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THE CHINA MAIL; MARCH 26, 1941.
NAZI PRESS ADMITS HOSTILITY HIS "SAFE"
U.S.A.
THERE IS NO DEARTH of Germarí comment- SHELTER HIT
on United States affairs in the press or in other mediums of expression these days. The ban that "You and baby can kept virtually all such comment from the news- come home now. I have found a safe shelter," papers for the last twelve months ́or more has now
wrote a London husband apparently been lifted and the plain language of to his young wife evacuat- American statesmen and other personalities finds itsed to the country. answer in plain language employed on the German side.
The result is that the man in the street is now
She returned, and one Saturday night for the first tline, he took them to his chosen refuge-the basement of a block of offices.
That night the building was
learning much about the deterioration of relations bombed, and searchers abandoned between his country and the United States during hope for the people trapped, who the period when the German legions marched to vic-included the mother and baby. tory over Western Europe, isolated Britain, battered "one of the best equipped in the her cities and brought the successful conclusion of borough." the war within apparent reaching distance.
aid might.
The shelter was described as
Nine people were rês. cued on the Sunday, but the majority, including sales of the firm and ad- people from an
concrete.
The German citizen
is hope" and that for Britain Amer-managers now learning that there is yet another, Ican aid represents the difference poor power overseas that during the between collapse and a chance for jacent block of tenements, were It indicates the possi. trapped under great chunks of late Summer months passed from victory. a state of neutrality to a state of bility that American non-belligerency without his be not be limited to placing arms al but might in- ing aware of it, and now stands Britain's disposal, opealy on the side of Britain. The elude the transportation of these "Frankfurter Zeitung" wrifes to- arms to Britain on United States ships and under United States convoy.
day.
"We admit that Mr. Roosevelt, his government and his adherents, even the by no means small por- tion of his opponents, are not only trying morally to stiffen Bri- tish resistance; we admit that America is not only thinking of, the inheritance
that sooner or later will fall to her, but that the will to preserve England from catastrophe through as extensive ald as possible must be designat- ed plainly as an American desire.'
Hitler's Warning Repeated
The paper adds that the United States is now "England's only
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One man employed by the firm had spent every night at the shel- ter since the heavy London raids began. On that Saturday night he went to visit his mother in the East End.
Germany's attitude toward such a situation is made clear by the "Frankfurter Zeitung." It indicates
Another employee, who was on no plan for German
fire duty, said: "If my thirst had held out for half a minute longer, tack against such
I. went beyond
I would not be here now. statement that "any ships that down the road for a glass of beer, come before our torpedo tubes
and as I entered the public house However, it will be torpedoed."
I heard the crash of the bomby the German
on our building."
were brought Some bodies
ruins of from out
the the London subway hit in Satur- day night's rald. Search is con-
expresses once more conviction that United States aid will come too late to save Britain und that "no power on earth can preserve Britain from her fate."
"It is the aim of warfare to de- tinuing amid the tons of masonry. stroy the fighting power of the opponent, to destroy his means of defence and his physical power.' the editorial continues.
Nothing recognisable remains of the subway, apart from the gener- al outline. Within the crater was slabs of a tangle of boulders, roadway weighing up to half a we have to depend only on J ton, and wrecked steelwork.
We are
not in a situation where
single means and a single method,
From above a hundred Royal but we have several irons in the Engineers, Pioneers and demoli- fire that supplement and evention workers in the crater looked
surpass each other.
The situation of the enemy is as if they were pigmies.
entirely different; all his methods
and means have dwindled to a
single one, which is: hold out late and that, furthermore, tran- until America comes to save Eng-sportation of material to England land. Only the hope of America will not be very easy."
is left to the English. They say that themselves."
U.S. Convoys. Expected
On the prospect of United States ald to Britain, the "Frank- The "Frankfurter. Zeitung gues furter Zeltung" writes further: on to say that "Roosevelt's op- "The world must cond that ponents believe that quite differ- we Germans are watching the ent things may also be concealed American attitude with a com- behind that vell namely that posure that could be surpassed Roosevelt, in order to 'save the only with difficulty. In contrast, democracies, may not only re- the urgency of the English criespeal the laws that hitherto meant for help permits of certain de- the protection of American neu- Anite conclusions as to the Eng-trality, that he does not wish to Ishi altuation. On one side stands mit himself to opening American England, saying Without you harbours and ship yards to Brit- Americans we are lost: on the ish vessels, but that he will de other stands Germany, saying that what he hitherto promised he, did na power on earth....can preserve not-want to do, namely, relieve England from her fate."
the British of the worries about the security of the transports to England."
Skepticism Seen In U.S.
"Roosevelt's opponents fear his United States judgment of the policy will draw America auto- situation is regarded by thematically into the war and think, "Frankfurter Zeitung," on the basis among other things, specifically of of the various declarations made this possibility and its unavoidable before the Senate Foreign Rela- results," the editorial says: "They tions Committee, as negative fornsk, therefore, what will happen Britain. These declarations, their Roosevelt sends American ships paper says "while certainly not into an ocean zone that he hitherto uniform, express only the nega-himself has, avoided as being tive opinion that if the United | highly dangerous? States does not help energetically and Immediately England is lost."
''
"Adolf Hitler gives them the answer: the Germans will fire at them;"
"The average American is by no means of the opinion that with American ald England will win the war-that is to To this the "Deutsche Alige- Bay, will conquer Germany," it meine Zeitung" adds: continues. "That is, in any "Germany does not" regard care, a difference and, one may steamers with war materials for say, a big difference,
England as vessels of idealism; "The English are concerned less but as vessels with war materials with the aid bill than with quick | that are to be used against Ger- and actual, ald. Here again many. To sink them is po insult. difference can be detected that is to American idealism, but measure likewise not small-namely, the of practical reason for the pro- fact that the aid bill and very tection of women and children. In quick and extensive American German cities on whose heads production (and then assured the American deliveries are to be shipping of material to Britain) thrown down, once they reach are by no means one and the thefr. destination. same thing.
"The Fuehrer's speech showed "This old bill has the quality Americans that we interpret of acting as a veil drawn before America's readiness to aid Britain.. tangible reality, before the fact just as unsentimentally as it is that American aid will conio too I'meant."