An Alibi for the General
RICH, J. C.
An Alibi for the General Defending Patton by an Excursion Into Jew-Baiting By J. C. Rich WHEN General George S. Patton, Jr., declared that "this Nasi thing is just like a Democratic-Republican...
...The real reason, Patterson's paper tells you, is the Jewish conspiracy...
...So you don't break a general for that And when the General uses former Nasi* in his area of command, that too, is nothing to get het up about...
...The Jews, he might then have said, ganged up on Patton because they don't like Nazis, who, after all, if they are not exactly nature's noblemen, are no more than what Democrats and Republicans are in these parts...
...Obviously the whole lie breaks down when it becomes known that the boy whom Patton slapped was not a Jew but a Christian...
...One can forgive many of Patton's juvenile excesses and even his sophomoric poetry, for his gifts in the military arts, but why these military talents should commend him for an administrative post in the direction of civilian affairs is a puzzle...
...And Henry Mergenthau...
...Through his writings and activities and those of a widening circle of disciples he has made us conscious of the complex processes of democratic living...
...Thus the gas chambers and crematorium established on the outskirts of Washington, D. C, have brought incalculable benefit to the United States for they have relieved us of the burden of maintaining thousands of Republican Party prisoners at public expense...
...As for this "Nasi thing," General Patton is not the only one who can accept • Racism is a contagious disease, and Canada is infected...
...O'Donnell, a black knight in a new and tortuous gambit operated by a bitter and desperate player in a losing game...
...The New leader long ago urged thit etep...
...As any Democratic Party member can tell you, the Republicans are a vicious lot, secretly conniving with the Judaeo-Papist-Communist-Capitalist- Demopluto-cratic World Conspiracy against the true Demo-Aryan civilization, and therefore any means necessary to frustrate their evil plet are justified...
...After all, it is not much different from that "Nazi thing" to which General Patton referred...
...The chief of police, John Taylor, stated that the union was going to be disbanded if he had to take the law into his own hands and do the job himself...
...moite?» are bring trained hy the US Army to aid in the policing and adminie-tration of Germany...
...The latter, a ferocious flyweight, is without doubt a super lative combat leader...
...Goering said so...
...It's only a Jewish peeve and ne concern of us Americans...
...TO JOHN DEWEY, DEMOCRATIC THINKER O ROFESSOR JOHN DEWEY plays so large a part, in our national life that to most readers the fact that he was born on October "0, 1869, will come as a shock...
...General Eisenhower did him a disservice when he entrusted him with administrative authority in the occupied zone...
...Hitler said so...
...And it seems to me that the protest* composed by Jewish and other spokesmen miss some of their point because they dwell too much on the falsciiese of the story...
...The Workers Defense League reported to Clark that the mayor of Reform, Ala., made the threat at a hearing following the ai rest of Hayes McCresrry, local president of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union...
...Patterson and Mil oimi.k like ae many »lubborn and self-willed men, feel that they have lost their point but cannot reconcile themselves to admit it Buchenwald and Kelsen and Oswiecim and all the disclosures of the unspeakable bestiality of the Nazi regime are devastating to the position maintained by eur powerful isolationist* and obstructionists...
...At the campaigns warms up, the Democrats fill the jails with Republicans until there is no one left to run for office and finally no one even to cast an opposing ballot...
...It is thia attempt to while*ana Nazi* and make them appear as in nocuous if thickheaded specimens of humanity that la horrible and degrading...
...Everybody knows there is a Jewish conspiracy...
...If carried out, these deportations will cut Canada's population of Japanese ancestry in half...
...Sure, the anti-Nazis raise a stink, but nobody takes that seriously, because it's just like in this country with the Democrats .and Republicans where the "outs" are always fighting the '"ins...
...For the purposes of tbio exercise in Jew-baiting the boy who was slapped might well have' been named "John O'Donnell" and Patton might have made vituperative references to his Irish antecedents...
...Patterson will risk a good deal before he is checked and finally mated...
...nothing really objectionable about them, it's just that the "outs" begrudge them their office and influence...
...Deportation of 10,-00(1 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry from Canada to Japan wilt start as soon as General MacArthur indicates he will accept the deportees...
...Reacting against German statism and rigidly controlled functionalism, as well as totalitarian Communism, he has emphasized freedom and voluntary cooperation for the individual and the group...
...Mergenthau and Frankfurter at the time "bellowed in the White House that the important issue was that Patton used the word 'Jew...
...ft wa* entirely in eharaeter with the policy of the Newe and the other Patter-son-McCormick papers to rise to the defense of General Patton...
...Why some pepole are aghast at the workings of a Democratic-Republican election right such as we have described here is beyond explanation...
...The column by John O'Donnell printed in the ?. Y. Daily Sen» and the-Washington Timtt-Htrald to the effect that "foreign-born political leaders" were behind the "successful effort to disgrace and remove General Patton" is one such effort in this direction...
...Patterson's handyman in that ease might still have cooked up an anti-Semitic piece on the basis of Patton's collaboration with the Nazis...
...Friends have heard from some of them who are now in Italy, where they.escaped from Tito's land...
...The Doily New in New York and the T'met-Herald in Washington proceed to give us the inside dope...
...In a very special sense he has represented democratc man "trying to understand himself and find his way in a troubled world...
...And Sidney Hill-man...
...The New Leader, having for years had the honor of numbering John Dewey among its contributing editors, tenders him its heartiest congratulations on the occasion of his 86th birthday...
...You don't break a general for that, and the fact that the soldier may have been battle-fatigued need not be taken'seriously, for "battle-fatigue" la just another term for gold-bricking...
...It is ominously foreboding that seme of them are now doing ee by means of utterly depraved and rynieel appeals to bigotry and prejudice...
...Patton, the brilliant lightweight, is merely a pawn...
...He cannot conceive of them as a systematic perversion, as a way of governmental life, as calculated political debasement...
...Goebbels said so...
...Before the end of the litth century he had become one of the leaders in the fields of psychology, philosophy and education...
...And why have the Jews ganged up on poor Patton...
...The Nazi* are just like Democrats dont you see, or like Republicans...
...Since then he has so combined the functions of thinker and man of action that he has tilled a unique place in our national life...
...The startling thing is not that Patton, unwittingly or not, condoned this debasement, but that men much more competent than he is, knowingly and with calculated malice, go about justifying and even glorifying the "Nazi thing...
...This' Jewish cabal was after Patton because the soldier he slapped in Sicily "was of Jewish descent*' and the general "used the words 'yellow-bellied* or 'yellow streaked,' linking them up with a direct reference to the patient's racial background...
...It is because of "the Secret and astound-iugly effective might of this republic's foreign-born political leaders" whose birth records could not be found in any Christian register...
...But excesses against prisoners of war as, indeed, other forms of depravity, are merely personal failings in his estimation...
...They lost the wir, bat they are »tili trying to retrieve their losses...
...But neither O'Donnell nor his master* were directing .themselves to the common sense of people...
...And isn't it a fact that Justice Frankfurter is a Jew...
...In a world which has had to bear in one generation the shock of seismic technological revolution and the upwelling of the barhanc impulse to dictatorship, he has held high the torch o' creative thinking and daring action...
...Why get excited about Nazis...
...According to an affidavit signed hy J. F. Hynds, executive council member of the STFU who attended the heating: "The mayor replied (to the union attorney) that they were not going to permit a union to operate in or near Reform and that some one would be found dead if it was not broken up at once...
...More than fifty Jew* who war* in the camp at Oswego were returned to Yugoslavia at their own request...
...ThaT'S the story as written by a journalistic pervert and as published in the Patterson papers...
...Extreme and harsh aa these measures may seem to romantic soflies, they are commendable, for they eliminate Republican opponents in the one irrevocable manner known—complete extirpation...
...Seltcttd anti-Nazi (Ionian war...
...An Alibi for the General Defending Patton by an Excursion Into Jew-Baiting By J. C. Rich WHEN General George S. Patton, Jr., declared that "this Nasi thing is just like a Democratic-Republican election fight," he forgot that anany people are not familiar with what a Democratic-Republican election fight is like...
...To those who ask how it was possible for Patton to tolerate Nazis in view of their horrible bestiality not alone to Jew* and other captives but also to American prisoners of war, the answer is that Patton was just as outraged as any of us by the tortures inflicted on them...
...it with equanimity, and among them are nien with more elaborate mental equipment than Patton...
...Obviously O'Donnell'* piece is a fabrication from beginning to end...
...Hut to him the right In think and act has not meant the aimless fractionalizing of society, the denial of general ideas and values...
...Now, as we well know, the Democratic Parly, as the party in power, sends out uniformed thugs and secret police to raid Republican headquarters, smash their furniture, destroy their campaign literature, assault their adherents and sympathisers, and arrest their candidates...
...Indeed, what had Patton done but slap a soldier for malingering...
...He has encouraged, rather, the joining of men and ideas for fruitful activity in the attainment of common goals...
...Patton just lacks the mental and spiritual equipment to tackle a task of this sort...
...So why take it out on an American General for playing along with them...
...never mind what those doctors and double-domed intellectuals say about neuroses...
...REFORM, ALAIAMA, AGAINST REFORM New YORK (LPA).—Attorney General Tom Clark was asked to investigate death threat* made to a union organizer by an Alabama mayor...
Vol. 28 • October 1945 • No. 42
