Decrying administration attacks on dictator nations as increasing war sentiment, former Undersecretary of State William R. Castle told an American Legion group here last night that pacifists, whom he described as the most dangerous of American citizens, “seem really to want us to go to war to protect the Jews in Germany.” Mr. Castle continued:
“This is a curious thing. Its basis is claimed to be purely humanitarian and yet just as many Christians have been killed in Russia as there are Jews in Germany and you never hear a cry that we ought to go to war with the Soviet to save the lives of their citizens who are still being ‘liquidated’ rapidly. You never heard people urging that we go to war with the so called ‘legitimist’ government of Spain because of their murder of all who disagreed with them. There is splendid propaganda somewhere against Germany and Italy to the exclusion of other dictatorships and we Americans fall for it.”
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