Detroit evening times., 1945-06-01
FAIR
ENOUGH
By Westbrook
PegIer

guilt, and that for our own
safety and, as a form of punish
-ment. we should reduce our
Germans to the land. BY our
Germans l mean those in our
jurisdiction.
But has anybody heard any
such talk from the Russians
On the contrary. right up TO the
fall of Berlin, the Russians were
assuring the Germans that 1t
was not their purpose TO obliter-
ate them or even 10 declmate
them promlScuously and nothing
was said about any Russian in
tention 10 destroy their heavy
industries I'm the Russian zone
OF occupation.
THEIR plan thus seems to be
Il TO recognize and confer
positions on those surviving
Germans who were Communists
before Hitler finally achieved
full power, wherein, incident
ally, those Communists greatly
assisted him, excepting, how
ever. those eX-Communists who
became conspicuously bad per-
sonai NaziS.
1t may be assumed, of course,
that the Russians will kill many
of their captives, civilians as
we'll as service people and
women as we'll as men, and that
they will transport masses of
them as slaves to Poland and
Russia to build better cities and
dams, roads and other great
public works.
Meanwhile, in our part of Ger
many the destruction has been
much greater and we talk about
plowing under the ruins, so to
speak, and making IT impossible
for them ever TO manufacture
anything more formidable than
harmonicas, cuckoo clocks and
musical bird-cages.
IT IS impossible to overlook
L one fact in this ferocious
talk from our Sit. That is that
most of it and the most blood
thirsty proposals come from men
in the United States who COM
fortably sat out the war here
and made a lot of money on the
air and in print, although there
isn't a writer among them who
could get by on any rewrite
desk, calling Hitler and Hmm
Ter dirty names.
They are not elderly men nor
so old but that. starting five
years ago, they could have wan
gled their way TO grips with the
NaziS somewhere, somehow.
One that / have in mind is
Communist refugee from Ger
many who certainly had the
strongest personal reasons to
declare himself in for a personal
piece of the fight even if he had
10 be content TO ship as a mess
man on a cargo vessel.
| can understand why the
Germans made a refugee of him
all right.
STlLL, he is on the air and
~ all over the place, shooting
off his face with a Weber and
Fields dialect, and lecturing us
on our duty and our democracy.
Another of our brave conver-
sational commands is that con-
temptible and utterly shame
less Communist thief. calling
himself William Gailmor. which
is not his real name, who was
only % when the war broke
out and is only 81 now and
weighs 200 pounds. according to
his criminal record.
A FTER year under glass he
"a was declared cured. but the
army seems TO have taken
double-jointed attitude toward
him
He is allowed to lecture tn
shellshock patients who got that
way honestly from personal eX-
perience with high explosives in
action and tell them how he
fought his way back so far that
nowadays he can pass strange
car at the curb and not even
monkey with the ignition.
l don't know whether you
would call this a preachment
for a soft peace with Germany
but | don't care much what any,
body calls il. / do know. how
ever, that if you accept this
propaganda as of a certain date
all Germans became bad Ger
mans you are swallowing whole
the most abominable article of
Hitlerism. which was Jewish
racial guilt and all-around per-
fidy.
4 ND have observed that this
IA doctrine comes most noisily
from propagandists who are
members of a group that has
suffered most from this very
thing and repudiated il when it
applied to them, as all the rest
of us repudiated il.
l think we ought TO consult
the fighting men on our course
with our share of the Germans,
but see no reason 10 diScrimi-
nate between the Germans and
the Italian people who were bad
FaSicts only because they were
inefficient at il and would have
been the most overbearing ty-
rants on earth if they had won.
In Germany from about 1895
on. a man had 10 submit TO Hit
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