Prelude to War Page #2

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and ruthlessly can bring about the decision...

..in favour of the side it supports."

"Mein Kampf" -Page 189 German Edition

"The greatest intellect in the world,

can be silenced with this."

That is an exact translation of the words

these black-shirts cheer so lustily.

"Whenever I hear anyone mention the word culture,

the first thing I do is reach for my gun."

Yes, they had the answers,

the black-jack and the gun.

In ltaly they did it differently.

While in Japan.

To their names, can be added

hundreds of thousands of others

..who stood in the way of the new order

Finally there is only one obstacle left,

I am the Light of the World, he that follow me shall

not walk in darkness, but have the light of hope.

The word of God and the word of purists

can not be reconciled.

THEN GOD MUST GO!!

"l am absolutely clear in my own mind, and I think l

can speak for the Fhrer as well.

That both the Catholic and Protestant churches

must banish from the life of our people."

Thus spoke Dr. Alfred Rosenberg and if you

had any doubt he spoke for his Fhrer

..here's what happened.

"The Christian cross is to be removed from all

churches and cathedrals and to be replaced...

..by the immortal symbol of Germany

the swastika."

Berlin, 1935 700,000 members of the Protestant

Youth organizations were forced to disband.

Thousands of other men of God,

Protestant, Catholic, Jewish,

..wee persecuted, arrested and

confined in concentration camps.

"Our Fhrer is the intermediary between

his people and the throne of God.

Everything the Fhrer utters, is

religion in the highest sense.

It is only on one or two exceptional points

that Christ and Hitler stand on comparison,

..for Hitler is far too big a man to

be compared with one so petty."

Everyday in all German classrooms,

"Adolf Hitler is our savoir our hero"

"He is the noblest being

in the whole wide world."

"For Hitler we live."

"For Hitler we die."

"Our Hitler is our Lord."

"Who rules a brave new world."

Yes take children from the faith of their fathers,

and teach them that the state is the only church.

And the head of the State,

is the voice of God.

"l want to see again, in the eyes of the youth,

the gleam of the beast of prey" --Hitler

That was the way of life, or better,

the way of death in that other world.

Now what of our world?.

What did we want?.

What did we do about it?.

First of all,

we wanted peace and security.

And to prove our sincerity, in 1921 we initiated

the Washington Disarmament Conference.

This resulted in two

vitally important treaties.

One, to reduce the size of the British,

Japanese, French, ltalian andAmerican Fleets.

And the other, the Nine-Power Treaty,

which guaranteed the integrity of China,

And incidentally, one of the powers

signing this was Japan.

Later on in 1 929, we signed

the Kellog-Briand Pact...

..which was suppose to abolish wars in

a means of settling international disputes.

This pact was signed by 47 nations,

including Germany and Japan.

"Mr. President, I have the honour of

handing you the London NavalTreaty."

Faithful to our treaty obligations,

..we scraped more than 60%

of our Naval tonnage.

And our Army was reduced to a

standing force of 136,000 men.

Smaller than that maintained by Romania.

We let our hopes for peace become so strong,

that they grew into determination...

..not to fight unless directly attacked.

We let ourselves be influenced by

those who said we could find...

..security through isolation.

The confusion in our way

of thinking is apparent.

In the slice of public opinion, as it

appeared in Athe News in 1939.

"Another war?. Not for me. This time

America should keep out, and I know I will."

"lf war breaks out in Europe, I think this country

should heed the advice of the First President,

..and avoid all foreign entanglements"

I haven't the slightest idea

of European affairs."

In the event of war in Europe, I think

we should stay out of it entirely

And all our efforts should be made

to keep out of the fight.!

Let Europe fight their own battles.

They mean nothing to us."

We should mind out own business.

-By all means, NO."

Yes, fight.... NO.... NO.. Yes"

If my country calls, YES."

"-NO!"

We simply did not want to understand that our

individual and national problems were...

..and always will be dependant upon

the problems of the whole world.

And we had individual and national

problems to worry about. Plenty of them.

Just as Germany, ltaly and Japan had,

but we faced it in a democratic way.

We passed laws to give working men

a chance to improve their lot.

We established an insurance program

for those without jobs.

It began to give old folks protection

against want and hunger

We organized the C.C.C. to provide our

young men with healthy and useful employment.

A Federal works program came into being and

changed the face of our nation with new roads,

..bridges, schools.

It built great new dams that brought

electricity of millions of our people.

These were some of our accomplishments,

but there were others, not so credible.

We turned our backs on the League of Nations.

We passed theTariff Act to

..to set a higher wall of isolation

around us.

We encouraged lawlessness with

the farce of prohibition.

But in spite of these mistakes, we never had

a thought of losing our free institutions.

John Q. Public still ran the country

He had his choice of voting for Dewey,

Wilke, Roosevelt or anybody else.

In Germany they had the choice of voting

for Hitler, Hitler, or Hitler.

Over here, John Q. still read

what he pleased.

And although he heard of books

being burned in other countries,

..he would have laughed, if anybody

told him his books would be burned.

And on Sunday, if he felt like it,

John Q. went to any church he pleased.

Most of all, he got a kick out

of seeing his kids grow up.

The average American was quite unconscious

of the fact that some people,

..had this in mind for the little John Q's

"To die for the Emperor is to live forever."

Japanese Army Slogan

"Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful

above all." --Mussolini

Yes, while their children were

being trained to kill,

..John Q. 's kids were giving their

pennies to help them have life.

And when we saw these men on the

news reels, quite often we laughed.

To us they looked like characters

in a musical comedy.

But they weren't comic, they weren't

funny, they were deadly serious.

They were out for world conquest.

And what made it deadly serious was,

they were 70 million Japanese,

45 million ltalians, and 80 million Germans,

all hopped up with the same idea.

Their leaders told them that

they were supermen.

Herren Folk" the Nazi called it, the Master Race.

Destined to rule all other peoples on earth.

Take a good look at these humourless men.

These were to be the rulers of the ruling race.

Bear us blindly and you will obtain your

rightful place in the world.

All other people will be your slaves.

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