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ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS

& MATSQUI NEWS

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18, 1940

The Nazi Bluff... Myth Exploded

By “Runnymede”

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“The ‘invincibility of the German might’ is the most colossal fake,
the most gigantic piece of Teutonic four-flushing that ever dazzled
a world which has allowed itself to be frightened into the role of

the hysterical spinster,
wicked man under the bed.

ralyzed with horrible

imaginings of a

And that statement is made with a full

realization of all that has befallen Europe, and all of Hitler's tanks,

planes, ships and soldiers.”

(Reprinted from The Legionary,

The whole picture is very re-
vealing. It discloses that the Nazis
have studied and analysed every
aspect of human psychology; and
particularly does it disclose that

they took closely to heart the les-
son which the allied victories of
1918 taught them in their relation

to the effect of civilian morale on
the morale of the fighting troops
The difference’ between the Nazis
and the Allies in this one respect
is that the Nazis profited by the
lesson, and applied it, while the
Allies completely forgot it.

Part Three
“JUST PROPAGANDA”

When one says that, one puts
the finger on the whole difficulty
in not only the Allied, but also
the neutral countries. The Nazi
success in the work of first ad-
ministering an anaesthetic to the
civil population for the purpose of
dulling their understanding of Ger-
many’s real intention, and then
innoculating them with the virus
of defeatism, has been achieved
principally because of the ignor-
ance and the indifference of those
amongst whom the Nazis have
operated.

None of these people, and none
of their governments, ever seem
to have recognized, prior to the
war, that they were being worked
upon. That is not altogether sur-
prising, because the success of the
whole German effort upon conceal-
ing from them just that very fact.
The Nazis were greatly assisted,
however, by the public’s attitude
of mind.

Whenever any shadow of doubt
did fall across these peoples they

dispelled it with the indulgent
formula — “just German propa-
ganda.” Everybody knew about

Doktor Joseph Goebbels, the funny
little man who has become some-
thing of a comicstrip character,
God’s gift to newspaper cartoon-
ists and to the coiners of wise-
cracks. No one bothered much
about the hokum he spilled, con-
sequently no one made any at-
tempt to analyse the subtle char-
acter or ascertain the sinister pur-
pose of this “German propaganda.”

With the war nearly a year old,
it is not certain that even yet the
peoples of this continent realize
that the Nazi emissaries in their
midst are the advance wave of
the most devastating and éeffec-
tive arm of the German war mach-
ine.

And so these forces of the “Fifth
Column” are permitted to operate
without hindrance, in advance of
the inevitable armed clash, among
tho American peoples with which
the Nazis continue to maintain a
pretence of peaceful relations.

What different interpretation
can be put on these Nazi activities
in the light of their origin and of
the manner in which they have
been developed and employed?
The Nazis have been aggressively
waging war against practically all
the other nations of the world—
including Italy, the easiest and
most spineless of Germany's vic-
tims—for many years. The trag-
edy is that those nations have
been, and continue to be, too dull-
witted to know it.

The work of the “Fifth column”
and the results it has achieved in
collaboration with the other arms
of the Nazi forces are a perfect
picture of co-ordinated effort ex-
erted to the one end. Europe is
now a necropolis of nations who
had been equally blind, and who
awakened to their peril when it
was too late. In those countries
the under-cover war was even-
tually followed by the open con-
flict.

Everywhere the conquest by the
preliminary attacking wave, this
arm assigned to the destruction
of civilian morale, was rapid. What
additional! work remained |was
completed by the Nazi armed
forces, chiefly by the air force in
its bombing and machine gunning
of the civilians, and by parachut-
ists, with their treachery among
the panic-stricken fugitives. The
collapse of the armed resistance
followed, just as the Nazis reck-
oned in advance that it must in-
evitably follow.

The whole story of “Gernfany’s
invincible might” is wrapped up
in that formula—“Break the spirit
of the civilians, and you break the
heart of the soldiers.”
WHAT IS THE
“FIFTH COLUMN?”

We have reached
where it may well be

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magazine of the Canadian Legion)

what does this new war weapon
onsist?

To enumerate the instruments
of the “Fifth Column” pwould be
an exhausting task. It involves
nothing short of cafaloguing all
the services which stem from the
vast Ministry of Propaganda in
Berlin, from the Foreign Office,
the Labour Front, and the count-
less sub-branches of these and
many other departments.

Each unit has its own specific
job. But the cumulative purpose
of all their activities is to disarm
the civilian population of the for-
eign countries to which ‘they are
assigned. Their duty is to mask
the real intent of Nazism, to lull
these peoples into just that sort
of fool's paradise in which so
many millions of stupefied vic
tims on this continent are living
today. And above all, it is toter-
rorize them with the fiction of the
“invincibility of the German
might.” 3

We shall later examine this fic-
tion. We shall note how “invin-
cible’ Germany’s might really is,
and how “invincible it has proved
itself to be whenever it encoun-
tered anything resembling real
resistance.

The “invincibility of the Ger-
man might” is the most colossal
fake, the most gigantic piece of
Teutonic four-flushing that ever
dazzled a world which has allowed
itself to be frightened into the role
of the hysterical spinster, para-
lyzed with horrible imaginings of
a wicked man under a bed. .And
that statement is made with a full
realization of all that has befallen
Europe, and of all Hitler's tanks,
planes, ships and soldiers.

Has it ever struck you that it
is because of the very vulnera-
bility of Germany’s “invincible
might”, because of the real and
actual weakness of the Nazi forces
that the “Fifth Column” is of such
vital importance to Hitler?

But lets’s survey tnis new weap-
on. The better known arrows in
its quiver are the numerous Ger-
man trading agencies and “in-
dependent” merchants, the import
and export companies, Travel bur-
eaus, fellowship clubs, “bunds” and
other social and “cultural” organi-
zations which mushroomed all over
the world after the Nazis’ advent
to power.

Many of these groups own their
own German-language newspapers.
They have successfully estblished
themselves with quite a number
of journals and periodicals pub-
lished in the language, and owned
by nationals, of the countries in
which they operate. The blossom-
ing forth of several new daily and
weekly publications, vigourousiy
“neutral” in their presentations,
has been quite marked of late.
This sugar-coating of “robust im-
partiality” has, however, failed to
conceal the Nazi pill compounded
by the propaganda pharmacists of
Doktor Goebbels. :

The Berlin managers are oblig-
ing to a fault. No trouble is too
great for them to satisfy the sen-
sation-loving magazine in its search
for “exclusive rights’ to Nazi
Photographs. There is no story
that D.N.B., the official Nazi news
agency, will not send out freely,
willingly and with great good
heart to any foreign newspaper.

Nazi Embassies and Consulates
in the easy-going American repub-
lics are the headquarters and sub-
headquarters of the new arm. The
courtesies of diplomatic immunity
are contemptuously abused to the
very limit.

NICE YOUNG FELLOWS

The directors of these various
agencies of espionage, disaffection
political debauchery and sabotage
are not of the type beloved by
fiction writers. On the contrary,
they are genial, personable young
men (and women) carefully selec-
ted for their jobs, The women
are in many cases members of
the old titled nobility who have
for long been the most fanatical
adherents of Hitler. Disarming
creatures, they, of course, give the

He" to the allied conviction that

the Germans are merely educated
savages.

Before the war
agents were well

many of these
J known. Their
engaging manners and their af-
fability made them very popular.
They were paragons of propriety,
inspired only with the purpose of
helping to build up a Fatherland
whose contribution to world order
would be real and enduring.

Be sure to read the next inter-
installment of this article
week

QUEEN MARY KEEPS BUSY

Seldom photographed in recent
months, Queen Mary has been busy
with the wartime duties she

learned to fulfil 25 years ago. She |tell you of the British appeal for |
is shown here as she left Red Cross | help for 100,000 refugees who fled |

headquarters in London after mak-
ing ait inspection of the wounded
soldiers’ department.

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NEW MONARCH

King Carol abdicated the Ru-
manian throne under pressure of
the pro-Nazi Iron Guards. He leit
the “Red Dog” Gen. Ion Antonescu,
an army strong man, in charge of Most of the enemy aircraft shot om ante te Cee ae
down by British fighters during | pis

"®| are quickly guarded by troops
terrific air battles over Britain! tioned on shore. This Messer-

the government and the
mantle “on the fragile shoulders 0

my son,” 18-year-old Crown rived
las

Michael (ABOVE). The
Hohenzollern on a European throne,
Carol, playboy, dictator and pawn
in one of the worst eras of Balkan
intrigue, signed his abdicatior|
after a night of street rioting in
which the pro-Nazi Iron Guard
figured prominently. Michael, th
former child king, who succeedé
his grandfather King Ferdinand, i
1927, while Carol was living i
Paris, and who was succeeded b:
his father im a coup d'etat in 19:
will preserve the Hohenzollern dy:
nasty.

RECALLED

Domei, Japanese news agency, Te
ported, Aug. 22, that Foreign Minis-
ter Yosuke Matsuoka has summoned

home five ambassadors and 19 min-
isters, including the minister to
Canada, Baron Shuh Tomii (Above)
in a sweeping shake-up of the diplo-
matic service.

—A “News” Ad Gets Results!

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Newspaperman Nabs Nazi Fugitive

RED CROSS

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GIVE TO THE RED CROSS
Very shortly you are going to
have a caller. This caller may
come to you in your place of bus-
iness or to your home. He will
ask you to support the greatest of
all humanitarian organizations
the Red Cross. A second national
appeal for funds for the Canadian
Red Cross Society is being opened
September 28th.
HELP PRISONERS-OF-WAR
When your Red Cross visitor
comes, invite him or her into your
office or home. He will tell you
of the urgent need of more money
to carry on Canadian Red Cross
work. He will tell you that the
British Red Cross has asked the
Canadian Red Cross to provide
10,000 parcels of food weekly to]
British prisoners-of-war in Ger-
many, at an estimated cost of $1,-
500,000 per year, to be packed and
paid for in Canada. You will be
glad to take this burden from the |
Motherland just now, because food |
conservation is not a problem in |
our land of plenty. You know, |
too, that many Canadians have |
joined the British Royal Air Force |
and any who are prisoners-of-war
will be benefitted.
|

REFUGEES IN
DESPERATE NEED
Your Red Cross canvasser will |

to England from invaded coun-|
tries and who are in desperate

want. You will think of your own
children safe beneath your roof,
and you will share your resources
with them by subscribing to this; and drove him into Huntsville.
Red Cross campaign. who made the arrest.

Last of four escaped German prisoners to be recaptured, Rons Kempe
(CENTRE), was turned over to police, Aug. 31, by Norman Phillips,
Toronto newspaperman (RIGHT), who pick od him up on the highway

Chief of Police William Carson (LEFT)

terned.

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