Show I Neutrals Give Smuggling Job to Nazis q RICHARD WALDO B By a and a GABRIEL w Lf Well informed diplomats say our c war ar news Is Inclined to be faddish f S that the and are areS S hogging the headlines while the i little Item of blockade is deciding ing the war Since the capitulation capitula capItula- S tion of Vichy there has has' been only passing reference to the fact that 5 the contraband running has shift shIft- dInto f high and that the secrecy k- k Is s a tribute to Britain's Duff CooS Cooper Coo Coo- oo- oo S c. c per per and Germanys Germany's Go Goebbels who Sc want it that way wayS I S 'S The biggest change in the contraband contraband con con- blockade war from the ther J r days when it was the only action of a bore war Is that the he neuI neur neutrals neu neu- r I have handed it to the prin prin- t. t Denmark Norway Sweden Sweden Swe Swe- t den Belgium Holland Yugoslavia and Greece whose captains formerS formerly former former- S ly y i would run any blockade for a aS aprIce aprice S S price simply have handed the franchise to one or the other of theS the S S belligerents Of the nations nam named d S some have leased or surrendered S their merchant fleets to Germany S some to Britain and some to both The result has shifted the patterns of the contraband traffic so conI constantly con con- con con- I l' l that Germanys Germany's outside supply supply sup sup- ply lines es follow the route of the theS week j S S Spain always a of modest amounts started pouring the the stuff into Germany as as' soon t C as France stopped being a geoS geographic geographic geographic geo geo- 5 graphic obstacle Belgium and andS S S Holland on the other hand are arenow now flOW concentration points for landS land- land 5 S borne supplies where formerly they were the receiving points for lor blockade lockade runners that navigated navigated navigated navi navi- gated through the North sea The receiver now is Norway whose 2000 miles of coastline ruptures the Hie British blockade and perm permits ts transit overland to the Baltic the theS thelow low i countries and Hitler's HIUer's ware ware- S h houses uses Suez and Gibraltar are as con con- proof as the Thames and andall andall andall all axis stories about the submarIne submarine rine freight slipping by The Rock S are are part of the wisteria draping S Europe's war press There is only one contraband certainty that the Germans seldom repeat the same play twice twice- and that British conS control control con con- S ships are now ranging wider S than at any previous point in the war |