[r9etb]

That editorial is incredibly frustrating to read ... even 70 years after the fact. All the pieces are there -- the editor clearly sees what the Nazis are, and what dangers they represent.

But at the same time, he refuses to address the idea of actually doing something about Hitler, other than accepting the refugees that Hitler's actions have created.

"Doing something" meant war, or at least preparing seriously to do so. And the idea of going to war with Hitler was no doubt horrifying to the editor. What he didn't consider, apparently, was the consequences of not going to war with Hitler -- a problem that the free world had been refusing to address for years, by this point.

As usual in these outstanding posts of yours, we see the similarities to what's going on around us today.

[JLS]

1939 was really the cusp of “doing” something about the Nazis. They had been elected in 1933. They had demanded and gotten Austria and the Sudatenland. They had violated the Versailles Treaty, but as the Economic Consequences of the Peace evidences the west was split over that treaty.