These Hebrews want to turn out the German nation from the community of civilized peoples.—Herr Alfred Rosenberg.
Herr Rosenberg, a word with you— You Nazis, so I understand, Not only hate but fear the Jew, Who gains, you think, the upper hand Throughout your German Fatherland.
In medicine, and law, and trade, Finance, art, science, and the rest, His brains must beat you, you’re afraid— So interpose a racial test. Well, well, there’s no doubt you know best.
Yet, in your latest screed, your fears Have brought so wild a jest to birth As, falling upon alien ears, May well convulse the listening earth With one wild peal of scornful mirth.
For, if your bullyings and boastings, Baitings of Socialists and Jews, Your castor-oil, your Kaiser-toastings, Your dread of people who refuse To feed the world with garbled news—
If these (since you will pass) should fail To lay your country ‘neath a ban, This fancied plot, at which you quail, Would be the merest “also-ran.” If you can’t do it, no one can.
Mac Flecknoe
From the New Statesman and Nation
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