The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-10-15
JUNEAUITE5
 HEAR TALK
 ON EUROPE
Those Under Nazi Rule Know Meaning of
 Word, America

Karl s. Cate, American business man who has spent 20 years in France and the rest of Europe, the last six months after the German occupation of France, told mem bers of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce today not to "underesti- mate the meaning of the word, America,'' to Europeans now under Hitler's slavery.
 He said that when the first Am erican flag is planted on European soil now under the shadow of the Nazi swastika, the common people will respond with huge uprisings. He said that these enslaved peo- pies are loaded" for their oppres- sors.
 Cate read a letter from a friend in France which stated that the loss of moral dignity by some Frenchmen now is unbelievable, re- ferring to the collaborators. The Frenchman said that the one de- sire of most persons in France is to be free again.
 All Must Be Free l Cate said that while it may not necessarily be our business to free France, We can't stay free alone, that all countries must be free or the American dream will be lost.
 Cate, whose home is in Boston, is an old friend of Gov. Ernest Gruening. He went to France in 1920 and left in December, 1940
 He told of how the Germans be- gan preparations for war as early as 1927, pointing out that the Ger man Chemical Warfare Research Division in Berlin then was work ing 24 hours day, and as early as 1926, Berlin real estate man had told Cate that Germany was will ing to take all of the twentieth century to fulfill the task of dom- mating the rest of the world
 Skipping to 1885 Cate told of the growing strength of the Hitler Youth Movement, regiments of boys who were supposed to be learning agriculture, but who in reality were training seriously for war
 America Included
 In the same year, he pointed out, the German propaganda office had a North American section in oper- ation, proof that Germany knew that the divergent isms of tn e Nazi and American way of living would some day clash. The Nazis were pointing toward world dom- ination-and that included Amer ica.
 Potential American friends were listed in one set of files in the North American section of the pro- paganda office, and potential ene- mics in another file.
 Cate also spoke of the powerful fifth column movement in France, made up mostly of German minded residents from the Alsace-Lorraine area. He told of how one of the German agents assumed the post of station master in a French town as early as 1884. Six years later. an ammunition train was stalled" tgetting out of the yard, two troop trains were stalled" alongside. German bombers came in and scored direct hits on the ammuni- ton train, killing or wounding A. 900 French and British soldiers. The yard covered 75 square miles. But the tops of the cars on the ammunition train had been paint ed white. It wasn't a coincidence that the German station master directed the movements of the train. He was captain in the German army.
 Guests at the meeting at noon in the Baranof Hotel included Bruce Mitchell of PAA, Capt. J. E. Hartl, US. Army; Milton Thompson and Henry Peel, of the OPA office; Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue Wes Overby, Ace- ing Director Art Hedges of the US. Employment Service here, and c. E. Swanson of Petersburg.