While much is heard of the Nazi ruthlessness Jat ea, little has leaked out concerning the Jenormous pressure brought to. bear Upon Reutrals adjacent to the Reich by other and perhaps less spectacular "means, One stich method is connected with the seizure of newt rolling stock. 1 $s well known that at the com= Imencement of the war the German railways were in a lamentable condition through Tacit lof attention caused by the complete devotion Jot heavy industry to the compilation of a for Imidable amount of war material. Unfortunately ror the neutrals Germany. ix the centre of vast European railway system, and since tis leon quest " of Poland the largest annexation which Herr Mitler has been able to make his focken of neutral rolling stock. Germany has 1 vast number of foreign wagons passing over railway lines. To meet her uwn shortage Ger many merely retains those of her ncixhbours, Belgium and the Netherlands have repeatedly strange protests against the seizure of stock (dalling. several thousand trucks, has complained of the holding up in Germany of 2,000 trucks, Denmark has. suf fered in like manner. When the wagons were not returned they refused to let any more fo Germany, The Germans promptly informed we Danes that they would receive no coal nies they sent for it. and, after enduring coal shortage for a short while, Denmark sent Imore wagons. The need of neighbouring neutral for German coal is a useful weapon in the hands of the Germans, but it is not the only tone which ix being used to force the neutral: fio bow to German behests. There is still the prospcet_ of a swift, devastating invasion, and this more terrifying! weapon can be brandished with more. convenience since political and strategic considerations may decide. the" Nazi caders at any time to make use of it. If and when such a move becotnes, in the eyes of the previous promises. It is as well lat these things shankd be remembered when considering the [attitude of the neutrals who are truly cau} between the upper and nether: millstones.
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