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on others its political system-and to impoverish itself by doing so.
Nothing contradicts the character of the American people as much
as the arrogant, unmotivated and dangerous intervention into
things which are not its business.
It
is America's tragedy that its
own history is for it a closed book, and that it has learned nothing
from the destructive consequences of a policy of intervention. The
hectic armament, inspired by the Jews, accounts for about half of
economic activity and creates a mentality of hostility against the
outside world.
It
has led the country to the belief that democracy
should be exported and thus to plans of world domination. Despite
the failure of their policy at home they give good advice to others.
What does America really want? We watch developments with
deep concern. We have nothing against the American people. But
the American leadership has persuaded itself that the power of the
United States is so enormous that any resistance against it seems
hopeless. They really believe that America is the world's pace–
maker, its moral conscience.
These words of wisdom did not emanate from the stable of Pat
Buchanan, nor from John Le Carre, Arundhati Roy, Jean Baudrillard, or
the other usual suspects. They are quoted here from two sources : from
an article by Dr. Josef Goebbels in the
Voelkischer Beobachter
on Janu–
ary
2I, I939
and Werner A. Lohe's
Roosevelt-Amerika,
published in
I939
and again in
I942
by Franz Eher, the central publishing house of
the NSDAP (the Nazi Party) in Munich. The fact that a certain thesis
was propagated by Goebbels and his acolytes does not automatically
end a debate. But it certainly proves food for thought.
WE MOURN THE PASSING OF
LESLIE FIEDLER
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