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...central government and eschew slavery, Il Duce's drift was that the League can save its face by dropping Ethiopia as unworthy of membership and commissioning Italy, who has no slaves and does possess a strong central government, to bring the backward Empire up to date. Only thing wrong with this Fascist argument on its face was that in 1923, when inexperienced Benito Mussolini had been Premier of Italy for only a few months, the Italian Delegation stood sponsor to Ethiopia and enabled that Empire to enter the League...
...Three. Underlying Social Credit is the attractive British doctrine that, after all, there is nothing much wrong with the world. To blast Depression, say Social Crediteers, is as simple as any other sort of blasting once you know the trick. Major Douglas supposedly knows it better than anyone else. Possession of this Great Secret has somewhat oppressed the Major, caused him to write : "We all know Mark Twain's story of the man who was imprisoned for 20 years and then walked out, having just discovered the door never had been locked, and some of us think it funny...
...methods. They noted, for example, that U. S. citizens who committed no crime when they bought gold have since been made liable to punishment for holding on to their purchases. Taking the rostrum last week, German Minister of Justice Franz Giirtner announced that after Sept. 1 the punishment of "wrong acts" which were not crimes when they were commit ted will be a regular feature of German Justice...
...German judge as for the private citizen," continued the Minister of Justice, "the Nazi philosophy of life will be the guiding light. . . . Every clause in the penal code will have a 'danger zone.' Whoever moves in this sphere will do so at his own risk. . . . Wrong may exist, accordingly, in the Germany of the future, even where there is no law providing a punishment. No one must be lucky enough to slip through the meshes...
Meeting in advance the obvious objection that under such a system each judge will have to make up what is right and wrong as he goes along, Dr. Giirtner weightily declared: "The judge, basing himself on the popular conception of what is right, will obtain an unerringly accurate sense as to what may or may not legally be done. . . . Moreover Realmleader Hitler is ceaselessly endeavoring to be an embodied expression of the people's will. Thus a judge can find in the will of the Realmleader a guiding light to aid him in his own task...