"Witchcraft has been enthroned and modern dictators have set themselves vp as High Priests of a more cruel, more refined, voodooism.
As a man-God ruler of a tribe, the dictator follows a form familiar to every student of primitive cultures."
Mr. Ickes attacked Mr. Henry Ford and Colonel Lindbergh for accepting decorations from Herr Hitler.
"How can any American, calling himself a Christian, accept decorations from the hands of a brutal dictator, who, with the same hands, robs and tortures thousands of his fellow humans? Perhaps Mr. Ford and Colonel Lindbergh will be willing to answer.
"These are not the only ones who have accepted a token of contemptuous distinction at a time when the bestower, himself, counts the day lost when he can commit no new crime against humanity."
Mr. Ickes declared that Fascism was an ever-present threat to the United States, "as it is to France and, even more, to the mother of democracies, England."—Reuter.
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