Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1936 — Page 23

NOBEL AWARD

Writer Served Three Years in German Prison Camp for His Crusade.

. BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 20.—Carl von OssietzRy, greenish-yellow of complexion, his emaciated body a bag of bones, his fierves seriously shattered, his lungs afire with tuberculosis, his heart faltering in its beat, for many months has been proposed for the 1936 Nobel peace prize by

sonie of the leading | literary and)

scientific men and women of Great Britain, Switzerland, France and . Scandanavia. But the chances are that if Ozzietzky does win the prize, he will not live long enough to enJoy the comfort it could bring. For three long years Ossiétzky was the recipient of “fhe tender cares of the Nazis who rule in certain prisons and concentration camps in Germany. He is not exactly the kind of Exhibit A the Nazi masters display when they want to convince American travelers that . 2ll is lovely and peaceful and humane under the rule of Der Fueh-

rer, Called Martyr to Peace

The eminent persons who have proposed. him for the Nobel peace prize make a novel point, They say that in the past the peace prize has merely been given to those who have written and spoken in the cause of peace. But in Ossietzky they find a man who has been a martyr for peace, for the peace propaganda he preached. Romain Rolland, the very great French writer, said this. So did British writers like H, G. Wells, J. B. Priestley, Aldous Huxley and Rose Macauley; philosophers - like Ber- + trand Russell; scholars like Gilbert Murray; and famous peace advocates like Sir Norman Angell. They have recently issued a call asking people and organizations all over the world to write to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo, asking them to honor Ossictzky.

Became Pacifist in 1912 Even today the man’s full story is hardly known outside "his native Germany. He wag born in 1887 in Hamburg, his father being a small merchant in humble circumstances. Friends of his father, who were better off, wanted to send the bright boy to the university, but he wanted to get to work at once as an author and duly did so. He joined a peace society in 1912. Just before the war he married an English girl, "Miss Maud Woeds. The war of 1914 caught. up: the young pacifist and sucked" into“the army machine, He did his full duty, i advanced to Lante Corporal. But, actual service in the battlefiel actual experience of its horrors made hig pacifism . more . He summed it up. in a sentence: “There is nothing more devastating than the omnipotence’ of- generals. ” i He came back from the war to a Germany ostensibly republican. But

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he did not believe in its durability. His warning early in the twenties sounds’ prophetic: “Germany” is without the fradition of liberty . . . she lacks the pride of the civilian when confronted with ‘a uniform” | Going to Berlin, he threw himself with fervor info the anti-war move-, ment. In 1922 he helped round. the new organization — “Nie Wieder Krieg’—“War Never Again,” He contributed to the militant little weekly, “Weltbuehne,” and dn’ 1927 became its chief editor. He exposed the Black Reichswehr—the murderous organization which held its own secret “trials” and condemned many true’ republicans : fo death. -charged that many of the Po officers of the real army had con-: nection with this black orginization. They retorted with a libel suit and a verdict was given against the paper, a fine being inflicted. Accused of Betraying Army Ossietzky was absolutely independent. He not only condemned the reactionaries of his country, but went after -the Communists and So-

wrong or cruel or stupid. But most of his enemies were in the reaction-

tarist circles. In 1929 he printed a. contributed article about German aviation. The military . pounced down upon him for this even under the nominal republic. They. alleged the meaning of the article was, that commercial flying was being used -as a screen for aerial rearmament. They claimed this was treason and betrayal of military secrets. The charge was held| over his head for many months, the obvious reason ‘being the hope that they could frighten | him-jinto silence. he was finally - brought to trial along with the author of the article in November, 1931.: Both -defendants were sentenced to 18 months. imprisonment. His co-defendant estaped from Germany. Ossietzky | refused to do §0 and served his sen-. tence. Opposed Hitler's Naturalization On January 1, 1933, ne was back at his desk as editor of “Weltbuehne.” January 30 Hitler became Chancellor. The: day after the Reichstag fire in February, Ossietzky was taken into: “protective arrest.” He has been “protected” by Nazi jailers ever since. No formal charge has ever been published to the world. No trial, open of secret, has ever been held. He was in the Nazi

black books because -he ‘was a

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