The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-11-27
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

Nineteen months under the Nazi
heel, whole people in chains, find
THE Danes united solidly behind King
Christian as never before in their his
tory, following his example of calm
and dignity and looking up to him, as
their only leader, to do the right thing
at the right time, says a statement re-
viewing recent events in Denmark re-
leased by American Friends of Dan
ish Freedom and Democracy, with
headquarters in New York.
The Danes bide their time, and
meanwhile defy the Nazis with
spiritual sabotage" including the
universally practiced "cold shoulder"
even though the KS badge of the Dan
ish Gold Shoulder Club" has been
outlawed in Denmark along with
Statue of Liberty pins.
True, incidents of physical sabo-
|tage are many, and penalties severe,
with Danish prisons so overcrowded
that people figuratively must stand in
line awaiting their turn, but violence
|accords less with the temperament of
Danes than does spiritual resistance
(which frequency is scented with Dan
|iSh humor. The "cold shoulder" as
|sumes many forms and is having tell
ling effect.
Such was the deceit perpetrated Oh
the good-natured Danes, and such the
Iperfidy of the German assault in
1910, that the Danes never had a
,chaice to defend themselves.
"To begin with, people suffered
keen sense of humiliation that they
had no opportunity to resist, and ad-
imired and envied the Norwegians,"
says refugee from Copenhagen "But
soon modification changed to anger,
and now wave of hatred is sweeping
the country. 1t rose last winter and
continues swelling. Everybody re-
joices when the British bomb us and
applaud when they hit their mark.
Gone day in Copenhagen news
spread like wildfre that the r. A. F.
had bombed a factory on Amager
(outside Copenhagen) because it had
,received German war order the day
before! How we'll informed the Brit
ish are! And excitement rose to ad-
miration when a farm close by was
the next target and the bomb hit the
stable housing the two prize stations
that had been earmarked for ship
ment to Germany the next day."
X X X
There were 896,317 radio listeners
in Denmark on October l, $4,000
more than last year, and "nine out Of
ten" listen to every broadcast from
England, says the Copenhagen refu-
gee. "The Danish Freesender' (an
outlaw station sSis.-also very popular"
he says. "Most people now have
Ishortwave receivers and many listen
TO American short-wave stations in
Guiding the Norwegian broadcasts
from Boston. Broadcasts in Danish
from the United States would be of
great Importance.
"People are quite outspoken Just
before | left Copenhagen / overheard
la well-knoWn Dane raise his voice in
a street car and say to another: No,
| couldn't tell you how many have en-.
| listed in the Free Corps (the Free
Corps Denmark with the German
forces on the Eastern 'front.' but |
hope all three thousand of them, so we
lean get rid of all the Nazis in Den
mark.
With grain unobtainable, canaries
and parrots are reported no longer in
demand in Paris. The birds do not
like the "ersatz" food offered them.
The paper, Paris Soir, musters
Icnough courage" and humor to de-
clare: 'Human beings are more rea-
'sonable; they know that the new
.corned-bcef substitute, made Of spe-
cialIy prepared seals meat, is su-
.pemor to genuine corned-beef, which
lis no longer imported" Right beneath
this article this paper runs a big ad-
|vertlsement urging and praising the
regular use Of digestive powder.
WAGE MINIMA FOR u. S. WORK
IS SET IN TWO INDUSTRIES