The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
Walter Wi1lcIlel
 In Neze, York

lacked even the excuse of e lynch- ing frenzy. It was fnethodical. It was more than two miles over hilly country between them and the victims' homes :, The Huns marched the distance because they enjoyed killing the helpless. It was a crime 90 incredibly horrible that Folwel didn't dare broadcast 1t un- til he checked and double-checlsed 1t He found out.
 The Q. P. man in London reports that the machinery is in order to punish the guilty = that a quarter of Q million war criminals, mostly Hitler's hatchet men, will be tried for their fiendish crimes The guilty include most of the Nad lead- ership, the entire Elite Guard of- ficers corps and the hundreds of German army officers who bru- talized the conquered countries |. And don't forget the heads of the armies. Field Marshal Keitel claims to be of the old army caste, not tied up with the Hitler scum. But he commands in Italy. And Ca- jazZo is in Italy, and Keitel's an- swerable for the butcherieS there. He can't plead ignorance. A German field marshal know whats going on {. Besides, it happens too often for the high command not to know about it-and like 1t.
 There are some other party cow- ards besides stewbum Ley trying to find an out Some of the of- ficers at the Russian front have allowed @ report to reach Sweden to be relayed here-that they tried to assassinate Hitler way back in 194l, right after he fired Brau- chitsch from command That's supposed to feed the old phony theory that the army is no part of the Nazi state. We've met the kind of Germans who are no part of the Nazi state. They are not kill- ing Belgians and Poles and Nor- wegians. They are not drawing fat pay checks from the Nazi treasury. Those who couldn't swallow the Nazis got out of Germany. They went to France and England and North Africa, here, and starved. .. They ran from country to coun- try as the German armies over-ran the lands they hid in Among those who chased and killed them when they caught them were the army officers who are trying so damned hard to convince the world now that they never liked Hitler. It is very strange that they never though to speak up when the Nazis were doing okay.
 Lots of statesmen got bug-eyed the other day when Sec'y Stinson, Gen. Arnold and some fighting men showed them evidence that Amer ica is still in tight hole News reels of the Sicily invasio1s, secret documents, etc., got the surprised office.holderS very worried and started them muttering that "they had no idea," etc. The idea of the exhibit was to "counteract public optimism" That's Q pretty PAOOuAS O4 WdoAAAABtOAAp AluAAp WAAeAA you have to jolt the Pollyannas out of their reefer dreams. They had no Idea war was such c serious busi- nessl Nobody ever told them {. Just the same, they didn't let this mot knowing" stoy them from fight ing he Army's needs There was no need for drafting fathers, they yowled (still having no idea) Whats the sense of losing 60 planes at Schweinfurt, they heckled with no idea) So the War Dept had to take them to the movies and illustrate that we're at war, that 1t costs men and money to fight a war, and that 1t might help matters a little, if the office- holders made an effort to find out what they've been talking about the last couple of years It's progress, anyway. Maybe if they keep on learning, the elected loud-mouths will realize that the War Dept knows at least as much about the fighting fronts as a couple of travelling Senators, who were just riding around picking up rocks to hurl at the Administration.