Evening star., 1941-04-09

a youngSter on with clothing n
Thousands of garments, made
dren, have been arriving. Passt
Turkey or with us, but Rugged the
deluSion that they could preserve
their independence by patching UP
some sort of pact with Hitler.
German Poison
Technique Employed.
Once again we see the odiouS Ger
man poison technique employed. In
this case, however, it was to the
government rather than to the ma
ton that the dose and innocula-
tions were administered.
The process was not hurried. Why
should it be? All the time the Ger
man armies and air force were enter
ing and missing in Bulgaria. From
a few handfuls of tourists admiring
the beauties of the Bulgarian land
scape in the wintry weather, the
German forces grew to 7, II. 20 and
finally to Is divisions. Presently the
weak and unfortunate Prince and
afterward his ministers were sum-
moned, like others before them, to
Hitlers footstool and a pact was
signed which would have given Ger
many complete control not only
over the body but over the soul OF
the Yugoslav nation.
Then at last the people of Yugo-
Slavia saw their peril, and with a
universal spasm of revolt swept from
power those who were leading them
into a shameful tutelage, and re-
solved at the l1th hour to guard
their freedom and their honor with
their lives.
A Boa constructor who had already
covered his prey with his foul saliva
and then had it suddenly wrested
from his coils, would be in an
amiable mood compared with Hitler,
Goering, Ribbentrop and the rest
of the Nazi gang.
A frightful vengeance was vowed
against the southern Slavs. Rapid,
perhaps hurried. redispositions were
made of German forces and Ger
man diplomacy.
Hungary was offered large terri
torial gains to become the accom-
plice in the assault upon friendly
neighbor with whom she had just
signed a solemn pact of friendship
and aggression.
Count Teleki, Hungarian Premier,
preferred to take his own life rather
than join in such deed of shame.
Halls Stand Made
By Marshal Petain.
A heavy forward movement of the
German armies, already gathered
in Austria, was set in motion
though Hungary to the northern
frontier of Yugoslavia. A ferocious
howl of hatred from the supreme
miscreant was the signal for the
actual invasion.
The open city of Belgrade was
laid in ashes and a tremendous
drive by the German armored forces
in Bulgaria was launched westward
into Southern Serbia.
When it was no longer worth
while to keep up the farce of love
for Greece, other powerful forces
rolled forward into Greece where
they were at once unf1inchingly en-
countered and have already sus-
tanned more than one bloody re-
pulse at the hands of the heroic
Greek Army.
The British and imperial troops
have not up to the present been
engaged. Further than this I can
not attempt to carry the tale. I
therefore turn for a few moments
to the larger aspects of the war.
must first speak of France and
of the French people, to whom in
their sorrows we are united, not
only by memories, but by living ties
welcomed cordially the declara-
ton of Marshal Petain that France
would never act against her former
allies or go to war with her former
allies. Such a course so insenSate,
so unnatural and on lower grounds
so improvident might well-though
it is not for me to speak for any
government but our own-such a
course might ALLEVIATE from France
for long years the sympathy and
support of the American democracy.
1 am sure that the French nation
would, with whatever means of ex-
preston are still open to them,
repudiate such a shameful course.
Must Maintain
Blockade of Reich.
We must, however, realize that the
government of Vichy is in a great
measure dependent and, in great
many matters, though happily not
in all, in Hitler's hands. Acting
daily through the Armistice Com
mission at Wiesbaden, two million
Frenchmen are in German hands.
A great part of the food supply in
France has been seized by Germany
Both prisoners and food can be
doled out in return for hostile prop
aganda or unfriendly action against
Britain. Or again, the cost of the
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