Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-04-15
py CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington. April l5.-What's the
~r-..t,, with employing fifth-columr
+.,,Jcs to undermine Herr Hitler?
The suggestion is Attorney General
R.rcft ii. Jackson's. He made 1t in
FIN, curse of a speech III New York
f,a- nights ago. and all the Strate-
e.-,~ in Washington, diplomatic and
'I.ratg!v. are falling over one an
r-firr 10 indorse the idea. In a gen
,.,| way they doubtless had thought
,t II before. Dut not as concretely as
A.I. expressed by Bob Jackson.
.luult'S system. as everybody
Esl4.s. has been to lend Sub-rosa sup
r.., To locally disloyal elements IN
Countries he plans to oVeIrun pre-
.tutly.
H. IN the United States he has
n,I. Nlnd~ to make a play TO. They're
mol -trulg enough here to be a Sert-
mis- danger. though they're a NUS
auce. or an offense, anyway. But
f.,rr are little European ~democracies
that Adolf has found more Slt,-
ceptlblc,
In Norway, for instance. he had
Ii. Norwegian dummy. QuiSlmg. on
tine Hob III advance of the German
INVASION. and Quisling appears To-
laEt had quite a little following.
Thu by no means is to say that the
CUI~IIngitcS were in a Norwegian
majority. If they'd attempted an up
ff~Iug exclusively their own, the Os-
ia Government unquestionablv would
F5}e squclched them in short order.
Subvcrsive Influence.
5Lt there We're enough Of them to
he aultt a SubversiVe influence.
winch made itself considerably felt
wien the nazis SWooped down ON the
weston scandinavian peninsula. At
least they We're sufficiently potent
to uumStrIng national resistance to
tHe invaders. Consequently, Adolf's
conquest was COmpal~ lively easy.
Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and
-EUUaulu probably were somewhat
H5lc enthusiastically i~mpregnated than
NtIuay a but. from all accounts.
cpn these countries were scared IN
L. uJZI-lSm rather than converted
by 1t. The best guess is that their
t~mnuIatlUnS also are overwhelming
~ au'I-Iiltler, if they thought they
CutId DO anything about it.
Poland, Holland and Belgium OBJ
IteJsly are about 100 per cent anti
ua-I. Tor they tried to fight and were
lGEgd. which must have lett 'em
sata ,s blazeS.
Denmark, standing no show, did
nat light, but it isn't nazificd. either.
Neither is France, except for the
H=eHe=t handful. That. too. is evident.
fnuOtpr Fifth ('n1uvnniyiOu
Eu~. here are all these peoples,
N4a- On m average, We're perhaps
lEe per cent iltth-columniZed in al
Vance by Herr Hitler, leaving 95 per
cont who are dead willing to be fifth
eoiaHnlzed into anti-EIitlerites. Okeh,
proposes Bob jackson, lets 60 ahead
atd tItth-ColumniZe EN- aCcordingly;
lheF re wonderful raw material. And
they ought to be fifth-columnized
Ilgo solidarity as we'll as into anti
HtItfi>nL Unified, Bob Surmises that
they'll bother Adolf aplenty.
N5gu>IaVia doesn't need to be tin
keled with, The Yugoslavs are on
the rumpage already.
Bob didn't mention Italy, but, since
te spoke, there are Washington OBJ
sewers who point out thai there's an
u,hcr tleld for fitth-cOlumn activities.
NHtM BenltO MuSSolini launched fas-
c-r. he certainly had a majority OF
tLt Italians with him. Nevertheless,
tlura the very first, he had cunsid-
cradle opposition right on his
peninsula. He suppressed it with cas-
toI. llI and several assassinations, bu,
I'll his original opponents can't be
dead vet. And, considering the luck
he had lately, there's a good bit OF
Wondering il most OF his countrymen
aren't getting pretty sick of him. Sc
Why isn't there an Italian opening
for a. deal Of ~lifth-column cultiVa-
rooo MussOllni, going into the dis
cu'd Wouldn't be much of personal
lu-~ Ia Adolf, but he'd be embarrass-
ca BN n1NInp his whole partner king