Daily Post - 04.02.1943, Blaðsíða 2

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Thursday, Febr. 4th, 1943
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1. A. F. Over
Berlin
The importance we attach tö
the “Anniversary Raid” made
on Berlin recently in broad day-
light springs from a conception
of the German people to which
we have tenaciously clung for
several years. We believe that
the Gormans are psychologi-
cally more vulnerable than we
are.
This belief does not spring
entirely from wishful thinking,
and from reasoning based on
theary alone. It has been sup-
ported by the violent Nazi reac-
tion to such psychological
attacks as the V for Victory
campaign in Occupied Europe.
It received strong confirmation
when we heard the desperate
lies issued immediately after
the Cologne raid, when the offi-
cial Nazi broadcast statement
actually claimed that only se-
venty enemy planes flew over
the city.
This allergy to the truth
obviously presents a weak spot
in Germany’s formidable ar-
mour, and the best way to také
advantage of it at once suggests
itself. We must make the truth
so obvious to the German
people that no amount of lying
and misrepresentation of facts
can camouflage it.
This is exactly what was
doqe on the day of January
30th, 1943. The truth was
brought home to the German
people on that day by a mes-
sage written so clearly in the
Berlin skies that even the most
illiterate must have understood
it. It was simply this: Germany
is so vulnerable to the tremen-
dous destructive force of mo-
dern air power, which she her-
self first unleashed on Europe,
that all her cities can now be
pounded day and night with
relative immunity by the three
great Powers she chose to chal-
lenge. In return, she can bring
retaliation on only one of them,
DAILYPOST
de Baer - Olueck - Nicolson - Tbe Kaiser - Hltter
'Á ten point plan for the ex-
tradition and punishment of
Axis war criminals has been
drawn up by Dr. Marcel de
Baer, chief of Belgian’s judica-
ture, in collaboration with Pro-
fessor Glúeck, of Harvard.
* *
The question is one which
will not be solved in a day.(
Harold Nicolson points out in
“The Spectator’* that it will be
difficult fo see how the proce-
dure in these international
courts shall consist of the best
features of the British and
American criminal courts — as
specified in the plan — if the
accusers are also the judges. It
would be difficult to see, he
writes, how trials in which the
accusers are also the judges,
can be made: in any manner to
conform to the traditions of
British or American justice.
Similar Dexterity?
The Germans had their ex-
cuses at the Supreme Court at
Leipzig after the last war.
Thóse at the top who gave the
orders pleaded that they did.
nqt commit the outrages, and
thei rsubordinates, who did so,
maintained that they were on-
ly acting under orders. We can
be sure that the warped minds,
who have produced, mairítáined
and connived at Goebbel’s pro-
paganda machine, will show
similar dexterity when théy
facé their judgment.
for the industrial heárts of Rus-
j sia and tlie Únited Státes' are
I beyond her réach. She herself
. must sit and take it —- to that
1 þoint wheré the limit of or-
dinary human endurance
abruptiy decides thé issue. For
she has no Ural stronghold to
which to withdraw no Atlantic
barrier to set up between her-
self and the approaching storm
that is already darkening her
skies.
. We have known these facts
for some time; we may feel
assured that the averáge Ber-
liner is considerably more
aware of them today than he
was a week ago.
Inglorlns Exile . ...
As for Hitler, Nicolson does
not want to see him brought
to a violent end. He writes:
“The Hitler legend is móre
potent and more poisonous than
any glarríour which William II*
was able tó achieve; it is a leg-
end which in aríy circumstances
it will be difficult to eradicate
it is a legend which, if crowned
with : martyrdqm, rríay prove
immortal.
I assume thát monsieur de
Baer, in devising his Interna-
tional Tribunal, has considered
these objectiorís. They are
weighty and must be borne in
mind. For would not the
philosopher, examining our
perplexities fórm a standpoint
detached from the anger and
sorrow of the last four years,
advise us that no retribution
which the mind of man could
devise for Hitler would be more
terrible than the contemplation
of his own failure? Would he
not advise us to strip his legend
of all its romantic and heroie
attributes? Would he not re-
commend that the best of all
Heard Io The
Mess
. (During manoeuvres in Missis
sipi a -eompany filed by an-old
Negro who shaded his eyes and
watched the troops go. by. Hé
smiled a broad 'and' toóthless
gfin. “DoggoneÓþ he cabkled
“you all gonna git dem Yan-
kees dis time”.
-• ú; - ,• * . ý :f :'•■•••
The coirípaný’s clumsitót re-
cruit was experiencing his-
usual diffiéúlty in executipg the
comiríarid, “Present arms.” The
drill sergeant studied him with
disgust.'“Where is the balance
of your rifle?” he inquired.
“Honest, sergeant, I dunno”,
stammered the recruit. “This is
all theydone give me.”
. * *
Selectee: “They can’t make
me fight”.
Draft board officer: “Maybe
not, buf they cán take you
where the fighting is and you
can use your own judgment”.
ends for Hitler would be to
drag out the years that may
remain to him in shabby and
inglorious exile, observed by
the tourists, and recorded by
the photographér, as a stout and
shambling figure slinking und-
er the plane trees at Ouchy or
munching jam-puffs in a Kondi-
torei?” • •
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