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Victims Of The Terror
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NHE institution and establishment of a Socialism, they still could not agree to totalitarian regime in Germany led to place their consciences unreservedly in the much persecution, and caused many Ger- keeping of its leaders. mans to seek a refuge in foreign lands.
A case in point is Karl Barth, who has So drastic a change, not only of Gov-a European reputation as a theologian, ernment, but of political theory, it might and who is held in affectionate regard by almost be said of religion, was bound to all who know him, for his piety and Chris-
tian charity.
affect individuals.
Different loyalties, different values, a When Hitler became Chancellor, he was wholly different attitude of mind, was ex-Professor of Theology at Bonn, and in pected; and those who re sisted, or were half-hearted, in approving these changes, were made to suffer.
Revolutions invariably
by
MALCOLM
MUGGERIDGE
1934 was told that if his appointment was to be re- newed, it would be neces- sary for him to swear an oath of allegiance to the
Fuhrer. This he refused to do, since, as he explained,
have such consequences. The mighty are put down from their seats, and the
he had other than earthly humble and meek exalted;
obligations, and would be and the many who are nei-
failing in these if he ac- ther mighty nor humble and meek, have to knowledged the infallibility of any moral adjust themselves to the new situation. man or the spiritual authority of any What is peculiar about the Nazi Re-temporal power. He was, in consequence, volution is that those who were persecuted, deprived of his professorship, denied all or felt their position to be so intolerable means of earning a livelihood, and forced that they chose to become exiles, repre- to leave Germany.
sented the most cultivated and high- ROMAN CATHOLICS, not less than principled elements in the community, Protestants, found it impossible to recon- What was demanded was no less than cile their religious duties with the claims a total submission to the State, the total!
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America's Position
of dictated ones; as the Patriarch of Lisbon has well put it, "Caesar is once more · deified, and everything to deism be- comes law, once again the human being becomes the slave of the State; which claims the right to determine standards of jus- interest and improved means of tice and morality, and out- communication have combined side of which no rights to give America possibly better exist." information on the world situa National Socialism was
To-day the position of the United States is far clearer than in the World War. Greater
Madame Carries
On ...
WAR! I am disgusted," said the old
woman outside the Cafe du Centre.
UP
AND UP-
AND UP---
AND UP!
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
tion than any nation in Europe the Truth, "Mein Kampf" "To start with, the butcher is late. We or Asin. The gradual develop its statement, and Hitler its have nothing to eat to-day."
Gnarled hands shook out a ment of crisis after crisis had prophet; and to doubt this, focussed attention on the ques-vations whatsoever, was a In her grey speckled frock shu or admit it with any reser-blue pinafore which had not got rumpled with indignation. tions at issue. Repugnance to crime punishable with loss looked rather like an agitated tyranny and oppression, desire of life or liberty, or, in less hen of the same colour as she to.sce-democracy strengthened severe cases, with social perched on the little chair out-
sida her cafe. ostracism and professional"] in the world early placed Ameri-
We are in the heart of ruin.
France. Not geographically, can sympathies on one side. The
No self-respecting scholar perhaps, because we are in Bur- new alignment of Communism or scientist or man-of-let-gundy, but I call it the heart and National Socialism hasters or minister of religion pulse through it. And its people crystallised them.
could accept as valid the are full-blooded and full of race, claim of a political move- I know that old woman and Above all, by the attack on ment to dictate on spiritual her meals. If I had asked her Poland, the German Government matters; and it was then- lunch, she would have leaped. has placed itself in opponition to all who were concerned with from her chair to the kitchen. American thought. Americans the disinterested pursuit of She would have produced it, have followed closely the deve- truth, who were, therefore, butcher or no butcher.
because the great red wines
nt that moment for a five-course
the Nazi regime's particular the mood.
But let her go on. She is in
lopments of recent months. They victims. Even when, as was
"Yesterday, if you plense, the
were as outraged as the people the objectives of National pork butcher told me that he of England and France when
Bohemia
and Moravia were
seized. They have seen through Freedom
the technique of cooking up
crises and attempting to ter Party's 11
rorise civilian populations. They
have read the record, know that New Rules
Poland never saw the proposals which she is supposed to have
A FURTHER series of "command- ments" to the German people were
Germare "Freedom Station"
rejected. They have thrilled to Nazi
repeatedly broadcast by
are
the
had no raw sausage. No raw sausage!" The misty blue eyes stared out at a void world.
Well, now, I admit, madame, that there is nothing more to be anid. No raw sausage.
The bottom has fallen out of Burgundy,
Or would have done, if it were all as bad as it seems.
THE ill-informed obser- ver, stalking through anti-France, might deduce that the [country was running short of
food. Nothing of the sort.
The French shopkeeper nover work carries heavy stocks. If the weekly supply lorry is late or fails to turn up, then he soon runs short of goods. Just at the moment, transport is a trifle disorganised. But only temporarily,
the calm courage with which says Reuter. They are! pooples who have tried to make "If you are a soldier do not Sght;;
*If you
workmon n peace, have answered the Intest
slowly; challenge.
"Wherever you are broadcast the truth about Hitler's abominable deeds;
"Do not believe lifter's lies; "Do not believe any. Nazi · newa- paper;
There can be no question then where tho sympathics of America rest. They are more clearly marked than in early 1917 just before the United you of your money, do not give it does not go without raw sausage
States entered the World War.
"Do not allow the Nazis to rob
to a bank:
I bet that the pork butcher (or, rather, his wife) will have supplies to-morrow. Burgundy
three days running. HELP THE VICTIMS
Why did I say "Or, rather, "Make no difference between your-his wife"? Because the pork self und your neighbour on racist or butcher has been called up of religious grounds;
"Help, all victims of the Nazis, "Help to organise systematically the fight against Hitler;
course,
In a country where every man is automatically in the army until he is afty, a general mobilisation thins the village) out
But there is also in America a resolve not to enter this war, President Roosevelt voiced the major sentiment of the country In his speech when he said the Government would bend every
: "Fight against Hiller with all your effort to keep but of war and might because ho has expelled the There seems to be nothing best German thinkers, murdered the loft in it but women and chil- foster "true neutrality,”—Chris-workers leaders, slaughtered the dren and a few old men and
Jews, tian Science Monitor,
youths.
· “Beware of falso friends;
"Downs-with- Hitler!!-
T
You do not see much of the
"He wants me to give up my carcer and devote all of my time to making a fool out of him,"
៩០ old men and youths because anyway), and is Mme. they are working in the vine | Daugler at the corn merchant's, yards in the daytime.
and so are scores of women at. In the night you see nothing other trades. nt all..
The old woman who drives her four cows up to the
BUT the women are left sparse hill pasture every day. Just carrying on. Do has never had a husband, and you see that one in the little has been driving cows over since cart drawn by the brown she can remember. denkey? She blows vigorously
Mene. Pocotte, a little lower down, upon an antique horn, hollowed hears no guns, but she sees a lot of
Boldiers. out from the natural horn of a
Often I have sat alone in her. bullock. She la announcing her roadside este with a mid-morning approach with the milk,.
anack of sausage and bread and red That other one who comes wine, but you cannot alt alone there round the bend in a dusty tour now. You can hardly sit there a
all, the place, is so crammed with ing car, pressing hard upon a soldiers who have halled in the more modern, and more hideous | village. horn, is doing the same thing. VOUNG, dark, vivacious. Mme.: The milk runs in a thin stream
Pacotte seems to have n from a leaky churn at the back, word for every оло of them an
Both women, in their different never misses or bungles an order for ways, are plying their absent wine or boer; am ve
vine or borstman, who is also husbanda trado. So is Mme cobbler, and also a mobilised sailor, Mutin at the cake (though hor has promised to catch shark froms husband never did much work PLEASE Tum To Pago 9.
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