What Nazism Means To You

And Me

From a striking editorial in the “Sydney Morning Herald” of Decem ber 9:— “Wei have lived a generation to see something I consider to be the essence of evil,” said General Smuts last June. It is its racial theory which gives to Nazism its essentially evil character, because if Nazism prevails, the theory, carried to the extremes which the Germans are even now practising, must plunge the world into an endless night of savagery and oppression.

The longer the war goes on, the more clearly is the whole non-Ger man world coming to grasp this fact, and in this growing realisation lies the hope for the future. Force has long been an instrument of policy in human affairs, but mankind has had to wait until the twentieth century of the Christian era to see it exalted into an all-embracing philosophy or religion. Yet it is Nazism’s very excess, a fantastic excess that belongs properly to nightmares and lunatic ravings, which will in the end confound it.