Rex Stout Biography by John McAleer

Author:John McAleer [McAleer, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub

In October 1942, Rex was elected president of the Friends of Democracy, succeeding Louis Bromfield. In his new role he was immediately in the news when he spoke at a meeting at the Hotel Pierre on 5 November, pledging an active fight against those advocating postwar friendship with the Axis powers. "If that happens," he said, "we will have the job to do all over again in perhaps twenty years or so." William L. White and Struthers Burt, who shared the platform with Rex, reiterated his views..

Arguing that it was illogical to want to kill Germans unless we hated them, in "We Shall Hate, or We Shall Fail," written for The New York Times Magazine at the request of Lester Markel, and published on 17 January 1943, Rex presented a formal rebuttal to Friedrich and those others who had disputed the WWB's nature-of-the-enemy posture. We had to hate those who sought to destroy basic human values:.

The hate I am talking about is a feeling toward the Germans of deep and implacable resentment for their savage attack upon the rights and dignity of man, of loathing for their ruthless assault on the persons and property of innocent and well-meaning people, of contempt for their arrogant and insolent doctrine of the German master race. . . ..

Only by following that painful road could we assure restoration of that society in which the values we cherish could flourish:.

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