For the brotherhood of man is openly scorned. Worship of person and state are given precedence over worship of God. The rights of peoples and nations to freedom of speech, religion, and selt-government are denied. Unjustified, unprovoked attacks have been made on innocent countries and pebbles, and their moral weakened through instigated treachery.
That, briefly, is the situation as the "Christian Science Monitor" recognizes it, and it feels its readers must be kept alert to these dangers, and not be misguided by well-meaning but mistaken arguments that in order to be just, they and this newspaper must be impartial and aloof. The greatest justice that can be accorded the German people is to see clearly that their present course of action is harming themselves most of all. And then firmly, with compassion and love, we should do everything possible to help free all peoples from the prevailing evils.
The "Christian Science Monitor" has worked for years to further a loving attitude toward the German people. I recognized the serious plight of Germany after the World War, and it repeatedly has emphasized the neces sity of rectifying the injustices of the Versailles Treaty. It cannot, however, uphold or endorse the methods which have been employed to achieve that end, and it must vigorously oppose the crimes against civilization being committed under the guise of justice-seeking.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.