The Icelandic Canadian - 01.10.1942, Side 9

The Icelandic Canadian - 01.10.1942, Side 9
THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN 5 Canadians also pondered deeply. Al- though the minds of some may at that time not have been so clear as they are now, yet an overwhelming majority of Canadians agreed when the House of Commons on September 9, without a count of votes and with very few dis- senting voices endorsed the decision of the government to take up arms for the defence of Canada and resistance to further aggression by Germany. On September 10, a proclamation was signed by the King—the King of Canada —declaring that a state of war existed between Canada and Germany. All Canadians felt a certain pride that the decision, so momentous and so fateful was Canada’s own. Even though our minds are now crystal clear it is well to keep the grim facts before us. We should every once in a while pause and review them. It not only helps to answer our question; it will steel us in our determination to do our duty no matter what the cost. Nazi Germany The writings of German leaders of thought from Hegel to Nietzsche and down to those who provided the inspir- ation for Mein Kampf leave no doi'K in our minds of the determination of Germany to rule the world. But the Nazis have made their special contri- bution. They have schemed the diabolical method by which they are going to keep mankind enslaved. No one has put it more bluntly than Richard W. Darre, who, in May, lfMC when he was Minister of Agriculture ir the Reich, uttered these ominous words- “Germany is not only the leading nation of the world but a nation pre- destined to rule the world. A new aristocracy of German masters will be created. This aristocracy will have slaves assigned to it, these slaves to be their property and to consist of landless, non-German nationals. We actually have in mind a modern form of mediaeval slavery.” The story of the people of Poland, Czecho - Slovakia, Greece, Yugoslavia and the other conquered countries of Europe, since they came under the Nazi yoke, reveals that these were not idle words. It is after the war is over and a country has been conquered that the greatest suffering begins. It is the" that the vicious technique in conquest, termed “The New Order,” is put into practice. According to this technique the conquered peoples are to be system- atically reduced to a state of slavery. Those who persist in offering resistance, active or passive, must be liquidated. But that is not the fate of all. The more submissive type are to be spared—men and women whose mentality is such that they and their progeny might be- come willing slaves. Dr. A. N. Sack, Professor of Law at New York Univer- sity, says: “The barbarous German practices in the war have a twofold purpose: to prevent national resurrection of the vanquished people and to create in the conquered land living room for the new masters. The ghastly means of accom- plishing this purpose has been selec- tive execution of religious, educational and political leaders of the subjugated people; wholesale slaughter of selected classes of people and of everybody in selected populated places; starvation, disease and cold — as the result of plunder, devastation or mass deporta- tion of human cattle in freight trains under conditions certain to kill off most of them before or soon after arr'vr' at the uninhabitable place of destin- ation.’’ But it is not enough to reduce all non-Nazis to a state of abject slavery. All ennobling instincts must be crushed. For that reason Christianity, and indeed every form of worship of a Supreme Being, must be blotted out. For ulterior motives there may have been a tempor- ary recognition of some religious bodies,

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