The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-19
HeyLiued Promises
of Fat Jobs to Come

ingly at red tape routine, strug-
Cling along on meagre pay and
living on the promise of fat Jobs
in the immense directorate Hit
Ter expected to set up in Africa.
These fellows are weeping into
their ersatz coffee right now.
One of them once told me his
history. He was buyer of raw
materials in Africa. He also was
an observer for 20 years after
Versailles. He spoke English
perfectly, knew the territory and
British shipping methods inside
| out.
When the Nazis moved on
Czechoslovakia, he was recalled
as spy, saboteur and provoca-
teur in the Sudetenland. Since
1899, he has shaved in the Prop
uganda Ministry, thriving on the
promise of a "fuehrers" job in
Africa when it was won.
He had been living on a tiny
salary; was allowed insufficient
gasoline even for official trips;
was allowed so few clothing ra-
ton tickets that he used to beg
them from American newspaper
men.
This minor official and thou
sands like him see their whole
careers vanishing with the
American landing in A FIR c a.
Sooner or later, all Germany
will have to relinquish its dream
of 1.-The German Africa" so eff
GENTLY and confidently bally-
hooed by Goebbels tn oug h
screen and radio.
"Africa" has been a big word
in Nazi vocabulary for years. It
has figured in army conferences,
in German economic parleys, in
Professor Haushofer's Geo-Poli-
tik. Now it is m even bigger
word, but its significance has
gone into reverse.
Two years ago in Berlin, /
asked a Propaganda Ministry
stooge this question:
you've got Norway, Den
mark, Poland, France and Italy
why don't you stop wasting
lives in new campaigns and or
ganize the Europe you now con-
troll"
He replied: "Ah, you don't see
our plan in the whole. We've got
to have Africa before any of the
rest of our conquests do us any
good. The raw materials, you
see, will come from Africa. With
these. supplies, we can operate
Europe. But not otherwise. It's
a big plan, this National Social
ISM"
Not more than q week later,
another Nazi official called me
in and casually tossed me "a
good story"
The paper he handed me stat
ed that Germany had been pre-
pairing an army of volunteers
for service in tropical desert
areas. Hundreds of thousands of
specially selected men were un-
heat treatments, expos
ure to sun, wind and other rig
orous desert conditions.
This was the famed Afrika
Korps in the making. Months
later the long-billed caps of the
Korps uniforms appeared
on Berlin streets.
These soldiers were honored
at every public event after they
entered the Libyan and Egyp-
tian compaigns. Their success in
redeeming Germany's lost Afri-
can colonies was never doubted.
recent appearance In
Berlin saw the Afrika Korps at
the pinnacle of its glamor.
Now, Rommels defeat and
British troop land
ings in French North Africa
nave totally crushed this gem Of
nope in the Nazi grand plan. In
stead of being successfully on
he defensive in Africa, the Ma
lis now are on the defense In
southern Europe.
Thus, Allied African successes
nave struck hard at the home
'front.' in Germany. Hitler knows
t. And 50, ersatz balm for the
peoples disappointment Is hur-
'iedly being stirred up in Ber-
ms Wilhelmplatz.