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By ALEX H. FAULKNER, NEW YORK corresPONDENT The following despatch 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-boa! Clare's crew who had just flown the Atlantic and WAR looking at the big, black, air- raid headlines in the Now York papera.

It summed up the very different reactions of the people here and those at home to the efforts of Goering's Luftwaffe.

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- Heved us.

SOME SURPRISE

His nonchalant attitude was ob vlously perfectly genuine; it was shared 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 nights of

of thousands of Naz! 'plones descriptions of scores detailed

and

*

These people would probably be surprised to find themselves being compared to their Elizabethan aa- cestors, but the reporters made it clear that they were indeed dis- playing the legendary heroism and calmness and, above all, the slight- ly Puckist humour associated with their forebears.

OPINION OF BRITISH

Americans have been sharply re- minded that several generations of shopkeeping have not extinguished such qualitles in the British race,

The RAF's score-sheet, it was true, looked extraordinarily good, but the United States papers have since placed great emphasis ever the war began on the fact that all news from the belligerent countries is censored and Goobbels's gift for inendacity has caused many Ameri- cans to look askance at any official

British statements., whether German.

от

has been Fortunately, no time lost in taking Americans with un- questionable reputations behind the scenes, showing them how carefully

and

accurately our Agures on enemy losses are compiled. Many articles have appeared emphasising this point, and commentators here have begun to admit that we are "doing pretty well."

of exciting dog-fights, to say no- TAKING OFFENSIVE

thing of the radioed photographs of wrecked houses, which intvil- ably have given the

Impression that Southern England sounds (and looks) like a vast battlefield. Leader writers have been unspar- ing in their comparison of current events with Armageddon.

other reasons also. There are There is the profound anxiety felt by those who look'on with a sense of helplessness from this side of the world. There & Hitler's record of successes in other fields, which have clothed him in a mantle of supposed invincibility. Thero Is the history of what happened to France, which made all the experts, look so silly. In parenthesis, one these are the may remark that people who are now leaning over. backwards in their anxiety not to be caught napping again..

*** Besides, all this there' are the oft-quoted figures showing the dis parlty, in numerical strength of the opposing air forces...

In the last 40 hours things have taken yet another turn for the better from our point of view as the result, of the R.A.F, 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, The outside world is so impressed by German numerical superiority in the air that it fails to realise that the RAF. has definitely taken the offensive and is inflicting on the enemy more injury than the Luft- walfe is on England." That is Mr. H. R. Knickerbocker's cable to the 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 RAF. ralds from the world. Side by side with dozens of columns of news from England aro scrappy messages from Berlin giving little more than the fantastic official German figures. It does not "require much imagination to un-

WHEN FACTS BEGAN derstand why.

Fervading all the thinking about the entirely now phase on which the war has; now entered · is the dread of a terror rained from the skles. Many seo what is happen- Ping in England now through" the

milst of Wellelan fantasy,

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 Hiller, like Napoleon, gazing, Jealously acrosa hè Channel at our white cliffs or „erhaps ruofully licking his wounds after an unsuccessful attempt to cross, the, zen, **,

London however, was not in mediately wrecked." Once the American correspondents were al- lowed to say what they spent Friday trying in vain, to say, the Nazi raiders no longer appeared bé having it all their own way, Over the cables and over the air "began to come a stream of storica frum correspondents, who, bealdea describingia fighis in the that Americane-should

cinity of the place pow, famous, danger, “foriz

Amed Bell's Corner," set whomasta them the vikia prebribe, the bearing of the for sharing the

It is universally conceded that if

The fails to invade England success" fully before the winter sate in or even if he fails to make the attempt be will, in the eyes of the world, of this war have suffered his first great reverso,

Meanwhile, it is a good thing

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MAY 1940

AUGUST 1948

WAR EFFORT

OL

WAR EFFORT

THE SONG OF THE WHEELS

KEE

EEP.

HOLLAND UNDER NAZI RULE

on

Bombing raids by the R.A.F.

German-occupied

aero- 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 bomb people feel that every 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 ot 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 economic 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 the invasion Holland wOB stocked. In spite of the blockade there were adequate reserves raw materials and ample, food sup- plies..

FOOD SUPPLIES RAIDED

of

MESSAGE FOR TO-DAY

Despond, not, Britain!....... Should

this sacred hold

Of Freedom, still inviolate, be

assailed,

The high, unbleaching aptit

which prevalled

In ancient days is neither dead

nor cold;

Men are still in thee of herole

mould,

Men whom thy grand old scd-

kings would have halled As worthy peers, invulnerably

alled,

Because by duty's sternest law.

controlled.

Thou yet thalt rise, and send

abroad thy voice Among the nations, battling for

the right,

In the unrusted armour of thy

youth;

And the oppressed shall hear it

and rejoice

For on thy side in the rezistiem

night

Of Freedom, Justice and Eternal

Truth.

JAMES DRUMmond burNS

This wholesale requisitioning brought in the card-railoning system. There was not much left For the in the shope for sale. Dutch (the system does not apply to the German invaders) the ration

factories, however, there is a scar- city of fuel for power. For the same renson the heating problem in the coming, winter will resent for- midable difficultles, which will be overcome only if the Germans con- sider it expedient to keep the, Dutch warm.

There is a general feeling that the Germans are anxious to avold the possibility of internal troubles. For this reason alone It is probable that they will try to maintain a standard of existence In Holland at leust a little above starvation level, Pollfically the Germans have at- tempted no radical changes. As far as possible the central and local governments have been permitted to continue, ostensibly on trudi- of tional Dutch Ines, always, course, under the overriding con- trol of Selas-Inquart and the Ger- man generals, with Himmler and his satellites in the background,

The Germans seem largely to have ignored questions affecting the reigning House. At first they teled to make capital out of the Queen's departure to Englund, but

ta a-partial local hostility; the House of Orange soon died down,

dis and a German trump card appeared with it. Since then the Germans have maintained discreet silence on the subject.. Decrees are issued and the genoral adminis- tration is carried out by a body terming itself a “Committee,” com- posed mostly of the Chief Secre-

most of whom remained In The Hague after the departure of their Ministers to England.

for olla and fat is 125 grammes (alaries of the Departments of State,

coffee

50 Those

little over 4oz.), for tea 10 grammes, and for grammes a head a week. quantities are temporary, and will decrease as stocks become exhaust-

ed.

There is one portion of the popu lation which will suffer from the 'cutting down of tinned foods. The stores were accumulated princi- gally to feed the unemployed, who will now get norie of them. In-

they are being prganised into... stend Inbour corps to be crafted anywhere within the territory controlled by the Third Reich." Refusalito, john this organisation entails starvation, recalcitrant workers. Dutch labour, be no ration cards will be issued to

From the moment of the German entry into The Hague this great warehouse of consumable goods is thus compelled to serve, how

ovor unwillingly its new masters. was raided. Payment was given internetgan useless paper marks and the goods In the wider economic field, the disappeared into Germany, In the Arat Week 3,000,000 kilograms Germans seem to have promulgated [12,000,000lb.) of butter, about 90 plan of their own devising

LA TORNAKANANMAR per cent, of the total reserves, Factories which at lale the Cure were removeri. The same thing man scheme of things are encour” happened in varying degrees to aged to work, and every effort is other stocks of toed clothing, and

inate to "keep them" supplied, witho ziala "If there is to be " the raw materials which they need,

our fear, that they will starve fratyandi; roermans have appropriated a large

cuantity of Dutch soul for Grennan.

THE VELVET GLOVE

Naturally the Germans withed to reward their Dutch supporters, and many of these found jobs in the Administration. Few arrests. have been made, nor is there much svidence of revenge having been taken against known enemies of the the days following the German Nazis. A number of suicides in conquest may have removed poten- tial victims from the Gestapo. On the whole, the Dutch people have been left alone, German refugees. who had escaped illegally from Germany have been sent back to and unknown; but imaginable fate." Other German refugees, apart from

being compelled to report to the police every day, are more or less Ignorúdie Nothing on a large scale seems to have happened to tell- Wing sympathisers or to Jews, of whom? Uiere, ate large numbers in. Holland. The concentration camp has been ? reserved: pei Romani.C.

for body

brafessors.

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