Storing up “all the guns we can” was advocated by West-brook Pegler in his New York World-Telegram column as the only sensible answer to “a maniac who slaughters and persecutes people.” Ridiculing efforts to engage in debate with the Nazis, Mr. Pegler commented: “Now, how can you make talk with a but who brags that he has the toughest army in the world and calls you a war-mongering world terrorist because you decide to buy yourself a Boy Scout suit and a kite? What answer can you give a maniac who slaughters and persecutes people of all religions and himself worships bonfires in the mood of a tenement firebug, but sends agents here to establish religious freedom in America?”
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