Milford chronicle., 1959-05-08
THE SOUTH AND INTOLERANCE

honest and enlightened comment, debunkinp
much of the propaganda, too often commun-
ist-inSpired.
In South Carolina the Speaker of the
House of Representatives is Solomon Blatt,
a member of the Jewish faith, and he has
offered the nation some words of enlighten-
ment Said he recently, speaking to the He
brew Benevolent Society of Charleston:
"Not the Negro race, nor any other race
is oppressed in the South Carolina way of
life today and | am living example of the
tolerance of the people of this great state y
Blatt has been Speaker of the House in South
Carolina for twenty years.
Like James F. Byrnes said, in a recent
appearance on the television program Per-
sOn-to-Person, there are no law suits in the
South Carolina schools today and the people
are living happily and peacefully side by
side. Relations are excellent.
Blatt also noted: "We do not have in
South Carolina the kind of gangs and mobs
and misunderstanding and social conflict
and teenage terrorism which prevail in-the
very states from which have come the most
abuse of the South. Every race in South
Carolina has equal opportunity for happi-
ness and progress.
Each individual has the opportunity to
prove himself for what he is worth"
A wise American statesman once said
that there are good people, and bad people.
of our great united country should cast as
pensions at another, nor is it possible for
those thousands of miles away to solve the
problems of other sections,
No doubt President John Hannah, of
Michigan State University, had this thought
in mind in announcing his forthcoming res
ignation from the Civil Rights Commission
when he said that there were no right
answers to some of the problems of our peo-
pie. 1t takes people of good will, of which
there are many in all sections, to work out
differences and make democracy work
5000
FOURTEEN YEARS AGO
This week is the fourteenth anniversary
of the official surrender of Germany in
World War ii. While the war lasted longer,
until August of that same year-1945-it is
nevertheless true that the capitulation of the
Germans was day of rejoicing unsurpass-
ed in many Allied capitals, especially those
in Europe.
AS the Russians closed in on Berlin in the
last days of April 1915, Hitler married Eva
Braun, and then they made arrangements
for their death. Their bodies were burned
with some $50 litres of gasoline, according
to a pre-arranged plan, and such was the
terrible power Hitler had gained over his
felloW-Germans that he maintained control
and discipline within the ChancellOry bunker
UP to the last hour of his life.@- grre-.
After he had shot himself, and after Eva
Braun had killed herself, their bodies were
taken above, and burned in the Chancellory
garden, after first being soaked in gasoline
and burned thoroughly Almost until the last
Hitler had hoped that a relief army would
break through to relieve encircled Berlin,
but the armed forces of the Third Reich were
fast evaporating at this twilight period in
the Nazi era.
Hitler could have escaped Berlin, but
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himself martyr. 1t is fortunate for the
world that he did not succeed. In any event,
for Europeans, it had been six years of war
when Hitler died, preceded by several years
of intense tension and successive war scareS.
1t is interesting to look back upon Hitler's
contenSion that Bolshevism was the greatest
enemy of Western civilization and his efforts
to make peace with the Western powers-at
the last minute-in order to join them in
crushing communism once and for ALL
Of course, until Hitler's star began to
descend, he himself constituted the greatest
threat in the world, and one of the great dis
illusionments of the twentieth century is the
fact that the crushing of Naziism only re-
vealed a more formidable danger in its place.
Reminiscing on the war, and speculating
on the "might-have-beens," one wonders if
it might not have been better for Japan to
have attacked Russia simultaneously with
Hitler's assault in June 1871, which would
probably have eliminated communism. 1t
would have been more difficult for the Wes-
tern democracies to have crushed Hitler, had
he defeated Russia, but the added sacrifice
might have been justified if communism
could have been crushed in 1941.
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OUR WIDENED OUTLOOK
There was a time, not very long ago,
when the people in the rural sections were
not much interested in what happened out
side of the United States and, if you go back
some years, there was time when nothing
much mattered except what happened with
in gun-shot range of their homes.
Times have changed, and with them, the
outlook of our people. Whether we like it
or not, we cannot remain insensible to what
happens in the world, because the economic
consequences are felt in the sale of our pro