Show OTHERS HS H'S VIEWS vI Reader Commends Action Of Chamberlain n By L L. L A. A Hollenbeck March 17 1939 Editor Let us rise to international questions for a moment I have just listened in on Neville ChamberlaIns ChamberlaIn's Chamberlains Chamberlain's Chamberlains Chamberlain's Cham Cham- great speech at Birmingham Binning Binning- ham England on German absorption absorption absorption tion of Slovakia Czecho-Slovakia by force His words were vere as clear elear and distinct distinct distinct dis dis- dis- dis as though you were actually in his audience at Birmingham He analyzed the Munich treaty of peace last September Showed that Herr Hitler promised that h he would make no further egressions ag- ag in Europe without consultation and showed that he violated the treaty in several several several sev sev- eral particulars when he by military military military mili mili- tary force swallowed up CzechoSlovakia CzechoSlovakia Czechoslovakia Czecho Czecho- slovakia last week all in violation of a solemnly signed treaty at Munich and Indicated that from now on no confidence could be put in either the spoken or written agreements or pacts with Hitler Just previous to this speech by Chamberlain Summer Welles Velles assistant assistant assistant as as- secretary of state with the full consent and knowledge of President Roosevelt condemned the action by Hitler which was probably radioed over the world just previous to the address of Prime Minister Chamberlain and listened to by the nations comprising comprising comprising com com- the British Empire as well as the United States Chamberlain told the world that while he lie prized peace no less than any other man in the world there was one thing that he prized even greater than peace peace and and that was liberty Patrick Henry would have said the same thing thing Give Give me me liberty or give me death Chamberlain proclaimed that in inthe inthe inthe the in interest terest of peace he had a aright aright aright right to assume that Hitler in the pres presence ce of Mussolini and Chamberlain Chamberlain Chamberlain Cham Cham- would observe his solemn treaty And had those promises been ignored by Chamberlain that hundreds of thousands of the English English English Eng Eng- lish speaking families would now be mourning their dead through the civilized world Chamberlain truly pointed out that there was nothing that the nations of the world could do even by war to save Czecho Slovakia Czecho-Slovakia at that time He chose the treaty and if that failed it was perhaps better to have failed that way than to have failed by the disaster of ofa a a world war Some critics say that the policy of Anthony Eden should have prevailed prevailed prevailed pre pre- previous to Chamberlain coming to power and that Britian should have plunged into the Spanish Spanish Spanish Span Span- ish war in opposition to Italy and Germany That would have meant a world worl l war of tremendous pro pro- portions That would have meant Italy Germany and nd Japan against Great Britain France and Russia Russia was communist Spain's so called democracy was going communist Japan Italy and Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many were fighting communism Communism is the doctrine of Karl Marx which is the most disastrous governmental and economic policy that was ever hatched in the civilized civilized civilized civil civil- world or anywhere else Spain on one side was was fighting for communism and on the other was fighting for Fascism and Nazism Nazism Nazism Naz Naz- ism which is closely like communism communIsm communism ism and about as bad Even our Dies congressi congressional nal committee in congress showed that Russian communists fighting for the loyalists loyalists loyalists loyal loyal- in Spain secretly killed American American American Am Am- volunteers who were also fighting for loyalist Spain because i ithe the Russians were aware that the I Americans were not in favor of Communism Great Britain was divided with witha a a. powerful labor element with communistic leanings as against democracy and freedom Democracy Democracy Democracy Demo Demo- cracy can have no choice between communism and Nazism and Fas Fas- cism If such a war had happened as Anthony Eden seemed to want the communists would have possibly possibly possibly pos pos- sibly overthrown the British Empire Empire Empire Em Em- pire in favor of communism It would have been an utter absurdity absurdity absurdity absurd absurd- I ity for the British Empire Empire Empire-a a free country to have joined hands with Russia which is the most entrenched entrenched entrenched en en- trenched and law ridden despotism that the world has ever se seen m. m Instead Instead Instead In In- stead of such a war settling anything anything anything any any- thing af of all it would have been a war that would have been a total eclipse for justices and right principles principles prin prin- because both bolh sides would have been fighting for a multiplicity multiplicity multiplicity of fallacies The world democracies cles have not been prepared for any war They did not understand themselves their issues were obscured by a chaos of wrong thinking Both the logic and the psychology was as was wrong That is no time to get into a war During the war ar between between between be be- tween the States of America there was a large party in the North that urged Lincoln to issue an emancipation proclamation for the freedom of the negroes There was j also a large party in the North that opposed it it Had Lincoln acted acted acted act act- ed as the enthusiasts wanted him to and freed the negroes early in that war the probability is that he would have lost last lo t the war There is a time to do a thing and and a time not to do it The time is measured by right understanding and mental comprehension of ot a people The statesman or nation who ignores Ignores ignores ig Ig- nores these facts is lost unless they get on the right track again Chamberlain has proven himself a Ii avery avery very able statesman L L. 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