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Show i I UNECONOMIC i i HIGHLIGHTS ! I I National and International I Problems Inseparable j k For sheer planned brutality, the Axis leaders have proven themselves them-selves comparable to the barbarians I of ancient history. In World War j I there was much talk of atrocities. atro-cities. But many of the atrocity stories were made up out of -whole cloth for purposes of propaganda. Real atrocities were scattered and relatively rare, and they were not done as a matter of governmental policy. In World War II, to the contrary, murder and rape and devastation are pursued by the Germans and the Japanese almost as a matter of routine and that fact has been completely substantiated substan-tiated by reputable eyewitnesses. It makes little difference to the Gestapo whether a man is innocent inno-cent or guilty, as the mass execu-toins execu-toins of hostages abundantly testifies. tes-tifies. The Axis radio, at times, actually boasts of ' the wanton slaughter of non-combatants. . President Roosevelt, during the course of a recent warning to Axis officials that retribution would rnmfi when the war ends. said. drick of the GestopTN f UBluer mm far t "; - When the war er.ck .. suWnt has sa.;d sible for this w,u . ' : justice. And a i01 ,.-v-' lings within the who are working ,1" 1 with the Axis c face judges appoii ' 1 pie in whose !-they !-they have collal e-meantime, e-meantime, Hitlers ,irban ' have not broken the spi.? conquered naUons. T0 .m" the flame of revolt t' higher. Sabotage goes are found dead in t!le .. countryside of Pran,e G."" land, the Netherlands kans, etc. And in all o! " pied nations, amazingly".' veloped "underground'' fs' The men who belone' undergrounds are mv-names mv-names of many of then, ."" be known. Theirs is me t"" and desperate of UI,. Every second of the day" face the specter ot dev' ture. This is the higher, human courage. Life an article on the Prer.0i ground which is especial;, ", The leaders quietly and ,- ly organize sabotage of war effort in French ' They print little natsmv" "The practice of executing scores of innocent hostages in reprisal for isolated attacks on Germans in countries temporarily under the Nazi heel .revolts a -world already inured to suffering and brutality . . . Civilized people Jong ago adopted the basic principle that no man should be punished for the deed of another." That principle has been entirely abandoned by the Axis. The Axis is deliberately exterminating exterm-inating entire populations. Hitler himself has said that the Poles must !be liquidated and, accord- ing to reports which have seeped I out of Warsaw, the death rate has assumed incredible proportions, especially es-pecially in the Jewish areas. Starvation Star-vation is rampant in Greece and some authorities believe that within with-in two years, under present conditions, con-ditions, the Greek people will virtually vir-tually disappear. Men who have escaped from Jap concentration camps in Hongkong and elsewhere, say that the Japanese are pursuing pursu-ing an almost identical policy. Captured soldiers and civilians alike are given almost no food. They are denied all medical supplies sup-plies and attention. Sanitary conditions con-ditions are literally horrible. And these people, as a result, are dying like flies. One of the latest Axis innovations innova-tions has been to raze entire villages, vil-lages, shoot every male resident, and send the women and children to forced labor within Germany. For every attack made on Axis officials, of-ficials, major or minor, dozens of innocents are executed. When a really important Axis official is killed, such as "Hangman" Hey- are world famous: fci j gaud, Laval, Deraln, t Mistinguett, the celeb:;!,-" hall star; Carpentier, Maurice Chevalier, the j, tor; etc., etc. The Pr, have pledged that not men and women on that escape swift justice at 5. possible time. To quote the Presfe: tag once again, "The ,t have learned from the the impossibility o breit. spirit by terrorism . . . r-ness r-ness can never bring . Europe. It only sows fe hatred which will out i fearful retribution." Ts in the conquered, torturt are waiting with grim -c for that day. The Solomon Islands . must not be considered ;. lated action. It Is pan 1! range drive to gradusl the Japanese from Ir positions. The last drive will be Tokyo ite' troops this country hi!, i port from the Solonut that they fought Brand Br-and did justice to tie t ditaons of American i" they were given Ilnelj-support Ilnelj-support by other miliar. : The Marines who lit represent the best : trained and best ' are widely circulated : bring to the enslaved 'r pie news, of the free -Bide their borders, h Y work, the French Cci; compiled an Jnterer-list" Jnterer-list" of men and remarked re-marked for assassi the names on thai Frenchmen who have Germany. And some |