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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 23, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
HITLER CAN BE BEATEN
Three months ago, when gloom was a foot| thick after the fall of Crete, after the con-
quest of Yugoslavia and Greece, after the reverses in North Africa-it was hard to get a hearing for the opinion that the great fundamentals of moral
and material power still lay on Britain's side, and that Hitler would never win this war. To-duy, with Germany's best troops deeply embroiled in Russia, a good many of the gloomy prophets of two months ago have turned optimist. But the! new confidence which they radiate seems to be based on their belief that Hitler is paying, and will continue to pay, a tre- mendous price for his Russian gains. If Russian resistance should collapse to-morrow a good many optimists would return to gloom again.
טביות
ASHES IN THE MOUTH
How Nazis Plunder
Food As Propaganda
France was and still is being volum-black-mailed by a threat to retain
A fresh reminder of EVER since Goering invented his
The object of these meals is to trade with Germany grew larger' some of the fundamental famous slogan "Guns or But- win over malcontents in the oc- and larger, the process continu- factors on Britain's side ter" the Nazis have consistently cupled territories in favour of the ing until their national finances used food as a political instru-occupying forces. As soon as the were reduced to chaos. This was -wholly regardless of the ment. At a time when growing occupying authorities introduce the cue for Quislings. The Nazis result of the German transport difficulties make it im- food rationing, which they do did not buy up the next year's possible to provide the population soon after their arrival, a labour |harvest-at most only an insigni- campaign in Russia with even their meagre rations, | recruiting campaign on behalf of ficant part of it. The result was comes from the Brook-food is often deliberately with Germany is launched among the disaster.
held irom them-for political working classes. The bait offered Ings Institution, whose reasons.
is the higher ration of food ob- careful reports, on
In districts, for instance, with|tainable in Germany. Workers are any industries or mineral resources | thereby urged to avoid gradual question, always repay which are essential to the war starvation at home by close study. The present effort the people receive issues of larily" escaping to forced labour French prisoners of war or onl
supplementary unrationed food in Germany. If the bait report, a pamphlet pub-stuffs, whenever discontent among lished under the title of the works finds expression in a diminished output. On the other "A Short War Through hand, the least sign of dissatis- Americana Industrial faction in areas not important to Supremacy," is the work war economy is visited by a cur- of a French economist This treatment applies in a and industrialist,
general way to whole districts, Louis but distinctions are drawn he Marlio, for ten
different categories of clined, reduced 'and. If even this years tween chairman of
workers. The military, of course, fails to produce enough "volum→ the great receive the best rations, though teers," unemployment pay is cut no alternative International Aluminum here, too, a difference is made be- off, leaving men Cartel. It is M. Marlio's tween fighting troops and occupy-but to sign on for work in Ger- central thesis that Ger- The best-treated class of civi- many will lose the war be- industries and miners. The result lians are workers in the heavy cause she is already of this policy has been to create, Is; a community which
and
tallment of supplies.
ing forces.
within
-Bait For The Unemployed
·By⋅ Joe Mercal
many.
is de- to release them in small driblets in exchange for :concessions. France, one of the 'richest wheat- growing countries in Europe, is starving for lack of labourers to ll the soil and because her seed is being carried off by the Ger- mans. Seed can be obtained from Morocco, but there can be no ade- quate cultivation until the prison- ers are returned. French prison- ers of war are compelled to work in German #fields.
Food And ***Haute Politique”
Food is everywhere: used by the
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Germans as propaganda. In the middle of March photographs ap- peared in all the Belgian papers showing potatoes being unloaded in Antwerp. The German-caption to these photographs was as fol lows:Germany ends food to operating at the peak of generally speaking, ill or under mans appear in agricultural. coun- potatoes were on sale at the same In the diplomatic field the Ger- Belgium." (Oddly enough, Belgian her industrial capacity fed, an "aristocracy of feeders," tries as purchasers, before they time at Aachen and Herbesthal
been coined in proceed to overrun and because she lacks (the phrase has
the country (on the German-Belgian frontier); Germany since the war began) with their armles. The technique a fact which is not, so odd when both ¡the natural re- consisting of the pillars of Nazi of these purchases is both simple it is remembered that Belgium, sources and the techni-domination-the SA and Sand and effective. It worked success-short as she was of many food.
those upon whom the Nazis de- cal and
produced a sur- mechanical pend for the maintenance of their ly in Hungary, Rumania, Bul- stuffs, always
garia, and, ulmost, in Yugoslavia. plus of potatoes. The Belgians are means ito match the war economy.
In all these countries low.world not deceived by this form of pro-- enormously superior pro-
prices were even before the warpaganda. making it very difficult for farms duction of guns and
to earn a living. Germany, who tanks and 'planes
is '100 per cent. self-supporting
By The Czec|ıs
· On every ́occupation of a new only in regard to potatoes, had al- ships that will come from country free meals are issued for ways to buy cereals, oil-seeds etc., the United States. This the Arst few days from army kit and, of course, tobacco, from the occupied territories are prò-
Naturally, the inhabitants chens. This charitable measure south-east Europe, If then Berlin tecting themselves against the use assertion he supports is loudly advertised and people are planned the military conquest of of food as a weapon of war. For with data that should be told that the requisite food is sent any of these countries, economic these various countries are pro- from Germany. In fact, however, experts were sent on ahead... ducers as well as consumers. In persuasive to the faintit consists invariably of supplies These gentlemen offered to buy Denmark pigs and cattle have hearted.
"requisitioned" from reservas
up the victims's whole surplus been slaughtered in secret on n stored up by the occupied local crops. For these surpluses the large scale, the meat was sold on He warns, however, that los. As a rule, too, the local Nazis often paid prices above the the black markets of the towns. America ought not make authorities subsequently receive world level, not merely in order in the district of Iglau futbal for this "free feeding" of Word sevicultural goods, which (Bohemia), the Nazis were Laced the mistake of failing to their unemployed.
otherwise might lack a market, with a strike by Czech cows: over decide whether, she is
could be sold en bloc. Before the, a period during which German preparing for a short war ately for one war or the Economic Minister of the coun- cows yielded 17,000 litres of milk, try concerned that time to give his rzech cows in the same area pro- or a long war. For they other. Which is it to be? opinion about these German of duced only 10,000 litros, cannot do both effectively. In this respect the situa- were already broadcasting Ger- on leave last December, he took. fers, German, wireless stations When Baron von Neurath went at the same time: for tion would be more reas-many's generosity toward the poor with him to Germany no fewar example she cannot use suring if there was in Rumanian or Bulgarian farmer. than twenty-seven cases of rood. steel to build factories to Washington & board of mic Ministers were besought by return from publishing an article As a result, the Balkan Econo- This did not prevents him on title produce more steel a year higher strategy with no their agricultural interests to ac-in a new perfodical Bohemia and
cept these German offers. deal Moravia," declaring that the from now, and still have duties save to consider; once made, the German. The und Tectorate was dependent for food HONG KONG as much steel for ships on the basis of the best bill unsettled.
upon the Reich. This is true in The Balkan government was so far as there is available in the and guns in the next evidence available, the obliged to pay its farmers, with Protectorate only what the Nazis twelve months. She ought answers to large ques-out itself receiving the money do not remove. But the Czeclin to be planning deliber-tions of this kind..
from Germany. The clearing new are on their guard. For food has| counts of the Balkans countries in thecome an instrument of ¬war,-!
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