Senator William H. King (Den., Utan) today attacked, from the Senate floor, “the baneful, dangerous philosophy thrust on the world by the Nazi regime,” asserting that “Nazism is the foe of all religion; it seeks the destruction not only of the Jews but of other religious elements.”
“The real motive in the cruel persecution of the Jews,” Senator King said, “is to rid Germany of a people historically and spiritually the seekers of peace, who created the concept of one God; to rob them of their property, real and personal, and give it to the Nazi followers as a reward for their barbarous actions; to add to the revenues of the Nazi State; to establish a precedent for exploitation and confiscation of Catholic and Protestant Church property later; to make the State completely totalitarian in religious as well as political power.”
Hitler complains of the oppressiveness of the Versailles Treaty, he said, “but what kind of peace treaty would Germany have imposed on the Allied Nations if she won the World War, in the light of the treaties now imposed on Austria and Czecho-Slovakia?” He added that the American Government had the right to protest brutality abroad.
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