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March 1, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
11
HOOT MON!
Europe Comes Out
Of Its
Its Trance
We must help the saboteurs
in occupied countries Says W. N. EWER
out. They have not marched against England.
The armies marshalled in the Channel ports, to be taken in the assembled ships and barges over the narrow sea for the Battle of Britain, are still in those ports or have been with- drawn out of range of the bombers.
Whatever the Luftwaffe may
of any general revolt in the oc- News Spreads
is growing.
·
"SABOTAGE!". The are beginning to suggest to have done, it has not conquered word is beginning Berlin that the tactics of ter- the air and cleared a passage
rorism are a failure, that it for the tanks.
Nearly eight months have to creep into messages, might be wiser to try to con- gone since the Continent was public and private, from ciliate the Poles and the promised that "the British Em- all over Europe. The Czechs.
pire is in immediate danger of thought is beginning to *I do not want to raise false destruction" and nothing has
hopes. There is no likelihood happened. worry the Nazis.
How much it worries cupied countries.
The thing is impossible. The London and Coventry, Bir-
und them you may judge hand of the Army and of the mingham
Bristol and Southampton have been badly from the fact that the Gestapo is too heavy.
But sabotage and passive re- bombed; but so have Berlin and moment those very ef-sistance and quiet opposition are Hamburg and the Ruhr and all fective landslides crash- on the increase. The spirit of Germany's industrial centres.
Whatever Goebbels may do, be down on the Oslo-revolt is growing-because hope
news of the R.A.F. gets round Bergen railway, the Ges-
Eight months ago the Ger- tapo took it for granted ago, men thought with gloomy
scemed 80 irresistible. that they were no "acts resignation that German victory mans
was certain, that one must needs Hitler seemed so infallible. To- of God," but acts of men. grin and bear the "new order," day?
now they are beginning to hope I don't think we quite realise They are now con- again.
here the psychological change; how much it means in Europe stantly expecting sabo-
that he has not invaded Britain, tage: because they are It is hard for them to got the that he has not broken us to constantly experiencing true news. They do not know submission by bombing, that he
just what is happening. But has been stopped. it.
they do know what has not hap In those eight months a myth has rolled away from men's Not-always-in-so dra- pened.
And that, by the way, is true-minds. matic form as ava- of the German people, too. They no longer believe in the lanches of rock. But all They remember how in July complete inevitability of a Ger- the Nazi Press was promising man victory. They no longer the time troublesome that "the decisive attack on feel, as they did then, that some little accidents and inci- Britain is imminent."
inexorable fate was sweeping dents.
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It declared that "there is only the Nazi legions from Warsaw a slight possibility of England to Copenhaven, to Oslo, to The rather offering any military resist- Hague, to Brussels, to Paris-to grim "accidents." Many
It threatened at the same In July they felt that London such in Norway have be- time that "London's fate will be must follow Paris: that it was But it fallen known Quislin- the fate of Warsaw-nothing somehow predestined.
can hold up the German ad- has not happened. The myth of gites who have ventured vance."
inevitability has been dissipated. The final attack was being For a moment, when Mus- out at night and have
prepared. Inexorable destruc- solini marched against Greece, ended in the hospital-ion was a question of days and the myth revived. "They will be In Athens in a week, at the most or in the mortuary.
The peoples of the Continent in a fortnight:" remember all that. At the time Then the Grecks stood to it,
Now they have orders to stay indoors during the blackout, or, if they must sally out, to go un- der escort.
Growing Hope In Amsterdam, a Swedish correspondent reports, 133
hours.
they believed it. They were and a new wave of hope swept hypnotised by the sight of the over Europe.
It is very definitely there to- collapse of France.
There had grown up a myth day, this new hope. It is pre-
call -what the French
a cisely because of this new hope "mystic"of the invincibility of that sabotage is growing. the German armies, of the in- Men are daring to take risks because they believe now in the' fallibility of Hitler.
Even here there were people possibility of victory-in which who were hypnotised.
five months ago they did not be
the
people have been drowned in I remember when the story lieve.
Sabotage. And among
canals during the blackout. ran that Hitler had. said that
Oddly enough, most of he would dictate peace in London Germans there is, not dismay as them happen to have been by August 15, a very distin- yet, but certainly a doubt which guished English journalist said was not there eight months ago. Germans.
to me gloomily: "He doesn't. We have to-day, as In The Hague, the Ger- bluff; and he has never been since the war began, the psycho- logical advantage, the, psycho- man authorities have or wrong yet."
logical opportunity.
war.
never
dered the municipality to Still Waiting It is up to us to seize the ad- put 10 miles of railing along
When I mildly suggested that vantage of the opportunity. Re- the canal banks.
it might not be exactly easy for sistance, sabotage, finally revolt, In the German-controlled a big mechanised army to cross by the conquered peoples, may French Press of Paris you the Channel, he accused me of well be a decisive factor in the will find day after day com- "wishful thinking!" plaints of "sabotage," warn- If it were like that with some But only if we help.
people here, it was a hundred-Help can be of two kinds. ings to "saboteurs.'
fold more like that with people Direct, by various methods A letter I had recently in Nazi-dominated Europe, ex- which-pardon me I do not from
a Belgian Socialist posed all day and every day to propose to discuss publicly. In- direct, by just doing our talke of "acts of sabotage" Nazi victory propaganda.
damnedest in every way. Everywhere, Germans sang that show the real feelings their thome song, "We Every ropulso of the enemy, of the Belgian workers.
Marching Against England." every blow struck at the enemy, is going to put now heart into From Poland, from Everybody believed thom.
August, September, the army of saboteurs, and is Czechoslovakia, the same July,
October, November, December, going to bring it new recruits. atory.
Long live the saboteursour January So troubled are the Ger Whatever Nazli propagandista unknown but gallant allies be man-authorities that they may say now, the fact stands hind the enemy lines.
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