The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-16

Adolf Hitler not as concrete
ly as it was ex-
pressed by Bob Jackson.
AdolfS system, as everybody
knows, has been to lend sub-rosa
support to locally disloyal ele-
ments In countries he plans to
overrun presently.
Even in the United States he has
our bunds to make a play to.
They're not strong enough here to
be q serious danger, though they're
a nuisance, or an offense, anyway.
But there are little European
democracies that Adolf has found
more susceptible.
In Norway, for instance, he had
his Norwegian dummy, Quisling,
on the Job in advance Of the Ger
man invasion. and Quisling ap-
pears to have had quite little fol-
lowing. This by no means is to
say that the Quislingites were in
Norwegian majority. If they'd at
tempted an uprising exclusively
their own, the Oslo government un-
ouestionably would have squelched
them in short order.
Subverslve Influence
But there were enough Of them
to be quite a subversive influence,
which made Itself considerably felt
when the Nazis swooped down on
the western Scandinavian penin-
sula. At least they were sufficient
" potent to hamstring national re-
sistance TO the invaders. Conse-
quently, Adolf's conquest was COM
paratively easy.
Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and
Rumania probably were somewhat
more Naz-istically impregnated
than Norway was, but, from all
accounts, even these countries were
scared into Naz-ism rather than
converted by 1t. The best guess is
that their populations also are
overwhelmingly anti-Hitler, if they
thought they could do anything
about It
Poland, Holland and Belgium
obviously. are about 100 per cent
ant-Nad, for they tried to fight
and were licked, which must have
left 'em sore as blazes.
Denmark, standing no show, did
not fight, but it isn't Nazihed,
either.
Neither Is France. except for the
merest handful That, too, is evil
dent.
-, Counter Fifth-ColumniZlng
Now, here are all these peoples,
who, on an average, were perhaps
five per cent fifth-columnized in
advance by Herr Hitler, leaving IS
per cent who are dead willing to be
f1fth-columnized into anti Hitler
ties. Okeh, proposes Bob Jackson,
let's go ahead and fifth-columnize
'em accordingly; they're wonderful
raw material. And they ought to
be fifth-columnized into solidarity
as well as into anti-Hitlerism. Uni
ned, Bob surmises that they'll
bother Adolf aplenty.
Yugoslavia doesn't need TO be
tinkered with. The Yugoslavs are
on the rampage already.
Bob didn't mention Italy, but,
since he spoke, there are Washing
ton observers who point out that
there's another field for fifth-col-
umn activities. When Benito Mus
solini launched Fascism he certain
ly had majority Of the Italians
with him. Nevertheless, from the
very FIRST, he had considerable op-
position right on his own penin-
sula- He suppressed It with castor
oil and several assassinations, but
all his original opponents can't be
dead yet. And, considering the
luck he's had lately, there's a good
bit Of wondering II most Of his
countryTnen aren't getting pretty
sick Of him. So why isn't there an
Italian opening for a deal Of NTH
column cultivation? Mussolinl, go
ing into the discard, wouldn't be
much Of a personal loss to Adolf,
but he'd be embarrassed by hav-
ing his whole partner kingdom lie
down - or actually come out
against him. 1t might be accom-
plished by effective fifth-columniz-
ing.
And In Germany
Finally, couldn't some Of Il be
pulled of in Germany itself?
There are whispers that there
are Germans who don't like Adolf.
The Fatherland has some liberal
traditions. II there are Teutons.
at home, who still subscribe 10 EN-,
they naturally can't say so. All
the same. we have some German