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HOW U.S.A.
SEES
IT
By ALEX H. FAULKNER, NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT The following dospatch illustrates in a vivid way the importance to Britain of adequately informing American opinion on the true course of the German air attack and its repeated defeats over England.
It forms a timely footnote to the strange story of censorship blunder, when American journalists were not allowed to send home any word, even of the public's composure and London's freedom from damage, while the air raid on London was being broken up and Germany was spreading its fictitious claims to "victory."
New York, Aug. 20. "Americans are certainly getting a bit excited." This remark was made by a mem ber of the British flying-boat Clare's crew who had just flown the Atlantic and Was looking at the big, black, nir- raid headlines in the New York papers.
It summed up the very different reactions of the people here und those at home to the efforts Goering's Luftwaffe,
ot
The speaker had dropped out of the sky from another world. We regarded him with awe, expecting him to tell harrowing tales of roar ing guns, massed armadas of the air locked in spectacular combat and rain of bombs spreading fire and destruction on every hand. He both disappointed and greatly re- lieved us
SOME SURPRISE
His nonchalant attitude was ob- vlously perfectly genuine: it was shored by other members of the crew, and it came as a surprise for a number of reasons.
First and foremost was the fact that the newspapers here had been printing daily accounts of the Bights of thousands of Nuz! 'planes und detalled descriptions of scoreca of exciting dog-fights, to say no- thing of the radioed photographs of wrecked houses, which inevit ably have given the impression
Southern England
Souls
that (and looks) like a vast battlefield. Leader writers have been unspar ing in their comparison of current events with Armageddon.
These people would probably be surprised to find themselves being compared to their Elizabethan ar- cestors, but the roporters made it clear that they were indeed dis- playing the legendary heroism and calmness and, above all, the slight- ly Purkish humour associated with their forebears.
OPINION OF British
Americans have been sharply re- minded that several generations of shopkeeping have not extinguished such qualities in the British race.
The R.A.F. score-sheet, It was true, looked extraordinarily good, but the United States papers have placed great emphasis ever, since the war began on the fact that all news from the belligerent countries is censored and Geobbels's gift for mendacity has caused many Ameri- cans to look askance at any official whether British or statements, German.
and
on
Fortunately, no time has been lost in taking Americans with un- questionable reputations behind the Brenes, showing them how carefully accurately our figures enemy losses are compiled. Many articles have appeared emphasising this point, and commentators here have begun to admit that we are "doing pretty well."
TAKING OFFENSIVE
In the last 48 hours things have taken yet another turn for the better from our point of view as the result of the R.ÃF, raids into Ger- many and German-occupied terri tory and even as far afield as Italy, There could be no surer sign of our fighting spirit and fighting ability. There are other reasons also. "The outside world is so impressed There is the profound anxiety felt by German numerical superiority by those who look on with a sense In the air that it falls to realise that of helplessness from this side of the R.A.F. has definitely taken the offensive and is inflicting on the the world. There is Hitler's record of successes in other fields, which enemy more injury than the Luft- have clothed him in a mantle
warte is on England." That is Mr. supposed invincibility.
H. R. Knickerbocker's cable to the There is
Hearst newspapers from London. This morning's headlines have done much to hasten that realisa- tion, and the Nazis, are helping by the obvious desire to conceal the truth about the R.A.F. raida from
Side by
side with dozens the world. of columns of news from England ure scrappy messages from Berlin. Biving little more than the fantastic official German figures, It does not require much imagination to un-
of
to
the history of what hopp perts
look
50
France.
which made all the Billy.
In parenthesis ane may remark that these are the people who are now leaning over backwards in their anxiety not to be caught napping again.
Bealdes all this there are the oft-quoted Agures showing the dis- parity in numerical strength, of the opposing air forces....
WHEN FACTS BEGAN
Pervading all the thinking about the entirely new phase on which the war has now entered is the dread of a terror rained from the skles. Many, see what is happen. ing in England now through the mist of Wellsian: fantasy
London however, was not im mediately "wrecked." Once the American correspondents were al-- lowed to say what they spent Friday trying in vals to say, the Narl raiders no longer appeared to be having it all their own way. Over the cables and over the air began to come a stream of stories correspondents, who, besides wild fights, in the ** Tolace now; famous
bing
bearing of the
derstand why.
Now those who lately were in a mood of despair are beginning to hope that this summer will draw to, a close and still find Hitler, like Napoleon, gazing jealously across the Channel at our white cliffs or perhapa ruofully licking his wounds after an unsuccessful attempt to cross the sea.
felt la universally conceded that if he falls to invade England ruceeks · fully before the winter sets in or even if he falls to make the attempt he will, in the eyes of the world, have suffered his first grent reverse of this war
was
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that
|Me 1940
August 1946
WAR EFFORT
OL
WAR EFFORT
THE SONG OF THE WHEELS
KEEP AT IT
HOLLAND UNDER NAZI RULE
on
Bombing raids by the R.A.F.
German-occupied
acro-
dromes in Holland have been distinguished by good marks- manship on military targets. -In spite-of-some-danger to- civilian life and damage to civilian property, the Dutch people feel that every bomb that hits its mark is one more blast to free them from their prison cage. Most Dutch have indeed shown a magnificent spirit and a recognition that a British victory is the only hope for their future as an in- dependent nation.
Active resistance is impossible. The Dutch have developed their own technique in showing what they think of the German invaders and
of obstructing in any little way that can be useful and still practical. The Germans know that they are not liked. Their treat- ment of Holland has not been so openly conciliatory as it is reported to have been in other occupied States. The Gestapo has settled down heavily on the country, and an economia stranglehold enables the Germans to extract what they want.
On the surface Holland wears a fairly normal aspect. The Govern- ment are functioning; the wheels of industry still turn; trains run much as usual; and the rebuilding of.de. vastated areas is actively in hand. Beneath all this there is a formid- able problem to be faced. Before. well' WAS the invasion Holland stocked. In spite of the blockade there were adequate reserves fraw materials and ample food sup
plies.
FOOD SUPPLIES RAIDED
of.
MESSAGE FOR TO-DAY
Despond not, Britain this sacred hold
Should
Of Freedom, still inviolate, be
assailed,
The high, unblenching spirit
which prevailed
In ancient days is neither dead
-nor cold;
Men are still in thee of herole
mould,
Men whom thy grand old sca-
kings would have balled As worthy peers, invulnerably
mailed,
Because by duty's återfest law
controlled.
Thou yot shalt rise, and send
abroad thy voice Among the nations, battling for
the right,
In the unrusted armour of thư
youth;
And the oppressed shall hear it,
and rejoice
For on thy side is the resistics
might
Of Freedom, Justice and Eternal
Trutis,
JAMES DRUMmond burnS
This wholesale requisitioning brought in the card-rationing system. There was not much left In the shops for sale. For the Dutch (the system does not apply to the German invaders) the ration for olls and fat is 125 grammes (a little over 4oz.), for ten 10 gramunca, and for coffee 50 grammes a head a week. These quantities are temporary, and will decrease as stocks become exhaust- ed.
factorles, however, there is a scar- 'elty, of fuel for power. For the same reason the heating problem in the coming winter will present for- midable dificulties, which will be overcome only if the Germans con- sider it expedient to keep the Dutch
warm.
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There is a general feeling that the Germans are anxious to nvold the possibility of internal troubles. For this reason alone it is probable that they will try to maintain standard of existence in Holland at Icast a little above starvation level. Politically the Germans have at- As templed no radical changes. far ne possible the central and local governments have been permitted to continue, ostensibly on. tradi- tional Dutch lines, always, of course, under the overriding con- trol of Sciss-Inquart and the Ger- mun generals, with Himmler and bis satellites in the background,
to
The Germans seem largely to have ignored questions affecting the reigning House. At first they tried to make capital out of the Queen's departure to England, but a partial focal hostility
the House of Orange soon died down, and German trip card dis- appeared with it. Since then the Germans have maintained discreet silence on the subject. Decrees are issued and the general adminis tration is carried out by a body terming itself a "Committee," com- posed mostly of the Chief Secre-. taries of the Departments of State, most of whom remained in The Hague after the departure of their Ministers to England.
THE VELVET GLOVE
the Administration, Fow arrests
Naturally the Gemans wished There is one portion of the poputo reward their Dutch supporters, lation which will suffer from the stores were accumulated princi- ade cutting down of tinned foods. The and many of these found jobs in
pally to feed the unemployed, who will now get none of them. In- stead they are being organised inte labour corps to bo crafted anywhere within the territary controlled by
have been made, nor is there much evidence of revenge having been taken against known enemies of the Nazis. A number of suicides in by the days following the German
the Third Reich Rehim to fom conquest may have removed poten-
this organisation entails starvational victims from the Gestapo. On
the whole, the Dutch people have. been left t
refugees from
as no ration cards will be lasted to recalcitrant-workers. Dutch laboure
is thus compelled to serve, how.. who had escaped y ever/imwillingly, its new musters
In the wider economic feld, the Germs seem to have promulgated
plat of their own devising
From the moment of the German entry into The Hague this great warehouse of consumable goods was raided Payment was given In useless paper marks and the goods disappeared into Germany's in the Brst week 8,000,000 logra ril 17,600,00016.] of butter, about,
per cent of the lotal were removedy The Bhappened
other stock
thing
Germany have been sent back to unknown but franginable:fate, Other Gorman refugees, apart froen being compelled to report to the polico, avary day, are more or less sred. “Nothing on it: targa, seale have happened ito: Left-
ews of
camp
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