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Air Raids and News
Newspapers throughout the British Empire feel that they are giving their readers a raw deal regarding the news of air raids in England.
The news about air raids is
dull, and people no longer want to read it. Yet war in the air is vivid. Like all war it is terrible; it is abominable. it is dramatic.
But
It should be the greatest instrument
air
campaign in
Hitler's Dream for
South
America
VERFLUENTED
Now York. Government inquiry
has
WE
TE are directly and immedi- brought to light the existence ately concerned in what of a nation-wide Nazi organisa- in happening now in South tion assisted by the German
Amarica. Within the last' fow
wooks almost within the faw Legation, which embraced, a days-the outline of a grandiose Hitler Youth organisation, a plan conceived in Berlin has Storm-Troop body, a branch of fallon into place.
the Gestapo, Nazi motor-cycle
Hitler's dream spreads already and glider organisations, and beyond Europe. It envisages a particularly thorough ma- the creation among the tremen- chinery for propaganda.' dous; fertilo, richly-stocked
plains and mountains of South Intensive propaganda, is go- America of a "new Germany," ing on, backed by Germans of where food and raw materials to property and wealth, who head supply the Master Raco of the local Nazi population, es- Europe will be gathered and ex- timated at 250,000. ported.
MEXICO GUATAMALA HONDURAS SALVADOR NICARAGUA COSTA RICA PANAMA
By ROBERT WAITHMAN
But there is this difference now. At the beginning of the PERU
The groundwork is being inld In Paraguay and Bolivia the war America had still to make by the Nazis in South America extent of the Nazi organisation, covery which as it dawns over an immense discovery-a dis- now with a kind of boastful while it is known to be great, the country is changing the out- openness which indicates that has not yet been uncovered..
look for everybody. That dis- the plan has a short-range as
In Brazil, where one estimate Covery is that the Monroe Doc- well as a long-range objective.
trine may not be practicable For the present it is the short puts the number of persons of and that hemisphere defence range objective that most close- German blood at 1,000,000 and may be an impossibility unless ly concerns us.
the number of persons of Ita- the British Fleet remains intact
to
und
CUBA
JAMAICA HAITE
„COLOMBIA ECUADOR „VĚNÉZUELA'
BANISH GUIANA OUTCH, GUIANA
FRENCH GUIANA,
BRAZIL
BOLIVIA
PARAGUAY URUGUAY ARGENTINA
CHILE
What the Nazis hope to do is lian descent at 3,000,000, the and effective.
create sufficient confusion German Fifth Column, which is Now the United States has to and make their threat look thoroughly well organised, is decide. To keep everything at sufficiently pressing to divert rumoured to have the sympathy home, fight the Nazis in South United States aid from Britain, of certain of the army leaders, America, try to defend the he- Enough information has now as well as of wealthy traders, misphere independently of what British control of the scas and come from South America to and the possibility of a rising happens to Britain and the to strike not at a branch of the make it reasonably certain that, to pust the Vagas Government British Fleet?
Or to throw its Nazi trec, but at its root? if and when the United States and to Nazify the country is weight into the scale in Europe This may be the greatest de- Increases its nid to Britain to being discussed.
give every help to the cision America has had to make n point where it is seriously im- In Mexico the Nazi effort is British in order to insure the since it decided on the Declara- peding the German effort in obviously
Monroe Doctrine by insuring tion of Independence. concentrated OI Europe, a Nazi revolution will creating a means break out in South Amerien. It the United States into concen- for caringi will be staged in the belief that trating military the United States will thus be that direction and away from resources in frightened into keeping every Europe. available aeroplane and gun at home in readiness for a Nazi attack on the United States it- rally it seems evident that in self
As to South America gene-
all the republics the majority of people are pro-Ally. But Ñazi! That is the German plan. It organisations are not concerned is in its early stages yet. It with peoples' sentiments. They can be upset-upset and de- are working on the political and molished. But there are only military leaders on the one two nations now left to upset hand and on the other hand on it. One is Great Britain and the commercial interests. the other is the United States.
Military
Psychology
| plucked victory from defeat,
"went by the book," and
doubtable General de Gaulle, a mo-
CERTAIN explanations] armies and would perhaps have
are surely due to the Petain British reader in view of the whole riper milliary experience And it requires little perspica- It has been revealed this the recent debacle in or France supported him in so do- city to see that Britain and the week that the Germans are now United States will have to work offering delivery of manufac France. That they havens, with the exception of the re- together if they are to succeed. tured goods in several Latin-not been forthcoming is dernist, sceptical of the traditional.
The German effort in South September-and, moreover, are
American republics for next another proof of the in-
False Hopes America so far has been spread porting cash bonds which they defensibly insular_nes- over Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, will forfeit to buyers if delivery cience of our writers, chivalrous consideration
That the aged Marshal hoped for from the Bolivia and Brazil, with
is not made by that time.
men of his own caste in the German separate side-show running in
and our public, concern-Command is clear from the phrases Mexico, on the borders of the
The prices they are quoting ing the spirit of Con- mistice, especially those in which he he employed in his request for ar- United States.
tinental institutions in old stress upon that military with general and military himself had been trained.
ideals in particular.
in all cases are au low that United States exporters
possibly compete
can-
chivalry and courtesy in which he
The last card he could play in the dreadful eircumstances -was-on-ap For the people of the greatest peal to caste consideration, an appeal
of propaganda A mass of detail, cabled up not Hitler has given England. from South America by United them. Remember how we were horri-States newspapermen who have fied at the Japanese raids on now ferreted out information All these details, descending) Shanghai. Canton, Hankow which should have been avail- now on the United States as the At the bombings of civilians in able months ago, contains these Government prepares to meet Empire the world ever knew, to "the soldier's coat," as the saying Spain. At Mussolini'a
mur-high-lights- in dorous
Uruguay a the Latin-American republics we are still dangerously ignor-oes on the Continent to Freema- of the Sword. This soldierly this month at the Pan-Ameri-ant of the standards of that philosophy and Ethiopia 7
camaraderie, for It was those vivid
can Conference in Havana, are Europe of which presumably wo which we have no parallel in these atories that swayed public newspapers and Daventry can-frankly alarming. For United are a geographical part. What Continental military circles, or was islands, is a very living thing m opinion throughout the world not give the lie direct to this States policy has been, and, as has puzzled most people in these Petain thought himself justined, to and that Marshal until recently, against the aggressors.
sort of Nazi propaganda because Secretary Hull last week made Why then does Britain make we are permitted to receive only plain, still is, founded on the islands in the quick change of some extent, in relying upon its de the news of the horrible murder the official communiques from Monroe Doctrine, which com-front revealed whenever the cencies, is not surprising to anyone of civilians in England dull in London.
mits the United States to op-destinies of France were placed aware of its spirit and traditions, the news bulletins for the Press
If the people responsible for pose any change of sovereignty in the hands of her military Corps in Europe is, or was, a definite To put it in a word, the Officers and for the wireless.
British propaganda would only in any part of the American caste. "Enemy aircraft attacked a
realise the disservice they are hemisphere. Since the begin- town in the south-east. There doing the British cause there'd ning of the war the United were one or two casualties." be a lot of deadwood thrown out States Government has thought been that that caste is similar to our code so much
which After you have read the same of the departments which are and spoken in terms of hemis-own, and that it would react to such Ideal
phere defence,
a situation as confronted it in much soldier's coat" must old statement a dozen times, making such a mess of it all. and heard the Daventry
the same spirit. The truth is that, cherish, and the requests of whose brothers" must within reasonable strictly speaking, we have no "mill-bounds be regarded as fraternally announcer repeat it, you get bored. Which is Hitler's aim.
tary caste," only the most sporadic sacred. vestiges of such a body being visible He wants you to get tired and
in certain crack corps and service bored; get fed up with the raids
clubs. and the whole war.
When wo are forced to repeat in our columns that the R.A.F. is bombing Germany thoroughly, and that the Germans are losing a lot of planes to inflict "some casualties" on England; some of us add doubt to our boredom. There is no valid reason to doubt the authenticity of the official. bulletins. They are accurate. The only thing that makes them appear inaccurate is the way Reuter's and other agencies have to put them out.
In Hongkong we get lots of bright air raid stories with Berlin date-lines. If we were to give them the prominence they deserve from a news point of view. the British stories of the air raids would receive even less attention.
1: Chatterbugs in Hongkong who know someone aboard a ship just out from England tell about the thousand of casualties" at such-and-such a place, about such-and-such a seaport being wrecked: That they are "bo- lleved by some people” la “due solely to the fact that the
FUNNY SIDE UP
J.O.COMPE PRESIDENT
PRIVATE.
DEAN
"The boss woul
By Abner Dean
give them time off to get mar
caste, the last surviving fragment of medieval knighthood," a "spiritual" The assumption seems to have body, not national in its ideals and za international, on
wear
the respect and,
No "Last Ditch"
who
That Marshal, Petain's plea would receive some sentimental considera- tion from the more traditionally minded among the German Command. is by no means improbable, ` though, But if we judge the Continental in the circumstances, they would soldier by our own, we are not only have little opportunity or heart to unfair to bath, but make no allow support it, in view of the ances for the former's training and phant Fuhrer, for Herr Hitler can and Tartarly" altitude of their trium- prejudices. From the Continental scarcely be credited with the softer- point of view, one might as well inspirations of chivalry. blame Marshal Petain and General
Weygand for what we believe to be
a deplorable-lapse of patriotism, as
expect a distinguished exponent of
All "Fascista”.
"gavage
I do not seek to excuse Marshal.
cheas, when he found himself beaten, Fotala's action. I feel that he was to throw down the table and engage the course he adopted, but I can un
utterly and wretchedly mistaken in his opponent in fisticuffs.
derstand the absurd prejudices and
In the grim and narrow. lexicon of antique inspirations, which made him the Continental art of warfare there take it,
15
am
..
officers
no Idiom comparable with our It. is being said in many circles 'in "fighting to the last ditch," Such a this country that he is a Fascist." process would be regarded as not The statement strikes me as pecull only unscientiae but even absurd. 1 arly provincial. All Continental mili-
not here concerned with the ethics of continuing a losing struggle should say, to whatever Army they
tory
without exception I to the end, a principle which, like may belong, are most Britons, I naturally adhere to marrow of their bones, and the are "Fascists" to the but, strictly with the Continental sooner we reallad the fact the better view of strategy. "Grube Red ".for ourselves. By “Fascist,” here; I Marshal Petain, according to his mean a man who believes that by own code, though not to ours, realised, discipline alone can humanity u still more disastrous condition of organised into the semblance of affairs. Faced by forces of hitherto order and who, by trainlig and Incredible
***** | tradition,' hàs' ^a? leaning to Hitler's destructiveness, momen- tum" and mobility elements not tyrannical system, and co usually associated in warfare and And it is just because we a by something; indeed, resembling a people, hate and dread anything, in general chaos, the glanced at hand the nature of iron discipline that destitute of honours" and autopia we rightly determined»›ió: stragale: fically threw it in, in circunstances against it to the end, apart from alt