Hitler and the "Guilt" of the German People
WELLS, H. G.
Hitler and the "Guilt" of the German People H.G.Wells Writes on the Future of Germany — And on 'The Limitations of Lord Vansittart' by H. G. WELLS LORD VANSITTART ig the »nthar oi »mach maligned...
...on all fours, crept down into the ditch .beside .the...
...It waa lied about mischievously ape stupidly, and I did such small things as an unpopular journalist can do* to challenge this campaign of misrepresentation...
...Justice Douglas for the majority of the Supreme Court in the Murdoch cose,-decided May 3, 1943...
...So abusive...
...If the poll tax is only a tax, can its constitutionality as a tax on the privilege of voting be sustained ? A* to this there is instructive language in the opinion of Mr...
...G.C.B., G.C.M G. K.C.B...
...privilege of voting in an election for Federal officers is , one given by the Federal Constitution...
...Vansittart h 4i nouncing a play called Watch a* tka Rhine, ia which Oss mans are portrayed Hocking "back from the ssearHsrf the United States to fight Hitler underground...
...Raga turned, made me a sign to pay attention and slowed down his pace...
...Soon afterward, he explained to me in a low voice: "The stones we worked loose drew someone's attention up on the crest...
...Pierre Laval is no more' a Hun than Vansittart ia a Malay...
...I see again the sag of my companion's shoulder and his back Weighted down by the sack...
...I answered...
...Sullivan's argument may be taken as representative...
...for believing bis statement that "No nach thing km ever happened even once...
...important personages in the Fascist Federation foot***-Thus, our spoken message concluded, we had » a* extremely careful and watch out for increased vigilant* on the part of the political police even in tbe meat **> frequented area* along the border...
...the poll tax fixes a qualification for voting...
...bow an incongruous multitude of peoples speaking High Gernxnn dialect*, animated by fears, greeds, jealousies, and tb* national competitive boastfulness natural to most bum ? ? beings at our present stage of developrnent, were, •welded into an implacably aggressive military power with...
...But perhaps he travels with a private store of mild Edamer, some inodorous English cheese, if such Idas...
...You're tired, Pietro, and the work to be oow*tM» increasingly difficult You really should give up ***** night jaunt* down into the valley...
...written ?? Cairo...
...It must be some thing to do with · w*eW» and will end as it has come...
...The decision of the court in the commerce tax case did not lead to a dissolution of the Union...
...pseudo"-inteileetuals, prigs...
...people and taken up by tbe German upper ehsasal Hitler waa never "thrown ay" from the Germs* masses because he never belonged to them...
...For this reason they had been reinfected ky the best commissars and agent* of Public Security- "* distribution of propaganda material in a large industrial city of the north of Italy had made certain extra...
...possible task...
...I well remember the slippery stones of tbe torrent and' Raga's panting breath on the upgrade...
...Morte di Italiaai...
...I can recall now how my footsteps shadowed his long stride...
...In bis opinion for a unanimous court, Mr...
...Moon's too bright...
...No such thing," he declares, "has ever happened, na once...
...Dae to technical difficulties, the final Sectio« of the tale haa boon pcetponod natu next week...
...I pulled the ether p*ek out of our hiding place and the two tourist* k*Wwt.t rapidly in the luggage van of their car...
...its hidden motives shave no legal *vear*e...
...He ia not going on: ha is going back...
...Poll taxes are not qualifications for voting but ordinary taxes...
...The crest of the mountain became a thin sharp line and we slunk along a few yards below, along the side not illumined by the moon...
...The weight of the sacke- waa violently oppressive after a few hundred yard* ef emmgg and my forhead was bathed in a cold sweat "What if I don't make ?¦<¦%*¦ - . r.-t%„ But soon my lungs got-used to the pressure of the sack and the altitude...
...Two items on its present-day program should be, without question, the abolition of the poll tax and the abolition of the white primary...
...Its extreme mSS at the slightest criticism is hardly sane...
...The court pointed out that the tax is net limited -to electors, for aliens, who may not vote, are none the leas required to pay...
...A VERY strong ease may, therefore, be made out for the propo...
...plain England to him and him to England-** dwesffL...
...The constitution a lit ? of the white primary is now before " the Supreme Cemrt in a case coming up from Texas, and this ·.: case will probably be argued in the Fall by NAACP attorneys...
...i In the second place, the Supreme Court in Breedlove vs...
...This concerns only m*< only me...
...He bangs about and finishes like an exploded ss*m, ? mere exhausted case...
...Democracy is a radical faith...
...It i* tare* pensive This particular delusion is on the same kwsiaj the other popular one, that the working and m>*dt* ehasa of Germany had nothing, instead of everything, to at «st the rise of Hitler...
...SULLIVAN says that he is afraid that this Congressional ¦ move may in the future serve as a precedent for CoVi-gi ess tonal tampering with other qualifications for voting, such ah literacy, citizenship, residence in voting districts, etc...
...There was another thing which eon Irl cut one's wind as mach ?? the weight of the'sacks: fear which could swoop down on us like a rushing wind...
...Laval descended in...
...The moon began to climb when we doubled back diagonally toward the valley of our town...
...That shot is a signal which may mean: 'nothing happening up here' or else: "warn all the patrols of the valley.' Who knows ? In any case, courage...
...We followed htm upstairs and along a narrow balcony which led to caves below the roof that served as a storeroom...
...the tax...
...It is a competent and industrious account o...
...Through the orchards belonging to the inn we aped away from the town by a little known road...
...r' ¦ MM Before stepping on the starter in order to turn we car around and back down, tbe one who was st tat wheel asked me is a low voice, "How is Pietro ?" * "Well enough...
...The Supreme Court in Ex Parte Yarbrough said that "the right to vote for members of Congress is fundamentally based upon the Constitution of the United States and was not intended to be left within the exclusive control of the states...
...wrthost his having repeated to me, in all its details, the story of his first meeting with his Angela He did it for the obvious relief and ease it gave him and I let aha ssfi me and retell me the story without interrupting ban...
...Justice Butler said: "Levy by the poll has long been a familiar form of taxation...
...belief that tbey had to dominate the world or -be destroyed Oddly enough, the essential High Germans played a mainly responsive roie in this monstrous synthesis...
...when he wants to refer to him briefly, ? "the Anvergnat Hon...
...There is still a marked KlstasltsWi admit that Hitler was thrown up by tbe mass of ?1...
...and persons over sixty years of age, though they may continue to vote, need not continue to pay the tax...
...His lordship knows France so well that he has surely heard of that...
...And states may not tax the exercise of a constitutional privilege...
...and other entirely alien elements., ,.Black Record confronted us with the gravity at this menace to mankind, and it added perhaps to its vigor, that Lord Vansittart does not seem to have realised the immediacy of tbe danger until 1933, and* onto released his accumulated convictions after tbe outbigt of the war...
...Lord Vansittart and Sir Samuel Hoare leave Paris for a rest on the Riviera after certain diplomatic exertions...
...How can he know that...
...It follows, therefore, that Congress may,by appropriate legislation direct the southern poll tax states to remove the tax from the voting privilege...
...Well done...
...As to the answer, we are not without guidance...
...we answered, giving the password agreed on for that evening...
...continue to a/t pretty, and I do not blame them, «aar could not anyhow flock back to nothing: the tinoergrsssa movement in Germany - has produced no substantial tvi dence of its existence...
...He ha* got out of all official responsibility, I gather, now, and is speaking his mind and letting us know how limited it is...
...Jit "Nothing," he answered...
...we heard the noise of a machine speeding up the incline When I noted that it had only one head lamp lighted and a green bulb burning beside the driver, I started out onto the road and jumped on the running board...
...that the poll tax does not fix a qualification for voting, and so is not entitled to constitutional protection...
...Good visibility, although dangerous, would help us to follow a new trail which wound along the lines of the border up to the crest of a valley parallel to our own and which, according to Raga's experience, was not patrolled by the military or customs authorities...
...RLrV 1 An Answer to Sullivan and Krock The Anti-Poll Tax Bill And the Constitution By MfLTOM R. KONVfTZ ARTHUR KROCK in "The New York Times" and Mark Sullivan in the "New York Herald Tribune" have written against the -adoption of the anti-poll tax bill passed by the House of Representatives and pending in the Senate...
...What do you think...
...Finally, the great chestnut woods with its protective shade and its intricate paths...
...f*1 And here again his enquistt* sense of good form ELI feats itself...
...Please tell me, is this the way to the hotel Pineta e Bells Vista...
...In doe course, the fall moon c*uM...
...The court held it Was unconstitutional as a tax on a privilege guaranteed by the Federal Constitution...
...J/ There is nothing fresh ia this book except its externa temper...
...He haa no more.sense of what ia happening to mankind today, as a whole, than a well fed cat asleep, and his ideas of legitimate controversy are about as subtle as those of the same animal oat on the tiles...
...The only question is this (minor premise): Is the poll tax a "qualification for voting...
...Suttlee held that poll taxes are ordinary taxes and not qualifications for voting...
...Times of blood and fron., I said to Pietro when the messenger started down...
...We made a halt near a great tree trunk and, with the maximum precaution, we smoked some of our good tobacco...
...These divisions, or nudetfwer* manned in each ease by capable and well-paid Italia* and foreign agent* provocateur...
...My hr%tbih* to«k ? it* accustomed rhythm...
...Not Roquefort by any chance...
...1 held myself back "I follow Pietro...
...the man was eating himself...
...Hitler and the "Guilt" of the German People H.G.Wells Writes on the Future of Germany — And on 'The Limitations of Lord Vansittart' by H. G. WELLS LORD VANSITTART ig the »nthar oi »mach maligned and very useful book...
...Van-sittart's was not a doctrine of extermination but reeducation...
...1) I wish to point out that in this argument as in so many other arguments in the field of politics and value judgments, the crucial proposition—the bone of contention—is to be found in tbe minor premise...
...a · a MEANWHILE a messenger, dressed as a member ef the forest troops, came up to see us...
...French (Gobineau, e.g...
...It demonstrated beyond cavil the important need there is, If humanity is to survive, for Germany to be disarmed and strenuously reeducated, and it left me with the conviction that in Lord Vansittart ? next book he would go on to broadening oat his discovery to a study of worn i*^*du«tt**i nasi re...
...Even if the poll tax is outlawed, it will ' 'Hot necessarily mean a wider distribution of the effective right Of suffrage to the Negro in all states having poll taxes at the ¦ present time...
...I have much to learn from bh experience...
...Lord Vansittart, P.C...
...Yet before, not twenty-four hoars could...
...4) One more point...
...A few stones worked loose and went bouncing down into the valley...
...St is this: by the Federal Constitution the qualifications of voters in national elections is a matter left with the states...
...He just knows German hostility acately —and that is his limit...
...The German refugees in the United States...
...No, but there is an excellent inn called Costa Rica in the town," I replied...
...A companion dressed like a city tourist with heavy sport clothes got down...
...Poll taxes are laid upon persons without regard to their occupations or property to raise money for the support of government or some more specific end...
...It is always "near white...
...This ahasssmsk, * ing book is full of abuse and insult from cover t*esw Vaneittard with the lid off boils with inept insult...
...We had a parting lunch with Laval, a peculiary gross feeder...
...Mountaineer' J4-* A Tale of the Italian Underground By STf f...
...delusion—we all do—and I like ncrnsenat, can flagrant nonsense—but not about Germany...
...are stooges...
...the states (major premise...
...His reasons for not crying "wolf earlier are a little difficult to follow...
...of soiled nightgown, edged with pink...
...The sacks, to which special suspenders had been attached for the use of the smugglers, were lined up against the wall and ready...
...This man is in a fine state to mske s mess," j thought and waa almost tempted to follow hint...
...PART III DAGA came to make arrangements for our first transportation of material...
...We checked our watches and...
...Those who endeavour te maMsM the just men of the modern Sodom are reduced *» tss-cocting a list of names drawn partly from the inhabttsea of the overrun territories...
...My chief recollection of it is his prodigious consumption of s near-Stilton, composed, or decomposed, somewhere in France...
...It was dominated largely by » Teutonieed Slavic people, the Prussians, and it owed some of its evil suggest farti and a large part of its technical equipment to Polish...
...My revolver seemed to drag on me Rh* a read weight and I preferred to keep it in my hand...
...should be transported," I whispered and Raga started up the incline from the ditch...
...He also offends our Conservative statesman by wearing a white tie...
...Why did he ever write this has and give himself away...
...I confess my eoafldeac* in bis prsgra—Iva statesmanship haa vanished...
...3) The Suprenje #>urti,nas held (e.g,, McGoldrick vs...
...The story is translated from the 1 tatiaa by Frances Keen...
...Fidgety Psja and Johnny Knowalls, perverts, Accidental ist* and 1...
...Bat with this present beak* before me...
...That evening he left again without even a greetiaf and instead of eating he had been drinking and smsfftng Every so often he had gotten up and had waAadha* «ad forth, shaking his bead, as if to shske of a* obsession...
...And if Vansittart can b>s*t' on sock a well-known fact aa that I see no...
...In order to show us that the work had been well done, the innkeeper undid one of the sacks and showed us the first layer of u ? roasted coffee which lay there hiding the material we were to carry...
...For me, and I do not tsJa*W-2 alone in this, he lias bawled himself out...
...exists, and doesn't tench the nasty foreign staff...
...and he started the motor...
...not what ~1 And here is a rank misconception about tat sensi origins of Hitler that needs correction...
...That does not altar the fact that his book was substantially excellent...
...It is a violent apology for and a grossly esagg*> a tec repetition of Black Record...
...The legislators may have fctendnri them, as a matter of fact to function as election laws...
...The innkeeper, with large mustaches and an almost ritualistic qeM-etacb in—his cap, came and whispered to us: '^GbffeeT*' "Costa Rica...
...newer know how far tbe patriotism of these iesknjS English famffies will take them...
...Justice Douglas said: "It is a license tax—a fiat tax imposed on the exercise of a privilege granted by...
...O Mountaineer" ia the second tale The New Leader * publishing from his recently-arrived collection...
...He would have JseheJ nearly ridiculous if such profound marked lines at physical and spiritual weariness were not writ***dP that face...
...A few dogs started up and barked at aa, and then there was the moon, but still step by step we drew nearer to the border...
...Benoind- < White Coal Mining Co...
...His eyelids Wh» heavier, his kauhomia more unpleasant, than nv...
...Further down, after having crossed* chestnut wood, we would accost s motor truck which waa to arrive along the main highway in the valley leading to the town...
...The commotion in London disqaieted UbT he sent for me in the small hours of the «tonisera...
...Good work," said the one who was inside the mach inc...
...Finally we came within sight of the road which led down the valley to the town...
...but why should we be concerned with the hidden intention of the people's representatives...
...MR...
...that a state license tax on the privilege of carrying on interstate commerce is unconstitutional...
...A state may not impose-a charge for the enjoyment of a right granted by the Federal Constitution...
...My domestic German teac her used to say that to speak German one must "laut sprechen...
...road just as one reaches trenches which are " raked by enemy gun fire...
...Hard times are coming...
...Vet the London critics reviewed Watek am the ftfisu as a moving play instead of aa a well-constructed dahsasa, I like...
...Enough, but it isn't exaggeratedly heavy...
...The first cypress began to appear, then the woods, then the fields with the standing crops which we skirted in the shadow of the trees...
...The muscles of my wax^were tense, bet the essential thing, the saving of breath, had been achieved...
...he asked me...
...How much do they weigh...
...This should be of the greatest concern not only to the *' Negro and those concerned with his welfsre, but even to those who are indifferent to the Negro's welfare and rights...
...If he is not quite so silly, he certainly comas off the same shelf, and there I propose to replace him...
...There ire moments whew I could Magill ? the Van in Van-Sittart was a misprint for Von...
...Moreover, we should not forget the divisions stationed in foreign 11—|r*w beyond the border...
...ES ? are not exceptional passages...
...2) While the qualifications for voting for Federal officers may be determined by the states, the privilege of voting ia in itteif ? constitutional one...
...As long as the Negro is barred from voting in the primary elections, it will make little difference to him whether he votes for a Republican Talmadge or a Democratic Talmadge (even assuming that the Republican will have a running chance...
...Two of them, otherwise no different from the others, had a piece of paper tacked on to them on which Was written "Coffee from Costa Rica...
...But Pietro was not well at all and I became increasingly aware of it daring tbe day* which foDawsd I was more and more worried by the fact that ahntet every night he went oat and crossed the border Wist no other reasons given than those he called "pur**n*l There was something else which influenced sty state of mind: be no longer spoke of his wife and chlitres...
...Why, then, are the opponents of the bill • so greatly concerned in this instance with "states' rights...
...It is for those who are sincerely devoted to this faith to work for its implementation...
...Enrico, that'* my business...
...is elected, a fertile field is presented to the unconscionable politician who haa money to spend for votes...
...I remember that oar entrance into tbe cafe of this foreign town went unnoticed...
...Laval comes from that, high austere region of dour people, the AuvVrgee, and Vwhsittart feel* that somehow that ia discreditable...
...Much capital is made out of the assumption that the tie is never clean...
...local police force...
...When I said this, he got up and tried to look sett-important so that I would be still...
...A SHOT cut through the tenuous noises of the woods...
...armament...
...Its...
...Just nothing," he asfta, passing his hand...
...Apparently be has nothing mW*h say...
...The Wart Hog ia one of the least pleasing sad explicable of the works of Creation, and Pierre Lava., beyond dispute, is another, but you do nothing really helpful to the world by calling the former an ug...
...After tat usual sign of recognition, he warned us that at a result of the mobilization which was taking place f*» tbe war in Africa, the Fascist police had become alarmed...
...The automobile stopped a few yards further down...
...Death in Italy" ?? IS is the third installment of the story of Enrico ????, a mountaineer ia the service ef the Italian anti-fascist enderground...
...But this is hew the Rh Hon...
...And there are some other delightful kindred blue cheeses made mostly in Auvergne—and Italian gorgcnxola...
...Congressional abolition of the poll tax will be unconstitutional...
...When the light of the fall moon caught as, we were already within sight of the foreign town: the untidy grey houses grouped about a white building and the regular outlines of the new inn...
...Courage...
...As long si the "white primary" continues to exist, the right to vote in final elections will mean only the right to choose between two candidates, neither of whom will have been placed en the ballot by a free primary election, participated in by the Negro aa well as by the white citizens...
...In the first —piece, the state laws which provide for the imposition of poll taxes are referred to by the legislatures which enacted them a* tax lawk and not aa election laws...
...V.O., D.Litt., LL.D., that wise foreseeing diplomatist with his extreme bat peculiar knowledge of Europe and bis ill-concealed contempt ton the follies and vulgarities of democracy, sets about Leva...
...This dsnger should be the concern of all people, regardless of race or political affiliation...
...to the human outlock, as a whole, is in aa M-fhajp Office official, fantastic...
...Some young girls dressed in red, blue and green Were dancing, and their vivid pattern drew the eyes of all...
...Bt wet as mach a claaa snob aa an English Black Saht at * retrograde Tory squire...
...In their opinion the bill ¦ is an unconstitutional attempt to invade the province of states' rights...
...Once you're outside the town, aa you know, you can go fast enough...
...It came from up above, where we.had passed half an hoar before...
...In that case the court had before it the question of the constitutionality of a municipal tax en the right to distribute religious literature...
...He has done, and he has done for himself...
...So saying he helped us to heave the bag* up over, our shoulders...
...have a care for...
...for where sn impoverished section of the people sre understandably ' indifferent as to whether John Doe or Richard...
...A few minutes after the hour agreed on...
...Remember...
...IT is a terrible thing to say of any public figure, but I * confess I das* him now in intelligence and quality with Sir Samuel Hoare...
...In a democracy, a legislator* hi assumed to act only through express provisions in stats tea and resolutions...
...in fact, it is the most radical of all faiths...
...Black Retard...
...he doesn't quite know why...
...Future columns will discuss this matter...
...My companion did not breathe for several seconds: his mouth was half closed and hie eyes motionless, like those of an animal listening...
...Is the privilege to carry on interstate commerce of a higher order than the privilege to vote for one's representative in Washington...
...The Quai dOrsay can have witness**^ more undignified meetings...
...bestial w . * »¦ stinking nigger-chasing Ethiopian swine whenever you have to mention the cresture...
...We discussed the matter and came to an agreement that the first operation would take place at tbe next full Moon...
...Anyhow the phrase by which he usually refers to him...
...Proponents and opponents of the bill will agree that' by the i Constitution tbe qualifications of voters is a matter . left to...
...Bat this argument overlooks the facts that Congress is .here attempting to do away with *ftax, not a qualification How can a bill attempting to do away "oh a tax on the suffrage ' privilege serve as s precedent for Congressional invasion in > the field of suffrage qualifications...
...his brow...
...the Bill of Rights...
...It seemed a white ribbon running through the dark woods...
...It simply isn't done...
...As something of an expert in the use Sf "offensive language I find him so loud and clumsy that be arouses a protesting sympathy even for the indigestible people he insult So loud...
...It was cannibalism...
...Thus we would eliminate the danger of the carabineers who usually patrolled the neighborhood of the town in the higher reaches towards the border...
...Tbe author, Stefano Terra, waa himself for many years aa active revolutionary fighting the Black-skirts...
...the poll tax is, therefore, constitutional...
Vol. 26 • July 1943 • No. 29
