CHAPTER VIII

False Civilization

Quos Deus vult perders dementat prius.Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Sun-Rank Banardasked me if it would be convenient for us to make an all around planet tour of visits to their different continents and races. They all would like to welcome you before your departure.

We not only accepted the invitations for the tour but three of us also volunteered to speak at the presidential banquet, so I handed in their names to Sun-Rank Banard.

Next morning early we boarded our excursion plane for the first itinerary of our tour. After landing at a large airport of another beautiful large city, we were welcomed by their greeting committee, with their band playing our national anthem, and our other triumphal marching songs; while we were marching in a file to their large stadium.

Big crowds on both sides of our route and a great many body flyers overhead, all noisily welcomed and respectfully saluted us.

Their decorated large stadium was packed to capacity of over one hundred thousand persons. With the band leading us all around inside the arena, we were greeted with loud cheering and sprinkled with beautiful flowers, and all of them in their Martian language, wishing me Bon Voyage, with my safe and quick return.

After marching around a couple of times, we were led to a large outstandingly decorated front lower seating box, where we were received in a most friendly and cordial manner by their dignitaries who asked us to sit among them.

They then started their very interesting athletic games, and body flying stunts.

All that day and until we boarded our airship, they outdid themselves to entertain, to make us comfortable, and to show us around.

It took us a whole week with many stops to circle the globe; we were treated, and received everywhere with the greatest honor and acclaim. We arrived back in Amboria in time to bathe, rest, and get ourselves ready for the evening banquet appointment.

Sun-Rank Banard with about a dozen of high rank officials arrived in a large plane to escort us to the Presidential home.

The grandeur of the building, without a single guard, and the marvelous outside, and inside decorations of that sumptuous palace, as well as its large magnificent banquet hall and table service with the richly dressed large assembly of notables was a beautiful and unforgettable sight.

When we were announced they all stood up and gave us a cheer, and the band started to play our national anthem in which they all joined in its singing. To us it was a very impressive and grandiose feeling. We were led to the head table on the dais, and each one of us was seated between the most important of their citizens. My seat was between their president and their vice-president.

Their food was excellent, all this splendor, inspiring in us a profound admiration, it would take me too long to give details. After the last course was served, Sun Rank Banard as toastmaster announced the President as their first speaker. In a long eloquent speech, he not only said that we were welcome as permanent inhabitants of Mars, but also gave me his, and all Martians good parting wishes with the hope of my success and return.

The toastmaster then announced that the guest speakers of the evening will be some members of my crew who will give an account of some of their experiences in Germany.

He then introduced Mr. Louis Richards, a former history professor on Earth.

"Honorable President, ladies and gentlemen of Mars. I am overwhelmed, I never dreamed that there were human beings on the other planets, and I certainly never expected to be present on your globe speaking to such a distinguished assembly of Martians.

"It is an outstanding feeling of honor to be the first earthman chosen to address you. At this meeting and this banquet, it may not be a pleasant subject to vividly present the suffering, misery and cruelty on our planet.

"But being that we all here have a holy mission to fulfill, to save all us earthmen in spite of ourselves, we are going to tell you only a small part of what has occurred. The few of us here, earthmen, who were sightseers of atrocious happenings on our planet, will recount to you what took place.

"With the development on earth of sciences, physical strength gradually became nullified so that skill, invention, and treachery became uppermost in national diplomacy, battles, and wars with some of our earth's nations.

"Since time immemorial we earthmen with our inherent and uncontrollable addiction lusted to possess our neighbor's property by robbing, killing, conquering, enslaving, and even eating him. In our constant raids, bloody conquests, and feuds between families, tribes, and classes, and aggressions between nations up to the present time, there have been criminal and selfish conflicts, 'an endless circle of force, retaliation, violence and war.'[32]

"Exploration brought on our imperialism. In territorial aggrandizement we conquered and exterminated large numbers of native populations, and cruelly ruled, and exploited them.

"Our craving for power and imperialism has led us to the most cruel wars, in which the flower of our youth has been killed or injured on the battlefields.

"Since recorded history, there has been a long gruesome record of billions of our men in their prime who lost their lives on the fields of battle, and the most vigorous and virile of our youngmen were slaughtered and maimed. Both victors and vanquished were the losers.

"Our theory of the survival of the strongest is deceptive, for it applies only to our wild and domestic animals.

"The weak, sick, feeble-minded, unfit, and old men left at home, plus some of the crippled soldiers who returned were and are to a great extent our progenitors. No wonder one of our senate committees got the following reports:"

Washington, Aug. 26, 1946. (UP) The Army's top psychiatrist told a Senate Committee yesterday, Gen. William C. Menninger, chief of the War Department's Psychiatric Division, declared that—1. Psychoneurosis was the basis for 43 per cent of the Army's medical discharges. There were 300,000 men discharged for 'neuropsychiatric reasons.'2. Another 130,000 men were let out because of inadaptability or ineptness, which, Menninger said, is 'another way of indicating that personality factors did not permit them to fit into a job in the army.'Washington, Sept. 19, 1945 (AP)—Major General Louis B. Hershey, selective service director, disclosed today that:Of boys nineteen and twenty years of age, 40 per cent were found to have beginning sclerosis, or hardening of these organs. Of those twenty-one to thirty years of age, 45 per cent had beginning hardening of the liver, and 57.5 per cent had beginning hardening of the kidneys. In the same age group, 40 per cent had confirmed hardening of the kidneys, while only 10 per cent revealed both liver and kidneys normal.These findings, not on sick men, but on those who passed every test and were considered perfectly well, reveal an important cause of low vitality.Among the young women who applied for admission to the Women's Army Corps, there was similar disability. Each year we lose many more persons frompreventable and premature deaths than we lost in battle or from war injuries during the entire war.[33]

Washington, Aug. 26, 1946. (UP) The Army's top psychiatrist told a Senate Committee yesterday, Gen. William C. Menninger, chief of the War Department's Psychiatric Division, declared that—

1. Psychoneurosis was the basis for 43 per cent of the Army's medical discharges. There were 300,000 men discharged for 'neuropsychiatric reasons.'

2. Another 130,000 men were let out because of inadaptability or ineptness, which, Menninger said, is 'another way of indicating that personality factors did not permit them to fit into a job in the army.'

Washington, Sept. 19, 1945 (AP)—Major General Louis B. Hershey, selective service director, disclosed today that:

Of boys nineteen and twenty years of age, 40 per cent were found to have beginning sclerosis, or hardening of these organs. Of those twenty-one to thirty years of age, 45 per cent had beginning hardening of the liver, and 57.5 per cent had beginning hardening of the kidneys. In the same age group, 40 per cent had confirmed hardening of the kidneys, while only 10 per cent revealed both liver and kidneys normal.

These findings, not on sick men, but on those who passed every test and were considered perfectly well, reveal an important cause of low vitality.

Among the young women who applied for admission to the Women's Army Corps, there was similar disability. Each year we lose many more persons frompreventable and premature deaths than we lost in battle or from war injuries during the entire war.[33]

"Above are the fathers and mothers of our future generations. To our money lust we can attribute the following shameful conditions:

"Before the war, one American in 13 or 14 had either a sick mind or a defective one. Now one in ten has crumbled. Not all will be hospitalized. But doctors estimate that one American in 20 now alive will spend some time in a mental hospital before he dies. That means seven million Americans in mental hospitals—or headed there!"We have today more sick and defective minds than there were soldiers killed in all our wars from the Revolution through World War II. More than half of all beds in all hospitals—whether equipped to handle them or not—are occupied by sick minds. Yet, for every sick mind in a hospital, there are 18 or 19 out of the hospital but who need psychiatric care. Every staff doctor in state hospitals has, on the average, 240 patients to care for. In the south central states, the average number of patients to each staff doctor is 346."The fact is that it is our youth which is cracking up. Out of every 1000 young men called up by the draft, 178 were rejected as mentally diseased or defective."Looking ahead, the psychiatrist foresees, only 20 years hence, some 16,500 senile insane and imbeciles pouring into the state hospitals every year."[34]

"We have today more sick and defective minds than there were soldiers killed in all our wars from the Revolution through World War II. More than half of all beds in all hospitals—whether equipped to handle them or not—are occupied by sick minds. Yet, for every sick mind in a hospital, there are 18 or 19 out of the hospital but who need psychiatric care. Every staff doctor in state hospitals has, on the average, 240 patients to care for. In the south central states, the average number of patients to each staff doctor is 346.

"The fact is that it is our youth which is cracking up. Out of every 1000 young men called up by the draft, 178 were rejected as mentally diseased or defective.

"Looking ahead, the psychiatrist foresees, only 20 years hence, some 16,500 senile insane and imbeciles pouring into the state hospitals every year."[34]

"Noah Webster, the lexicographer, must have been mistaken in defining the word civilization as a 'reclamation from a savage state as being cultured and refined.' He should have described it as a most horrible, shocking, and brutal state.

"'They must have been men because they killed each otherand must have been civilized because they did it frightfully'—said Voltaire.

"Our ancestors, the savage aborigines, men of the Middle Ages, and even Nero, seem to us to have been barbarous. They were saints compared to our present brutal kind. They would have been shocked had they foreseen our present cruelty, in our modern, so-called civilized age.

"Our civilized age culture brought about the age of scientific killings by some of our earth so-called civilized governments, by gas asphyxiation on the battlefields, sinkings by submarines of non-combatant ships whose innocent passengers floundered and drowned in the troughs of the high seas, and without warning the bombardment of open cities with the extermination of their blameless inhabitants.

"Having seen the perfect life on your planet, we feel a sense of shame, guilt, and disgrace in the conduct of our fellow earth men. It never seriously occurred to us that money lust was the primary cause of our misfortunes. We never gave it a thought that we could live without it.

"Thanking you for the opportunity of letting me talk to you. You will now hear from our following speakers of terrible happenings on our planet."

The toastmaster then announced Mr. David Levy as the second earthman speaker.

"Honorable President and Vice-President and distinguished Martian representatives. If it wasn't that we are all here, trying to find ways and means to help my fellow earthmen, I would feel ashamed to relate what I am going to, but under the circumstances I feel it honorable. I am a German-Jewish refugee, a member of a suffering earth sect. I was in Germany before the war, and also a member of a contingent of American troops in the start of its invasion.

"In spite of all our earthman's good religious teachings and commandments, we have always been afflicted with superstition and bigotry, until it has become a complex. Our apparently groundless dislike of our fellow man leads us to regard him with antipathy, enmity, and even hatred for imaginary grievances. We get prejudiced against him because he may be of a differentnation, language, religion, or color; or because he may not eat the same foods or wear the same kinds of clothes; or because he may wear long hair or beard; or because he may not follow our customs and manners. We take offense against him for his abstinence, envy him for his sober progressive industry, or become jealous of him for his studious qualities and professional knowledge and success.

"Against these minorities and nations we first give vent to our vengeance, by baiting him with the utmost cruelty to acquire his land, property and wealth.

"A tragedy of a large remnant of my ancestors occurred in the year 70, when Titus of Rome conquered the agricultural nation of Israel, taking them all away from Palestine to captivity in Italy. They were not allowed to continue in the pursuit of their chosen agricultural occupation, but were sold as slaves. On the fall of Rome they seem to have been freed, and they wandered among all Christian countries of Europe. Wherever they went, they were not allowed to purchase land to follow their old occupation of farming and cultivation or to join the labor guilds; they were forced to become money changers, lenders, traders, or tax collectors.

"For long ages nearly all the great Christian religious bodies condemned the charging of interest on loans; therefore, some of their kings and feudal lords compelled the wanderers to become money lenders, using them by subterfuge as instruments to hold other lords in their power and to extort money from their people, and then taking the major portions of collections away from the money lenders. Other lords forcibly used them as tax collectors, all this starting, creating, and intensifying hatred and enmity against all of them everywhere.

"Defenseless strangers, wanderers with a different religion, language, and customs, they always were the scapegoats. They were then cruelly subjected to contempt, injustices, tortures, and massacres. In 1492, they were subjected to atrocious tortures by the Spanish Inquisition.

"Attila as King of Germany was called the 'Scourge of God,' and the Germans were noted for their fierceness and destruction in their ruthless plundering and destroying what was venerableof Rome. Attila and his bands, no matter how merciless, were generous and gentle to their victims compared to the draconian cruelties of their descendants, a modern, so-called civilized and cultured people who took pleasure in inflicting, in their civilized manner, the most outrageous and atrocious criminal deeds on millions of defenseless and innocent people. In the late 1920's Hitler, and his Nazi cohorts started his propaganda.

"He (Hitler) saw in anti-semitism the principle and only means of securing political power for himself and party; thus he achieved his purpose by the most formidable and unscrupulous campaign accompanied by the most ruthless violence and barbarity in the annals of history that the world has ever seen."Having thus found anti-semitism an extremely valuable instrument for easily securing wealth and political power in Germany, Hitler resolved to utilize it for the same in fomenting it in foreign countries too.[35]"The Nazis vilified the Jews as the cause not only of local political discontent and economic distress, but of all the world's major troubles.[36]"In few countries has there been such an intimate bond between the Jew-baiting rabble and sedition as in the United States. The activities of the German American Bund and the numerous fascist groups, plus the recent tendencies of some political figures toward the use of anti-semitism to discredit arguments and policies which they opposed are all too well known to the American Public."[37]

"Having thus found anti-semitism an extremely valuable instrument for easily securing wealth and political power in Germany, Hitler resolved to utilize it for the same in fomenting it in foreign countries too.[35]

"The Nazis vilified the Jews as the cause not only of local political discontent and economic distress, but of all the world's major troubles.[36]

"In few countries has there been such an intimate bond between the Jew-baiting rabble and sedition as in the United States. The activities of the German American Bund and the numerous fascist groups, plus the recent tendencies of some political figures toward the use of anti-semitism to discredit arguments and policies which they opposed are all too well known to the American Public."[37]

"President Von Hindenburg of Germany died on August 2, 1934. Hitler, the paranoid demagogue, immediately seized control. In 1935 the Nürnberg laws relating to race and citizenship were enacted. By the last of these measures, citizenship was denied to Jews and they were cast to be the first sacrifice to our War God. The Nazis first passed stringent laws that no one take, send, or ship money or valuables of any kind out of the country. Thenthey notified their minority elements to get out of Germany. The rich Jews, compelled to leave, had to give them all their valuable possessions, and flee their native land.

"In 1938, with the annexation of Austria, the German government started to round up in Germany and Austria all Jewish males from fifteen years old to the aged, and held them for ransom in concentration camps. In these camps, they were forced to swallow every day strong cathartic pills; many of these inmates after a few days died on the latrines of these camps from these medicines and from daily brutal beatings. Those that had money or could raise it to buy themselves out were allowed to leave the country.

"At the Buchenwald Camp, the old, the young, and the weak had to join the others early every morning at stone quarrying, cutting out, lifting, and moving heavy stones under the lashes of brutal foremen. Late in the evening, exhausted from overwork, they were welcomed by brutes on both sides of the gates with whips, who unmercifully beat them over their faces and bodies. Relatives were not allowed to visit them. Many of them committed suicide by taking hold of charged high tension wires surrounding the camp.

"They all had a chance to leave the country, even those in the camps. But most European nations, in fact most of our national governments, all over the world, heartlessly closed their eyes, ears, and their consciences, to the most extreme human exigency of the times; they closed their frontiers and doors on them, denying them inviolable asylum, with the exception of a certain few, restricting them to their quota numbers.

"Our Earth nations remained neutral, have the citizens of these nations raised any concerted general protest of indignation? Not even the many members of our so-called humane or animal-rescue leagues made any howls about it, as they certainly would have, had the Germans inflicted on their hogs such 'cultured' tortures before the kill.

"During the American Revolutionary War, Haym Solomon, a Jew, gave his fortune to help save its independence, but many supposedly good American Christians tried their utmost to prevent the saving of defenseless babies and children.

"The American Legion, The Daughters of the American Revolution, and various labor unions, the majority of whose members were Christians, passed resolutions to keep the door closed. Congressmen, thinking of votes, not of lives, were unwilling to liberalize the immigration policy. A group calling itself 'The Christian Mothers' carried on a national campaign to prevent the bringing of Jewish children to this country. As a consequence children who might have been saved by some display of Christian charity died in concentration camps, in gas chambers, in crematories.[38]

"The German war against Poland enormously increased the number of these unfortunates from the conquered countries. Within nine months Germany had closed tight all borders upon every one of them, even the richest; and after taking away all their property, were turned into a national wholesale human charnel slaughter house, where they were methodically put in death traps in their camps, including all women and children. World nations refused to harbor them, so the Nazis massacred them.

"Approximately a half million of the best looking young daughters, wives, and mothers from the ages of 14 to 25, the flower of the most beautiful Jewish women, were first selected and forcibly taken from their homes to be compulsorily incarcerated in brothels. Those that survived at the end of their usefulness, diseased and weakened, were driven to their final doom and deliverance into the gas houses.

"Some of them by some luck succeeded in boarding a crowded refugee ship about to sail secretly away. They stopped at every port, but were refused landing. Many jumped overboard; but the others, by acoup-de-graceto end their misery, were all drowned when at last the wandering ship, as fate and treachery would have it, was sunk or blown up by a treacherous party, in the Port of Haifa.

"All this was a very unpleasant narrative; it's sad but true. Ihope that you Martians will find a way to convert our earthmen to your perfect pure and honorable way of life.

"I want to thank you for the opportunity and honor you bestowed on me."

The toastmaster then introduced Mr. Hans Schulberger.

"Honorable President, Vice-President and most prominent citizens of Mars. I am Austrian born, was planted as a member of the Hitler SS Corps to spy on them. I was present at their abominable cruelties and I will give you an eye picture of some that took place at all the concentration camps, with their charnel houses, gas houses, live steam cells, human fat rendering trenches, execution chambers, and torture instruments, where the Nazis practiced all kinds of tortures and cruel medical experiments, tests, and exterminated six million Jewish men, women, and children, plus millions upon millions of Poles, Russians, and military prisoners of all our nations. Our newspapers' detailed reports of many of the most gruesome massacres, will be found as follows:

New York Times, August 7, 1945Nuremberg, Sept. 17, 1945. Report by Col. J.N. BackhouseNuremberg, Germany, Sept. 22, 1945 (UP) by Ronald ClarkNuremberg, Germany, Sept. 24, 1945 (UP) by Charles WightonNuremberg, Germany, Octo. 1, 1945 (UP)Dachau, Germany, Nov. 17, 1945 (UP) by N.L. KandlerNuremberg, Germany, Dec. 13, 1945 (UP) by Clinton B. CangerNuremberg, Germany, Dec. 14, 1945 (UP) by Clinton B. CangerNuremberg, Germany, Jan. 11, 1946 (UP)Nuremberg, Germany, Jan. 14, 1946 (UP)Dachau, Germany, May 13, 1946 (UP)

"I will now tell you the mildest case of their cruelty that I saw, which has been reported—

By Ann Stringer, UP Staff Correspondent, Nuremberg, January 2, 1946 (UP)—There was no screaming or weeping. A little child cooed with delight. A couple watched him with tears in their eyes. Another boy, 10 years old, fought back his tears while his father talked to him soothingly and softly.Then they all went to death the same way—naked, piled body against body, the old and the young together. Undignified a death as their persecutors tried to make it, the victims gave it their own dignity.

By Ann Stringer, UP Staff Correspondent, Nuremberg, January 2, 1946 (UP)—

There was no screaming or weeping. A little child cooed with delight. A couple watched him with tears in their eyes. Another boy, 10 years old, fought back his tears while his father talked to him soothingly and softly.

Then they all went to death the same way—naked, piled body against body, the old and the young together. Undignified a death as their persecutors tried to make it, the victims gave it their own dignity.

"That was a pogrom. That was how the Nazis tried to exterminate the Jews, as told in an affidavit submitted to the war crimes tribunal by the American prosecution today.

"The testimony came from Hermann Freiderich Graebe, former manager of a Ukraine construction firm who now works in the United States. Graebe saw the pogrom in Rowno, in the Ukraine, in July, 1942, and again in Dubno in October the same year.

"It was at Dubno that the Germans piled the victims into a mass grave, then machine-gunned them, Graebe said in his affidavits. He swore that 1,500 persons were killed daily.

"The people got off the trucks and undressed upon the orders of an SS man carrying a riding or dog whip," he said. "They had to put down their clothes in piles, sorted according to shoes, top clothing and under clothing."I saw a heap of shoes totaling about 800 to 1000."Without screaming or weeping these people undressed and stood around in family groups, kissed each other, said their farewells and waited for the SS man who stood near a pit thirty meters long and three meters deep."During 15 minutes I heard no complaint or plea for mercy. I watched a family, a man and woman both about fifty, their children about one, eight and ten, and two grown daughters, twenty to twenty-four."The old woman with snow-white hair was holding the year-old child in her arms, sighing to it andtickling it. The child was cooing with delight. A couple watched with tears in their eyes."The father was holding the hand of the boy about ten, speaking to him softly as the boy fought his tears. The father pointed to the sky, stroked the boy's head and explained something."In a tremendous grave other people were closely wedged together, lying on top of each other. Nearly all had blood running over their shoulders from their heads. Some were still moving. They lifted arms or turned heads to show that they were still alive. The pit was already two-thirds filled—I estimated it contained about 1,000 people."An SS man sat on the edge of the narrow end of the pit, his feet dangling into it. He had a tommy-gun on his knees and was smoking a cigarette."The naked people went down into the pit and climbed over the heads of people lying there to the place where the SS man directed them. Then I heard a series of shots ... the next batch was already approaching."At Rowno, Graebe watched the liquidization of the ghetto: "I saw dozens of corpses of all ages and sexes in the streets," he said. "At the corner of a house lay a baby less than a year old with its skull crushed. Blood and brains were spattered over the house wall."I noticed a farm cart with two horses. Dead people with stiff limbs lay on the cart; their legs and arms projecting over the sideboard."[39]Nevada State Journal, May 14, 1946. "We saw the notorious concentration camp at Dachau and we saw many of the others. It was like descending into a pit of inconceivable horror. There were the torture chambers and suffocation rooms. There were the great yawning furnaces, each bearing a neatsign in German giving its capacity of human bodies and working hours. There were the dog kennels and the execution blocks."Perhaps the grisliest sight of all was the long row of huge boxes piled to the top with gold fillings taken from the mouths of uncounted victims who met death at the hands of the Nazis. On each box was the official stamp of the Reich Bank.[40]

"I saw a heap of shoes totaling about 800 to 1000.

"Without screaming or weeping these people undressed and stood around in family groups, kissed each other, said their farewells and waited for the SS man who stood near a pit thirty meters long and three meters deep.

"During 15 minutes I heard no complaint or plea for mercy. I watched a family, a man and woman both about fifty, their children about one, eight and ten, and two grown daughters, twenty to twenty-four.

"The old woman with snow-white hair was holding the year-old child in her arms, sighing to it andtickling it. The child was cooing with delight. A couple watched with tears in their eyes.

"The father was holding the hand of the boy about ten, speaking to him softly as the boy fought his tears. The father pointed to the sky, stroked the boy's head and explained something.

"In a tremendous grave other people were closely wedged together, lying on top of each other. Nearly all had blood running over their shoulders from their heads. Some were still moving. They lifted arms or turned heads to show that they were still alive. The pit was already two-thirds filled—I estimated it contained about 1,000 people.

"An SS man sat on the edge of the narrow end of the pit, his feet dangling into it. He had a tommy-gun on his knees and was smoking a cigarette.

"The naked people went down into the pit and climbed over the heads of people lying there to the place where the SS man directed them. Then I heard a series of shots ... the next batch was already approaching."

At Rowno, Graebe watched the liquidization of the ghetto: "I saw dozens of corpses of all ages and sexes in the streets," he said. "At the corner of a house lay a baby less than a year old with its skull crushed. Blood and brains were spattered over the house wall.

"I noticed a farm cart with two horses. Dead people with stiff limbs lay on the cart; their legs and arms projecting over the sideboard."[39]

Nevada State Journal, May 14, 1946. "We saw the notorious concentration camp at Dachau and we saw many of the others. It was like descending into a pit of inconceivable horror. There were the torture chambers and suffocation rooms. There were the great yawning furnaces, each bearing a neatsign in German giving its capacity of human bodies and working hours. There were the dog kennels and the execution blocks.

"Perhaps the grisliest sight of all was the long row of huge boxes piled to the top with gold fillings taken from the mouths of uncounted victims who met death at the hands of the Nazis. On each box was the official stamp of the Reich Bank.[40]

"Hitler and company were not only the most atrocious murderers, but also the most audacious thieves. German workmen were paying him weekly installments which were deducted for years from their wages for a 'Volkswagen,' a people's car, which they never received.

"All the foregone is not pleasant to hear. It shook my complacency, but it was necessary for me to disclose these facts to you in their nakedness with these terrible pictures as a warning.

"Our cruel, ignorant, and superstitious animal instinct combined with our grasping money lust is the cause of it all. This greed will be our eventual undoing. We always at all times hate somebody, and give vent to our savageness in many different ways, such as burning old women as witches at the stake, picking on weaker nations for plunder and war, and visiting hatred, pogroms, insults, indignities, and injustices on our minorities. It has been a constant round of wronging and injuring others.

"Who could have predicted or believe fifteen years ago less then a generation, in an era of our so-called civilization and Christianity, that such atrocious inhumanity could take place?"

WHO IS GUILTY OF NAZI CRIMES?"I have a high respect for the profession to which I belong, and the reporting done by American and British correspondents during this war, whether on the air or in the press represents a high mark in journalism."Now these American correspondents, who are not engaged in spreading atrocity stories, give detailed reports of the most cold-blooded mass murder inhuman history. This is not the first time that American correspondents have told the world what was going on. They told of the mass murders being committed in Germany, in 1933, and the world did not listen."Members of the British House of Commons or the American Congress, visited Nuremberg party rallies, sought audiences with Adolf Hitler and came home to brag about them. A former American President visited Hermann Goering, as did many American businessmen. They visited him and some thought we could do business with the Nazis very nicely."No country severed relations with the Nazi government because it was composed of murderers. The Nazi murders were merely internal affairs and there were plenty of apologists for the persecutions of the Jews. But the apologists of the persecutions are in some measure guilty of what happened in Lublin."To many persons Marshal Petain is still an elegant old gentleman and touching figure. Yet his government knew what it was doing when it rounded up, first German refugees, and later anti-Nazi French Jews and delivered them to the gestapo. The mass murderers presented a list and the Vichy government delivered the list. Can their hands be altogether washed of the blood spilled in Lublin?"And how about the countries that barred their frontiers, when these people, for 10 full years, before and during the war, were trying to escape from doom? Ships full of them floated like flying Dutchmen in an oceanic void, and no harbor would receive them."The guilt lies also with those who actively collaborated with the crimes without endorsing them, washing their hands of blood and publicly whitewashing the criminals."Every individual bears a responsibility for thewhole of mankind. Human civilization is based on the recognition of that responsibility. The moment anyone denies this responsibility he makes himself an accomplice of humanity's crimes."[41]

WHO IS GUILTY OF NAZI CRIMES?

"I have a high respect for the profession to which I belong, and the reporting done by American and British correspondents during this war, whether on the air or in the press represents a high mark in journalism.

"Now these American correspondents, who are not engaged in spreading atrocity stories, give detailed reports of the most cold-blooded mass murder inhuman history. This is not the first time that American correspondents have told the world what was going on. They told of the mass murders being committed in Germany, in 1933, and the world did not listen.

"Members of the British House of Commons or the American Congress, visited Nuremberg party rallies, sought audiences with Adolf Hitler and came home to brag about them. A former American President visited Hermann Goering, as did many American businessmen. They visited him and some thought we could do business with the Nazis very nicely.

"No country severed relations with the Nazi government because it was composed of murderers. The Nazi murders were merely internal affairs and there were plenty of apologists for the persecutions of the Jews. But the apologists of the persecutions are in some measure guilty of what happened in Lublin.

"To many persons Marshal Petain is still an elegant old gentleman and touching figure. Yet his government knew what it was doing when it rounded up, first German refugees, and later anti-Nazi French Jews and delivered them to the gestapo. The mass murderers presented a list and the Vichy government delivered the list. Can their hands be altogether washed of the blood spilled in Lublin?

"And how about the countries that barred their frontiers, when these people, for 10 full years, before and during the war, were trying to escape from doom? Ships full of them floated like flying Dutchmen in an oceanic void, and no harbor would receive them.

"The guilt lies also with those who actively collaborated with the crimes without endorsing them, washing their hands of blood and publicly whitewashing the criminals.

"Every individual bears a responsibility for thewhole of mankind. Human civilization is based on the recognition of that responsibility. The moment anyone denies this responsibility he makes himself an accomplice of humanity's crimes."[41]

"We can't lull ourself to the idea that we now are immune from subversive order. We cannot feel sure and depend upon it that we are safe anywhere from money, wealth, and power grasping gangsters. Some of them get into high places of government. Germany was considered Christian, a highly educated, and cultured country; yet a gang of berserk criminals calling themselves supermen banded together to control the government, first taking the property and wealth away from their defenseless innocent Jewish minority and killing them, then subjugating their supine people. Other despotic gangsters with their strong-arm torturing secret gangster police are now in control of governments of some of our nations and are holding its peoples in bondage, and in forced slave labor. The perfidy and hypocrisy of those in government power of some of our nations has become so aggravated, that humane benevolence, and justice have become a sham and completely vanished.

"With our new death-dealing, destructive armaments and our annihilating atomic power, how can we tell when some cruel gang dictatorship government may enslave us, our children, and our coming generations? Our people who may read this, what assurance and security have they that a similar sinister, or worse fate and calamity will not befall them, and maybe sooner than they expect? It happened and is now occurring in certain countries of our world, we have many subversives who eagerly are waiting for the opportunity to overthrow, head, and control our government.

"Since you brought us to your planet, we have been pleasantly amazed by your wonderful way of life, which we have seen, closely observed, and studied from all its angles. We now have learned, and know the real cause of our earth's misruled moneyism life system.

"Now, gentlemen, we have given you a summary of our earthtroubles and showed you their causes and abuses. I am sure no one can dispute the facts. I hope they are convincing enough.

"There is no need for me to emphasize, and I agree with Sun-Rank Banard, that our money, and exploitation systems are the real, contributive motives of our ills. They are festering cancers, eating away the vitals of the civilization we are vainly trying to build. I want to thank you for the opportunity you gave me to tell you what I have seen, hoping that you Martians will help save us from the miserable life condition on our earth."

All Martians present were unnerved and some in tears, and in a state of stupefaction. At the finish of the banquet they all greeted us in a most friendly manner.

Sun-Rank Banard, approaching me, said, "One of our inter-planetary airships is ready to take you back to your planet Earth. We all here wish you Bon Voyage and good luck, and just signal us by wishing, whenever you want to return here, and we will be glad to bring you back again."

FOOTNOTES:[32]By President Harry Truman, Dec. 5, 1950.[33]Health Magazine, Sept., 1946, pp. 26 and 27, by Geo. K. Abbott, M.D.[34]The Pageant Magazine, Sept. 1946.[35]The Contemporary Jewish Record, December, 1941, Israel Cohen, p. 626.[36]Ibid., p. 627.[37]Ibid., p. 631.[38]An address by Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein, Dec. 23, 1947.[39]San Francisco Chronicle, June 3, 1946.[40]Merry Go Round, Drew Pearson, August 25, 1945.[41]San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 4, 1944, by Dorothy Thompson.

[32]By President Harry Truman, Dec. 5, 1950.

[33]Health Magazine, Sept., 1946, pp. 26 and 27, by Geo. K. Abbott, M.D.

[34]The Pageant Magazine, Sept. 1946.

[35]The Contemporary Jewish Record, December, 1941, Israel Cohen, p. 626.

[36]Ibid., p. 627.

[37]Ibid., p. 631.

[38]An address by Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein, Dec. 23, 1947.

[39]San Francisco Chronicle, June 3, 1946.

[40]Merry Go Round, Drew Pearson, August 25, 1945.

[41]San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 4, 1944, by Dorothy Thompson.

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