Evening star., 1941-12-16

to power in Germany a political
clique which did not accept the
declarations of the American bill
of human rights as valid-a small
clique of ambitious and unscrupu-
lous politicians whose announced
and admitted platform was precisely
the destruction of the rights that
instrument declared. Indeed, the
entire program and goal of these
political and moral tigers was
nothing more than the overthrow
throughout the earth of the great
revolution of human liberty OF
which our American Bill Of Rights
is the mother charter.
The truths which were self
evident to Thomas Jefferson-Whlch
have been self-evident to the SIX
generations of Americans who fol-
lowed-were to these men hateful.
The rights to life. liberty and the
pursuit of happiness which seemed
to Jefferson, and which seem TO us,
inalienable, were, to Hitler and MS
fellows, empty words which they
proposed to cancel forever.
The propositions they advanced to
take the place of Jefferson's inahen-
able rights were these:
That the individual human being
has no rights whatever In hlmseu
and by virtue of his humanity;
That the individual human being
has no right to soul of his own,
or a mind of his own, or tongue OF
his own, or a trade Of his own, or
even to live where he pleases or to
marry the woman he loves;
That his only duty Is the duty OF
obedience, not to his God and not to
his conscience, but to Adolf Hitler,
and that his only value is his value,
not as a man, but as unit OF the
Nazi state.
Man a Dust Particle.
To Hitler the ideal OF the people,
as we conceive 1.-THE free, self
governing and responsible people
is incomprehensible. The people, to
Hitler, are 1.-The masses" and the
highest human idealism Is, in his
own words, that man should wish
to become "a dust particle" OF the
order "of force" which is to shape
the universe.
To Hitler, the government. as we
conceive it. Is an impossible con-
ception. The government to him Is
not the servant and the instrument
OF the people, but their absolute
master and the dictator OF their
every act.
To Hitler, the church, as we con-
ceive 1t, is a monstrosity to be de-
stroyed by every means at his COM
mand. The NaN church is to be the
national church." absolutely and
exclusively in the service OF but one
doctrine, race and nation"
To Hitler, the freedom Of men to
think as they please and SPEAK as
they please and worship as they
please is, of all things imaginable
most hateful and most desperately
to be feared
The issue of our time. the issue o1
the war in which We are engaged. is
the issue forced upon the decent
self-respecting peoples of the earth
by the aggressive dogmaS Of this at
tempted revival of barbarism; thi:
proposed return to tyranny; this ef-
for. to impose again upon the peo-
piles of the world doctrines Of abso-
lutte obedience, and Of dictatoria
rule. and Of the suppression OF truth
and of the oppression Of conscience
which the free nations of the earth
have long ago rejected.
Taken Up Arms for Liberty.
What We face is nothing more MOI
less than an attempt to overthrow
and to cancel out the great upsurgt
of human liberty of which the Amer
lean Bill of Rights is the fundamen.
tai document, to force the peoples
of the earth and among them thu
peoples of this continent. to accep
again the absolute authority ane
despotic rule from which the courag'