Detroit evening times., 1941-12-15
Destruction
Of Nazis Only
Goal Possible
Otherwise They VIII Wa
Again, johnson Says
BY HUGH =. JOHNSON

hNiILtk - aftion II tne most
Il fateful news in years. II
was inevitable. Up in that Teu-
tonic corner Of Europe has lived.
n fighting race that has been
permanently licked ny nobody
since the first word of recorded
history.
Augustus, the greatest Of the
Caesars, sent Narus mp there Ia
do II, and All he g0t ON or III
was the worst trimming ever
handed Roman general. and a
hairSbreadth escape from de-
Struction Of the empire. That
ended the Roman attempt at
subjugatiOn.
"Charlemagne tried il and
decimated those early HeinieS.
They were on his back almost
before he rouid turn around.
Frederick the Great lost for
them all save honor only TO
come hack as the most threaten
ing military force in Europe.
Napoleon trounced them bril-
-iiantty, and himself invented
limitation Of armamentS To keep
them down.
But out of Prussia came the
idea Of the nation in arms. or
universal conscription--a direct
product of Napoleon's own limi-
tations on German arms.
1T drove Bonsparte Ia Elba
and st. Helena. SIXTY years later
II almost destroyed France. \
century later II endangered the
whole world.
- AN not approving H. am
only stating n record Of
1000 years of experience. We
ourselves helped To prove in
blood and treasure that there
are no supermen - German or
otherwise - hut that did not
h change one Of the facts In his
torN-that the Germans are a
fighting people and that nothing
will remove their threat Of force
save threat Of greater force.
"JuSt two things have kept
the peace of Europe In the past
few yearS--one was the British
fleet and the other potential
100 French divisions fully
equipped
To-day ! think the French
army. with its allies. could
march from one end of Europe
to the other.-but not after the
Germans rearm with modern
equipment.
Fully equipped. they would
he n military nation far superior
to the French and. on the slight
est proNocation, or no proVoca-
tion at all, could bring down on
the world new 1914 or worse.
~ WIS mad move Of Hiiler's
starts catastrophe on its
way. From his harbarouS perSe-
.cutiOn Of the Jews and his muir
der Of his political opponents.
the world knows that he stops
at no ethics, mercy or hui
manity, and he certainly would
not he stopped at political
boundary ny 40 slight thing
as the peace Of the world Co.,. !"
The above vas taken from the
first column ever wrote It
was written on March Is. 1888
] have caused ~ 20 be rcCarried
IN my column AZ the request Of
hundreds Of my lon g-time
readers.
II IL not in any sense a matter
Of Il told YOU 50
! do want 10 stress the
fact aS have stressed II for
ycarS that Eitlcr's Germany,
armed 70 the teeth. is ruth
less machine for destruction
that can only be stopped by de-
stroying It.
THIS can only be done hy a
Iliplt VII lslPDl, more DOW pf-
fsl machine We have the po-
tential power, brains and nerve
10 do II and We can do II. But
we must not make the tragic
mistake Of Understanding our
enemy.
Everything 7 have recently
said about the difficulties of this
job goes double with those little
ones of Nippon on our
backs.
The kind Of courage that our
marines are showing in their
magnificent defense Of Wake
Island, our army in the Philip
pines, and our navy everywhere.
must he demonstrated hv every
one Of us II We are 10 WIN.
Sacrifices will he required
which Will try mems souls.
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