Evening star., 1944-10-18
Karl Marx Blamed

To the Editor of The Star:
Is the kind of postwar world we pray
Tor one in which Britain and Russia
have third of the earth's land area
and Britain, Russia and the United
States have major portion of its re-
sources and the United States has
most OF the gold, or money; while at
the same time the citizens of Russia
Britain and the United States solemnly
declare 1t Is immoral for wealth to be
concentrated in the hands of a lew?
Ever hear Communists, New Dealers
and British Laborites argue that the
wealth should be divided up?
DO our prayers for postwar world
stlgmatize the German people 1are
Italians lncluded0 as very wicked for
dealing with and trusting Nazi leaders.
When the government of Russia and
these leaders gave the war a living
start by dividing Poland, and Russia
taking the Baltic states and part of
Flniand, and then threatening France
and Britain with measures" if they
did not call off the war? Britain ne
Nazi leadership. In 1885 she made
the Well-known naval agreement to
permit the Germans to increase their
neet, and the Munich pact of 1899 was
supposed TO give peace in our time
Other instances of misplaced British
faith in the Nazis could be cited
After foreign Statesmen" consorted
with Nazi leadership, the relatively ig-
norant German people are now olaned
Tor having yielded Gn depression) to
Nazi allurements. The Star of Nav l
contained Associated Press extracts
from an article by Goebbels in "Das
Reich" among them this quotation
and does it sound intriguing or merely
humorous and familiar?
To compare social conditions there
dn RUSSIA with ours in GERMANY is
really an insult AS for England
1t is, from the viewpoint of social con-
ditions, the most backward state in
the world, while the United States is
ruled by few hundred plutocratic
families.
1T is, therefore, more than shame
less when leaders of those countries
have the nerve to play themselves I'D
against us in the role of social re-
formers
Ihere are two kinds of capitalism
private capitalism and state
capitalism The effect in either
case Is the same-the peoples interests
are pushed completely into the back
ground behind the interests of a xm2I
plutocratic uppercrust e"
We pray to the Christian God. but
Karl Marx has been the real guiding
spirit of our time. Nazism and Fascism
are variations of MARKHAM unscruplo;s-
ness and ruthlessness to fit "have-not"
nations, Communism is Marxism for
nave nations. Marks influence in
the past quarter century has out
weighed any other. The inconsistency
OF that fact merits serious considera
ton, for our civilization has developed
upon the hypothesis of God: but Marx
said that religion is only an opate
for the people. AUGUST T. WELVEN.
Reproaches Nipponese
To the Editor of The Star:
Japan actually issued, on the first
anniversary of the Pearl Harbor
treachery, commemorative postage
stamp. 1t thus cynically boasted of
success in this unparalleled example of
international bad faith. Here was
something that shames even Ger
manys scrap of paper" in the First
World War. The Nipponese are dead
ened to the moral aspects of their at
tack, made while their special am
bassador was negotiating for peace at
Washington. They gloat, therefore,
upon their success with this commem-
orative issue.
Should not the above stimulate i'm
mediate enactment of legislation can
ceiling the American citizenship of all
who claim its privilege, yet, under the
dual citizenship theory, hold their first
allegiance to an overseas government? I?
1t is no accident that the nations
claiming this are the Axis powers.