisca-
ton of cloisters. Significantly.
perhaps, the letter was issued
from Fulda "at the grave of st.
Boniface," a martyred English
missionary to the German bar
barianS in the 9th century!
And PadereWSki'S death In the
midst of the holy crusade" to-
gether with his deeply Christian
political testament. again called
the attention Of the world TO the
martyrdom of Poland.
But there is one thing very
significant about the speeches of
the President and of Mr. Eden.
They are specifically directed
against the Hitler regime, its
practices and purposes They
leave the possibility wide open
for peace with any responsible
elements in Germany except
those guilty of the reign of ter
ror that has engulfed the world.
Most Serious Setback.
The failure of the Nazi political
offensive against the west is Hit
ler's most serious setback in the
Russian campaign. The west,
Britain and America. must re-
double their own political and
diplomatic offensive with ardor.
and without moment of respite,
and direct it toward a confused
Germany and a confused Europe.
The defeatlsm toward demo-
cratic institutions should be
abandoned. They are the only
institutions holding fast today.
Output of everything for Britain
should be speeded up, and the
wait and see" attitude should
be stopped. The decision in this
war will be in the west, and the
west must move now.
For, politically and militarilv
speaking, this is our hour, and
We should take fullest advantage
of it. There is a great deal We
can say to the peoples of Russia
and for the first time they will
be allowed to listen. For the
first time they would welcome
journalists, technicians and in
dustrial organizers.
All Should Be Answered.
Every one of the German
short-wave broadcasts should be
answered to Germany and the
whole world, for they are full
of the most ridiculous holes.
Why haven't We got 500 900 900
at this moment for one of the
most effective instruments of
modern warfare - propaganda?
Why haven't We got a great bu-
reau of psychologists, translatcrs,
journalists and artists to fill the
air "a hours day with American
ideas of a good life and a decent
new order?
The political blitzkreig should
begin at once-while German
mothers are getting daily reports
of the deaths of their sons in this
latest of Hitlers paranoic moves.
There is political vacuum
into which to move.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc)
"A I. So