Evening star., 1941-02-23
Text of Vice President WoIIoce's Address
Price of Peace Is Based on Being More Willing
Than Nozis to Sacrifice, He Declares

our own United States. The Nazis,
wherever they dominate, mobilize
every industrial, agricultural and
labor resource for economic warfare
as a preliminary to military force. A
first step in Germany was to i'm
prison labor leaders and seize union
funds. This was done in one night
Thus 1t was that Hitler's Black
Shirts in II hours brought strength
through joy" to union labor. Drastic
laws prevented criticism by press
and church. Business was bribed
at this stage by large government
orders, big profits, and an active red
batting program. Then Hitler's
Goering took over the revising Of
German industry so as to make it a
well-Stocked economic fortress, in
dependent Of imports. Bank re-
serves were seized and both industry
and labor we're completely regiment
ed Every mark and every man
became the tool of conquest.
If the NaZis win the war all of
Europe and Africa will be co-ordi-
mated, and the Nazi Quislings in
South America will at once drive
for political power Nazi Germans
will endeavor, by sl,illfullv direct
ed trade, to determine the economic
structure of every country in the
world. Nazi nationals everywhere
will forbid small nations to develop
their free I.1duStry. Education Will
be denied, as in Poland, in order
that the master race may exploit
the ignorant.
The only hope of keeping even a
part of our pre-war markets for
wheat, cotton, tobacco, pork prod
ucts and other agricultural COM
moditieS is Hitlers defeat. Seven
million people are supported by our
foreign trade. That fact makes
complete trade isolatisn unthink-
able.
NaZi Triumph Would
RAISE New Political Party.
I have described to you The ef-
feet of Nazi economic attack on
our daily life The triumph of Nazi
ideas means the rise of a political
parry in the Un.te1 States with q
platform along thesc lines. First.
find a scapegoat on which to blame
our economic ills-Whatever group
in a community is weak can be
uSed-Jews. Negroes. Roman Cath
olic minoritieS, alien labor groups.
Share-cropperS, any local hate"
would be fostered to proclaim the
scapegoat. The nearby community
would catch this cOntagion, and re-
gional prejudices would coalesce to
support the new party. Then no
defense of the scapegoat would be
permitted, public opinion would
force newspapers and radio to tell
only one side of the story. Next
schools would be forced to dismiss
teachers who did not support in
their teaching the local hate. Next
books banned, then burned-then
lntiamed oratory and inevitably a
mob attack on the helpless minor
lty. This would become the wav of
lie IN your own community, your
children would become either the
young storm troopers of violence
rejoicing in punishment in the name
OF the new party-or the helpless
victims of it.
Economic misery due to pressures
without, violent dissension due to
'pressureS within, this is the prob
| able picture of life here in the
Middle West if Hitler wins the battle
OF Britain and pushes on success
fully against Canada, Australia and
Latin America.
Middle West Will Feel
Effects of Economic War.
Many OF us in this part of the
United States consciously or un.
consciously recognize that .We are
protected because of being midway
between the Atlantic and Pacific
Coasts. But, the Middle West will
feel the effects of economic war.
fare with the Nazis just as force.
fully as will other parts of the
country.
Remember what happened wher
our export markets collapsed ir
1880. Remember the price of corn
hogs, wheat. Remember the lane
without money for fertilizer, the
houses and barns without paint
the children home from school be.
cause they had no shoes, the fore.
P1nSI1rnc tho Ca1oS ~ FL, II;
cry, the last horses, the last COW.
led out to be sold This is a mile
foretaSte of life here in the Middle
West If Nazi-iSm dominates worlc
purchases and sets the price fo,
agricultural products by controllins
South America.
The Middle West not only stand.
to lose out permanently in the ex.
port markets if Britain loses, bu
it stands to lose in the domestic
markets as well. If, for example
the cotton belt loses it's export mar.
ket for cotton, it loses a large
part of its purchasing power fol
Midwestern products. Furthermore
the South will be forced into per.
manent and costly competition with
the Middle West. The South need!
to expand its production of fooc
products somewhat, but that is en-
tirely different from being forcec
into wasteful competition with othel
areas that would take place if tht
South lost all its cotton and TO-
bacco exports.
If Nazi trade is directed agains
| our industrial exports, as well a
our agricultural exports, the Mid
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