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Once To Every Nation
In the pause that has occurred before the next fateful step is taken in the total war of destruction, the thee most powerful leaders of the western world have addressed their nations. Each address was a war- ing and an expression of the man and, through him, of the nailon he represents.
ΥΠΟ
The Nazis are busy in South America to-day. There is scarcely a State with- out its German colony. All along the Andes, from Panama down to Chile come threats of sabotage, reports of unrest, fomented by Hitler's Fifth Column brigade. NEGLEY FARSON, famous American journalist, discusses here its significance.
Swastika
Over
The Andes
a horse that his long since died.in Colombian politics.
Aside from 220,000 Germans in Brazil, the most expected spot for Nazi trouble would be, one would think, the vast German colony in Southern Chile.
Here, in a region of vast lakes and
THERE are 21 Central and South American Republics. They T
can, all be said to be loaded with political dynamite, because the Opposition in nearly every one of them lives in the hope of virgin forests, a large colony of Ger- acizing power by a Military or Naval Junta, or a so-called people's rising of some sort always headed by a spectacular character.
These Governments have been splendid fishing grounds for Nazi and Fascist agitators.. But any change of Government they have brought about has been merely another revolution on the' well-known South American model.
.
mana have been hacking out forms for a new life that is almost more German than Bavaria itself.
The colony is based upon the port of Valdivia. Once you leave a roll- way station in that part of the world you do not hear a word of Spanish spoken-It is all "Heil Hitler."
Song for Civilians
THAT can I do to win
W the war to-day?
Here is my breakfast-
́all is as before.
Here i
is the news, and
here's an English May. What can I do to-day to
win the war?
What can I do today, to
win the war?
Here is my lunch; and here is peace and play. Up in the clouds boy-
bombers race and roar, What can I do to win the
war to-day?
Here is my bed, my book; the lamp is bright. Over the sea. the steamers pick their
way:
Over the bags the soldiers
watch the night, What have I done to win
the war to-day? ··
A. P. HERBERT
ritories occupied by
colonies."
the
German
Ernst Rohm was Military Instruc- An Old Wound
The Colomblan - Peruvian "wor tor of the Bolivian Army, in pre-
of THE Republic
Colombin-
This colony is openty Nazi and over Letitia was caused by an in-
Peruvian dividual
rancher, Senor paration for Its war against Para-
one of the most advanced States in
has even run some of its members, Vigo, who rode into the town of guay, until he returned to Germany
South America-bus many political na Nazis, for the Chilean Parila- Letitia with his own cowboys and in 1932 and was eventually shot.
Agures whose prestige rests upon the ment. It has not met with much imprisoned the Governor and all the In 1030 there was a bloodless re fact that they are known as good success there, and when I was there town officials,
When Bogota wished to retaliate, dates from in the elections of 1937 they got no the Colombians found that they volution in Bolivia, headed by the "Yanqui-haters." This
could not get soldiers down to the German General Busch, acting Chlef the day when President Theodore scats,
Nevertheless, they are so strongly Putumayo River, and Generți Al- of Staff of the Army, who was sup- Roosevelt boasted: "We took the
organised that no German among Minister in Paris, turned in his freda Vasquez Cobo, who was the ported by the three Socialist parties. Panama Canal." New York Left-Wing "weeklies cried Any attempt to revive old Colom- them dares, go about without the portfolio to the Qual d'Orsay, pur-
Totalitarian bian discontent over that Bolivia was now
the United Nazi button. of So it was- under Colonel States possession the Panama State.
Every steamer carries the Nazl Canal, however, would be whipping tag. And David Toro, a Socialist.
every wooden chalet hotel In their Alpine wonderland hps #2 room set aside for Deutsche Klub.
Steinbeck's Famous Story
Lennie was on his knees, and twigs, and the long, low whistles from one section of the posse to the staring at the inert form. other, George led the way directly the little pool where he and Len- He lifted one of her arms, ne had spent the night before they came tu the ranch. Listening and let it drop.
stealthily in the brush, they heard "I done a bad thing," he the sound of Lennie's subbing a few whispered. "I done another yards away.
"You want I should go away?" bad thing. George'll be mad. I done a real bad thing. Hide in said Slim softly. George nodded.
the
chased two steamships, one of them battery from Glasgow, and with of French 76s, sailed across the Al- antic, up the Amazon, and up the Putumayo River to attack the Peruvians.
There are any amount of places In South America such as these where This colony was so
strong and putsch could be started, and the life of the country is disorganised numerous that in the last war the before other forces can be brought
on the scene.
young Germans there tried to take and reach Germany.
a ship from Valdivia-300 of them--
Disguised Officer
I KNOW
ភព English naval officer who went down there to pre- vent it. He went, disguised, he thought, on on agricultural expert.
But he had hardly put up at his
the brush till he comes. That's "I'll be close by,", sald Slim os ho hotel In the German district before what he said. Hide in the went.
door.
that
Bin't "I knowed it. You It was George and Candy who
sat doc on the discovered Mae's cold form when kind." Lennie they went to the barn to look for bank, vastly relieved. Lennic after the horseshoe game. George quickly -dropped on his knee-put. his hand over her heart for a moment, then stood and looked dully down the body,
Any of these putsches might lead to revolution which, if it developed seriously enough, would possibly necessitate United States interven tion. Therein lies the mñût algni- ficance of any Nuzi-instigated wrest that might arise in South America.
-HERALDS-
of the R.A.F.
Hitler, in his Intest Reichsing
smiling young German entered his speech told his hearers that he was desirous of
brush." peace and that he was
George went ahead and whis-roum and said: "We know who you addressing his "final appeal to rea-
Looking stealthily about him, he pered loudly to Lennie, who crept are. We know why you are here.
You need not know about son" direct to England In order to
blue denim coat forward under the close-growing We think you had better go backt avold "the destruction of a great
buttoned up his
to Santiago."
heraldry to serve in the Royal and stole out through the barn fules and joined him happily. Empire,
destruction whose
"George! You ain't gonna leave
Air Force, but such knowledge never my wish nor my aim". "As a
This me, are you, George?"
Englishman did. But
the may prove useful. victor", he continued, "speaking only
"No."
young Germans did not get their in the name of
The German reverence for titles reason, I cannot see
boat, I might say.
and insignia has found a new ex- any cause why this war should go
pression: several enemy aircraft on'. From Hitler's point of view
The danger of this German colony. brought down by the R.A.F. have there
aside from their number and re-borne a coat of arms or a device. is undoubtedly no cause for the war to continue. "Germany has", ng he himself told his people at its
moteness, lles in the fact that their One had a magpie, not a very happy lands straddle the one pass in thut choice, for the old-rhymo-says-of- disposal 200,000,000 persons." Can
magoies: "One's sorrow", part of the world that goes over into Scotland a magple may foretell an the Argentine.
enrly death.
Another, more aspiring, had for its This is a three-days trip by mo- emblem an umbrella stuck through tor-bus and boat until you reach a with a sword, which is certainly a high niche in the Andes that lets plthy way of representing the res you down into the Argentine Itself, poetive British and German attitudes Here you get the train at San Carlos to war, though It gives a wrong Idea
of the way we conduct it. de Bariloche for Buenos Aires.
Such gestures hardly call for official recognition, private enter- I made this trip. Theoretically, prise that can get hold of a paint pot
kis rapacious desire for domination go further? He would indeed be happy to think that "the false lullaby to use President of appeasement" Roosevelt's words, had succeeded and that he would enjoy the fruits of his duplicity, ruthlessness and domination unchecked.
Britain knows that she could have peace to-morrow provided she ac- cepted Hiller's terins, which would Inevitably place the nation even lower, if possible, than France and other
neutral
to-day. countries
impotent fury of not being
the
even as a victor", to dominate whole of Europe Including Britain without further struggle, was clearly demonstrated in his invec tives against Churchill, in the lies which he uses so freely on every occasion--lies which, he inself once wrote, were necessary to feed the broad masses of the nallon who more "readily fall victims to the big le than the small lie".
As a contrast to Hitler's bombastic ravinka,
which
contained nothing concrete or constructive, Mr. Chur- chill's recent thoughtful and serious utterances are recalled as a welcome relief. His opinions are well known to all and hence it
it is less important to restate them. His vigorous deler- mination to carry on the inevitable war against Hitlerism and all that it includes, inspires the world includ- ing those nations suffering untold humillations and tortures, with fresh hope and courage.
President Roosevelt, the third great statesman of a great nation, int a brondenat from Washington on his nomination, warned his listeners that the "present war is not ordinary war. It is revolution Imposed by force of arins which threatens all men everywhere. It is a revolution which proposes not to set men free, but reduce them to slavery in the interests of dictatorship, which has already shown the nature and ex- tent, and the advantage which hopes to obtain and which dominates the lives of all`of'
It is "on the record of things as they are" that Great Britain and truly in this hour of strain she is great-bears the brunt and heat of the battle. There are no illusions left anywhere in the Empire...about the cost of the victory she is deter. mined to achlove. But there is also no flinching from it. It is the duty and, let it not be forgotten, the pri- vilege of the British nation so to bear ourselves that if the British. Commonwealth and Empire Jastarel thousand years, men will still say "This was their Anest. hour?!!
"What done It?" whis pered Candy.
at
"Ain't you got any Idea?" grated George. "I should of knew. I Guess maybe way back in my head I dial"
"What we gonna do now, George? What we gonna do?"
"Guess we gotta tell the guys...
...I guess we gotta get him an' lock him
We up.
can't let get, away-the pood
OF
MICE
AND
MEN
"Ain't you gonna give re a talkin' to, George?"
"Give you a talkin' to?" "Sure, like you always do when I done a bod thing. Like: If I didn't have you I'd take my fifty bucks..
་
George gulped. "Aw, Lennie, you can't remem- ber nothin' that happens, but you remember ever word I say,"
"Tell you what, George. Tell like you done before. Tell how it's gonna bel"
"All right, Lennie. Sit down here an' look across the river, like you can almost sce it. Keep lookin's now, an' I'll tell ya about it."
The
but
the route is owned by a Swiss. They will probably want to reply. call him the King of the Andes. But, If so, his subjects are all ordent Germans, young, netive, and poten- tul Fifth Columnist.
The
and in
most obvious retort is a broom, since many of our bombers are on "sweeping" dulles and the broom has a famous precedent. This is a simple instance, but there is obviously room for more elaborate devices. Only, fortunately or un- enemy are seldom ter-likely to see them.
Nazi
danger of possible Lennie took the place indicated, putsches In South America lies infortunately, the
George. "All right, his back to
dummy'd starve... Maybe they'll lock im up an' be nice to 'im."
"You an' me can get that little George. Now go on, tell how it's the very remoteness of the
We gonna have a little place, can't we, George? You an' gonna be. me can go there an' live nice, can't place?" we, George? Can't we?"
forced the words out,
the footsteps in
woods
George George did not even answer. "I while the think I knowed from the very first," sounded nearer. "We'll have a cow, he said softly. "I think I knowed And we'll have maybe a pig and we'd never do 'er. He usta like to chickens-and down in the Bat we'll hear about it so much I got to have a little plece of alfalfa- thinkin' maybe we would." Candy slumped down on a keg and sat still, staring at nothing,
When Curley viewed Mac's body in the barn, he worked himself into the fury which he considered op- propriate to a bereaved husband.
"For the rabbits!" cried Lennie. "For the rabbits."
"And I get to 'tend the rabbits?" "An' you get to lend the rabbits!" "Yes. Now keep lookin', Lennie. Down there across the river-like "I know who done it!" he shout- you can clmost sce the place!"
ed, addressing the men who crowd- George now had the revolver in his ed around. That big guy done it, hand, covered by his 'kerchief. The Everybody else was out there playin' voices of the posse could be heard as horseshoes. I'm gonna get him-I'll the men came slowly toward the kill him myself. Who's comin' with bank, me?"
"I'm lookin, George," said Len
But old man Jackson had already organised a posse, and had tele- nie.
"That's right. It's gonna be nice phoned the sheriff to meet them on their way to the woods. The sherly. there. Ain't gonna be no trouble, would deputise every one of them, no lights. Nobody ever gonna hurt
fron so that they could shoot to kill with nobody, or steal impunity.
'C07. It's
gonna be-nice." Listen,
"I can see it, George! Night over Jackson," Georgo Mr. pleaded.Tho. poor guy ain't re- there I can see it!"
Tell
The shot startled a heron in the Lennie made no
sponsible for what he does.
the men not to shoot him. He didn't river below know what he was doin
"Not shoot him" screamed Cur
ley.
"He's got Carlson's gun on him
sound.
George walked back to the ranch
it was there this morning an' It's with Silm. The summer: twilight gone now. Sure I'm gonna shoot was deepening into black. A little wind had atarted, and it blow the him! I'm gonna get him myself!"
George and Slim took the short dried leaves 'gently and chased across cut George know, through the the grass, past the tules and into willows by the bank. They woods to the river bank, Vaguely the
In the distance they could hear the walked along, saying nothing. crunching of heavy boots on leaves
THE END.
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