A belief which has already become fixed in the minds of countless thousands, Jews and Gentiles alike, that Germany by its policy of Gleichschaltung, which means that purified Aryanism will be attained at the price of a crushed Jewish population, will thereby become a third-rate power, was expressed by Ralph D. Blumenfeld in an address here.
Speaking before a large audience which gathered at the University of Iowa, Mr. Blumenfeld, for thirty years editor of the London Daily Express, who is now here on a speaking tour, said that by throttling its 600,000 Jews the German nation is losing much of its brain power. The eventual result of the suppression and wholesale expulsion of its “intelligentsia”, he said, will be that the Third Reich will lose its place among the commonwealth of world powers.
Under the aegis of the Kaiser, the Reich army and navy and civil service were managed by the aristocracy, which excluded the Jews, Mr. Blumenfeld continued. The latter were obliged to enter other pursuits for their livelihood. These pursuits were chiefly business and scholarship.
Following the War, when German aristocracy found itself dispossessed, the higher-ups demanded the ousting of the Jews, whom they termed usurpers, Mr. Blumenfeld reflected.
“If civilization is to survive,” he continued, “the United States and England cooperatively must be prepared to exercise the dominant world influence, else civilization will disappear as other civilizations before have failed and disappeared.”
Speaking of the League of Nations, Mr. Blumenfeld said that the conception for this great peace organization was born in the United States, and once born, it was “deserted and left on the doorstep of Europe.”
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