Daily Post - 17.04.1943, Síða 2

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DAILY POST
la published by
Blaðahringurinn.
Editors: S. Benediktsson.
A. L. Merson.
Offiee: 12, Austurstræti. Tel.
3715. Reykjavík. Printed by
Alþýðuprentsmiðjan Ltd.
Saturday, April 17th, 1943
Last Words
Isvestia publishes the words
of a Major Krechet of the Red
Army as taken down by a corre-
spondent on the evening before
he died of wounds in a hospital:
“When we kill Germans now,
we are not taking revenge; we
are fulfilling a simple function
of war. What I am afraid of is
that when we shall begin to
take our revenge there will be
found such humanitarians, espe-
cially abroad, who will start to
talk about mercy and morality.
“These people have not seen
their dearest ones shot by Ger-
mans as they travel on the wide
highways. They have not been
shocked by the smoke of their
own burning cities or found the
ruins of their own houses block-
ing their path. They do not
know the real woe of the people.
“How will the fascists be
able to repay for the losses of
thousands upon thousands of
Russian families? The Hitlerit.es
should be annihilated, by doz-
ens, by thousands, like rats; for
the sake of the future we must
cleanse the world of this black
plague.
“Thousands are dying with
the belief that there will be
such an avenging justice. The
fascists have made us ruthless
and they shall feel that ruth-
lessness on their own skins.”
—N. Y. Times.
Sayings
The poor old car is looking
mighty treadbare. fMarjorie K.
Olmsted.) .. It’s no longer a
matter of walking to reduce—
it’s reduced to walking. (Guy
Kibbee.)
« * *
Negro cook’s description of
Alaska: “’Tain’t nothin’ but
miles and miles of miles and
miles.”
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If one must leave a home, a
ship or a woman, leave should
REYKJAVÍ
TREASON CASE
The press reports that the
Ministry of Justice has ordered
that the Danish subject who
was recently arrested for hav-j
ing written a letter strongly
criticising Iceland in the “Aber-
deen Fishing News”, be brought
to trial for treason. It is stated
that the accused stated at the
preliminary investigation that
he wrote the article merely as
a private letter to an Aberdeen
firm, and that the firm publish.
the letter without his know-
ledge. Enquiries were therefore
made in Britain through the
Icelandic Minister, who ob-
tained a statement from the
paper in question that they had
received the article direct from
Iceland, and another statement
from the firm that they had not
caused the publication of the
article. Whereupon, the press
says, the accused admitted that
he had sent the article straight
to the “Aberdeen Fishing
News”.
YOUTH POLITICS
The Annual General meeting
of Æskulýðsfylking, the League
of Young Communists, was held
on Wednesday. The General
Meeting of Heimdallur, the
League of Young Conservatives,
was held on Thursday.
GOVERNMENT NOT TO
RESIGN
The Winter session of the Al-
þing, which came to an end on
Wednesday, had lasted for 152
days, and was the longest ever
known. It had discussed 111
bills and passed 59 laws. On the
last day, the cost of living bill
was passed, though in a modi-
fied form. The proposals to cut
wages and also to tax the re-
serve funds of companies were
both dropped. The main points
of the bill in its final form were
an extraordinary income tax
and application of much of the
revenue from it to reduce the
prices of farm products during
the coming months. A com-
mittee is also to sit during
the summer to try and find a
suitable level of farm prices
which will keep the farmers’
be taken while one is still in
love. — Kathene Pinkerton,
Two Ends to OurShoestring.
(From Reader’s Digest.)
KLETTER
net income in correct propor-
tion to that of wage-earners—a
difficult task, in which more
than one opinion may be ex-
pected to come to light. The
Prime Minister announced that
although the Government was
far from being satisfied with
the bill as finally passed, and
although it would have pre-
ferred to leave to others the
task of trying to make a success
of it, he and his colleagues had
decided to continue in office in
order not to cause a difficult
situation. He emphasised, how-
ever, that he considered the bill
as merely a temporary expe-
dient falling short of a real
solution, which would have to
be found later, when, it was to
be hoped, political circum-
stances would be more favour-
able.
SHORTAGE OF CLERGY
17 parishes are now vacant in
Iceland, and applications were
invited some time ago. The
period for application is now
expired and 11 clergymen have
applied for 8 of the vacancies.
MISCONCEPTIONS
One of the Reykjavík papers
quotes a report recently pu-
blished. in the “Bournemouth
Echo” in which a lecturer on
Iceland was quoted to the effect
that the Reykjavík Hot Water
Heating project had been begun
by Danish labourers working
under German management,
and gave the impression that
the project was designed for the
comfort of German soldiers
when they invaded Iceland.
The Reykjavík paper says that
a protest should have been
made at once against this in-
correct story, which was likely
to harm Iceland in British opin-
ion. The moral is drawn that
the need is urgent for Icelandic
press attaches in Britain and
America. We may perhaps point
out that the impression that
the Heating Project was ori-
ginated or managed by Ger-
mans, is quite incorrect.
^ Remitted to Mrs. Churchill
S Further Contributions:
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s Already Acknowledged
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I America
I Says • • • •
The renewal of the Russo-Jap
fisheries agreement makes it
plain that Japan will continue
to fish in troubled waters as far-
as her relations with the Soviet
are concerned.
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Several usually discreet Con^
gressmen have been heard laps-
ing into profanity at recent
public hearings—probably ow-
ing to the war strain. That sort
of thing used to occur only at
closed sessions, we believe.
* * *
There is a possibility that
Mussolini might demand sanc-
Juary within the Vatican to
escape what he has coming to
him. Perhaps at last he’ll be •
ready to listen when the Church
asks him if he wants to be -
saved.
# * *
Britons have responded en-
thusiastically to the Eat More
Potátoes campaign. They havc
at last disovered that the home-
ly spud tastes much better
baked in its own skin rather
than in that of a sausage.
* * #
The Japs are seizing hundr-
eds of small Chinese craft to-
combat their growing shipping
shortage. We hope, howeverr
that they will not find the
Chinese junk as useful for war
purposes as they did ours.
* * *
There is no real Popular ■
Front in Russia, German pro—
pagandists claim. Any German-,
soldier could tell us that.
A Year Ago Today
:
Tokyo radio announces
bombing of Tokyo and Yoko- ;.
hama. Claims three of raid-
ers shot down. Official U.S.
circles express surprise. War :
and Navy Departments deny >
knowledge of raids.
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