Detroit evening times., 1943-01-04
Chamberlain
Stupid Like
All Of Us in 80
His Munich Agreement
a Sincere Move
BY BENJAMIN ECASSEREs

ONE of the most salty of our
" proverbs is the one that says
that people who live in glass
houses shouldn't throw stones.
In almost all references To the
late Premier Neville Chamber
lain in war books and in letters
that come 10 March of Events"
Chamberlain Is made the goat"
for this war-mainly because he
made the famous Munich agree
ment' with Hitler.
| think this attitude toward
Chamberlain is an injustice TO a
man who was utterly sincere
and who believed that what he
did was for the best interests
of mankind.
He was, grant, ignorant,
stupid and guillible-but so were
we all We were all-Eneland.
America and France-in fact.
thousand times more ignorant.
stupid and guillible than Cham
berlain.
Hitler, with his barharous de-
signs against the best portion of
the human race. came 10 power
IN 1888. The United States. Eng
land and France not ONLY ror.
tinued to do business with Hitler
but actually helped him IN build
up the mightiest war machine in
history.
The Allies saw Hitler tear up
the Versailles Treaty clause by
clause and sat tight. selling Hit
Ter all he wanted and also buy
lne from him. England, America
and France saw the Jews re-
duced 10 serfdom in Germany
and did nothing about II.
England concluded trestv
with Hitler that allowed Ger
many IN build one major fight
ing ship 10 England's three.
England. the United States
and France knew that German
factories were working on three
shifts IN turn out weapons
which, IN their supreme igno-
rance. stupidity and guillibilitv.
they believed were for an attack
IN Russia with "Mein Kampf"
under their eyeso
If CHAMBERLAIN was vuilty
, nj ignorance stupidity and
gullihillty in regard 10 Hitler.
the United States. England and
France were guilty OF criminal
negligence.
Also, Why should any Ameri.
can lump on the corpse ~
Chamberlain when We were
guilty 10 the nth degree Of
stupidity ignorance and gull
hlbfy IN our relations with
Japan. 10 whom for years We
sold ihe very scrap" ldenudine
ourselves that she is using to-
day 70 blow our bows 10 bits -
Japan who fooled us in a com.
/, pleter way than ever Hitler
fooled Chamberlain.
If any American henceforth
throws p stone A. Chamberlain
Iet him call to mind the scene
AZ tho state department on Dec.
=, l94l when our secretary ~
state was conducting peace
negotiations with the Japanese
ambassador and Hirohlto's spe-
cial envoy when the Jan air fleet
waS on the way 10 Pearl Har-
bor.
TWO anniversaries in 1912 are
four hundred fftieth wear
that Columbus discovered Amer
ica and tho three hundred fif-
tieth year of the death ~ Michel
Dc MontaiGne
Columbus. tho Wrong -way
Corrlcan' NJ the fifteenth cen.
fury. YOU all know about. He
discovered America when he
thought he had landed In the
East Indies. Hence the natives
Of Aperica are called Indians.
America was really discovered
by Lief Erickson around 1.OOn
a D. Just AS the uses NJ steam
were known in Greece 2.4O0
years before the Scotch inventor.
James Watt played around with
a tea kettle AT the psychologi.
cal moment.
The psychological moment for
2 discovery as well as for every
thing else is The moment that
necessity, bhndlv or open-eyed
'who knows which7l says IN the
human race. The time is now
ripe for America" or for steam
or whatever II may he.
Nature said. IT is time for 4
rehlrth of the arts. free thought.
satire and pagan beauty" and
behold The Renaissance. when
the human being came into It's
second springtime. its first hav-
lne been in Greece in the great
age Of Pericles
nEfRf1It tsaaI Ir(kIEC