Caption: Convocation - 1942 Winter-Spring
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40 University of Illinois ( - ^cottons little to warn their people that, in trusting to such barbarians, th( were endangering the whole fabric of national lif< Archibald MacLeish has w r i t t e n a brilliant little v o l u m e . " T h I r r e s p o n s i b l e s , " in which he denounces the philosophers, the scientist th< lemicians the literateurs, who, though sensing tie mena of Hitler, retired into their lvor\ Towers, refusing to sully their obj tivity by contact with the agora. So Hitler maneuvered his way into the Chan< llorship. He promptly 5troy< I the institutions that had been established by the Republic Freedom of speech, freedom of pr< s, the righl of Kigregation painfully won at last by the people, were rut hi sly SUppn 1. The i n centration camps soon echoed with the groans and the wails of all wh< »sed his obj< tiv< and his methods. Political parties were abolished. Protest became treason and was punished, with utter lack of [ueamishness, by torture and death. The story made the rounds the American in Berlin who suffered from a violent toothach II went to a dentist for relief. Just as the dentist was about 1 extra the in fed 1 tooth, the American stopped him. '"What will ) U charg me?*' he asked. "We had better make terms first for I am a stranger and don't want any misunderstanding later." "The fee will be eighty lollar " the dentist replied. "Eighty dollars!" cried the patient. Why I can get my tooth pulled by the best American dentist I r just a few ; lollars." "Ah." said the dentist. "That is in America. But this Germany. Here, pulling a tooth is a delicate operation. We have to take th< tooth through the ears. No one is allowed to 0] n his mouth in Germany !" Meantime Hitler worked hand in glovi with the barons who had help I him to power to a< [ rate the rearmament pr< < The army gre^ the instruments of war poured from the factories—planes m tanks and submarines and the munitions which were later I wreck the v rid. The | tders of bran- and England slept on I inpl enth 'ITi now had a Frankenstein in the heart of a resentful people. They h 1 d o n e little to p r e v e n t his r i s e ; they now did f to c u r b h i m . to strengthen themselv< 3 it' he should break lo<>.^ do be sure a i A English 1 iders understood the mena nd the> pl< led, either for a union of European powers or foi i speed) re armament. W i n s t o n ( "linn hill, from the b< ginning of the thirties, ci ry t ision, for action. Hitler, he warned in 1932, is already the moving impulse behind the German Government and maj 1 1 in' than that very soon.' Churchill's main anxiety at tins stair* was that "Britain is \ r; and Britain's hour of weakness is Europe's hour of dan] ' As the roll of Nazi drums gre\N louder and th h of ' nnan\ i irmaineut h u m m e d to a faster temj . Chui • hill turn I vehemently to Hi' grim need of strengthening Britain's defei i MM- dictatOl ride to and fro upon tigers which thc\ d;u not d i s m o u n t . A n d the timers ai cttil 111IiI 141 \ Rut tin . eming
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