THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 7, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
DEMORALISING NORWAY
The Nazi attempt to demoralise and disinte- grate Norway proceeds with Teutonic persistence. An intensification of po- lice control in West Nor- way is reported; and among other devices of the creators of the new order are the compulsory use of the Nazi form of salute and the revival of certain pagan customs. such as the sun festivals
which were hid in the Scandinavian and Anglo- Saxon countries before they were converted to Christianity. The display | of rune inscriptions has long been thought a suit -| able medium for inculcat- ing moral virtues into Nazi youths, and no doubt it would suit Hitler very well to paganise as much of Europe as he was able. He recognises in the Christian religion an es- *sentially supernational
force, the tendency of which is towards the equality and brotherhood of all men. Both tenden- cies are abhorrent to the Nazis, who class the Chris- tian
Church, Marxism,
and Freemasonry to- gether as opponents of! their favourite tenet of a master-race. The idea that before God all men are equal is destructive of the whole conception on which the Nazi system in Europe is to be reared.
MATSUOKA
"The Trouble? He Wants Something To Take Home!"
Our Home Army
Since we are supposed to be facing the dangers of invasion any day now, according to Hitler's
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By
John Gordon
recent speech, our attention been turned to our Home Guards, Every now and again in one of these "Hot Gospel" speeches, the which are intended to take
inds of their perplexed people off realities. Hitler or one of his services or in die
will chief henchmen
make al Services like the Ar Re: Da sneering reference to that extraor vices, the Fire Brigade, the anne dinary new section of Britain's sport and the hosp-Ajchs fighting forces.
They looked a
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These speeches might give you first. They could not bok o'mi the impression that the Home wise for they had ... Guard is a band of undisciplined, only on the slurve of the doddering old men with pitch-kets a khaki armlet with fan let forks playing at Boy Scouts. Tu ters L.D.V.-which stands for
who cal Defence Volunteers, the p listen to the speechinakers really should and probably do, ginal name. know better, you would imagine that the first hundred, invaders to set foot in Britain, would sweep them the name of Hoone Gold this motley force out of the way without a moment's trouble.
Winston Churchill
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These are knows every inch of the ground over which they will fight. They know every house. be- Busy door is open to them.
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ara- over the Home Garatul they put y's area. uly the bath know where they They ensure are to be bound. that no man will ever be short of a cartridge or a bomb.
Nor will there be any food dif- #culty for every man has in his home two days iron rations. When the call comes these will sustain him for the first two days food supply system until the comes into operation.
Now do not imagine that bei cause most of the men are above military age they are inferior sol- diers. Most of them served for several
years in the last war. They may not be so physically fit as they were then, but mentally they are even tougher.
Each district of the country, and They know that if they meet very often each factory ha
an invader they must be at their own Home Guard unt. Just as posts to hold him at all costs until in the Army the basis of each the regular troops arrive. They
Another bastion of in- tegrity and justice be- tween man and man is the law, and this too the Nazis are trying to destroy in Norway. It is to the en- during credit of the Nor-
The Home Guard is noting like the regular army. its pur- wegian Supreme Court of
If they ever come to Britain pose is quite different; its tran Justice that all its mem- with that idea in their heads, they ing entirely novel.
This bers resigned rather than
are in for a severe, shock. Home Guard is one of Britain's It is a national force compused accept the decrees of the most brilliant improvisations of of local units who are intended to It is well armed. It is be used solely for a local purpose Reich Commissioner, Ter--the war.
ready for battle to the last button that is taking the first shock of - boven, which manifestly it is not afraid of the enemy, but an invasion wherever it should
violate the basic statutes on the contrary is anxious to meet come.
him. And most important of all, of the country. They will in spite of the sneers about it, I take no hand in adminis- is a very tough body, with just tering laws which in their one ambition to be tougher still eyes, and in the eyes of all
It came into being as a mani-force is a company, but unlike the i have blocks ready to close every
There wil honest men, are partisan festation of the real spirit of Bri Army the companies of the Home road and every field.
tain. Just after Dunkirks this Guard are trained to operate al- | be no sweep through a panic and designed solely for country awoke with some
other stricken sur most independently of the
Britain as there was realisation that prise to the
it companies. They tre JI fact through France. It is the Home the purpose of political stood in imminent danger of be- trained and in.ended for purely Guard that will see to that. Every coercion. Terboven's ing invaded. Now Britain has guerilla warfare.
group of lnvaders will be penned. in une little district, and it is the "People's Tribunal" and not been invaded since 1066.
They are now clad like
intention of the Home Guard that: the Supreme Court of the of the things that just could not Army in battle dreas, the only they shall be slaughtered where
And in its charac-distinctive touch being their arin-
they arc penned. The Home independent State of Nor- tenistic way it refused either to let. Even that is to go shortly Guard has every intention of see- way are incompatible. think about such 2
thing or to Thanks to the United States they ing to that. And it has the men,
Iri are now completely armed. They cannot function side prepare for it.
means, and the strength and th fact there are now more rifles by side; and the Nor- Dunkirk and the fall of France than men--and they know how to toughness to see to it."
have also be- Much of the good fighting qual. wegian Judges will not changed its outlook in a flash. I use them. They
realised suddenly that the inva come, machine-gun experts, Tom-ity of the Home Guard consent to administer a
der might be here in a week. The my gun experts and experts in from their democracy. There has travesty of justice. Al- British are a people who though all sorts of tricky things like the never been such a truly nation
normally slow to move, can move famous Molotov Cocktail; the at army. There is, no question of ready some hundreds of
quickly when necessary, This deadly bomb in a bottle, arst, in- rank because of social position. with tanks in The men, in effect have chose: patriots. have been con- time they moved very quickly. A vented call went forth for every ableSpain,
their own leaders, and they have centrated in the first poli-bodied man to volunteer for the
chosen them. because they have tical prison to be estab- defence of his own home district, Every square foot of Britain is
so that the invader. should be now guarded night and day by Men are prouder to be a pri- lished in Norway,
fought fleld by field, street by Home Guards. No parachutist vate in the Home Guard than a Just as the People's street, village by village. There could descend from the skies, no Captain. In the Army. If there is
has never been any question of plane, could land without a Home ever war on this upisodes of a Court is a travesty of the surrender in Britain,
Guard soldier giving the alarm. the most glorious episodes all The instant the alarm is given, will be those in which the Home Supreme Court, so Quis-
hundred every able-bodied man in the Guard play a part. When an in- It. ling's Nasjonal Samling is thousand men answered the call area will don his uniform, take vasion comes, they will beat a travesty of the Northe ages of 18 and 65, who post to encircle, trap or harry but the last laugh of all will be be- big rige, and move, swiftly, to his Hitler may laugh at them now. -prastically.overy it man
theirs. wegian Parliament.
was not actually in the fighting" the invader.
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