The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-18
War TrioIs

: News reports of Goering's capture by American troops
Serve notice that we will witness in the coming months the
apreatest tournament of lies, alibies and embarrassing in
history. With his first words to his American captors,
mGoering spluttered out a story to the effect that Hitler had
@ordered him executed, thus trying to create the belief that
she had broken" with the Nazls, and no longer shared re-
~sponsibilty for their staggering crimes.
The best answer to GoeTing and all like him is a quick,
efficient trial by the Allied commission on military crimes,
gg anies : s tsTlng s sIuiSn-at trq PosDytns sa fs brought r. d what to I BEAR W within i
@the framework of the Allied administration in Europe. This
is always a possibility, for let us never forget that Nazs were
mot without their friends in high places among our own people.
Goering heard Hitler speaking from a soap box in Mum
rich one night shortly after the last war-as he hlmse1 re-
]ated-and was moved by this hysterical and strangely
powerful voice shouting out the Nazi program Oh Teacnery
and evil to excaim to himself, THAT is my man" He joined
Hitler and stayed at his side through the bloody history of
the Nazi party. When the Feurher ordered troops into Po-
@1and he named Goering his legal successor in the event OF
death. 1t was Georing's air force which rained the great IRE
-raids on London, which acknowledgement the columns of
1efugees on Frech and Polish and Russian Roads. This Fat,
-narcotc addict is guilty of murder in the first degree a
Thousand times over. Legal hangings and executions IN civil
lied countries for single crimes will be a moekery If this
criminal is not executed.
In a recent issue OF Life magazine one could read the
vcraven albi of Dino Grandi, the bearded fob who was one of
~the four leaders of the Fascist coup in Italy in the early
~twenties which put Mussolini in power. lie served Fascist
Italy for twenty years in various posts. Grandi was smarter
than Mussolini Mussolini is dead. Grandi is alive in Port
-ugal, and has written a journalistic abb and had 1t published
in a leading American magazine. According to his story, he,
himself was the only humane and tempering influence that
arestrained Mussolini But, considering the TACT that Grand
~stayed in high positions through all the historic crimes of
Fascist Italy, this is an arrant lie.
But now we shall see the big parade OF criminals like
aGoering and Grandi, who escape with their lives to fall into
SAmerican hands, extolling their own essential innocence, and
Acaimng to barely have escaped execution by the Nazis and
the Fascsts. Eventually we might even lay hands upon Hit
@ler himself. hiding somewhere in cowardly disguise, swearing
with wild and fearful entreaties that he was not a Nazi either,
@only a friend of humanity. The German privates will blame
it on the corporals, the corporals on the sergeants, and SO on
sup the line; until at last we have the generals blaming it on
athe governments, aRd the Goernngs blaming it on Hitler. And
we may yet see Hitler blaming II on Bismarck. He used to
blame 1t on the Jews, but this will not work anymore, since
most of Europes Jews were killed in ms murder camps.
We do not believe in mob violence, at any place. at any
time. But when a people, such as the Italians, sense that Al
lied diplomacy in some instances has delayed rather than
expedited the arm Of justice, they deal their own swift if
brutal justice rather than wait around for the commission
and the commissioners and the congressional committees and
@the workings of international politics. It is lynching, and
1t is wrong. But it would not happen if the Allied Nations
had not been reniss in establishing a clear and memorable
policy to be followed in the punishment of war criminals
Too many %leopholes have been left for the working of politics
sand expedient reprieves for war criminals. The people of
Europe have suffered and they do not want the fate of arch
criminals left to lobbying and political sabotage. A strong
@and firm declaration on the question of war trials from the
heads of the United Nations would do much TO allay their
afears. But as yet it has not come. Who in high authority has
yet told US that Hitler will be executed if captured? And
shave any Of our high leaders yet so much as raised the ques-
lion OF what will be done with the Japanese emperor. much
sleSs supplied the answer. Emperor worship is the central
sprlncpal Of the japanese religion of Shintoism. So long as
the emperor exists, the japanese military eliques will be able
10 Keep TINS nation a mass Of ignorant. blndly obedient auto
fnatons, ready TO fight TO the death for the imperial symbol
@that assures them divine life forever If only they die as good
soldiers. Yet or former Ambassador TO Japan, Joseph Grew
said some months ago that. in his Diplomatic wav of viewino