Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-12
Hitler Called
Real Enemy
Of America
Pegler Says Germans
Are Like Reds
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
MOST of us have been so
NI busily and angrily involved
in other interests. some OF them
quite personal and petty, that
the simple truth about this war
seems TO have gone into eclipse
The simple truth is that the
master of the warllke German
people decreed it, began 1t with
out the slightest moral or mill
tary provocation, inflicted 1t on
unoffendlng and defenseless peo-
pies and proclaimed in one reck-
less utterance that there was not
room in this world for Hitlerism
and Americanism.
Hitler strikes so fast and so
often and with such appalling
brutality that we are usually I'M
able TO recall the past in the
contemplation of his latest as
Sallt.
lie captured Austria without a
struggle and received Czechoslo-
vakia aS a bride 10 spare the
world this war. But he broke the
promise and then made a con-
tracy with Josef Stain
whereby he was allowed 10
smash Poland and Stain re-
cclvcd certain cushion states.
lie had a treaty Of friendship
with Poland and Poland re-
manned officially al peace with
Germany until Poland simply
was no more. Hitler struck
Poland without declaring war.
Hitler had made a great out
cry against JewiShness and
against bolShcviSm, but none OF
the nations which he had struck
was Jewish and his strongest
ally az the start and the one
which gave him the signal TO 60
ahead vas Soviet Russia.
WE SEEM 10 forget the details
w Of Hitler's war which should
he kept IN mind. lest we fall into
terrible error OF trusting him.
The NorwegianS had entertained
many Germans Hospitality as
friends for years and had saved
some Of them from the diseases
of malnurition when they were
hungry children after the first
World War.
These Germans had more or
less grown up in Norwegian
homes and were regarded almost
as sons of the Norwegian fami-
lies which had succored them.
But Hitler sent them back as
soldiers disguised in civilian
clothes and sent other troops
across concealed in the holds OF
cargo ships and suddenly struck
this trusting friend the most
dcspicahlc blow Of all. II is hard
10 believe now that this could
have happened, but we know 1t
did.
Holland and Belgium were
next. both attacked treacher-
ouSly by night and with no pre-
tense of that honor which Hitler
is always preaching 10 the Ger
man people. Two more friendly
-na4iafa-- fell tn the war on Jew
ishneSs and bolshevism. although
JowiShneSS was negligible IN
both and Communist Russia was
still Hitler's ally.
THESE more spectacular hor-
Il rors impressed us more than
Tlitler'S later assaults on Yugo-
slavia and Greece and. finally.
his turn against Russia because.
up to then. the mind Of civilized
men did not believe such things
could happen.
Thereafter instead OF bearing
in mind that n such man and
such a nation anything can be
expected and the worst cannot
even be imagined. we seem TO
have become dazed.
Even though German spies
have been caught in activities
which may eventually cost the
lives Of thousands of our people
we regard their treacheries as
casual mlSdcmeanor and their
trials as police court routine.
Hitler would torture and execute
spies caught in similar activities
against him, but Americans
aren't even interested, much less
aroused.
Hitler armed for this war as
no nation on earth except, per-
hapS. his ally, Russia, ever was
armed before. War was his ann
hilton from the beginning and
CZechOSlOvakia was thrown to
the wolves only because the
British were caught unarmed
and unready.
Yet Hitler called the British
warmongerS and many of us,
after persistent repetition, be-
gan TO believe they were.
We have even denounced as
warmongers men in our own
country who took alarm and
belatedly began 10 arm the ma
ton. His words drug some who,
nevertheless. hold themselves TO
be wise and practical patriots.
THERE is no mystery about
Il the identity of the enemy.
There is no doubt of his inten-
ton TO reduce this country 10
the position of a second-rate
partner, like France, in a Boil
Shcvik world there being no
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