Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-22
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I AM a man of peace. Therefore, l want to
see the world at peace, in harmony with
the teachings of the Almighty. For those
reasons, / want to see the world rid OF all the
Hitlers, Mrssonis, Stains and the retrogres-
sive PHILOSOPHERS they represent. So long as
they exist, 1.-The world will never know peace.
No genuine American intelligently'
study Hiter's 'Mein Kampf," the writings of
Lenin and Stain or the histories of nazsm,
fascism and communism, without arriving at
the positive conclusion that planet could
afford peaceful sanctuary to any free born
peoples, or those who crave freedom. so long
as any of those beliefs are IN power or ascen-
+ dency.
Hitler and his cohorts know full well that
their philosophy of government by a dicta-
torial,- central force, making citizens mere
pawns and vassals of the state, cannot survive
in peace while there exists in the world any,
where nation of free people under demo-
cratic government of, by and for those people.
Hitler candidly admitted this to be the
fact in his "Mein Kampf.'
He offered only slight breathing spells
after the subjugation of each nation to give
his blind followers time to recuperate from
their last campaign and to rearm.
He knows that these breathing spells must
not be too long; that the misguided fanatics
under his leadership must not be given time
to think, or to analyze the state of affairs and
living conditions in any of the remaining I'M
conquered democracies. For if they should
happen to penetrate the maze of controlled
Nazi propaganda under which their dormant
=intellects are smothered-if they should learn
the truth, they would certainly give vent to
the intelligence they claim and have shown at
times.
They would depose this mad man and his
satellites and put them in the concentration
camps where they have entombed all the free
thinking, sane people of God.
So we must do all possible to stop them
before they have conquered the rest of the
world and are ready to finally overthrow de-
mocracy's last stronghold-the United States.
True, we did fight the last war to save
democracy, apparently to no avail. But our
failure was not in that original goal, or its
apparently futile success, but in our relaxed
vigilance since. In the weakness and indeci-
sion of demeeracy's citizens and their states
men; in their fear Of the horrors of another
war, they permitted the new threat of totali-
tarianism-far worse than that of the former
monarchial autocracies-to become gradually
entrenched and powerful in Russia, Italy and
Germany.
They feared to stop Mussolini's sacking of
East Africa, Hitler in the Ruhr, in Austria, in
Czecho-Slovakia. They were too late and un-
able to stop them since.
We must protect ourselves now, no matter
how disagreeablE the thought of participation
in another bloody and costly var. We are the
next on the list of Hitlers victims.
Well England's are our brothers,
despite the repeated narrow reminders by
n1I,, H.. ttxat
$50 years ago
In their fight for their homes, they are
imposing our last effective bulwark of defense
And, like many \other Americans, have long
hoped for a united commonwealth of English
speaking peoples OK the world Now is good
time to effect such aAunion on truly democratic
lines.
They don't want dur men over there now
and have little room Ito use them if we sent
them. But they do heed all the war equip
ment possible, which lonly we are able to pro-
vide fast eEough.- If we do this job expedi-
tiously and sensibly--nane> of our boys will be
needed for actual fghtingNbut if we don't
then not only every fourth American boy
but perhaps every other one will be plowed
under" in battlefelds right here in America
Finally, this is wartime for us. We'd be
fighting now if it were not for England. There
FORE relative to those fears of some of our
good citizens that this wartime lend-lease bill
now before the House weakens our democracy
by giving too much power to the President
be thankful, my friends and fellow citizens
that this American system. though not yet
genuine democracy has sufficient democratic
aspects that the President cannot usurp the
powers requested He must first humby Gas
our servant) ask for them through the chan
nels we provide for that purpose. And be
thankful, too, that we can put an end to any
such granted powers at any time. 4
q. .asss,-as1 HARRY A. BELL,
297O West Grand boulevard