The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-03
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER

BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
I'm the following article, written as a para
BILE, Westbrook Pes,e1 describes what, he be
heves, might have been the fantastic result
of British collapse after the fad O. France.)
NEW YOEK.-Af.er France fell, Hitler NOV.
ed quickly against Britain. and in a few
weeks conquered the country by storning
beaches weakly held by disorganized and dis.
armed survivors of Dunkerque and brave but
unframed civilians armed with sporting rifles
and shotguns. Churchill and Eden were killed
and Oswald Moseley and his friends, released
from jail were put in power.
| There was great resentment encng the
British against the government and the people
OF the United States for their pride broker
and they felt that the Americans lad let them
down. The Canadians, too, were bitter and
so, when Hitler turned to the west, with Brit
ish and French fleets added to his own with
the Japanese threatening the U. S. A. in the
Pacific and with Latin America hospitable to
a winner, the invasion of the United States
soon followed.
| On his eastern frontier, Hitler maintained
his treaty with Stain and the two dictators
who had found SO much in common when
Poland was invaded, became warm friends.
Meanwhile, in the United States, the commu-
nists had effectively hampered the rearma-
ment program and the invasions by way of
Detroit and the Mexican border isolated the
east from the midwest and the Pacific coast
from the rest of the country.
Caught unarmed with few soldiers whose
training had, in the main, been carried on
with broom-sticks representing rifles, stove
pipes Stimulating mortars and guns, and old
laundry trucks labeled tanks, the Ameri-
can people struggled feebly and heroically.
but soon were helpless.
| In Washington, large bomb hit the White
House and the national government ceased to
function. Fritz Kuhn and the chief of the COM
munists became respectively chief of state
and chief of the secret police combining their
underground forces which came into the
open, denouncing, arresting and executing
thousands of Americans, including many who
had insisted that Hitler had no designs on
this country and in shy case, could not cross
the Atlantic.
| All Negroes were iac'ared to be sub-human,
according to the Hitlar:al theory and the
Jews, including some WAC were aggressive
communists, received the same treatment that
the Jews in Poland had suffered
| IL this helpless condition, the american peo-
pie, Gil ire whole, like the people OF France.
settled down to misery, humiliation and
shame. They had done all they could, they
were beaten, absolutely conquered and Mc
GJcne remained Am1g Them. however the
leading or prominent spirits reluctantly pre-
sented themselves to the German authorities
with offers OF cooperation for the sake of
their fellowAmericans
The terms were harsh but there was no
CHOICE and the only hope lay, formless and
vague in the mist of some distant future II
ealled these mayors, governors, senator's ia
dustrlallsts and union leaders. to deal with the
! conqueror but the Germans were taking most
| OF the 1000, all private automobiles and cor
.!scated homes were robbed of clothing blan-
kefs ana bedding and the houses of the we'll
TODD and most public buildings were occu-
pied by German officers. The gold hoard at
| Fort Knox was shipped to Germany the banks
were seized and a fine of billion dollars
a day was levied on the nation to pay Hitler
the expense to which he had been put in lib
Grating the Americans from the fatal fallac,
| Of freedom.
| Meanwhile, however, in China an American
general who had escaped, was laundering that
every American official who had actively col
| laEorated with the Nazs to feed and clothe
| the people and wheedle some concession for
their benefit Vichyite and traitor aud
every private citizen who had submitted to
force was Quisling. And also safe in China
men and women of many nationalities call
ing themselves liberals and anti-fascists. cried
death to all such Americans and promised a
day OF reckoning when the aggressor should
finally be destroyed and all such renegades
should be tried on the testimony of their
neighbors and, upon conviction, liquidated for
their treacherous cowardice
| 1t made no difference that in the So1,th
after 1865 a people of incredible courage, once
I their resistance was broken, also had tried
to make the best of their condition under the
iron heel of monstr ous ruler. 1t made lie
dherence that the Americans otherwise would
nave starved, frozen and died by millions be-
fore the firing squads. Cooperation was col
laoJretlon, submission was treacbery AMI
these were treason aAd. in tn. days of de-
1lVertnce they who had not defied the con-
quc' or at the point Of his guns naust die TOR
their betrayal.
4 That painted ship on a painted ocean.
which the poet found idle, was really a
streak of lightning compared to that all power-
full German navy which never has gotten out
Of the blueprint stage.
In view of that balmy January Grandpappy
jenkins says that if that first robin doesn't
l hurry up summer many get here before it
does.
Zadok Dumkopf says he knows a star ladv
bowler who is so pretty she is a regular min.
un girl as well as pins knocked down ono