New Year's Greetings to All
"For a Thousand Years to Come"
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By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
Editor's Note: In this splendid, poignant analysis of catastrophic
conditions which from day to day assume greater significance
as a problem no longer remote and restricted to another part
of the world, but one which vitally concerns our own country,
Pierre van Paassen, noted journalist, author and lecturer,
presents conclusions based on his own observations and ex-
pressions.
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Twenty years ago, when I was
a young reporter going to and
fro in Europe and Asia for the
old New York World, and visited
the Polish cities for the first time,
I was so overcome by the desti-
tution and the misery that I saw
and that I felt in towns like
Warsaw and Kalisch and Lem-
berg and Lodz that I expressed
the opinion, in one of my dis-
patches, that in that land, in so
far as the Jews were concerned,
human life had sunk to its low-
est possible level. I could not
imagine that life could be de-
graded still further, to lower
depths. For in that country the
Jews seemed to have been rob-
bed of the last vestige of human
dignity. There, in those' rabbit
warrens of the ghettos, these
labyrinthal mazes of poverty 'and
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woe, I felt that our Christian
civilization had not only failed,
but that in tolerating such ab-
ject conditions it had exposed
itself to cruel attack and a threat
of ultimate destruction.
That was twenty and fifteen
and ten and five years ago. For
I went back many times, and
each time that I returned to
these god-forsaken haunts of
semi-barbarism I saw that the
situation had grown worse. I
realized then that I had been
wrong the first' time. Still great-
er misery was possible, still more
and abject humiliation could be
inflicted on the Jewish people.
I say inflicted, because I grew
convinced, as I returned again
and again, that it was not a
question of an act of God or an
ineluctible evil like a natural dis-
aster, but that it was design.
There was cool scheming and
calculation in maintaining and
constantly accentuating the sub-
human living conditions for the
Jews.
And then Hitler took over Po-
land. And now there are no mere
words to describe the appalling
condition of the Jewish people
there. The hell of Dante has
been surpassed. Not only the
Jews of Poland but the Polish
people in its entirety have pass-
ed completely out of the sight
of Western civilization. The
Blackness of a medieval night
of barbarism envelopes what was
once the Polish Republic. And
that night, is more somber, more
gruesome, more starkly and fan-
tastically inhuman than anything
the world has witnessed from the
days of the slavery in Mitz•aim
to the martyrdom in Spain. All
the horrors of the past are
eclipsed. Helpless, bound hand
and foot, as it were, without
means of escape, the Jews of
Poland, the millions of them, are
delivered up to a cruel, sadistic
foe, to creatures who take a
delight in torture and humilia-
tion and in the shedding of
blood, who revel in the sight of
human suffering. I call them
creatures. I cannot call them
men. I cannot call them human.
I am ashamed to be of the same
flesh as they.
Poland is a house of horror.
But not only Poland. The plight
of inhumanity has spread all
over Europe. The gates of hell
have opened and the infernal
forces have prevailed over Ger-
many and Austria, Czechoslova-
kia, two of the Scandinavian
countries, Holland, Belgium and
a part of France. Christian civili-
zation has been blotted out in
the better part of Europe. Great
nations lie in chains. Immense
and nameless is the suffering.
The false gods of antiquity,
the idols of the past, have been
set up again—Mammon and Mo-
loch. These idols whom the Is-
raelites knew when they entered
the Land of Canaan. This time
these old gods take the form of
the quasi-almighty leviathan
state, which depersonalizes man,
dehumanizes him, and, as we
see. bestializes him.
The peoples of the conquered
nations of Europe are all in a
concentration camp. They exist
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BY KEEPING FAITH WITH YOU, WE HAVE
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THROUGH THESE TROUBLESOME
TIMES.
BY KEEPING FAITH IN OUR FUTURE, WE
ALL CAN BRING A RETURN OF
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IS DARK, ON THE MORROW THE
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DARKNESS OVER WHICH FAITH CAN-
NOT TRIUMPH.
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and toil and sweat and weep
only to satisfy the needs, the
whims and the lusts of the con-
quering Nazis. They exist as
slaves of the people who call
themselves Herrenvolk, the dom-
inant race, the overlords, who
claim to be endowed with a Her-
rennatur, that is to say, who
consider themselves selected and
endowed by nature and tradition
to lord it over other, lesser
breeds.
Long ago they began dividing
the human race into men and
mongrels, and they launched
their attacks against the Jewish
people first. Not only because
the Jews were the weakest min-
ority and because defense of the
Jews has always and in all coun-
tries been the least of the pre-
occupations of organized Chris-
tianity, but also because the
Jews, as a people, collectively,
were a priori the most uncom-
promising foes of Molochism and
Mammonism, because the Jews
as a group, paradoxical as it
may sound, were not the weakest
but the strongest minority.
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inexplicable in the Nazi hatred
for the Jewish people. There is
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