The Nome nugget., 1941-10-15
Committee Versus Committee

 Americas war camp seems to be dividing itself into committees
 There's the America First Committee, headed notably by Charles A. Lindbergh and Senator Burton K Wheeler These the ringmasters of the isolation ist movement
 On the side of the interventionist an organization calling itself the Fight for Freedom Committee is bat ting the propaganda of the peace front
 One of the mainstayS of this Fight for Freedom Committee is Editor Herbert Agar of the Louisville Courier-Journal About a week ago. he talked to the University Rotary Club in Seattle and said lot ot things that made good news copy and told some things which military censorship has hushed m the current news dispatches from Europe.
 Editor Agar made his Seattle address in reply to recent Seattle speech of Senator Wheeers In direct contrast the Montana Senator's declaration that this is of the Louisville newspaper editor pro- claimed with fire that if the American people follow the advice of the America First Committee and let other people die for them this nation will not have 'the moral influence of flock of goats after the strug gle is over.
 The America First Committee is deliberately at- tempting hide the true picture of what is happening in continental Europe Agar charged He said further
 They are trying to tell this is just another of the old wars for conquest of more territory.
 "The facts are, this is utterly unlike the inn perialisc of the past It is a necS-or-nothing cOuntereVolution against civilization itself
 If this is just to decide who owns AL sace-Lorraine or the Caneroons or who shall con- sands of Poles, free French, NorWegans, Dutch
 
 arms against the common enemy?"
 "A systematic and terrible move has been made to wipe out the spirit and hopes of the Pol ish people. Nazi leaders are doing something to Poland that has never been attempted before in human history.
 'They are attempting to deprive this unhap- py people of the memory of their past by destroy ing all Polish books in Poland, occupied France and other subjugated countries.
 '"Ths is the last terrible step to make them helpess doomed spiritless mass of abject slaves. It is deliberate plan to impose aphasa a rageou nation by brute force"
 The fact that Nazi aims likely flow deeper than territorial gains and political victories hit by Editor Agar when he called attention to the fact that statement from Catholic prmates recently leaked out of Germany in which they declared the very existence of Christianity is at stake Commented the editor:
 ''The church doesn't exaggerate. Can you inn agine the church making such statement in the Franco-Prussian War, the Mexican War, the Boer War the Spanish-American War?
 '"The America First Committee says this world crisis is affair of ours. If so, for Gods. sake let's not hire others to die for us. Why send lend-lease aid to Britain to prolong the war so that more can die for us? We must make up mind to fight for the preservation of cviliz- ation before it is too late
 Germany hasn't yet dared to treat France she did Poland, simply because it is easier for the world to know what is going on in Western Europe
 The Nazis know if they subjected the French to such brutality America would stand aghast and would demand instant acton," he explained But the terrible fate has been planned for France and the other conquered nations, make mistake about that" Juneau Empire Cvx ~