Show I F. F 1 Strategy of Terror TH THE HE LAST WORD WORD in savagery and brutality rr bas has been spoken by the nazis From now I on the gestapo are going to shoot all male I relatives above 18 of any Frenchman wanted by the nazis for sabotage or anti German anti German violence via vio lence Jence who does not surrender himself within 10 days I Announcement of this policy of retaliation I was made in Paris Pans by the gestapo and relayed to this country from Vichy The world has become somewhat inured to atrocities and butchery in this war We have come to accept the fact that we are fighting ruthless enemies who have no regard whatsoever whatsoever whatsoever what what- for decency and justice and humanity x in their treatment of a foe Theirs is a strategy strategy strate- strate 3 gy of terror terror deliberately deliberately adopted as a war weapon The fact that this strategy of terror has failed to achieve its purpose does not sway them Their answer to failure of terror to crush opposition is to try more terror piling horror borror on horror savagery on savagery brutality brutality brutality bru bru- on brutality until the world they dominate domI domInate dom- dom I mate reeks with the blood of their victims Now they have carried their policy of in indiscriminate indiscriminate indiscriminate in- in discriminate murder of starvation of torture and of hostage-execution hostage to the l last st length Ir- Ir of massacring whole families in revenge forthe for forthe the act of one member of the family Of course it wont won't do any more good thant than t other nazi acts of terror This last bit of c frightfulness only proves the desperation of these bloody butchers They are caught in their own own t trap trap and and they know it and in J their frenzy they strike out ever more mor recklessly recklessly reck reck- lessly and wantonly They know that their terror only brings more terror terror and and will bring down upon them a retribution of terror when their day of reckoning comes as it surely will |