The Archive · 1935

Mentor's View

To the Editor of the "Normi-Curwa Dany News"

Sm—Mr. Fritz Reiber has profected his views in your esteemed columns at a most opportune hour when the momentous thanksgiving festival has taken possession of Britishers and England's well who have greeted His Jubilee "with mirth and with songs, with tabrets and with tarps", to use a Biblical phrase.

Your correspondent pleads ° for Germany with vigour and rhetoric, as you point out, and requires that the victor nations should allow her the rights and privileges to which she is entitled". "Is she everlastasks Mr. treaty of [the kind which savage nigger tribes may inflict on their vanquished foe, but to which no civilized nation ever condemned another?"

Tu your leaderette, you conclude with the recommendation that Mr. Reiber should ponder on the implications of Sir Austen Chamber Tain's views which are cited by you and indeed it will not be a hazardous task for Mr. Reiber to take into con [sideration another viewpoint con: Jointly with the foregoing when re-Uring to his study for a period of elf-searching and. meditation Does it not seem to your correspondent that Germany's fight for a recognition of her rights on the basis of equality with the other nations hardly justifies her treatment of her law-abiding subjects with such scant and callous grace? Why does nation which pleads for her rightful place among the comity " of nations treat her minority subjects Inarshly and with bestial "brutality? Why does she deny them the elementary rights which Mr. Reiber himself claims is the birthright of every freeman in the human family, while at the same time she struggles for the self-same rights which are denied her defenceless minorities? Why are concentration camps scatter ed al! over the length and breadth of the land which are full of languishing unfortunates erying for deliverance from Heaven? Does such

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