Prelude to War Page #3

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"The Christian cross is to be removed from all

churches and cathedrals and to be replaced...

..by the immortal symbol of Germany

the swastika."

Berlin, 1935 700,000 members of the Protestant

Youth organizations were forced to disband.

Thousands of other men of God,

Protestant, Catholic, Jewish,

..wee persecuted, arrested and

confined in concentration camps.

"Our Fhrer is the intermediary between

his people and the throne of God.

Everything the Fhrer utters, is

religion in the highest sense.

It is only on one or two exceptional points

that Christ and Hitler stand on comparison,

..for Hitler is far too big a man to

be compared with one so petty."

Everyday in all German classrooms,

"Adolf Hitler is our savoir our hero"

"He is the noblest being

in the whole wide world."

"For Hitler we live."

"For Hitler we die."

"Our Hitler is our Lord."

"Who rules a brave new world."

Yes take children from the faith of their fathers,

and teach them that the state is the only church.

And the head of the State,

is the voice of God.

"l want to see again, in the eyes of the youth,

the gleam of the beast of prey" --Hitler

That was the way of life, or better,

the way of death in that other world.

Now what of our world?.

What did we want?.

What did we do about it?.

First of all,

we wanted peace and security.

And to prove our sincerity, in 1921 we initiated

the Washington Disarmament Conference.

This resulted in two

vitally important treaties.

One, to reduce the size of the British,

Japanese, French, ltalian andAmerican Fleets.

And the other, the Nine-Power Treaty,

which guaranteed the integrity of China,

And incidentally, one of the powers

signing this was Japan.

Later on in 1 929, we signed

the Kellog-Briand Pact...

..which was suppose to abolish wars in

a means of settling international disputes.

This pact was signed by 47 nations,

including Germany and Japan.

"Mr. President, I have the honour of

handing you the London NavalTreaty."

Faithful to our treaty obligations,

..we scraped more than 60%

of our Naval tonnage.

And our Army was reduced to a

standing force of 136,000 men.

Smaller than that maintained by Romania.

We let our hopes for peace become so strong,

that they grew into determination...

..not to fight unless directly attacked.

We let ourselves be influenced by

those who said we could find...

..security through isolation.

The confusion in our way

of thinking is apparent.

In the slice of public opinion, as it

appeared in Athe News in 1939.

"Another war?. Not for me. This time

America should keep out, and I know I will."

"lf war breaks out in Europe, I think this country

should heed the advice of the First President,

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