CURSE OF HITLER

Grey River Argus, 8 November 1939, Page 12

CURSE OF HITLER

(By Henry W. Nevinson, doyen of Britain’s Journalists). Everyone must admire the persistence and determination of a man who lias worked his way up from being a builder’s labourer and housepainter to become the most powerful man in ail Europe, even though his power is malignant. One notices at once in Mein Kampf that his enthusiasm and eloquence, the gifts with which he rose, were in succession inspired by various forms of hatred. He hated the English, he hated the Japanese, he hated the French, he hated the So-cial-Democrats, the middle classes, the Marxists, and above all he hated the Jews. Though an Austrian born he hated the Austrians and their Hapsburg dynasty. From his earliest years he was an apostle of hatred, a very bag of venom. What, then, did he love? I suppose one may say that he loved the German race as long as it was not contaminated by any alien blood whether British, Italian or especially Jewish. An these hatreds, slightly tempered by his one love, naturally drove him to adore war. The defeat of Germany in the field he attributes to the cowardice of the middle classes and pecuniary intrigues of the Jews. 'Hitler despised and hated the German Republic set up by the wisest men of the country, and on the ruins of the Republic he erected a dictatorship much on the model of Mussolini’s dictatorship in Italy. He thus gathered into his own hands a power far greater than the “All Highest” Kaiser had ever attempted to possess> And when in power, he held his position by a system of persecution and brutish cruelty such as Europe had not witnessed since the worst periods of the Middle Ages. Nothing, even in those earlier times, has been so loathsome as the abominations wrought upon honourable men and women who did not accept his doctrine of State supremacy as represented in himself. I have not the space to enumerate the barbarities, the tortures, the executions, even of iiTs Tormer friends, carried out in rmany by his direct order or with uis outspoken compliance. Some inHbed are unlit to be printed in any decent paper. ’ The worst sufferings certainly were endured by the Jews, for whom he felt a peculiarly rancourous detestation from his youth up. That ancient race, from whom Europe has received so large a part of her religion, has nearly everywhere and at all tim’es been persecuted and maligned, but under Hitler the persecution has reached its most hideous malignity. But it is not only Jews who suffer. Everyone who does not bow the knee to the Hitler State is spied upon and

lives in danger from day to day. I knew the tyranny under’the old Russion Tsars, but hideous as that was, it now seems gentle compared with the tyranny of Hitler. I wish Germans would read the words of NietZr sche, last of their philosophers, who wrote: "The coldest of cold monsters, is called the State. Coldly it utters its lies, and this lie crawls from it? mouth: I, the State, am the people.” I was at a German University. I know the German people well and have always liked and admired them until they fell, prostrate, before the bloodstained idol of Hitler. He Jias, become the greatest danger how existing in the whole world. Once ;we called the Kaiser “the mad dog of •iLurope?’ In Hitler we now have a mad dog, far madder, far filthier,. and exuding from his jaws the most .deadly of all poisons. ■ •