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November 16, 1939.

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Victims Of The Terror

THE

HE institution and establishment of a Socialism, they still could not agree to totalitarian regime in Germany led to place their consciences unreservedly in the much persecution, and caused many Ger- keeping of its leaders. mans to seek a refuge in foreign lands.

A case in point is Karl Barth, who has a European reputation as a theologian, and who is held in affectionate regard by all who know him, for his piety and Chris- tian charity.

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So drastic a change, not only of Goy ernment, but of political theory, it might almost be said of religion, was bound to affect individuals.

Different loyalties, different values, a When Hitler became Chancellor, he was wholly different attitude of mind, was ex-Professor of Theology at Bonn, and in pected; and those who re- sisted, or were half-hearted, in approving these changes, were made to suffer.

Revolutions invariably

consequences.

have such The mighty are put down from their seats, and the

by

MALCOLM

MUGGERIDGE

1934 was told that if his appointment was to be re- newed, it would be neces- sary for him to awear an oath of allegiance to the

Fuhrer. This he refused to do, since, as he explained,

he had other than earthly humble and meek exalted;

obligations, and would be GARAGE

and the many who are nei

failing in these if he ac- ther mighty nor humble and meek, have to knowledged the infallibility of any moral Phones: 27778-9. adjust themselves to the new situation. Iman or the spiritual authority of any What is peculiar about the Nazi Re- temporal power. He was, in consequence, volution is that those who were persecuted, deprived of his professorship, denied all or felt their position to be so intolerable means of earning a livelihood, and forced that they chose to become exiles, repre- to leave Germany.

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sented the most cultivated and high- ROMAN CATHOLICS, not less than principled elements in the community. Protestants, found it impossible to recon- What was demanded was no less than eile their religious duties with the claims a total submission to the State, the totall

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values and beliefs in favour abnegation of all personal

of dictated ones; as the Patriarch of Lisbon has well put it, "Caesar is deified, and everything to deisin be- comes law, once again the human being becomes the slave of the State; which claims the right to determine standards of jus- interest and improved means of tice and morality, and out- communication have combined side of which no rights

America's Position

To-day the "position of the United States is far clearer than World War. Greater

in the

once more

to give America possibly better exist."

information on the world situa- National Socialism was

Madame Carries On.

WAR! I am disgusted," said the old woman outside the Cafe du Centre.

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Guarled hands shook out a

or Asia. The gradual develop its statement, and Hitler its have nothing to eat to-day." ment of crisis after crisis had prophet; and to doubt this,blue pinafore which had not or admit it with any reser-got rumpied with indignation. focussed attention on the ques-vations whatsoever, was a in her grey speckled frock she tions at issue. Repugnance to crime punishable with loss looked rather. like an agitated tyranny and oppression, desire of life or liberty, or, in less hen of the same colour as she to-see-democracy-strengthened severe cases, with social perched on the little chair out-

side her cafe, ostracism and professional in the world carly placed Ameri-

We are in the heart of ruin.

France. Not geographically, can sympathies on one side. The new alignment of Communism or scientist or man-of-let-because the great red wines No self-respecting scholar perhaps, because we are in Bur- and National Socialism hasters or minister of religion pulse through it. And its people crystallised them.

could accept as valid the are full-blooded and full of race. I know that old woman and claim of a political move-

gundy, but I call it the heart

Above all, by the attack on ment to dictate on spiritual her meals. If I had asked her

at that moment for a five-course Poland, the German Government matters; and it was then-lunch, she would have leaped has placed itself in opposition to all who were concerned with from her chair to the kitchen. American thought. Americans the disinterested pursuit of She would have produced it, have followed closely the deve-truth, who were, therefore, butcher or no butcher.

But let her go on. She is in the Nazi regime's particular the mood. lopments of recent months. They victims. Even when, as was were as outraged as the people the objectives of National pork butcher told me that he

of England and France when

Bohemia and Moravia were

scized. They have seen through Freedom

the technique of cooking up

crises and attempting to ter- Party's 11

rorise civilian populations. They have read the record, know that Poland never saw the proposals which she is supposed to have rejected. They have thrilled to the calm courage with which says Reuter. They are: pooples who have tried to make peace, have answered the latest challenge.

New Rules

A FURTHER series of "command- ments" to the German people were repeatedly broadens by the anti- Nazi German "Freedom Station"

"If you are n soldier do not aghi; "If you are a workman work slowly:

"Wherever you are broadcast the truth about Hitler's abominable

There can be no question then deeds; where the sympathics of "Do not belleve Hitler's lies; · America rest. They are more!

"Do not believe any Nazl nows- paper; clearly marked than in early

"Do not allow the Nazis to rob

to a bank:

"Yesterday, If you please, the

had no raw sausage. No raw sausage" The misty blue eyes stared out at a void world.

Well, now, I admit, madame, that there is nothing more to be said. No raw sausage.

The bottom has fallen out of Burgundy.

Or would have done, if it were all as bad as it seems.

THE ill-informed obser

ver, stalking through France, might deduce that the country was running short of food. Nothing of the sort.

The French shopkeeper never carries heavy stocks. If the weekly supply lorry "is late or fails to turn up, then he soon runs short of goods: Just at the moment, transport is a trifle disorganised. But only temporarily."

I bot that the pork butcher (or, rather, his wife) will have supplies to-morrow. Burgundy

three days running,

1917 just before the United you of your money, do, not give it does not go without raw sausage

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States entered the World War. But there is also in America resolve not to enter this war. President Roosevelt voiced the major sentiment of the country. In his speech when he said the Government would bend overy. effort to keep out of war and

"True neutrality,"

Monitor.

Chrit-

HELP THE VICTIMS

· “Make no difference between your self and your neighbour on racial or religious grounds;......

"Help all victims of the NazisĮ "Help to organise systematically the night ngoinit Hitler;

-Beware of falso friends;

"Fight against Hiller with all your might because he has expelled the best German thinkers, murdered the workers leaders, slaughtered the JOWE

"Down with... Hifleri".

Why did I say "Or, rather, his wife"? Because the pork butcher has been called up of

courge.

In a country where every man la automatically in the army until he is fifty, a general mobilisation thing the village out.

There seems to be nothing left in it but women and chil- dren and a few old · men and youths,

You do not see much of the

UP

AND UP

AND UP------

AND UP!

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"He wants me to give up my career and devoto all of my time to making a fool out of him.”

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old men and youths because | anyway), and is Mme. they are working in the vine Daugier at the corn merchant's, yards in the daytime.

and so are scores of women at " other trades.

In the night, you see nothing

nt all.

The old woman who drives her four cows up to the BUT the women are left sparso hill pasture every day,

just carrying out. Do has never had a husband, and you see that one in the little has been driving cows ever since cart drawn by the brown she can remember. ་དྷྭ donkey? She blows vigorously Mme. Pacotto, a little lower down. upon an antique horn, hollowed hears guna, but she sees a lot of

soldiers.. out from the natural horn of a

Often I have sat plono in her bullock She is announcing her roadside, cafe with a mid-morning approach with the milk.

Brack of sausage and bread and red That other one who comes wine, but you cannot alt alone there now. You can hardly elt there at round the bend in a dusty tour all, the place is so crammed with ing car, pressing hard upon a soldiers who ́have"; halted via the ́more modern and mora hideous village.

horn, is doing the same thing. :-).

The milk runs in a thin stream YOUNG, dark, vivacious time.

Facolte semaid", have, AZ from a leaky churn at the back, word for every one of them and Both women, in their different never misses or bungies in under, for ways, are plying their absent wine or beer. husbands trade. So is Mmo, conblar, and also a mobilised asilor, And, the postman, who is also a Mutin at the cafe (though her has promised to catch pharks from 1 husband never did, much work PLEASE:Turn To Pará.55

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