Judge — August 1938 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE ON THE BENCH W E have heard so much talk about pure Aryans, that, being Irish, with a traditional Gaelic curiosity, we thought it would be nice to see what a pure Aryan looked like. Now if there is one man in all the world who should look like a pure Aryan, be- cause he does more talking about pure Aryanism than any other man, it is that eminent Minister of Propaganda, the illustrious and loud-spoken exponent of Aryanism in its pristine purity, Herr Paul Joseph Goebbels. The picture services have just delivered to this desk pictures of Herr Goebbels, and we are now ready to. announce that we have made an important anthropo- logical discovery which should be of great benefit to mankind, and that is, if Herr Goebbels is a pure Aryan, then pure Aryans are funny looking people, and there is only one pure Aryan in Germany and that is Herr Goebbels, because there is nothing else inside the boundaries of the Fatherland that looks like him. Contrawise, if the German people are pure Aryans, a statement on which we will not take issue in spite of the trampling hordes who fought upon the plains of Southern Germany and left their racial characteristics upon the natives, or in spite of the Slavs and Mongols whose boot heels clicked upon the rocks in the North and who left their names, to this day, with the true Germans of Prussia, then the funny face and stature of Herr Goebbels is not pure Aryan. And if, or when, there is a desire to Aryanize mankind for purity, let those devout Ger- mans pray that they may be cast in a mold other than that from which Herr Goeb- bels sprang. S From Wide World Protos Baul Joseph Goebbels | spite of the Nazi stamp upon the face of Germany, we in America hold close and dear the memory of that Germany which” gave us many of our greatest pioneers, and present day statesmen and scientists, born both in Germany and of German parents; Germans who have helped make America the stronghold for freedom of speech and thought that it is today; German names which are as much a part of our history as names could be, and which built in the hearts of true Americans a senti- mental attachment for the kindliness and decencies of the German people. Those were Germans who ey thought, and acted upon their thinking; those were the Germans who were not regimented into being told what they could think, what they could read, what they could do and where they could walk; those were the Germans whose hearts beat fast and whose heads lifted high at “Die Wacht am Rhein.” Surely in the German's mouth the tongue must bind a little, and the throat must fill, when he tries to sing the Horst Wessel song. Such Germans still occupy the Father- land, numbered in millions, and no Nazi preachment can ever make them surrender the mental freedom they have always exercised so wisely. If to be an Aryan of purity means to be a German of ignorance, then the true German will not subscribe to Nazism. If to be pure Aryan is to look, act, think and talk as does Herr Goebbels, then there is no need to be disturbed that the true Germany will not refuse the upstart, spoiled-child direction conceived in ths mind of the Nazi Minister of Propaganda. Minister of Propaganda! A naive title, unworthy of a pure, pure Aryan. Propaganda which reaches into all the capitals of the earth; propaganda subtle enough in the South and Central Americas to dangle the lure of independence from the United States before them, without suggesting a Nazi alliance, but which, if successful, would be Nazi con- trol; propaganda which would have us despise and persecute the Jew and the Catholic and the Protestant, the blood of whose ancestors still lies in American soil; propaganda which would have a pure Aryan resemble Herr Goebbels; = propaganda from the mouth of a man who, when asked a few weeks ago why he preached and directed persecution of the Jew, replied: “Because the very presence of a Jew offends.” Jesus was a Jew. Mary Magdalene, who came to the tomb to anoint him, was a Jewess. The defenders of Jesus from the edict of the Roman procurator, Pilate, in Judea, were Jews. Christ was not pure Aryan. The New Testament teaches the omnipresence of | Christ. Offended or not, Herr Goebbels, neither in this life nor in the next, can escape this Presence. comicbooks.com