THE NOME DAILY NUGGET

Nome, Alaska, USA

8 November 1915

(page 3)

COMMENTS OF THE PRESS

Newspaper Comment on

Live Topics of the Day

An article by Aleister Crowley is copied from an English journal by Mr. Viereck, editor of the Fatherland in his monthly organ, The International.

The attitude of the real American (toward the war) is very concise. This is the placard which hangs in thousands of business offices all over America: “If you want to fight, go to Europe.

“If you want to talk war, go to hell.

“This place is neutral.”

There was never so clear and emphatic a definition of a mental attitude. It says everything, and not a word wasted. When the Lusitania sand, he (the American) saw the German side of the case instantly. He couldn’t see why the hell the durned fools couldn’t keep out of the war zone. Go to war? Not he. He might sell munitions to the allies: that was his business. The Germans might sink the ships: all the better: it meant a repeat order. Hard as nails, you bet your life.