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Show out of doors after 8 p. m. and are barred from all theaters, concerts, etc. If they rent an apartment apart-ment or house they may be ousted at will by landlords according to nazl law; thus they art forced to crowd together In the poorest sort of accomodations. If the nazls can so treat a German minority, certainly there Is every reason to expect that they will treat a Polish minority Just as severely. se-verely. Fact of the matter Is that the world Is up against. an entirely different type of conquest than It has seen In many years and It Is dlf- f leu It for us who live In an enlightened and humanitarian democracy to realize It. As that distinguished scholar and writer, Walter Llppmann, said In a column recently: "The conquests of the communists, like the conquests con-quests of the nazls, are radically different from the ordinary military occupation of a foreign country. As we have seen In Austria, Czechoslovakia Czecho-slovakia and In both halves of Poland, these conquerors do not merely occupy the territory of their victims; they deliberately exterminate the leaders of the vanquished nation. When they take possession of a country, they systematically system-atically kill. Imprison and exile the political, economic. Intellectual and religious leaders. In order to deprive the peasants and workers and small merchants of any organized leadership arnimrt whlh, IhfV CgO. rl'yT"' has been. the nazl and communist program In Poland. It Is the communist program in Finland, and after Finland, unless Sweden surrenders and becomes a vassal. It will be the program In the rest of Scandinavia." What a horrible Indictment of our twentieth century civilization! Yet It Is all too true. The Imperialistic system of these modern bandit nations na-tions Is a reversion to the methods of barbarians barbar-ians in war and conquest. Ruthless brutality In battle; systematic extermination of vanquished leaders; enslavement of the populace! What a sorry state the human race will have fallen to If that savage system Is spread over the world! Surely mankind must and will be saved from such a fate not Just the present victims, but the potential victims; yes, and the perpetrators, too, saved from their own bestiality. bes-tiality. Terrible as the suffering of the Poles may be, the future may prove them martyrs to the cause of the salvation of the world from a new Dark Ages. MACHINE TEST The Louisiana political machine built by Huey Long faces Its first real test in 12 years as a result of bitter opposition of reform elements In the gubernatorial election elec-tion Juat concluded. A sizeable majority of the voter of the state turned against Huey's brother, the machine candidate. That forces a . Tun-oft election at which. If the opposition sticks together, the machine can be beaten . . . Whether that happens or not, the machine's failure In the primary serves notice that the Iron-tlsted grip of the "Kingfish" and his henchmen hench-men on Louisiana voters Is broken, and that the people of the state have recaptured their rights ai fret citizens of a democracy. |