Evening star., 1943-06-23
Hitler Attacks Us
From Within
Maj. Eliot Advises Americans
To Search Their Hearts
And Consciences
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot.

ny N W. SCOf SC tCtutIH EttOL.
The power of America is the last re-
serve of freedom.
BY reason of our fortunate geographic
cal position, and the stout fighting of our
allies, We have been given time to de-
velop that power. We have translated
manpower, industrial power, our vast
resources in raw materials, our mobi-
lized dollars, into fighting strength.
We are now sending that fighting
strength outward from our shores in
great and increasing volume, to strike
the decisive blows that will bring this
war to victorious conclusion. We have
concerted with our allies the plans for
doing this. We have agreed that Ger
many shall be struck down first, and
Japan finished Of Wien Germany is
conquered.
Inc enemy knows all this. The evil
leaders of Germany are we'll aware that
their hour of reckoning is upon them.
They have long recognized the decisive
nature OF American power, once it could
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They have done everything they could
to prevent its being so developed. They
spared no effort to keep us weak and
divided among ourselves, by supporting
! faction and discord among us before
Pearl Harbor. When these efforts
clearly had failed they stirred up the
japanese to attack us, and thus contain
at least part of our fighting strength.
They took great risks and losses to keep
us fighting in Africa. They intensified
their U-boat campaign in the Atlantic
by every means available to them. In all
these efforts their object was the same.
1t was to check, or sensiblv diminish,
the steady flow of American fighting
strength across the Atlantic Ocean and
lts accumulation on the borders of
Europe.
1t is that flow and accumulation of
power which swings the balance hope
lessly against Nazi Germany, and the
leaders Of Germany know it but too well
But, like the first, all these subsequent
German efforts have failed: each Ger
! man hope has been blasted in rapid sue
| cession.
Japan has been unable to contain a
suff1cient part of our power and atten-
ton to relieve Germany.
The Axis forces in Africa have been
wiped out at far earlier date than we
could have hoped or Germany antici-
pated.
The U-boat campaign Is diminishing
toward the level Of failure.
American power continues to flow
across the Atlantic. Its volume increases
The German high command is faced
with decisions which grow more painful
and desperate day by day. The terrors
OF tWo-front war have come upon Ger
/ many not in the full flower of her
StrenRth, but in the declining wears of
her weakness and war WearineSs.
But to desperate men, desperate meas
ures. Her leaders have set not only their
power, but their lives upon success. If
Germany goes down to defeat, thev will
not survive 1t. Therefore thev will not
fail. to exhaust every expedient in their
power to retard the day of that defeat.
Their greatest danger comes from Amer
their military reach. But is it beyond
the reach of every form of attack?
Ihere are new weapons which are
available in such cases" Adolf Hitler
| once observed in private conversation,
as reported by Hermann Rauschning,
america is permanently on the brink of
revolution. It will be a. simple matter
Tor rCCSl1pp
the United States, so that these gentry
will have their hands full with their own
affairs
Hitler never doubted his ability to en-
list the human instruments of such an
attack from within.
| We shall find such men" he boasted
I'VE shall find them in every country.
we snail not need to bribe them. They
will come of their own accord. Ambition
and delusion, party squabbles and self
| seeking arrogance will drive them"
Americans Of every walk of life, every
race, OF every political persuasion will
do well to reflect on these words. A
wave of strikes is sweeping the country,
eliminating in the great coal strike
| "AAioiA VII llcdIcllS W pdIdlyZe our mCuS-
trial output. Race riots break out in
areas as far distant from each other as
| Detroit and East Texas Troops which
should have no other task than prepa =
ration to meet the enemy In battle are
compelled to turn their weapons against
| their fellow citizens.
Can it be that these events, which
serve the cause of the enemy so we'll.
have come at this crucial moment bv
mere coincidence? Is it not likely. is It
not, indeed, almost certain that enemy
| agents have been at work to bring these
things to pass? This is not. of course,
to say that all concerned are in the nav
| of Hitler. That would be sheer nom
sense. But remember that Hitler's own
words show that he understands how to
play upon ambition and delusion, party
squabbles and self-seeking arrogance. "
Why have efforts to dispense with
strikes failed? Why did the "rumors'
which bred the Detroit riots spread so
fast? Why do these things happen now,
in the hour of Germany's greatest need
and greatest peril?
Perhaps it would be we'll for all of
US, for every American man and woman,
to pause right now and search heart and
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