The Icelandic Canadian - 01.10.1942, Blaðsíða 9

THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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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,