Show 21 6 GLE tp 0 k 20 ity fill westbrook brook pealer PRESIDENT TRUMAN who re less than halt half of th tili votes cast in the national diction elic tion presumed to say in his speech that the american peorl are determined to work for a world work in which all nations and all are free to govern themselves ai they see fit ile he made several friendly over tures to god and spoke favorably favo rabi 0 f religion a P n d righteousness the th combined effect e f f e c I 1 was an td cd assumption thal thai the people of the tha united states are pious good and almost unanimously democratic A and n d only 24 hours boi fore he h e had I 1 frank ra k I 1 ly said that god P E ta almighty in 1020 1 intended the united states to assume 1116 its position of re but had been frustrated the vein of intimacy with god almighty in the orations lors of this prophet is reminiscent of the bulls of kaiser wilhelm who made him self ridiculous in the minds of many americans and came to be known as the senior partner in the firm ol of me und gott other nations and breeds re carded all this as outrageous impudence and while it cannot be said ald that they went to war solely to rebuke wilhelm and the he germans for an irritating assumption of superiority it Is a fact that they were indignant more germans were killed by way of proof that god was not with them contrary to the motto on their buckles than with conscious intent ol of their enemies to make the world safe ate for democracy few german sol most diers actually bein cleved that the kals ymca or er was any coset closer to gott than anyone else and most of those on the american side who thought the war was being fought to make the world sate safe for democracy were in the Y M C A with harold L ickes and francis bowes boves sayre since become the superior of alger hiss in the state department part ment or were making speeches as minute men in the vaudeville theatres theartres the atres at home franklin D 1 roosevelt undoubtedly believed that the mission of the american soldier was to make the world sate safe for democracy democrat cy and he devoted his six feet three of magnificent ent idealism to sedentary bureaucracy in adolf hitler adopted a si sivillar millar theme it is true that his god was a vague pagan apparition widely believed to have been spurious but der Fuehr ers program was a very MY model for president Tr ney prescription for paradise now with one lamentable lamenia ble exception hitler was behind the times in few things but that lamentable exception was one had he looked to our history he could have learned tha that t the next pretender alter after the nazis naris to the proud estate of gods chosen people the citizens of 0 the U S A had thoroughly tried in murderous pra practise c the crime of genocide in our wars with the indians the phrase the only good indian is a dead indian meant to our solders and other front frontiersmen lem just what the words say 17 hitler t I 1 e r believed first that the german ot of people were a su tole perlor breed and had a destiny of leadership he In intended tendel that they should mitat sit at first gablein table ta blein in all material matters mr truman spread before the american people a prospect of more and more abundance for ourselves knowing knowin g that lahe if he had even mentioned any possibility of self dental denial rationing and meatless and heatless days the nobility of his follow fellow ct liens would have collapsed under the strain I 1 find no authority for mr Tr statement that tho the american people are deter mined to work for a world in which chall all n atlon and I 1 all peonies are arc free to govern themselves us as they see fit they have never expressed themselves to that thai effect no such proposition was put to thern them in the election which avide him president by a halt hairline line plurality but not by a majority of the votes and when mr truman said 1 I am interested in seeing this great notion nation tion assume its position of responsibility nsf which god almighty in 1920 intended that we should assume and which we did not assume he dodged the fact that the people refused to accept the responsibility after thorough debate the decision was made by the people prop leot of the united st seste by a vote much n more emphatic than the vote by which 28 23 years later in a dearth of men they elected a candidate so ill esteemed that most of the bosses of his own corrupt and predatory I 1 party had disowned him |