Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-12-27 | Page 1 | Fears Free Peoples' Doom

I C Fears Free FreO Peoples Peoples' Doom r 1 iU i U Ip 1 t 4 FEELS FEEtS DARKNESS WITHOUT NAME ABOUT HER Helen Keller Places hope in boycotts 1 l Helen Keller Saddened By Waning of Democracies Only Hope for World Seen Seen- in in Union Upion of Nati Nations Against Again Brutality lity of Dictators Dictators' KANSAS KA SAS CITY Dec 27 AP Helen AP-Helen Helen Keller whose fortitude l led d. d her t to a remar remarkable able triumph over blindness blindness- deafness and partial mut mutenesS nesS nesS' feels today a a new new darkness darkness a a darkness without a name in in the world about her A Arid d this new Darkness darkness resulting primarily from the breakdown of European democracy finds Miss Keller in an unaccustomed mood mood- without optimism for the first time tim in her 58 years I am terribly shaken she said In tn an interview by the by the breakdown breakdown breakdown break break- down of European democracy democracy- what there was of it the Munich pact and the growing powers of dic die I can see no light in this great darkness at present I am an optimist but I can see only the faintest hope The widely traveled deeply studious studious studious stu stu- dious author visiting friends here hereIn herein herein in a city removed from the tur tur- moils of the world said said- she believed believed believed be be- hope might lie in the uniting of the democracies of the world and the use of boycotts against the brutal brutal bru brutal tal empires of Germany Italy and Japan Miss Keller includes soviet Russia Russia Rus Rae sia among p possible democratic allies al allies allies al al- lies because it is a peace-loving peace country