The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1942-10-28
divide AND CONQUER"

The extraordinary proficiency of the Nazis in the
of various psychological methods playing weak
nessess fhuman and human character to soften
and demoralze their enemies, is only too well known
Hter's henchmen have made of stirring internal
dissenson of creating doubt of setting group against
group party against party against race undermn-
ing countrys social structure destroying cohesion
ing confusion. The Hitler philosophy of divide and
quer' And when Hitler has moved in the country was
nearly ready to fall from its own weakness
France classic example. OF course there were
Frenchmen who almost openly proclaimed that they
would rather have Hitler rule France than Leon Blum
their countyman just the South and its demogugues
show by word and action that defeat by foreign
preferable to the Negro being extended his rights as an
American citizen. Those Frenchmen in the minority
though they were = have their preference Remem-
Der France? The country with the greatest army in the
worlds military history?" Those who preferred Hitler
and those who hated him all in the same boat now
they are all starving and being bombed together
The South is neverending source of inspiring ma
terial for the Nazs propagandsts material by which
they try to make all America laughing tsock before the
world, and especially to allies rdiculing Wanted
democracy, calling Americans = the real Americans as
well as the others hypocrites Negro soldiers are not
being attacked and killed by military police bus drivers
and civilians there lynchings burnngs denias of
jobs and of the right to VOTE and attacks on aged minis
tiers who walk through train coach reserved for the
other group But there is always something Currently
it's the Eleanor clubs"
The Eleanor club myth originated in North Carolina
by bitter whites objectng to Mrs Roosevets American
ism, who Mortified that she was interested in the
problems of all Americans black white The clubs
supposed to be movement of Negro women inspired by
Mrs Roosevelt the purpose being to get "a domestics
out of kitchen by Christmas This badredash was given
considerable publicity.
Exhaustive investigation by Negro newspapers and
later but the Federal Bureau of Investigation proved that
the moveemnt was non-exstent Not such club
was found anywhere.
But the Eleanor club" myth provided grand material
for the Nazs and they made capital of it. In Nazi radio
broadcast last week, from FRANKFORT Germany the an
nouncer spent considerable time in attempted of
the Presidents wife. Mrs. Roosevelt" said Hters goon
lis good business woman and the fact that has dis
covered Negroes nothing but business This
large scale attempt to gain much black fodder
for Roosevelts possible"
Of course, the Office of War Information points
out the club myth may have been the fabrication of Axis
agents. designed to stir up feeling but the fiction
given wide circulation and even diynied by alarm
ed Dixie congressman who Grated concerning the
ment, on the floor of Congress.
Last week. and amazed America heard Martin Dies
accuse, among Others Dean William Pickens, of the Uni
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