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Inspired as never before, the press screamed in flaming red headlines: "The disorder ... of more than three centuries will be revised. . . . An outworn era is crumbling to dust beneath the marching feet of the German Army!" Pregnant with crusading zeal, Nazi Ideologist Alfred Rosenberg proclaimed: "Germany has become the protector of the endangered and oppressed continent. It is fighting against an unholy division of the old and venerable European continent into dozens of pigmy States. National Socialist Germany, the heart of Central Europe, enters upon its historic rights...
...Deal represent such a shift? Said Herbert Hoover: "This is solely an issue. Honest men will treat it as such." Analyzing New Deal policies in currency, in finance, in agriculture he found such a change; a similar change in its insistence that the U. S. social system is outworn and in its tendency to increasing regimentation, towards delegation of power to the executive. The New Deal involved no revolution: it was dangerous, on the contrary, because "In our blind groping we have stumbled into philosophies which lead to the surrender of freedom...
Like the bombshell of the German-Russian Pact (TIME, Aug. 28), it changed everything. The overworked boys in the German Propaganda Ministry, shipping outworn drivel about Polish atrocities, felt its influence. Russians behind their frontiers watched their new German friends approaching, mobilized, advanced with full arms to meet them (see p. 28). At Copenhagen the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of Sweden, Norway and Denmark hastily met. The wool-importing firm in Amsterdam, driven to the wall (see p. 19); the Greek Permanent Under Secretary of State flying to Rome; the correspondent in Turkey writing feverishly of "a situation baffling...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Excerpts) : "Today, with many other democracies, the United States will give no encouragement to the belief that our processes are outworn or that we will approvingly watch the return of forms of government which for 2,000 years have proved their tyranny and their instability alike...
...grow, and can flourish in this modern age. This is not a responsibility that can be shouldered merely by the adoption of many untried social reforms, but must be solved by hard work, by intelligent citizenship, by widespread public education, by constant vigilance, by rejection of old prejudices and outworn ideas and by a determination on the part of all the people to preserve their individual liberties so that their faith in democracy will be justified...