Evening star., 1942-07-05
Undercover Work Against Axis in Europe
Described in Pamphlet Issued by Elmer Davis
By BLAIR BOLLES.

tries of Europe will help open the
second front and keep it opened as
soon as the United Nations invading
armies arrive, Elmer Davis, director
of the Office of War Information,
declared yesterday in issuing an
Owl pamphlet entitled The Un-
conquered People" 1t describes, on
the basis of secret and underground
information, the wide extent of the
querors.
The 11-page pamphlet, illustrated
on its cover and throughout with
drawings by Edmund Duffy, the
Baltimore Suns Pulitzer Prize car
toonist, Is the second of its kind
issued by the administration since
the war began. The first, put out by
the Owls predecessor, the Office
Of Facts and Figures, was called
Divide and Conquer" and described
Nazi propaganda methods.
The new work is calculated to
give Americans a deep respect for
their oppressed allies on the Cont
nent, to increase the temperature of
American hatred for Nazi methods
and to stir in Americans a new
sense of the importance of Allied
offensive action in Europe.
Anti-Axis Events Listed.
From small fires of resistance, ="
the anti-AXis drive has grown to a
real revolt marked by these events
Resignation of Norwegian bish-
ops, teachers and nurses.
Planting Of Dutch tulip fields to
resemble huge Dutch flags, visible
to RAF flyers.
kidnapping of German soldiers by
Breton fishermen.
Overt anti-Nazi demonstrations
and parades.
Publishing of hundreds of secret
newspapers.
Wrecking of troop trains, punctur-
ing of oil wagons, incorrect sort
ing of ammunition.
Slowdowns in factories making
arms for the Nazi war machine.
Open warfare by Yugoslav Gen.
Mikhailovitch and other guerrilla
groups.
Europe is fighting back" the
pamphlet begins. 1t is written in
spiritual style which, until Divide
and Conquer" came out, was foreign
to Government reports.
Davis Statement.
The Owl will send copies to all
askers. Mr.. Davis statement ac-
companying the pamphlet said:
1.-The American people should
know the facts of the heroic re-
sistance to Hitler by the silent allies
in occupied lands. Harassing the
Nazis day and night at the risk of
death, the people of occupied Europe
have dedicated themselves to shak-
ing off the Nazi yoke. They want
the American people to know that
when the time comes to create
second front, it will be effectively
supported as a front of liberation.
"a second front will be two-way
operation: We need Europe's help,
Europe needs ours to gain freedom.
Evidence in The Unconquered Peo-
Pile demonstrates that they rest their
lives and hopes upon a United Ma
tions victory"
A preface to the pamphlet re-
marks:
Conquered? The stories which
the winds of freedom bear prove
once again that free men cannot be
conquered. The treachery and the
armed might OF tyranny may crush
them for a time, but those who live
will speak out and speak out until
freedom is restored"
Incident in Paris.
The pamphlet builds up the broad
story of the ''Unconquered" with
many specific instances:
In Paris "one theater audience
coughed so long and SO loudly that
the auditorium lights were flashed
on, and a Nazi officer strobe across
the stage. Who coughed?' he de-
manded. There was no answer until
an old man rose in the rear of the
theater and called out Nobody here
coughed.' Who coughed?' again de-
manded the Nazi. The Unknown
Soldier quietly replied the old
man"
Belgium-"On Armistice Day last
year mimeographed handbills were
circulated throughout Brussels
signed, 'Vive la Belgique Independ-
ent.' Risking their lives the people
of Brussels demonstrated before the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, great
crowds swirling through the streets
to lay flowers on the tomb.
German staff cars had difficulty
plowing through the clogged traffic.
Feeling that sense of unity and
strength of numbers which often
sweeps through a crowd, Belgians
shouted insults at the Germans,
arousing a group of stiff -necked Of