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Show ials, but they will exploit the con- quered people without regard to their fate. The Nazi program is being fol lowed by the Japanese in the Far East where the wily orientals have invented additional brutalities of their own. 'GERMAN CIVILIAN DEATH RATE HIGH Figures compiled by the League of Nations show that the civilian death rate in Germany and England Eng-land during 1940 increased about one per cent, while in Belgium, occupied oc-cupied by the Germans, the increase in-crease was three per cent. The implication is that Germany has caused numerous deaths in Belgium by removing food, by overwork of undernourished people, peo-ple, by deprivation of medical care and by various callous forms of systematic abuse. No figures are given for Poland, where the Nazis are systematically systematical-ly exterminating the population. Nor are figures available for Greece, where conditions are as bad or worse. It should be plain to the people of this country that a Nazi peace will be almost as destructive to other nations as a war against the Germans. Not only will the Nazis remove machinery and raw mater.- |