To-day nobody of any importance in the Saar is campaigning to make ithe Saar French. But thousands are jcompaigning to make it stay under ithe League. They are Atheist, Sociat Democrats, pious Catholics, blasphemous communists, orthodox Jews, Jeverybody who has something to lose iby becoming a citizen of the Third Reich. To-day they don't want Franco Their vote will be less for the League than against Hitler.
Their campaign is hot and bitter. It is not more hot and bitter than the campaign of the Hitlerites to return ithe Saar to Germany. On their side the Swastika men have a heavy advantage: "Traitors," they cry to {the opposition. "Can't win in the long run. "If you vote against your Father= and, wait until the Saar is German again and see what happens to you."
Election day {s already called the} Day of Reckoning". Every issue] of the anti-Hitler organs makes. it plain just what "Reckoning" may mean, Every description of the life in a Nazi concentration camp is meant to persuade the voters to choose life under the League. But Ju the dead of night, under blankets, comes the thought: "What if T vote against Germany and my side loses?"
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