THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 7, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
NAZI BOMBAST
"
an
"Bombast,' said Frederick the Great in 1775, "is the German's chief failing." It is a fail-| ing no less conspicuous among the Germans of 1941 than among their forefathers of 1775. Recently, the "Berliner Boersenzeitung," one of the relatively sober in- struments of Goebbels's propaganda, carried article entitled "The Con- quered Empire of the Air." The article claim- ed for the Luftwaffe "full command or at any rate an indisputable superior- ity" over an area bounded by Iceland, the Suez Canal, and the mouth of the Danube. This is no isolated instance of a single news- paper making itself ridi- culous in an effort to flatter its masters; it is the daily pabulum fed to the German people in the name of Enlightenment. Let us make a modest examination of the facts.
THE GREATER WALL
FORTIORI
VIS UNITA
Bater
CHINA
STILL UP AGAINST IT.
"Even Our Children
Defy The Nazis
"Among wegians
the there
During the six weeks preceding September 27 last the Luftwaffe con- ducted against the Bri- tish Isles an almost un-
travel without German permission. 3,000,000 Nor when the right time comes, interrupted series of day-
Within the last few days a new As evidence of this, Mr. Trygve are not 20,000
been added to those light raids which cost it who do not hate the Germans Lie told me what joy was caused darfger has
hearts," said Mr. | throughout his country by the that overhang this gallant nation. 2,000 machines. Since with all their
The ancient laws of Norway have Trygve Lie, the Foreign Minister Lofoten raid, September 27 nine for Norway.
tonic to every man, been abolished and the German code imposed on, the at
massive woman, and child in Norway," he military the months
As I looked have elapsed
"and the German reprisals whole country. Private citizetis shoulders and muşcular wrists of sald, without a single attempt the 45-years-old barrister who
may now, for the least; offence, be brought before ä court-martial, to repeat, in daylight, holds that post, it seemed that to
savagely ready to impose the.. be hated by 2,980,000 Norwegians attacks on a scale in any must be a perilous situation.
death penalty. way comparable with the A country whose Cabinet Min- isters are built like heavyweight onslaughts of those six boxers may be expected to give weeks. That omission is forcible expression to its hostility as complete a testimony
as could be desired of the sweeps far exceeding in utter defeat of the Luft-scale and result anything waffe in August and attempted by Hitler over September. Yet well in Great Britain since last October the Nazi Press September. Over Malta
Nazi was still claiming "un- the
dive-bombers who had disputed supremacy" over from Sicily, the skies of Great Bri-come to show the feckless tain. If this was really Italians what Nazi effi- the fact, instead of empty ciency could do, have met boast, why has this with disastrous repulse.
"It was u
says
NORWAY'S FOREIGN MINISTER,
Mr. Trygve Lie,
in an interview with G. Ward Price
upon the unprotected inhabitants the landing of the place where was made have not diminished the encouragement it brought.
The main difficulty of our Gov- the Foreign Minister
"undisputed supremacy" As for Libya and Egypt, ernment",
added, "is to restrain our people
Even so, the Nazis cannot keep the spirit of the people, down). The children themselves make anti-German demonstrations,. When the Norwegian schools were forced to send detachments to the Hitler Youth Exhibition in Oslo, the boys and girls sang the Nation- al Anthem outside. the empty royal palace, and shouted "Down" with Quisling! Long live the King!"
Though Quisling's men invade! the schools, stripping and beating! boys who have jeered at this traitor organisation, the patriotic zeal.of Norwegian youth continues ardent. In reprisal, Quislingites who venture upon the streets inj uniform are often set upon.
Norway was better' organised than Poland to resist oppression, The country is a model of the strength of democratic institutions.
been so tamely abandon- which represent the East- from taking steps for which the All of these the Supreme Court, ed in the long succeeding ern extremity of the time is not yet ripe."
At this very moment, by de- the Church, the Medical Associa
tlon, the overwhelming majority mysterious The answer is alleged Nazi "Empire..of vious
interval?
ways
and
sports-unions, practically supremacy the Air," the R.A.F. reigns devices, considerable numbers of of the teachers, 95 per cent. of the
vation.
the
that the
young Norwegians are on the way whole of the peasant organisation, never at any time existed as supreme as ever the to join their fellow-countrymen
the Shipowners' Association have Britain. except in the vivid ima- Luftwaffe briefly reignedHow do these 3,000,000Nor=]. energetically refused to cooperate gination of Goering and in Poland.
wegian prisoners of the Nazis in any way with their German
oppressors. live? Goebbels.
Unlike the "Boersenzei-
Never has the merit of monarchy Much as before, except for the What of the much tung," we will make no ever-present peril of the Gestapo as the culminating, element in a dernocratic State been more con- m. o. r. e grandiloquent claim to more than is our and the steady approach of star-
vincingly demonstrated than in Norway. The King and the Crown claim to command all the due. We do not yet In terms of paper money many Prince, though on British soil, skies from Iceland to the claim supremacy over the Norwegians might think them have an even firmer, hold, if that Suez Canal? Many hun- Luftwaffe over its own selves better off than in peace were possible, upon the loyalty time, for Germany is "buying" and love of the Norwegian nation dreds of miles east of Continental skies in day- immense quantities of goods from than in the most prosperous days Iceland lie the Lofoten light. What it may claim that country. She pays, however, of peace.
in Norwegian bank-notes requisi
It would be a great error to Islands, where
British to retain, however, from tioned from the Bank of Norway.
Norwegians realise, therefore, assume that Norway is doing no more than await her deliverance ships and British troops now onwards, will under-
that the Germans are, in fact, spent many daylight go a-steady, but inexor getting the goods for nothing, and in patience. Many thousands of hours recently in creat able decline, already pre- that the paper money they give in her sailors are serving the Allied
exchange has only the value of cause. ing havoc without saged by the sweeps over an enforced currency, died The Norwegian Navy, Army. Fortunately, the £35,000,000, and Air Force already on active encountering more than Northern France, till the server of the Norwegian service or in training in this coun a single German aircraft, day when, backed by the banks were brought out of the try and Canada, grow steadily in
nose of the strength. which hastily made off at irresistible resources of country under the
Germans directly the invasion In merchant ships Norway's con- the smell of our naval the United States, we began. This treasure is now safely tribution is out of all proportion to her size. It amounts to 1,000] craft of all kinds, making up a total tonnage of 4,000,000, good three-quarters of a million tons more than all the British tonnago sunke to date in this war
guns. Over Normandy shall command the Con. in Britain or the United States.
and the Netherlands coast tinent as effectively as we
the RAF has recently now command the skies
情
been making daylight of Britain..
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