GERMANY MUST PERISH!
Hitler is no more to be blamed for this
German war than was the Kaiser for the last one.
Nor Bismarck before the Kaiser. These men did
not originate or wage Germany's wars against the
world. They were merely the mirrors reflecting
centuries-old inbred lust of the German nation
for conquest and mass murder.
This war is being waged by the German
People. It is they who are responsible. It is
they who must be made to pay for the war.
Otherwise, there will always be a German war
against the world. And with such a sword for-
ever hanging overhead the civilized nations of
the world, no matter how great their hopes, how
strenuous their efforts, will never succeed in
creating that firm and solid foundation of per-
manent peace which they must first establish if
ever they intend to start the building of a better
world.
For not only must there be no more German
wars in fact; there must not even remain the
slightest possibility of one ever again occurring.
A final halt to German aggression, not a tem-
porary cessation, must be the goal of the pres-
ent struggle.
This does not mean an armed mastery over
Germany, or a peace with political or territorial
adjustments, or a hope based on a defeated and
repentant nation. Such settlements are not suf-
ficiently conclusive guarantees of no more
German aggressions.
This time Germany has forced a TOTAL
WAR upon the world.
As a result, she must be prepared to pay a
TOTAL PENALTY.
And there is one, and only one, such Total
Penalty:
Germany must perish forever!
(cont'd in text)
