| Show i I What at Our Readers Rea ers T Think ink I i Would Carve Carve Up Germany As Punishment for Crimes Editor Telegram There Is anold an anold anold old saying Once a German al always always always al- al ways a German Gennan This was brought to my mind very forcibly when I read the account o of the lect lecture re given by Louis Fischer before the Bonneville Knife and Fork club in Salt Lake City Mr Fischer said The peace cannot be made permanent if a vie we e cut away part of the enemy country and give It to another as has been done in n the past Strange to say another noted writer and commentator who was born In Germany Emil Ludwig Ludwig Ludwig Lud Lud- wig harped on the same theme in an article he wrote a few weeks ago He said Austria should not be taken away from Germany as the Austrians love Germany because it speaks their lan language age Several other writers and commentators of ot German Gennan birth have expressed the same views May I ask in what other way can we punish Germany for the monstrous crimes she has committed committed committed com com- than by giving gluing her vic vie I tims tams a slice of Germany This would Impose no great reat hardship on Germany as she is isone isone one of the rho most sparsely laced countries in Europe having hav hav- ing only about persons fo to the s square mile compared to about 00 persons to the mile in rn Bel Belgium um and Holland Of course the two too latter countries countries coun coun coun- tries have colonies but so had Germany previous to World War I. I In 1914 Germanys Germany's excuse excuse ex ex- cuse ruse for g going ing to war was m more living room room for the Germans I This is Hitler's eXCUse excuse for the pres present nt war When the present war Is over and the representatives of the united nations sit around the peace table the four great powers powers pow pow- ers ers United S States tat e s Britain Russian and China wont China wont won't have it all their own way N No the Netherlands Netherlands' representatives will wail be there there- therewith with the massacres o of Rotterdam fresh in n their minds as will the Slovakians Czecho with the memory of Lidice also Poland Belgium France Norway Norway Nor Nor- wa way Denmark Greece and various various various vari vari- ous other countries who have suffered at the hands of the nazi murderers Take Denmark for example a prosperous peace peace loving loving little country the majority of ot the population working industriously on Its farms and producing some of the finest butter and bacon in the world When the nazis swooped dow non Denmark rk and seized practically all the livestock livestock livestock live live- stock In that country and transferred transferred trans trans- It to Germany it t was literally the death blow of this splendid little country And yet men like Fischer Ludwig et al al say we should not cut away part of the enemy country and give it t to another I say we should do just that and give the Germans something to remember r m r K u t the awful sUffering they have caused during the past four years J. J A A. Edwards |
