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

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the Judge MILLION WORDS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN AND A spoken in indictment of Hitler and his high-riding cohorts since that day at Nurem- berg. Within the span of a week two proud nations, England and France, became—at least in the estimation of the peoples of Democracies -powers of the second class. A man who stood knee-deep in blood had sent back to London and Paris apologists for their own weakness, and the rejoicing of the world that war had been averted, at least temporarily, turned into disgust with the pussyfooting resistance to a madman, That Hitler is mad with power and is rapidly reaching that stage of insane desire which can only be satisfied by the piling of quclty upon cruelty, there can bé no doubt. The spoken or written pledge has long ceased to have for him any meaning contrary to his pleasant. convenience. No man in’ modern times has lied so repeatedly upon so many sub- jects. If he were a person living down the street alittle way from you the police long ago would have broken down his doors, gasyed his house, and taken him away in a straitjacket for the protection of the neighborhood. And any members of a law enforcement body, sworn to uphold the law and enforce it, who did not so remove him, would be dismissed from service in disgrace. \ world police has morally the same responsi- bility and duty. A great wave of moral indig nation at the conclusion of the World War sriously and thoroughly discussed tying the German Kaiser for murder. Thoughtful and sincere statesmen were convinced that he had betrayed his own people and had caused a human slaughter and an economic loss for which he should be held personally liable. The idea was reluctantly abandoned only out of consideration for his age and because he was an exile to whom it would be great punishment never to be allowed within the boundaries of his country again. Yet here is a man in that same Germany, guilty of crimes which the former Kaiser would hot so much as soil his tongue by naming: a THE JUDGE FOR DECEMBER on the Bench man as dangerous as an example as he is an offender; a disbeliever in God, a persecutor of the professed followers of God and a man who openly denies the existence of Truth. Adolf Hitler is guilty of every crime for which a punishment exists on the civilized statute books of the world—a colossal bluff, dragging Ger- mans inevitably to war one day. But on that day when Germany goes to war, Hitler will fol- low the example of all madmen and seek per- sonal sanctuary. The Treaty of Versailles, which has been termed cruel, will be mild by comparison to the treaty which follows his ultimate defeat. Unless Germans rebel and remove him themselves 1 fore that time there will be a division of Ger- many and a removal of its peoples to the far corners of the earth so that never again can they be led to defeat. Tt will make that day at Ver- sailles seem charitable. Minorities in all the countries of the world can be grateful that in the United States a President and a Si y State have not been blinded or frightened. The Monroe Doctrine, which has been insidiously tacked, iy still being as jealously guarded by them ay ever. And they are conscious without Mlusion of the propaganda within our bounda- ries. HAT THIS KNOWLEDGE BE I Is ABOUT TIME resolved into an order for wholesale de- portation and the withdrawal of citizenship rights from many practicing the cruelty taught by the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Gocbbels, in the United States. This writer iy Irish, and in the tradition of his people he has been taught that the fairy tales which seemed so real in childhood have an application to the facts of more mature life. On that fateful twelfth of September at Nurem: berg, Adolf Hitler told a tale without parallel and one which should be preserved forever as an example of mental perversion and ignorant insanity. Here, verbatim, is the official tran- script of that speech, and you are asked to sub- stine therein German Minority Peoples for Germans; Nazis for Czechs: Where Once Britain's Shadow Fell. “These Germans (German Minority Peoples), too, are creatures of God. The Almighty did not create them that they should be surrendered by a State construction made at Versailles to a foreign power that is hateful to them, and He has not created 7,000,000 Czechs (Nazis) in order that they should supervise 3,500,000 Ger- mans (German Minority Peoples) or act as guardians for them and still less to do them violence and torture. The conditions in this nation are unbear- able, as is generally known. Economically these people were deliberately ruined and afterward handed over to a slow process of extermination. These truths cannot be abolished — by phrases. They are testified to by deeds. The misery of the Sudeten Germans (German Mi- nority Peoples) is without end. They want to unnihilatc them. ‘They are being oppressed in an inhuman and intolerable manner. When 3,500,000 who belong to a people of almost 80,000,000 are not allowed to sing any song that the Crechy (Nazis) do not like because it does not please the Cvechs (Nazis) or are brutally struck for wearing white stockings because the Crechy (Nazis) do not like it, and do not want to see them, and are terrorized or maltreated because they greet with a form of salutation that is not agreeable to them, although they are greeting not Crechs (Nazis) but one another, and when they are pursued like wild beasts for every expression of their national life (cheers). this may be a matter of indifference to several representatives of our democracies or they may possibly even be sympathetic because it con- cerns only 3,500,000 Germans (German Minori- ty Peoples). I can only say to representatives of the democracies that this is not a mater of in- difference to us (cheers). “And I say that if these tortured creatures cannot obtain rights and assistance by them: selves, they can obtain both from us. An end must he made of depriving these people of their ¢ ever was an indictment pronounced upon Hitler there it is from the mouth of Hit- ler himvelf, comicbooks.com