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HEN VISCOUNT Rothermere, the great London newspaper man, owner of London Mail, Tory sympathizer, thinks he can connect up with the great mass of the American people by having his article published in 77 of the leading papers of this country, attacking that wonderful republic in Central Europe, Czechoslovakia (I spelled that name by memory without looking it up), and get away with that sort of stuff with our people, he’s simply connected with the wrong party.

That’s exactly what he attempted a few days ago. In this article he sympathizes with Hungary, and wants Czechoslovakia to give part of their territory over to Hungary. This shows that the Tory gang, the special interest gang in England is fighting against the people of a real republic in Europe just like the Tory gang, the special interest gang in this country is fighting and oppressing the mass of the people, the foundation stone of the republic. It’s the same thing the world over, and all down through the ages—the special interest crowd, the gang that opposes the theory of “thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” crucified Jesus Christ, murdered St. Paul, and hounded Woodrow Wilson to death. Czechoslovakia, don’t you ever worry for one minute—we’re for you, and we’re proud of the progress you’re making as the shining example of a republic in central Europe; we’re not going to be fooled by what this London Tory editor writes.

We don’t want war; we want peace. But that Hungary crowd, those Magyars, are a bad lot. They tyrannize over their own minorities, they were more responsible for the war than any other European nation, and they are today the powder magazine of Europe. They want trouble and war, because they realize that’s the only way they stand any chance at all of grabbing off more territory and power. Luckily there are only eight million of them, and they are hemmed in all around so that they are helpless. God help Europe if there were 100 million of them. Formerly Asiatics, they are aggressive, haughty, and think themselves superior. Exactly the kind of people we don’t want to have anything to do with.

Then to think the aristocrats of Hungary could get hooked up with the aristocrats of England so closely that this Tory writer would not only publish this pack of untrue and unfair stuff in his own great paper in London, but he would have the nerve to get it published in so many of our big papers over here. The amazing thing is that our papers would publish it. I am telling about this marked incident of Tory propaganda against the integrity of Czechoslovakia just to call attention again to the fact that the forces of democracy, whether they be at home or abroad, have to exercise eternal vigilance to maintain their rights.