Political Crisis
Some news is trickling out of serious shortages plus military de- Italy would be morc
of Europe about, feats have reduced morale further, captive states, and Fascist leaders the little people the common If Fascism were folk now living in varying degrees cognised rivals
younger, if re- might strive to regain their in- to Mussolini cx.dependence. practicing passive resistance and preparing for future struggles for freedom. Here is an interim sur-
of captivity but in many cases isted, then some overturn would From this very general surveykelv in
Behind Nazi pressure on Vichy lies the infer-vey of a large part of the field:
com-
with Britain,
FRANCE Fully 90 per cent of the the people sympathetic
this Agure based on careful sur- veys taken on behalf of Marshal retain in selected provinces, Small quanties of military equipment
seek
By
Erwin D. Canham
stored in secret in preparation for seems not impossible possible uprising. Tremendous situation got greatly
ence that events in Mediterranean are pelling Hitler to ways and means of rescu ing his Axis partner and accepting most disturbing to his perhaps even mentality, of a war on two fronts.
Italy
The News Chronicle" correspondent writes:-
Lisbon
The Greek and British triumphs are forcing a major political crisis matically any day.
be likelier. German occupation it is evident that the Nazi sway on the continent is threatened by the same kind of nationalist revolt which helped end Napoleon's em- pire. Yet the decisive factor will plainly be Britain's military ef- forts, supported by United States' supplics. If Hitler is stopped militarily, even in a deadlock, the crumblings from within would if military take on earthquake proportions, worse and They are, potentially, the "coun-in Italy which may develop dra-
Then ter-offensive."
the impression given by the Italians here. Reliable informants say that all Northern Italy, which should always
be
distinguished from Rome and the South in es- timating political tendencies, is sick of the war and is convinced that Mussolini has made a fatal blunder for which Italy will pay dearly unless there is a sweeping change of policy.
the danger, disorganisation. Much practical domestic rumblings started.
pos-
espionage on behalf of the British, parachute landing of pro-British saboteurs. Great sympathy with de Gaulle even in Vichy circles. Steady and sen- comings - and - goings among the common people of per-
sational
Nazis.
BELGIUM
Little information
There is a bare sibility that the German sons actively working against the Chancellor hopes to use | the French Fleet in co-available, but much the same pie- operation with invasion' ture 11 France. Greater schemes, but he cannot degree of German control since possibly envisage serious-of Germans organising effective ly the escape of hostile production. Extremely grave food shortages. Capable espionage fur- surface units out of the nishing British with information Mediterranean for this concerning invasion plans.
entire area necupied. Little chance
NETHERLANDs-Widespread sup- purpose, and the first
port of Wilhelmina's London gov- theory of the German ob- Prument. Dutch Nazi moven ent jective is much more like-made httle progress since initial |effectiveness in treachery. Popula- ly to be the correct one. tion holding itself in taciturn Plainly, under existing don when opportunity comes but check, determined to regain free- circumstances, the only careful not to make attempt pre- way Germany can effec-mately Lean days ahend, Pro- tively help the Army in Libya is to send reinforcements across the Mediterranean.
hampered by raw materials,
duction extremely Italian lack of imported
hence not very valuable to Nazis chmen who escaped to Britain and Espionage facilitated through Dut- keep in touch with home country. Control of such spying virtually impossible.
To do this she has the choice of three routes (1) Across Spain, then across the Straits of Gibraltar to North Africa
DENMARK Utilising technique of
Slesvig Denes whose province was recently occupied by Germany for Afty-six years. Vast patriotic outpourings proving impossible for Nazis to control. Such few pro-
the Britain.
new patriotism which supports Lectures, books, adult the schools, song-fests (all-sing) are, used to arouse patriotism as after defeat of 1864. Again, Nordin
tion service for Britain.
people has
Size
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OR
TER
PREMIER
„MUSSOLINI
WHICH OF YOU IS TO BLAME?"
Totalitarian Ruin
(2) Direct to the North Nazi Danes as existed before in- African coast from Mar-vasion now are overwhelmed by seilles; (3) Across narrowest part of Mediterranean via Italy.
Considering the great phlegm is Germany's most baffling distance via Spain, the obstacle, and cloaks good informa uncertain conditions in NORWAY-Utter disillusionment that country, its bad of this peace-loving economic state, food now led to grim determination to regain freedom. In sparsely po- shortage, the approach of pulated, mountainous country con- hard winter weather trul by Nazis is only skeletonised.
Twenty-nine years after Hiram, the there and the fact that efficiently and as time goes on is
Bingham discovered Machu Pic- exile functioning
chu, I also discovered it as one Gibraltar is strongly held likely to perfect methods of pas-
of the supreme travel Ands of a decade and more ΟΙ by the British, the Span-regaining freedom. When break-not shake the archaeological world persona! sive resistance and preparation for wanderings. If my discovery 'did ish route seems exceed-up comes, Norway likely to turn I think it thrilled me almost as ingly dangerous and im-on its captors with fierceness un-
much as Mr. Bingham's firid could surpassed by other imprisoned have thrilled him. possibly slow.
peoples. Many brave and resour- was even more surprised.
And perhaps cefal Norwegians are available for] getting out information about Nazi mysteries of Inca civilisation in Mr. Bingham, delving into the preparations and weaknesses.
chus Indian in 1911 that Peru, was tipped off by a Que- were some extensive ruins high un
is
The passage via Italy probably unwelcome to Mussolini who knows that popular dislike of Ger- man domination is one of the chief dangers to his regime and who fears that the virtual invasion of his country by a German army, might provoke an upheaval.
Government in
there
almost-beaten
track,
can
harbour such an eighth wonder in a location that is itself as won
or Norway, a marvel that can be derful as anything-and I really mean anything-in Switzerland reached without hardship.
That is
Tension between the army and the Fascist Party has now almost renched breaking point with Bado- glio, a "King's man" and a popular figure in disgrace through no fauit of his own.
An article by Farinacci blaming the army leaders and staff for the reverses in Albania shows how far things have gone. Farinacci is a wild man but his irritation is understandable since the army staff in Albania failed to make any serious preparations for a real campaign.
This, however, was the fault not of Badugllo but of Clano who re- garded the Greek campaign as his particular hobby and would not give the General staff time for adequate preparations and rushed the whole thing through to get a jump ahead of Hitler's 'N་v Order" campaign.
Until the British attacked in Libya, Mussolini, though suffering a grave loss of prestige, could still hope for salvation from German diplomatic intervention to obtain a truce with Greece. The disaster in Libya, however, faces Il Duce with 2 new military problem which may prove insoluble with- out direct Nazi help.
to
An open revolt in Italy may be used as the German pretext eross the frontier and take charge. If the recent unrest in Northern Italy (which is undoubtedly seri- to a head. Italy may be split into ous despite Fascist denials) comes
two camps, the army dominating in the North and elsewhere.
the Fascists
The question will then be whe- ther the Northern Italians, who
A group of us, Norteamericanos will want to defend their national and Peruvians, hired an auto-independence, can hold Brenner carril, which is a gasoline buggy long enough to receive outside that rides on steel rails, and set support.
By Sydney A. Clark
B remote
fers the least political ob- its London headquarters is real even rumours of Machu Picchu and
As in many other captive states, pletely overlooked them. Not hours had slid through the glass
I heard some time ago from ·a good source that Brenner is for- tified defensively on
the Italian
side.
AUSTRIA Basis for uprising even here said to have been laid, while Austria has many loyal an Andean saddle above a horse-out from Cuzco at crack of dawn Nazis. information reaches shoe gorge of the River Vilcanota, by the Santa Ana Railway, Latin America of disaffection capable of giving far grander scale, to that of God- System. By switchbacks it climbed being
of a surprising range a location very similar, but on a counterpart of the Toonerville regime real trouble later on and frey's castle above the
fashioned and fitted to- assisting in active or
Belgian high above Cuzco, then crossed a passive village of Bouillon. sabotage now.
gether without mortar so perfectly The ruins
great table land to enter the that nowhere can a knife blade be were so hard to reach and So CZECHOSLOVAKIA-Most skillfully strangled by vegetation (for the canyon of the Vilcanota, which inserted between the stones. prepared of any
Įis area, with con- tropical region of eastern Peru cealed arms. centuries-old techni- begins hereabouts) that even the
tributary of the Amazon. que of resistance, and remains of greedy. Spanish colonials, loving World-War
Our guide entertained 'us with espionage The direct sea passage which now is probably extended sumably hid, had never found the "Spaniels" (sic) and Meester grows with each successive au-
system ruins for the treasure they pre- genial patter about the Incas and
The mystery of Machu Picchu from France therefore of- to or beyond its former efficacy. them. Modern Peru likewise com- Been-gum until three and a half thority who writes of it.
we were at Machu Picchu Machu Picchu is a totalitarian One thing, however, is certain. stacles, but it means that capital of country and in close had reached Cuzco, though this station. A carro of strange design ruin: The Taca State was a tòtali- Hitler must once more gedly determined to live through only eighty miles away from the riverside road to a bridge across dern creations of similar order
touch with homeland. People dog-Inca capital, turned Peruvian, lies carried us two miles along atarian State so absolute that mo face the problem of cross- storm and restore their brief-won hidden city, It was left for a the river and here began a long are nursery play by comparison,
Independence. ing the sea despite British
gringo to climb to that lofty sad step mule-back climb. It was The Inca himself was a dictator POLAND-Like the Czechs, the dle and see the jungle-throttled hard on the animals, easy-on naval supremacy.
so "total" that Hitler and Mus- Poles are skilled in passive re- outline of what was to prove one their riders, and after ninety This problem
solini, seen in proper perspective, sistance of conquerors. But have of the most sensational finds ever minutes we found ourselves at are hut petty martinets. He was could
been most severely battered by male anywhere.
the entrance of the city that judge, emperor, god. He owned however be solved locally war and punished by political Coming again the next year at Hiram Bingham stole from the every subject and every article if the naval balance of police. Only information available the head of the National Geo-jungle.
produced in his vast empire, Ilo suggests they exist in numbed graphic Society-Yale University If you picture some sort of prescribed, through power in the Mediter-misery which would give way to Expedition Mr. Bingham, aided
deputies, magnificent archway you will be every detail of life and action, for ranean could be upset by bloody revolt whenever oppor- drove away the jungle and bared to clamber, Indian
Dy the Peruvian government, as wrong as possible for we had every individual Freedom was tunity came. the use of the French ITALY Nearly twenty years of this mystery city, which is so my side of an Inca wall from which idea utterly unknown.
file, up the not merely crushed. It was an Navy. It is not surprising at rule and absence of fast science still ran only guess at its tervals for steps. Continuing barely to be held by constant ef-
sterious, in fact, that historical stones protruded at regular in- But Machu Picchu ble alternative government are
is a ruin, therefore, that German great handicaps to overturn, Yet, purpose in such a weird location. through a narrow passage we fort, from the fangs of the jungle. pressure on France to unpopularity of war hampers the
came upon a little platform of I find present-day comfort in this nation's productive effort, and
grass below which lay the entire thought, Much as I admire the hand over the navy and
city of stone. It is steeply terraced | Incas in many ways, their system rhis_présent
on both sides up to the saddle. obviously was false to the eterni Machu Picchu at the end of 1040 numerous, each built with that Valletators, in the still
gringo visited Temples and
are human and was surprised, amazed, thun-amazing masonry in which the watches of the night, ponder on derstruck that the tourist world, Incas excelled, huge stone blocks the story of Machu Picchu!
...
to allow the Germans to since German support for use the Mediterranean Italy in Africa became an port has been redoubled urgent necessitý.
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