The unanimous protest made by the American republics against the Nazi aggression on Holland and Belgium should recall the fact that, in modern "total" war, words can sometimes be as effective as bullets. To the many Germans who listened in secretly to the broadcast news of this protest, there must have come grave doubt of the truth of the news with which they have been fed by Dr. Goebbels' machine. Why, they must have asked themselves, should nearly the whole world condemn German aggression if the Nazi case is as good as Dr. Goebbels has tried to make out? If it were proved, as the Nazis claimed, that Britain and France designed to attack the Reich through the Low Countrie: why should it be necessary for the whole of the western hemisphere to condemn Germany's moves to forestall such an Allied attack "an unjustifiable and cruel violation by Germany of the neutrality and sovereignty" of the states in question? To these questions the Nazis can, of course, give no truthful answer They had no reason for the attack, and th flimsiness of their excuses is too apparent. It a remarkable fact that parts of South America well colonized by Germans should take the lead in initiating such a protest. That fact should surely worry the Berlin tyrants who pose as the champions of German racialism all over the world. Not insignificant is it, also, that Italian emigration to South America has Iso been large and that Italy has been for many years endeavouring to cultivate closer relations with the South American nations The condemnation of Hitler will no doubt be received in the proper spirit in Rome's more extremist cirels, But this is by the way. The portance of the united protest by the American republics lies in the plain intimation to th: world that "might is right" or "the state is made for war" are entirely wrong. There still a love of freedom outside the boundaries of the territory controlled by Hitler and his hordes,
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