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The Nazis In The Channel Islands

Soft Soap Didn't Wash In Guernsey

"IT

was surprising, really," said Fred Hockey, "how things set- tled down on Guernsey, on the surface at any rate, after the Nazis had been there a few days."

After the shock of find- ing them there at all, the islanders were pleasura- bly surprised at first, to discover that the occupa- tion, did not seem to mean any particular hardships. But that was only at first.

all to get used to, though, was the attitude of the square- hended pigs themselves- that's what most of us usually called the German soldiers, They were so damned polite.

AGAINST THE CRAIN "They soft-souped us all the time. They saluted. us, they stepped off the pavement to let us go by. It just made everybody sick, and there was nothing we could do about it. "A couple of days after the occupation, for instance, I was told that I should no

longer be allowed to go to my signal station at the end of White Rock, but I should have a new office in the harbour building at St Peter Port, -- nearer the shore.

It was not long before things began to get suf- ficiently intolerable for eight men, at least, to risk their lives in escaping to England.

Fred Hockey was one rative told by

of them, and he it was who told me this story of Guernsey under the Nazis.

"The most difficult thing at first," he said, "was to get used to obeying the now regulations

-and most of the time you had to obey them strictly, no mistake about that.

TWO MINUTES LATE "The curfew, for in- stance. Nobody was to be out of doors after 10 p.m., and as the German sentry patrols were all over the place at night, and par- ticularly on the road that runs all round the island, there wasn't much chance of dodging the curfew.

of

were

"In the first week two

the Islanders caught outside the Chan- nel Islands hotel, whore some of the Germans were quartered, and taken into the hotel for the night. Next morning they came up before the Komman- dant in the courthouse.

"They were fined £1 each, and then they had to pay 5s. for their hotel ac- commodation! For the privilege of spending the night with the Germans.

Then there Was the black-out regulation. We had a black-out before, of course, but the Germans were much stricter.

"If you showed the slight- cst chink of light, the nearest German simply Ared through the window.

"Old Bob, the police con- stable, got a shot through his window that nearly: hit him, because his wife had left a tiny crack in the curtains. Another man was shaving, and there happened to bo n faint glow, in his window. -

A German officer walked into the room, smashed the electric bulb with a revol ver shot, and walked out again without saying a word,

"The most difficult thing of

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DUDLEY BARKER continues the nar- Fred

But that didn't apply to the Germans. If you refused the drinks they offered you there was trouble.

DEFINED THEM "Sometimes we just could- n't stick it any longer, and we had to revolt.

"I remember one night I and some friends had got a bit merry in the London Army at St Sampson, and we went home, and stood outside my house and sang 'God Save the King' as loudly as we could--- the penalty for that was 15. years' penal servitude.

"Then my friends cycled home after midnight, more than two hourą past the cur- few time. There were plenty of sentries about, but I think "we must have looked as

though we were spoiling for a bit of trouble that night, and none of them spoke to us

The islanders had to get used to their newspapers be- German

Hockey, of St Peter coming practically Port

"When I arrived, I found two German officers sitting there. They stood to atten- tion and saluted me, and then shook hands, saying they hoped that, as colleagues, we would be the best of friends,

"It went against the grain, but what could I say except that I hoped so too?

"Lieutenant Hann, a young fellow in his middle thirties, was always telling me what a

Churchill rogue. Mr

was,

and that one day the British would find he had sloped off with well-filled pockets and left us all in the furch.

GIFTS OF CIGARS "Well, I got on fairly well with the Germans at the har- bour, I had to, or things would have been impossible.

"They always treated me well-too well really, thint was the trouble. The Ger- mans had obviously had or- ders to make themselves popu. lar with the inhabitants, so they set about it thoroughly, but in quite the wrong way.

"They were always giving us things, and would not per- mit us to refuse them. They offered us cigarettes, drinks, even packets of coffee.

"They were alway mixing with us in the pubs. We would say, 'Look out, here are the square-headed pigs, but they took no notice of that.

Allwe Guernseymen would turn our backs, but the Germans would force their way up and offer us drinks. We would say we had had enough, or make any sort of excuse, but it was no good.

"They would buy the drinks. put them down in front of us, and we had to drink them. Then they would bring out cigarettes and cigars, and compel us to ac- cept them.

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"At the samo time there was a rigid regulation that no- islander could buy his friend a drink in a pub. Each man had to pay for his own.

"If I wanted to stand George, here, a glass of beer, I had to give him the money before we went into the bar.

newspapers.

They printed all the Ger- man communiques, of course, und Fred Hockey WIN amazed, when he finally es- caped, to find that the south coast towns of England were still standing, and had not been knocked as fint as. a pan- Lenke.

COULD LISTEN-IN- There was no ban, however, on listening to the English radio, and all the islanders flocked home at the hours when we broadcast a news bulletin.

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"But there was trouble if you tried to pass on the news to the Germans," said Fred Hockey: "One afternoon was fed up with hearing the sailors in my office gloating' over the number of British planes the Germans were sup- posed to have shot down, 40 I told them the figures that had been announced in the 1 o'clock British news.

me

"They denied them so an- grily, even threatening with their revolvers, that I shut up, and didn't mention the subject again."

"From the very start," said Fred Hockey, "the Germans made themselves quite com- fortable. The local trades- men had to supply whatever food they needed. One but- cher, for instance, was told one day to provide a thousand Bausages. He had to kill some of our local cattle to

"Officers went round to the farmers, demanding to ace their best cattle and pigs, and commandeering them. They paid, but not very much. One farmer friend of mine got £2 apleco for his two best milk- ing cows, paid in German marks. The cows were then killed as meat for the Ger mana.

"They commandeered cars just when they wanted them, and usually managed to smash them up, they drove so reck. lessly,

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"There was no end of mo- tor crashes, and I'm happy to say that at least 80 Germans killed themselves that way.

TO-MORROW:

SOCIALISMAN GERMAN BRAND

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

ON THE AIR

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"All that I have or ever hope to have I owe to the Aco-High Finance Company!"

United Press Staff Correspondent FRED BAILEY

TRAINS THE SPOTLIGHT ON

WALLACE

Henry Agard. Wallace is unique in American political history-Ile-is-almost-the-op- posite of the "type" to which most political leaders con- form.

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It was a queer turn of fate-and politics that raised him to the second highest political office in the nation.

Wallace has never held an elec five political office. His only pub- lie office was Is Secretary of Agriculture. He resigned to cam- paign for the Vice Presidency, Until four years ago he registered

Republican

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Until his appointment to Pre- sident Roosevelt's cabinet in 1933, Wallace was operator of un lowa farm, n corn breeder, a farm economist and editor of "Wallace's Furmer,"

a magazine founded by grandfather. Wallace was born on October 7, 1888, on an Iowa farm. He was graduated from Iowa State College. where ho studied agricultural Economies, in 1010.

his

Four years later he married Ilo Browns of Indianola Ia. They have three children--Henry B., 25, Robert, 31, and Jean, 19.

The Wallaces fed a quiet home ilfe. Their Des Moines home is stately stone house set back front the street in a spacious lawn. In Washington they occupy a five- room suite at the Wardman-Park Hotel.

Wallace likes music

preferu classical and religious selections He reads extensively and has written several books. He walks as much as his duties will permit, throws the boomerang and plays a medium gamo of tennis.

His background helps to explain some of the things that have made him an enigma to many. His an cestors were ministers, farmers and editors.

just

speeches are delivered with a hint of the pulpit. He uses neither tobacco nor alcohol. Cam- nalgning 25,000 miles for the vice

and Wallace showed an in-

Jam problemi á

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His long advocacy of farm legis Iation bore fruit under the De- mocratic administration.

It came because Wallace, with Mr Roosevelt's support, kept steadily at the job.

The Agricultural Adjustment Administration, intended to control farm production through adjust ment of plantings to market do- munds, was

was the first major farm legislation. The

Supreme Court held an essential feature of that the processing tax for financing it -invalld in 1937. New legislation drawing directly on the treasury, was enacted.

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Under Wallace's direction 'the Agriculture Department expanded from scientific research agency so that its programmes include al- most every phase of farm activity. During the early days of the Now Deal, Wallace worked 10 to hours a day. Ho nover was one

bova" of of the "glamour boya" the. Now Deal and he never was a member of the inner circle "brain, trust." Yel he had the confidence of Pre- sident Roosevelt beyond that be- stowed on more publicised aides.

Wallace

liked to mako speeches. He 18 shy, almost bash

in meeting people for the drai time, Yet he made one of the most extensive. campaigns ever

n: Vice made by didato. Presidential can-

He empha In

sporches national defoncé

1c6, the Now Deal and about programunes, so- farm cial security banking, and stock market législation and attacked, the public utulty holding company

aptitude for public sponke- ing. He

convincingly of which through fut in training and environment he be came to know na

as well as any

as any maJI in the Democratic

His father,

C. Wallace, was Secretary of Agriculture in Warren G. Harding's cabinet, HT died in that office in 1922, H son, turned Democrat by failure of Republicans to adopt farm men sures urged by the alter Wallace

never

and supported Franklin D. Roose-record of Wendell L. Willkle, the

velt for president in 1932.95

Republican presidential nominee.

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