Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-05
AMERICA MUST LIVE!
BY REPRESENTATIVE MARTIN DIES


Congress to purge the government of "irespons
be- misrepresentation crackpot and radical bureaucras
uhO attempting to undermine the American 1Ody of
hfe The first instalment of the address follows:
MR.. DIES. Mr. Speaker, rise to question of
lV1 personal privilege.
On Jan. 81, 1913, there was disseminated a
pamphlet by the National Lawyers Guild and i
read from it the following excerpt:
ITO the members of the House of Representa-
tives:
Martin Dies and his committee is the secret
weapon with which Adolf Hitler hopes to soften up
our nation for military conquest"
Mr.. Speaker, we engaged in a great strug-
gle to preserve our constitutional government and
our American way of life. The most important
phase of that struggle is the supreme effort to win
the
THE House of Representatives has from the be-
ginning of this emergency co-operated in every
respect with the executive department in order to
prepare this nation for the struggle
There is no Congress in the history of America
that appropriated more money for our military
preparedness than the last Congress- The executive
department has received the fullest degree of CO.
operation in its effort to defeat the Axis powers
But while this is the most important phase of
the present conflict, there is another phase of al
most equal Importance. This is not only clash
between the armies of the Allied nations and the
armies of the Axis powers.
Of almost equal Importance with the conflict
between rival armies the armed forces of democ-
racy and the armed forces of the Axis powers, is
the struggle between conflicting ideoogies of gov
eminent.
THE nineteenth century liberalism which ad-
4 vocated the protection of individual rights
which eliminated in those great and eternal beliefs
and PHILOSOPHERS which surround the Individual
with every possible protection in the endowment of
his rights, has been challenged for long time by
new philosophy which in country is COM
p1I1rnIc ,1A{1N r
country nazism, and in another country bureau
cracy.
But the underlying principle of all of these
PHILOSOPHERS is essentially the same. Stripped of
their verbiage and viewed in the naked truth. we
find similar phrases, and similar expressions. as
well as similar policies and programs.
WIE hear the voice of Adolf Hitler when he con-
tended in Mein Kampf that the highest duty
OF the individual is to subordinate himself to the
state We read In the doctrines of Marx the pro-
nouncement that the state must be supreme In the
fascism of Mussolini there is corporate state
administered and controlled by self-perpetuating
bureaucracy The very essense of fascism is and has
been centralized state, state that expands, ex-
tends and broadens until ultimately the individual
becomes mere cog In collectivistic system of
government.
Mr.. Rankin of Mississippi. Will the gentleman
yield2
Mr.. Dies. I yield to the gentleman from Missis
Slppl
Mr.. Rankin The gentleman has overlooked in
my opinion, one of the most important, one of the
most dangerous ideofogies that threatens America
now and for generations to come That is the
theology known as shintoism that Japan is spread
ing throughout the world and especially in the
United States.
MR.. DIES. The gentleman is absolutely correct.
ivA The point / am trying to make is simply that
when liberalism first came into existence it repre-
sented struggle of the people against centralized
government and, as the gentleman from Texas
(Mr. Sumners) stated in speech few DAYS ago.
and he expressed it so appropriately the history of
democratic progress has been the history of de-
Capitalization.
Liberalism was derived from the word liberty.
1t meant those who were in favor of the liberty of
the individual and of the entire body Of society It
meant those who were struggling against great
bureaucratic or autocratic or ogarchic govern
ment, whichever you may term it, in which the
citizen became nothing and the state was everv-