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THE YAHOOS WHEN first Hitler's villainies were disclosed to a scandalized world many people racked their brains to discover or invent a term to express their detestation of his crimes. The search was not satisfactory. It was felt that no word in any language adequately cover the measure of his wickedness.

the search

Danish Correspondent.

LITTLE has been heard of

Denmark since that grey morning in April when | German aeroplanes droned low over the rooftops of Co- penhagen and mechanised columns crossed the land frontier and forced Den- mark to surrender after a few hours fighting. More. spectacular shows were soon afterwards staged on the European scene, and Den- mark disappeared from the limelight. Occasionally news penetrates the German em- bargo on truth to confirm the fears and conclusions of Danes in exile.

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View of Copenhagen, the capital. The city hall is at right, with the tower, At the end of the street is the famous Palace Hotal.

Conditions in Denmark hard- ly compare with those in any German soldiers of occupation parties, representing 90 per cent. There is evidence of the econo- other occupied territory. King have orders to behave decently of the electorate, formed a Na- mic effect of British blockade Christian and the Stauning and have probably done so. tional Government. The Nazis and of German: exploitation. Government,perform their duties From September 1 on they were got their own back when more The Danish population, predo- as before and exert an influence even to pay for what they take than 150 of them were arrested minantly employed in agricul- on internal questions which is in Danish currency. The ersatz in Copenhagen for wearing Nazi ture, cannot in itself be starved by no means negligible. This money ("credit coupons") pro- dress contrary to the strict ban as long as there is a pig in the outburst of tolerance ie so alien foundly suspected by the Danish on political uniforms. Most of sty or a plot of rys on the acre. to Nazi conceptions that ob- farmers and shopkeepers is be them were imprisoned for several Otherwise the effect of the bloc- search for possible reasons. The servers may be excused if they ing abolished.

weeks, and later one of their, kade is tremendous. There are Much trouble has been taken leaders was sentenced to 30 days no private cars on the road. first is that the Germans feel to conceal the wholesale plunder in prison for attempting to hold All common commodities are they can well afford to keep Den- of the country behind elaborate a political meeting without rationed, and, the Minister of mark as a show piece to demon- trade agreements. If the Danes police permission. The Ger- Commerce has foreshadowed strate to other "neutrals" that were ever under any misappre- mans closed their eyes to these rationing of milk in this former The suggestion was made that life may be quite happy inside hension as to whether the Ger- penalties.

land of plenty. As no fodder the German Lebensraum. The mans would pay for what they The only political concession can be imported the Government was unnecesstly; accond and more important took away, they were bluntly so far made to the Wilhelm has ordered a reduction of the that the name Hitler was in explanation is found in the disillusioned by their own Minis- strasse is the appointment of livestock by 750,000 head of cat- itself sufficient to express all that

Danish agricultural system. The ter of Commerce, Hr. Christmas Hr. Scavenius as Foreign Minis tle, 1,500,000 pigs, and 7,000,000 secret of Danish agriculture is Moller, who a fortnight ago, de- ter instead of Dr. Munch, the poultry. The invaders are an- is evil in human nature. That, just that extra little touch of clared that the German debt to ardent bellover in disarmament xlous to buy, but are met with however, has not satifised every keenness which the farmer and Denmark on the trade account and neutrality. Hr. Scavenius profound suspicion from the body. As the tale of his atro-amallholder put into their work:-had-rison-by-800,000,000kr in-hastened to pay lip-service-to-farmers, who do not believe in They are skilled workers in a four months, and he hardly con- the "new order" in Europe, but exchanging their pedigree ani- cities unfolded the desire grew finely adjusted industrial ma- cealed his doubt that this debt, seems to have overdone it, for male for doubtful credits in to fix still more deeply the chine. The Nazis know that would ever be paid.

nothing has been heard of him Berlin. Recently the Danish brand of infamy upon Hitler and

without the active co-operation

Most Danes are resisting the since. On the surface Denmark Ministry of Agriculture an- his gang.

of the farmers Danish agricul- Nazis quietly but in a spirit of is quiet, but the country is in pounced that it would buy 12,000 ture will quickly deteriorate into unbreakable resolution. Their ferment. Hr. Stauning, the head of cattle a week for export Now one of the searchers says bankruptcy. Danish soil is kept inr, but it will prove efficient in recently to come to the micro- price to make the offer more at- resistance may not be spectacu- Socialist Prime Minister, had to Germany. They raised the in its excellent condition only by he has at last hit upon an appro- the untiring skill of the former. the long run. From the begin- phone again to warn the public tractive. priate name. He has found it

ning they showed their hostility against provoking fights with The farmers find it revolting The main question therefore to Nazi ideas, whether imported German troops or dragging them to submit to the swift destruc- in an English classic, Swift's Is, will Germany secure the ac- or home-grown. The peasant Into heated political discussions. tion of an agricultural system "Gulliver's Travels." When tive support of the Danish organisation · L.S. (Landbru- He also warned children against which they and their fathers Gulliver landed in the country of

farmer? Nobody outside the gernes Sammenslutning), which the dangerous habit of cutting have built up. They are re- Reich doubts that the answer used to flirt with Nazi ideas, German field telephone wires, quired to support the creation of the Houyhnhnms, he found that will be in the negative. Nazis was cold shouldered when it His speech was occasioned by an a new agricultural order in Den- horses were the masters, and dealing with a weaker opponent tried to force a Government incident which cost a number of mark as a self-sufficient corn- seem to believe in their irresist- crisis in agreement with the young men long terms of penal growing State, fed on artificial loathsome creatures bearing able attraction. Nothing is left small Danish Nazi party. In servitude for a trivial beer-hall fertilizers from the subjugated resemblance to human beinge undone to win over the Danes. reply the four big political fight with German soldiers, were the slaves and beasta of burden. The former had all the virtues, the latter all the vices that exist on earth.

These degraded creatures wore known as Yahoos, and Gulliver contracted such a horror of them that he became ashamed of being human. They were to him a cursed race, degenerate and brutal. In Gulliver's words, their defeats arose chiefly "from...... a perverse, restive disposition: for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful; they are strong and hardy, but of a cowardly spirit, and by consequence insolent, abject, and cruel."

Tho cap seems to fit pretty well. No one, we hope, would think of fitting it to every Ger- man, or even to evory", Nazi. But the out-and-out Nazf, offe trained in brutality according to the Hitlor prescription, is the vilest and most pestilent thing that the earth has ever produced,

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neighbour Norway, with cattle and piga reduced to a minimum. This is a reversion to early nine- teenth-century'ngriculture,

In this hopeless picture of economic disaster; underlined by a steadily growing unemploy ment, there is a ray of light which must warm the heart of any Dane, whother, he shares in the fate of his country Inside or outside the Danish boundaries. This ray of hope la the outspoken revival of national feeling in Denmark. The complacent be- lief that peaceful little Don- mark" would never be drawn into the European whirlpool tended to make the Danes. neglect thoir national duties. Under the invasion they have come to realise that only a united nation, faithful to national tradition, will survive. The re vival has recently found expre sion. Almost forgotten patric songs, which were sung Ind closed doors when the Germany tried to Danish language North Slesvig, are night after night by thousands of enthus open-air meetings all* country. 2 If Dermark her national conscience not have suffered, in valn