Show The War in Scandinavia q on the extension sion o of the European war to Scandinavia Italians are reported in ne news news s dispatches hailing Germanys Germany's move into Denmark and Norway as a major tactical victory That's irritating If IL it its it's a great victory for Germany to attack and overwhelm helpless neighbors without warning then its it's a brave deed for a thug to blackjack a a. child and take his candy pennies The German Invasion of Denmark and Norway isn't war its it's its it's just plain murder and piracy It must even make some of the generals of Hitler's army a little sick It Its It's s snot not so difficult to understand Italian praise lor or the German victories Their own great victories over puny Albania and backward Ethiopia were of the same stripe Its Its It's Up to Britain The German invasion of Norway is an opportunity opportunity opportunity op op- op- op for Great Britain to demonstrate just what she can do It is a crucial test for lor forthe forthe the empire If Germany is able to keep controL controL control con con- of Norway particularly the Atlantic coast then Jhen Britain is licked Germany would then be master of o all Scandinavia The neutrals of ot central E Europe rope realizing that if the allies q could not save N Norway Way certainly they could not hope to save save them would succumb completely completely com corn to German domination With all Europe except France to draw from and with all Asia except India Indi Germany could laugh at atthe atthe atthe the allied blockade On the other hand if Britain forces Germany out of Norway it willbe will willbe willbe be a terrific ten blow to nazi prestige both at home and among European neutrals Furthermore re reit It would give the allies a commanding position position tion in the outer Baltic and probably shut off vital Scandinavian iron ore lr fr from m the reich a More German Tricks I The nazis have demanded of the Balkan nations the right to police the Danube as the there re result of the discovery of a purported British I pIot to dynamite the river channel and block this vital German supply route That German demand makes the dynamite story smell much like a German plant plant plant-a a trick to gain strategic control in the Balkans If the reich were permitted permitted per per- to police the Danube it would be just the opening wedge to complete domination domination- the same insidious and perfidious tactics used by bythe the nazis to effect diplomatic and and gains to date t a a a 1 N Nazis zis Communists Traitors I Again America has had an object lesson in iii the Ithe traitorous character of political parties advocating alien isms in a democratic country First First was the instance of the Finnish communists communists com com- who welcomed invasion of their country country country coun coun- try try by Russia and set up a Russian pro rump government in Finnish territory seized by the I reds Second was the pro-German pro rump government government govern govern- ment set up at Oslo by the head of the Norwegian Norwegian Nor Nor- pro nazi party This man form former r defense defense de- de minister of his country even went so far as to hail Germanys Germany's invasion of his homeland homeland home horne horneland land as salvation When a citizen praises a murderous attack on his country's flag her armed forces and her people by a foreign power power hes he's nothing more than more than a traitor a a a Coming Clo Close e to Home Hom i German GermanY invasion of Denmark brings the European war a lot closer to home than many nany of us might think Denmark has sovereignty over Greenland It wouldn't be very Ivery pleasant Jo to America to have Germany seize this western western west west- ern era hemisphere territory as she already has Denmark Its It's something to think about |