Show i a r rM i Nazi Break With Russia Foiled Sabotage in U. U S. S Hitler Held Responsible for Wrecking Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's Elaborate Plans to Blow Up Vital Points in U. U S. S c By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator Service 1343 H II Street N W Washington D. D C. C A mystery that has perplexed many laymen and some officials in Washington with respect to the manner manner manner man man- ner in which the government has forestalled a mammoth Nazi plan for sabotaging American industry y can now be explained There will wIn willbe willbe be no official confirmation of the explanation but it comes to me from what are frequently described as informed sources which sources which really lied means a man who has never to me so far In a sentence The man who wrecked elaborate Nazi plans for blowing up munitions plants railway railway railway rail rail- way terminals bridges electric light and power plants in the United States was none other than Adolf Hitler himself He lie did it when he tossed the Molotov pact out of the window just after Nazi armies had launched their surprise drive on Russia To understand what a job the fuehrer did for himself we must remember that for years with the methodical care of the German mind a detailed plan had been worked out for the sabotage e of American industry Even during the last war there were some terrible terrible terrible ter ter- and effective pieces of sabotage sabotage sabotage sabo sabo- tage accomplished by a comparatively comparatively comparatively untrained and unregimented crowd of German spies The famous Black Tom explosion which wrecked the huge New Jersey plant not far from New York city was an ex ex- ex- ex ample An international mixed claims commission finally awarded huge damages to the United States for or that act But the Nazis began where the kaiser left off They had bad schools for forthe forthe forthe the training of saboteurs especially selected from Germans who had lived in the United States and were lured back to Germany and either bribed or intimidated into undertaking ing the work of destruction in territory territory territory terri terri- tory with which they had become familiar Details of this training came out in the secret testimony in the recent trial of the Nazi saboteurs in Wash Wash- ington But much of it was ancient history to the department of justice And the way the advance information tion came into the hands of our intelligence in intelligence intelligence in- in officers was this While the Germans had their pact of friendship with Russia Nazi agents were busy making friends with Communists all over the world in the hope that they could use them for subversive activities The Communists Communists Communists Com Com- naturally did not turn a deaf ear and Hitler's agents told all Then came the double cross Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many attacked Russia and Communist Communist Communist Com Com- and Nazi who lead had always hated each other thoroughly I gave vent to their real feelings The plans which the Nazis had confided to the Communists were turned over I to the governments of the United Nations I The United States also had been picking up a little information about the German sabotage methods in I other ways ways such such as by planting aman a aman aman man or two in the German Gestapo These men learned from one source or another that the Germans had hired safe crackers in this country country coun coun- try to steal the blue prints of factories factories fac fac- tories from insurance companies which always demand a detailed description description de de- de- de and plan of all buildings they insure The plans were stolen photographed and returned That is one example Many other little devious devious de de- de- de tricks and enterprises we were revealed by dint din of our own investigators investigators investigators gators and with the het help of th the Communists who had complete and exhaustive data the Federal Bu Bureau of Investigation was able to take the necessary steps to break up the complicated plots and counter counter- plots counter plots to wreck American industry So f far there have been v very cry few if any I major cases which have been branded brand brand- ed as sabotage in this country thanks to Mr Hitler ry On Pronunciation You may not know it but nobody thinks broadcasters know how to pronounce the names of foreign places PLaceS PLaceS' S Some me write in and tell tell tellus us us about it and even the news services I try to help us When an item cornea comes over the news ticker about or Chumbly they obligingly put th the tho pronunciation in brackets The other day the news services service s had something to say about disturb ances in Lyons France Now Iy Ive I've- been hearing about Lyons all my life and I know perfectly well that i Lyons is pronounced like two lions in the zoo I also know that the same city is spelled by the French without the s Lyon and Lyon and Iv Ive I've visited that ancient and attractive city and I know how the French pronounce pronounce pro pro- flounce it So when the ticker said Lyons pronounced on Lee-on I got the same feeling as when I once heard two Frenchmen disputing whether Washington was called or 1 1 Lyon if you want to be pedantic I is not pronounced on Lee or any any anything thing like it If you want to pronounce pro pronounce it the French way you'D j 1 have to study French As for me j i Ill I'll go on saying Lyons and Ill I'll continue continue con con- to say Paris Paris not not Pah ree Pah ree and Rome and Vienna and The Th Hague and Cologne and Athens although al al- although though I know that the natives dont don't call any of those cities by those names a a Notes From a Broadcasters Broadcaster's Diary Is the government farm conscious It is I am going to risk a gentle indiscretion and quote a suggestion J i from a high government source to i broadcasters It is part of an appeal ap peal to encourage enlistment in our merchant marine that must have I Ione one hundred thousand skilled workers workers work ers for the shipyards in 1942 must have experienced seamen 3 Here is the suggestion Take care to specify that th the the Merchant Marine does not want men engaged in farming or war production tion work They do their share now Any change would bring more harm J than good It does however want the young the strong the adventurous adventurous for seagoing jobs and the skilled capable workers for the shipyards shipyards ship yards i And the government wants the skilled farmer to stay on the farm where he is Food will win the war and write the peace a a a I I I I I T The he Whole Truth The Nazi regime is not usually credited with doing much to encourage encourage age truth Hitler himself spends many paragraphs in Mein Kampf telling about the importance of being being being be be- ing a good liar But strange as it if may seem according to a tale that thai thatis is whispered behind the closed door doors of state department offices the Nazis have struck a blow for verity Here is the tale which may never appear in the official of our ministry of foreign relations When Germany German y declared war on onI the United States last December after Pearl Harbor there were still several hundred Americans men mec and women living in Paris Many 1 of them had lived there for 20 years J getting their American passports renewed renewed re reo rea a periodically Some of the I ladies it seems took advantage of oJ these periodical renewals to lop a couple of years off their age now and again And who would grudge the ladle a few years stolen from the calendar calendar calendar calen calen- dar especially in Paris But the th gentle prevarication bounced bad with a vengeance For when the the Nazis announced that women under 60 would be interned in concentration I tion camps while older womer women would be allowed to remain at lib lib- liberty liberty erty a certain number of American women suddenly discovered that the age shown on their passport was erroneous They hurried to the Swiss S consulate which had charge of American interests and swart out affidavits to the effect that the thC were not say 45 45 but 62 Not all of these belated amend amendments ments were accepted by the Nazi officials officials gallant gallant t for once The consequence con can consequence 1 sequence is that the rigors of the Nazi internment camps are now 1 being being be be- i ing suffered by women who if th they Y i had been less coquettish about theIr then years would now be free Buy Buy War Var Bonds Bonds- |