'The Greeks, who have seen their country overrun by the Natis, may feel that continued Fesistance' is" hopeless, "but. thole government tertainiy does not: They wil contin to Tesit {naplte of the loss they have suffered inthe Bale" on thes maisiands' The Germon Mallitary machine isa great deal more eflclent Than that of the Fascists, and there is no shame that the Greek army Way unable, after many fmosthe of" "soccesttd wocfare sgaiest the TKalans, to holds much better and more scioniae tally directed attack bythe Nazis. It ie impossible to emphasize too grooty. the: import nee of the German losses'in tis. campaign. Por every foot of ground they have gained, they have been forced to pay. a ferihe cost. They are now "attempting. to' minimize. their loses, Bot these atterptes wilt deceive no ones Tt 2 fact thot'a Targe dent has been made in the fant miliary meshing which no amount Of or: Dlaiing away will ever lusty to the mothers wives. ie. 'Germeny who have. Tost their Sons andi husbands: The' Greeks have ute definitely" thrown' a spanner into. the. works. of Hitlers juggarmauts tu his" connection the Sfongkong "Telegraph hag on" interesting ferment fo make It saysi—there sno doubt that many Engleh people are now remembering Wwith pride thet tWelr gallant leader. promised Them Blood, tears, til and sweat along' the Ast Srduots tap to victory, The reversals in Libya and the Balkans, superficial as they may prove tobe, are a Umely reminder that She Na and forees area most formidable Nghting machine Shot at all to be compared with the Ttalian army. There is little doubt but that the war going on for a long time yet and the peoples tisembled" fosether "under" the "Union Jack jagainst. Germany and Italy are prepared grimly sues whatever reverse the future may hold oc'ther "en land, ten snd la the ait Tt fs ratifying Yo relist that whatever casualties sta tain, the enemy pays generally threefold whetcver terrtary he gules always aca to overhead ud. pays no-dividends. On. the fother hand the democracies" strength increases "cape and boundes Une, wick, we shoud vet taken by the forelock & few sears ago, has ENtect of Repression The repression which Hitler has been forced to employ on his own people and on the inhabit ants of the occupied countries is bound in the Tong run to have a disastrous effect, This point ig brought out in the comment of several American journals which is quoted today by Reuter, These journals look for a cracking up of German morat when German cities have been consistently bombed by the British, as British cities have been bombed by the Nazis. It is not believed that.the Germans will stand up to the pounding which the British have taken so courage ously, for toy lack the tenacity of the British race. This is probably true of the Ger mans who still remain outside concentration camps, but there have been tales of the most: determined resistance to Nazi oppression by Germans themselves which prove that some of them at least possess every bit as much tenacity any other people. It is unfortunate for Hitler that this section of the German people is irradic~ ably opposed to him. They have either been forced to flee abroad or they have been rounded up with all sorts of barbarities into the concent ration centre which Hiller and his ilk regard '28 such a boon to the whole people. The in-exile resolution of these Germans must give Hiller some doubtful moments when he thinks of it. He has contemptuously spoken of the German people as "sheep." But these opponents Of his are not sheep by any means. They represent much of what is best in the German nation, They are leaders in science, education and even industry, but they have either been tortured or kicked out in ignominy because they refused to sell their birthright of individual: independence in short, because they refused to be "sheep." These people are true heroes in their way, but there exist behind them many thousands of Ger~ mans who subscribe on the surface to Nazi doc-rine, because they have not got the courage come out against it in open defiance, The lives of these people are dominated by fear. Their patriotism, their love of their country, has become a secondary emotion. They fear their rulers, they fear lest their best friends might at any time inform against them, they fear for the lives. of the children and also for their souls, when these children are remorselessly swallowed up in the Nazi war machine, Fear is a very bad emotion to be under continuously, since it is the direct inspiration of hatred, which is the mast dangerous emotion of all, since it_will override fear, sometimes with Horrible effects, So long as the successes won by the Nazis continue, it is possible that fear will continue to dominate hatred, but when the German people fare brought to realize that their sacrifices have been in vain, that they have been the dupes and victims of power-crazed gangsters, then there will be an outburst. Can even a German believe that his lot is in any way bettered by the campaign of slaughter and rape which Hitler has let loose aver Europe? Can the so-called injustices of the Versailles Treaty, which could have been righted, anyway, by negotiation, be remedied by inflicting further injustices. often upon people who had no say in forming the Versailles Treaty? This conception, upon which the Nazis fanatically insist, inspires nothing but indignant repudiation, as! an insult to the intelligence which stil) survives in many corners of the world.
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