THE DANBURY REPORTER
Established 1872 Volume 71
The Passing Show Of Nineteen Forty* Two
DON'T FALL FOR HITLER'S LIES
The Reporter indulges the hope that but few
of its readers will allow themselves to be enmesh
ed in the web of Hitler's lying propaganda.
The Hitler propaganda is like the copperhead
that moves stealthily through the grass softly,
insinuatingly, insidiously. Jt creeps on you when
you are most unawares, and if you are of the
nincompoop mind, you are bitten.
' Of all birds and beasts, a chicken has the least
sense. When a chicken wants to save itself from
the approaching car it invariably runs under the
wheels. That is because the chicken has the nin
compoop mind.
One of Hitler's most plausible and most dan
gerous lies is the one about England. We are told
that England is using America to pull its chest
nuts out of the fire, that England is saving its
own army and expects America to do its fight
ing, and that England has done nothing in this
war except to conduct a few "masterly retreats".
. The nincompoops fell all over themselves to
swallow this lie and a good many people of sup
posed intelligence, people who ought to know
better, were caught with this chief card play of
the Hun pack.
This Hitler lie is spread to tantalize the pride
of Americans, to dampen our spirit and to
discourage and dishearten the morale of our
soldier boys.
Those who are caught by this Hitler lie entire
ly overlook one important fact:
That ENGLAND DOES NOT HAVE TO
FIGHT THIS WAR AT ALL, and could y§xy
easily have lain down and let Hitler have it,
like France did, and that the English people are
lender no obligation to the world to stand up afld
fight. I _ ■«
* Why did Britian refuke to surrender at Duff- '
kerQUt? Wheh left aJ«nfe> her army outnumbered
ten' to OMt -
i .Why didn't the i&ofebbrn, British,
who had been and betrayed by ap
pealers in their -ike the "French, lay down
their arms and Submit "to a hitler peace?
when Hitter had his "negotiated peace"
Exacted the great British fleets and added them
to his own and Navies of Japan, France and
Italy, he wotoM have automatically become the
absolute ffeaster of the seven oceans, and then
have nappened that MOST APPALLING
OF AlXi t AST ASTROPHES— THE CONQUEST
AMERICA.
i This is God's holy truth and all intelligent per
sons know it.
The humiliating and soul-harrowing slavery of
the people of England and America was saved
by the British retreat from Dunkerque, even
though it was accomplished by the loss of prac
tically all the British army's armaments and ma
terial and the death of more than 30,000 brave
Englishmen.
But England stood fast and refused to surren
der, even as Russia is standing today, and her l
continued steadfast standfast gave America its
vital time to prepare.
Only nincompoops say that England has done
nothing worth while in this war.
None is so blind as those who cannot see,
The sacrifices of the British in this war have
keen terrible Starting out like America half
cocked, egregiously unprepared, she has paid
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'! It is evidently the purpose of the United Na
tions high command to do just enough to tli:
[yellow rats of the yellow seas to hold them in
I [check until the smash of Hitler is over, then go
lin and pulverize Japan.
Anyway, the Japs are cleaned well out of the
! Solomon Islands while the late Jap push againsc
Australians in New Guinea has been halted.
The Solomon isles is a solemn thought to the
Nips, evidently, as business is at almost a stand
still around the eddies and the jetties of the
Coral Sea where so many rodents have lately
been drinking too much water, while the rat
navy has been reduced nearly half and more
than cent, of their air force has been shot
down by the Americans.
OPENING OF THE EYES OF
THE ISOLATIONISTS
The Rev. Robt. I. Gannon, President of Ford
ham University, is quite frank. See what he says
now:
"Only a year ago there were many loyal Ameri
cans—and I was one of them—who felt that this
was not our war....
"Yet, humiliating as it is, I am ready to confess
that we were wrong and that President Roose
velt was right. It was our war from the first.
"If the President had listened to mp, China, Rus
sia and Great Britian would now be prostrate,;
and we should be facing our zero hour alone and,
unprepared." •
If Bob Reynolds, Burton K. Wheeler, Taft, Nye
and a few dozen other of the gang that compro
mised the safety of the American people, would I
participate with President Gannon in thts dish 1
of frieaseed crow, they might not this late help;
Jheir country bpt they could ease their conscien
ces, J
"""/J. FARMER PSYCPOLOGY.^af^.
The gold tide laps in—ah, sweetheart, dry
those tears —the averages down east are flutter
ing around 45—our warehouse doors swing* on
their rusty hinges next Tuesday—the days
with .the swiftness of a beered driv
er in his flight—the jaybird im'gs ¥roW the hick
ory limb prognosticating: early fhost—to hell
with jaybirds and their .fearty frosts—nights a
dream with Diana hoveriftg in the purple ether.
I '—— iaMliW "*■"; . 'TT r ■MMM— r * . ■ —B—fcMai ———■»
with her bloody frwfeat and tears. At Singapore,
Burma, in South Africa and in the Mediterra
nean, she has paid a heartrending price for her
tragic unpreparedness.
But England fights on and will fight on. The
Anglo-Saxon spirit dies but never surrenders.'
Though her fleets and shipping have suffered,!
though 40,000 of her men, women and children j
have died on the island home under German |
I bombs, England fights on and will continue to
fight on. She is building ships and more ships,
and training armies that will be in at the death
when the mo'.v>r KitW is at las* and
captured.
Her RAF daily pays tribute over the North
Sea, France and Germany, hut the toll taken
of the German war factories is prodigious, and
when the Americans who are pouring in in ever
increasing numbers are ready with full fledged
help, it.will be a gloomy-and destroying day for
the invaders of the peace and happiness of the
world. JLr+flß
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IN THE YELLOW SEAS
THE ONLY WAY TO INSI'KE I'KACi;
IX THK WORLD
i This newspaper believes and has always be
lieved that the only way to have peace in the
jworld is to exterminate Germany and HOLD
jTHE PEOPLE OF GERMANY IN BONDAGE
■ until their consuming ambition to rule other
people is destroyed.
This idea that the German people are forced
against their will to follow Hitler and his co-as
sassins, is all gush and poppycock.
The German people are backing Hitler with
all of their determination and power, and will
continue to back him until enough of them are
annihilated to break the back of their conceit
and arrogance and to slake their thirst for
blood and conquest.
The people of Germany backed the Kaiser un
til the armies of the allies were driving toward
Berlin led by Gen. Pershing and his matchless
divisions of Americans and until four millions
of Huns were either dead or in hospitals.
The German cannot understand any treatment
except force, and is dead to the pleas of mercy
or reason.
_.The Reporter is glud to note what an eminent
Englishman said li?st week which is exactly
along our ideas for the methods of peace to be
adopted by the United Nations when the menace
of the German has been utterly and irretrievably
smashed.
j Mr. Frank Walstencroft, who is President of
the British Trades Union Congress, said in his
'address: * "TTVVTi*; *
| "This war is being fought against the German
people and not against Nazi leaders.
1 "Far, far better for the world that 80 or 90 mil
[lion people should be held under bond if neces
sary, than that countless millions yet unborn
shculd be called to undergo what many millions
have gone through twice in our lifetime.
"I am one of those who feel bound to recognize
that the vast majority of German people—all
that mattered—were behind the Nazi gangsters
when they gave effect to their policy of attempt
ing the conquest and domination of Europe.
"I hate to say it, but I am convinced that the
German people will again, if not prevented, at
some not distant date attempt to enslave Europe.
Tf we are agreed that the German people are
prepared to accept decade by decade domination
by a few bloodthirsty warmongers, then must
the democratic peoples be fools indeed if they
cannot—not in vengeful or destructive spirit,
hut for the cause of peace and good will for all
,who desire peace—hold down the German na
tion until they show by deeds and not words
| that they are willing to co-operate for the good
of mankind,"
KATE SMITH AND THE NIGHT
Last night at dusk the bright crescent moon
swung low over the mountain giving the effect
of Kate Smith peeping over the peak, winking
a half closed devlish eye.
The suggestion was enhanced by the dismal
contralto of a screech owl on the roof wailing
for its rats, while a bull frog in the meadow sent
up a basso-prof undo.
»M •,
It was all very eerie, profoundly lugubrious'
and entirely incapacitating.
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