Westbrook Pegler, New York World-Telegram columnist, declared today that as a result of the Russo-German non-aggression pact, “these American Communists, particularly the Jews among them, who hate Nazism and hoped that Stalinism was somehow different, will begin to edge away from their affiliation.”
“This deal between the two dictators will compel an honest examination of Nazism and Communism not by a few but by many millions, and that inspection will reveal beyond any honest man’s ability to doubt that the difference is only one of Labels, “Pegler wrote.
Heywood Broun, another World-Telegram columnist, analyzed the position of those Americans who had supported Hitler on the ground that he was the man to save the world from Bolshevism. He quoted an editorial in the Hearst newspapers which supported a four-power pact among Germany, Italy, England and France as uniting “the sane and civilized and intelligently progressive nations of Europe against the destructively radical and revolutionary nations.” On the basis of this quotation, Broun challenged Hearst to say whether Nazi anti-Semitism and other manifestations of Hitlerism were “sane and civilized and intelligently progressive.”
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