4
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, MAY 8, 1945
Mein Himmel, Was Ist Hier Los? There Must Be a Mistake in Script
Into the hands of German youth will be given the great statesmanlike mission of Washington which the corrupt democracy of the United States has trodden under foot; Adolph Hitler, told a group of dinner guests in June, 1933.
"The America of today will never again be a danger to us," agreed Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda.
In his blueprint for world domination, Adolph Hitler had a final, little-known chapter concerning his plan for dealing with the United States.
Hitler Could Save America
Hitler's firm, preconceived notion about North America in 1933 was that the continent would never again take part in a European war, and that with her millions of unemployed, the United States was on the brink of a revolution from which only he—Adolph Hitler—could save her.
Someone had suggested to Hitler that it might be of decisive importance for Germany to solicit the friendship of North America. Certain members of the Nazi party at that time had publicly emphasized the unique value of a friendly relationship with the United States.
To these un-asked-for opinions Hitler scoffed. "Whose friendship? The friendship of the Jewish jobbers and moneybags?"
On many occasions Herr Hitler had openly expressed his contempt for the existing government of the United States, exclaiming, "This is the last disgusting death-rattle of a corrupt and outworn system which is a blot on the history of this people. Since the Civil War, in which southern states were conquered, the Americans have been in a condition of political and popular decay. It was the American people themselves who were conquered, not the southern states."
Hilter told his associates that the declaration of German as the national language of the United States had been lost by only one vote in
Congress, and that the German component of the American people would be the source of its political and mental resurrection.
"I am firmly convinced," said Hitler, "that in a certain section of the American middle class and the farmers, the sound fighting spirit of colonial days has not been extinguished. We must awaken that spirit. National socialism alone is destined to liberate the American people from their ruling clique and give them back the means of becoming a great nation."
Hitter bragged that he would undertake this task "simultaneously with the restoration of Germany to her leading position in America."
"The American people is not yet a nation. The Yankees have failed to create a nation. Today this is being avenged. Their difficulties become insuperable."
In America," said Hitler, "we shall have men whom degenerated Yankeeedom will not be able to challenge. We shall succeed in making the new political and social order the universal basis of life in the entire world."
Herr Goebbels echoed Hitler's opinions saying, "Nothing will be easier than to produce a bloody revolution in North America. No other country has so many social and racial tensions. We shall be able to play on many strings there."
Hitler continued his treatise on what he planned to do with the United States, "It is a mistake to assume that there was ever danger from the United States in the last war. The Americans behaved like clumsy boys. The American is no soldier. The inferiority and dea-
dence of this allegedly new world is evident in its military inefficiency."
"This time," cried the chancellor, "there will be no new Wilson arising to stir up America against us. At the right moment a new America will exist as our strongest supporter."
Must be a mistake in the script!
George S. Patton
George S. Patton was born November 11, 1885, on a ranch in San Gabriel, Calif.
He started his military career in 1903 at the Virginia Military Institute where he was known as a bad student but a good sailor, winning several sailing championships. He was also a great track athlete. He took part in the Olympics at Stockholm in 1912 and won first or second place in racing, swimming, and horsemanship. A day before the finals he set a new world's record in target shooting.
World War I, II Cover K.U. Campus With Heavy Gloom
Wartime college spirit at K.U. gave place to something else in 1918, just as it has this war year of 1945.
There were no rallies, no bon fires, no night shirt parades before a football game, and the Oklahoma Sooners romped through the Jayhawkers to a 33-0 victory in the first football game of the season on Nov. 8, 1918.
The prospect for leaves looked rather gloomy for the Student Army Training Corps command at the University before the Armistice, and it looked doubtful if they would observe Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The Marine corps section had been disbanded and there was to be no
Because of Allied Ingenuity and Inventiveness the World Will Long Remember 1945 as the Year Which Saw the Fall of Nazism.
But now, more than ever, let's put the pressure on! Let's turn all our efforts toward a United Front in the West, and work faithfully for a smashing victory against Japan!
GREEN BROTHERS HARDWARE
633 Mass. Phone 631
unit of marines in the S.A.T.C. in training at Lawrence. The Kansan announced on Nov. 7, that armistice terms were signed by the Germans at 11 o'clock that morning and fight- ceased at 2 o'clock after afternoon while 47 men from the University left the campus for St. Louis to take aviation examinations.
John R. Mott, Y.M.C.A. official, said, "If the war should end tomorrow, we should need for the work of these welfare organizations more than the amount asked. It will take at least 16 months to return our army from abroad and to hold up their morale after fighting ceases
will be a challenge to the American people."
'Money Needed Now'
U. G. Mitchell, manager of the war work campaign on the Hill, said, "Don't close your pocketbook just because the war is over. Money is needed now worse than ever."
Although the bugle didn't sound reville until 6 o'clock on Nov. 12 there wasn't a man in the camp who got in much sleep after four that morning. The first news came when the whistles and sirens downtown began to echo through the whole Kaw area. This news was heartily welcomed by the whole nation!
THE HONOR OF VICTORY BELONGS TO THESE FIGHTING MEN We all hope that the day is not far off that they will be back at K.U. enjoying the freedom they've won.
The Palace