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Show nerve-wracking pressure take on new significance. signifi-cance. If the allies can bring home to Germany the utter hopelessness of Its situation, they will have won a greater victory than they could ever accomplish by battering their heads against the Siegfried line. 1 Plenty of Steam There NAZI GERMANY, after executing at least 13 Czechs and arresting hundreds more as the ! result of disturbances, proudly announces that order has been restored and the protectorate to "perfectly calm." . That's rather amusing. Anyone but a fool will be perfectly calm and behave himself when madman with a nervous trigger finger shoves an automatic into his midriff. But underneath, the calm exterior, we 11 guarantee there to "plenty of unrest and hate and heaven help the madman If he relaxes his vigilance! The Czech outbreaks, as exiled Czech statesmen states-men declared, were "stupidly premature" but the blowing off of the lid In Prague indicates that there Is plenty ot steam In the Czech kettle ready to burst Into a really serious explosion when the time to ripe. ...... And the reign of terror Instituted by the nazis to put down the current outbreak certainly cer-tainly won't make that ultimate explosion any less violent. The cold blooded murder of children chil-dren at least nine of the victims were school students will not soon bo forgotten by the Czechs. The further brutality of forcing hurt-dreds hurt-dreds of other school youths to look on while the nine were executed to a piece ot barbarism which shocks the whole world. It all serves to emphasize the precarious position of Germany under the misguided direction direc-tion of Adolf Hitler. Faced with the armed might of Britain and France on the west her sea commerce almost entirely cut oft by blockade, block-ade, and a dangerous and u independable Russia at her rear, Germany also haa the potential dynamite of three disaffected and alien population popula-tion groups Austrian, Czechs and Poles which at a critical time might flare Into open revolt Certainly there must be thousands upon thousands of hard-headed men In the ranks of German nazidom even in the party's Inner . councils who consider the whole prospect with the gravest concern. And granting that probability, proba-bility, the whole allied war strategy of avoiding eostly and demoralizing bloodbath while constantly con-stantly working to increase that strangling and . " i ' ' ' |