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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 destrucilon, the three most powerful leaders of the western world have addressed their nations, Each address was u warn- Ing and an expression of the man and, through him, of the nation he represents.
Hitler, in his latest Reichslug speech told his bearers that he was desirous of peace and that he was addressing its "final appeal to re- son", direct to England in order to avoid the destruction of a great Empire, whose <iestruction syno never my wish nor my aim". "As p victor, he continued, "speaking only in the name of reason, I cannot see any cause why this war should go on". From Hiler's point of view is undoubtedly no cause for the there is wur to continue. "Germany has", as he himself told his people "at ils. disposal 200,000,000 persons." Can acious desire for domination his rapacious
go further? He would indeed be happy Lo think that "the false lullaby of appeasement" to use Prealdent Rousevelt's words, had succeeded und that he would enjoy the fruits of his duplicity, ruthlessness and domination unchecked,
July 25, 1940
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 has long since died in Colombian politics.
Aside from 228,000 Germans in Brazil, the most expected spot for Nozi trouble would be, one would think, the vast German colony in Southern Chile,
Here, in'n region of vust lakes and
́are 21'Central and South American Republics. They THERE
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- seizing 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 Nazl and Fascist agitators. But any change of Government they have brought about has been merely another revolution on the well-known South American model.
mans have been hacking out farms 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 rail- way station in that part of the world you do not hear a word of Spanish
spoken-it is all "Heil Hittor."
Song for Civilians W the war to-day?
WHAT can I do to win
Here is my breakfast-
all is as before.
Here is the nows, and here's an English May.
. What can I do to-day to
win the war?
What can I do to-day 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. Oven 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. HERDERT
colonles."
ritories occupied by the German
The Colomblan - Peruviani "war"
has even run some of its members,
This colony is openty Nazi and over Letitia was caused by an in- dividual Peruvian rancher, Senor
who
rode into the town of ns Nazis, for the Chilean Parlia- with his own cowboys and
Ernst Rohm was Milliary Instruc- An Old Wound tor of the Bolivian Army, in pre-
THE Republic of Colombia- paration for its war against Para-
one of the most advanced States 1 guny, unitil he returned to Germany South America-has many political In 1932 and was eventually shot.
figures whose prestige rests upon the ment. It has not met with inuich Imprisoned the Governor and all the In 1930 there was a bloodless to fact that they are known as good success there, and when I was there town offcials,
dates from in the elections of 1937 they got no the Colombians found
When Bogota wished to retaliate, volution in Bolivia, hendel by the "Yanqui-haters." This
that they German General Busch, acting Chief the day when President Theodore sents.
could not get soldiers down to the the Nevertheless, they are so strongly Putumayo River, and General Al- of Sloff of the Army, who was sup. Roosevelt bansted: "We took
organised that
fredo Vasquez Cobo, who was the no German among ported by the three Soclolist parties. Panama Canal."
Minister In Parls, turned in his New York Left-Wing weeklies cried
Any attempt to revive old Colom- them Jares ga about without the portfolio to the Qual d'Orsay, pur- that Bolivia was now a Totalitarinn fun discontent over the United Nazl button.
chased two steamships, one of them So it was under Colonel States possession of
from Glasgow, and with a State.
the Panama
battery Every steamer carries the Nazi of French 768, sailed across the At David Toro, a Socialist,
up the Amazon, and up the hotel in their Alpine wonderland
Putumayo River to attack the bas
Peruvians, a room set oside for the
There Deutsche Klub.
are any amount of places in South Amerien such as these where This colony was to strong and putsch could be started, and the numerous that in the lost war the before other forces can be brought life of the country is disorganised
Steinbeck's
Canal, however, would be whipping nog. And every wooden chalet- lantic,
Famous Story
Lennie was on his knees, and twigs, and the long, low whistles from one section of the pesse to the staring at the inert form. other. George led the way directly to the le puol where he and Len- He lifted one of her armis, nie had spent the night before they
to came and let it drop.
the ranch. Listening stealthily, in the brush, they heard "I done a bad thing," he the sound of Lennie's cobbing a few whispered. "I done another yards away.
Bad thing. George'll be mad.. I "You want I should go away?" done a real bad thing. Hide in ald Slim softly. George nodded.
Young Germans there tried to take, on the scene.
ship from Valdivin-300 of them and reach Germany.
Disguised Officer
DI
naval
KNOW
English officer who went down there to pre vent it. He went. disguised, ho thought, as an agricultural expert.
But he had hardly put up at his
the brush till he comes. That's "I'll be close by," sald Slim as hehotel in the German district before what he said. Hide in the went. brush."
George went ahead and whis- Looking stealthily about him, he pered loudly to Lerale, who crept
the
close-growing buttoned up his blue denim coat forward under
barn tules and Joined him happily. stole out through the
"George!" You ain't gonna leave me, are you, George?"
"No."
and door.
that down the
ain't
On
1! was
"I knowed it. You George and Candy who discovered Mae's cold form when kind." Lennie sat they went to the barn to look for bank, vastly relieved,
Lennie after the horseshoe
"Ain't you gonna give gume. George quickly
men talkin' to, George?" dropped on his knee, put
"Give you a talkin' fo?" his hand over her heart
"Sure,
like you always for a moment, then stood. and looked dully down at
thing. Like: If I didn'l the body.
have you I'd take my fifty bucks.
"What done 11?" whis- pered Candy.
"Ain't you got any idea?" grated George. "I should of knew. I guess maybe way buck in my head I did!"
4
OF
MICE
AND
MEN
"What we допла do now, George? What we gonna do?'"
"Guess we gotta tell the guess we gotta get hin un lock tm up. We can't let 'im get away-the pood
Maybe they'll dummy'd starve.
Britain knows that she could have peace to-morrow provided she ac- cepted Hitler's terms, which would inevitably place the nation even lower, if possible, than France and olher neutral
to-day. countrica Hitler's impotent fury at not being
"as able, even a victor"
guya. to dominate tho whole of Europe including Britain without further struggle, was clearly demonstrated in his favec- tives against Churchill, in the lies which he
uses so freely on every occasion-lies which, he himself once wrote, were necessary to feed the broad inasses of the nation who more "readily fall victims to the big He than the small lle",
the loa
As a contrast to Hiller's bombastic ravings, 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 is less important to restate them.
His
deter vigorous misation to carry on the inevitable War
Inst Hitlerism and all that it
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, in #broadcast from Washington on his nomination, warned his listeners that the "present war is not ordinary -war. It is a revolution imposed by force of arms which threatens 'all men everywhere. It is 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 it hopes to obtain and which dominates the lives of all of us".
It is on the record of things as they are" that Great Britain-end truly in this hour of
of strain she is great-bears the brunt and hent of the battle. There are no illusions left anywhere in the Empire about the cost of the victory she is deter mined to achieve. 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 go to bear, ourselves that "if the British Commonwealth and Empire Jasts a thousand years, men will stil, say "This was their finest hour
his
do when done a bad
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 see
Ксер lookin's now, an' I'll tell ya about it."
Lennle took the place indicated,
n smiling young German entered his room and sald: "We know who you We know why you are here. are. We think you had better go backe to Suntlago."
Any of these putscher might lead to a revolution which, if it developed seriously enough, would possibly necesitate United States Interven- tion. Therein lies the main signt- cance of any Nazi-instigated unrest that might arise in South America.
-HERALDS-
of the R.A.F.
You need not know about heraldry to serve in the Royal Air Force, but such knowledge did. But the may prove useful.
This Englishman young Germans did not get their boat, I might say.
in
The German reverence for tien and Insignia has. found a new ex-
several
aircraft enemy The danger of inls German colony, brought down by the R.A.F. have
pression: aside from their number and re-borne a cont of arms or a device. moteness, lles in the fact that their One had a magple, not a very happy lands straddle the one pass in that choice, for the old rhyme says of part of the world that goes over into Scotland a magple may foretelt ars
"One'e sorrow" and magples: the Argentine.
carly death. This is a three-days trip by me- emblem an umbrella stuck through Another, more aspiring, had for its tor-bus and boat until you reach a with a sword, which is certainly n high niche in the Andes that lets/pithy way of representing the tes- you down into the Argentine itself. poctive British and German attitudes Here you get the train at San Carlos to war, though it gives a wrong iden
of the way we conduct 11. de Bariloche for Buenos Aires.
I made this trip. Theoretically, the route is owned by a Swiss. They call him the King of the Andes. But, I so, his subjects are all ardent Germans, young, nelive, and poten tial Fifth Columnist.
The
of danger
Such gestures hardly call for prise that can get hold of a paint pot. official recognition, but private enter- will probably want to reply.
The mest obvious retort is a broom, since many of our bombers are on "sweeping" duties and the broom has a famous precedent. This is a simple instance, but there is obviously room for more elaborate. devices. Only, fortunately or unTM ter-likely to see them,
possible Nazi
lock im up an' be nice to 'im."
back to George. "All right putsches in South America lies in fortunately, the enemy are soldom. "You an' me can get that little George. Now go on, tell how It's the remoteness of the place, can't we, George? You an' gonna be. We gonna have a little me can go there an' live nice, can't place?" we, George? Can't we?"
the George forced
"I while the footsteps in
very
FUNNY SIDE UP
words out, the wooda
George did not even answer. think I knowed from the very, first," sounded nearer. "We'll have a cow, he fuld 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 flat we'll hear about it so much I got to have a tle piece of alfalfa-"|" thinkin' maybe we would." Candy slumped down on a keg and sat still,
staring at nothing.
"For the rabbits1" cried Lennie. "For the rabbits." *
"And I get to tend the rabbits!" "An' you get to "tend the rabbitsi" "Yes. Now keep lookin', Lennie.
БОС can almost
the place!"
When Curley viewed Mac's body in the barn, he worked himself into the fury which he considered. ap- propriate to a bereaved husband. Down there ncross the river-like
"I know who done it!" he shout- 'you 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.
It's gonna be nice
phoned the sheriff to meet them on "That's right. their way to the woods. The sheriff there. Ain't gonna be no trouble, would deputise every one them, no fights. Nobody ever gonna hurt
or steal from 'cm. I gonna be nice."
so that they could shoot to kill with nabody, impunity.
Listen. Mr.
"I can see It, George! Right over Jackson," George pleaded. "The poor guy ain't re- there I can see it
The shot stortled a heron in the sponsible for what he does. Tell
Lennie made no
the men not to shoot him. He didn't river below know what he was doin'."
gun on him
sound.
"Not shoot him!" screamed Cur- ley. "He's, Hot Carison's
George walked back to the Tonch was there this morning an' It's with Sillm. The summer twilight gone now. Sure I'm gonna shoot was deepening into black. A tilo wind had started, and it blew the him! I'm gonna get him myself!"
George and Sum took the short dried leaves gently and chased across
cut George knew, through the the grass, past the tules and "Into willows by the bank. They woorts 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.
“Onco over lightly
By Abner Dean