Show aim paco ma nazi break with russia foiled sabotage in U S hitler held responsible for wrecking ger banys elaborate plans to blow up vital points in U S by BAUKHAGE nervi analyst anti and commentator service 1343 11 II street NW washington D C A mystery that has perplexed many laymen and some officials in washington V as hington with respect to the manner in w which the government has for forestalled e stalled a mammoth nazi plan for sabotaging american industry c can n now be explained there will ba be no confirmation of the e explanation ion but it comes to me from what are frequently described as informed sources which really means a man who has never lied to me so far in a sentence the man who wrecked elaborate nazi plans for blowing up munitions plants railway terminals bridges electric light and power plants in the united S states t ates was none other than adolf S c hikel gruber hitler himself ile he did it when he tossed the molotov pact out of the lie window just after nazi armies had Jaun launched ched 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 of american industry even during the last war there were some terrible and effective pieces of sabotage accomplished by a comparatively untrained and unregimented crowd of german spies the famous black tom explosion which wrecked the huge new jersey plant not far irom from new york city was an example an international mixed claims commission finally awarded huge damages to the united states for that act but the nazis began where the kaiser left off they had schools for the training of saboteurs sabot eurs especially selected from germans who had lived in the united states state and were lured back to germany and d either bribed or intimidated into undertaking the work of destruction in territory with which they had become familiar details of this training came out in the secret testimony in the recent trial of the nazi saboteurs sabot eurs in washington but much ot of it was ancient history to the department of justice and the way the advance inborn information ra if on came In into the hands of our intelligence telli elli gence 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 naturally did not turn a deaf ear and hinlers Hit lers agents told all then came the double cross germany attacked russia and communist and nazi who had always hated each other thoroughly gave vent to their real feelings the plans which the nazis had bad confided to the communists were turned over to 0 o the governments of the be united nations I 1 the united states also had bien been picking up a little anfor information mation about the th 4 german eGerman sabotage methods in other ways such as by planting a 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 to steal the blue prints of factories from insurance companies which always demand a detailed description and plan of all buildings they insure the plans were stolen photographed and returned that is one example many other little devious tricks and enterprises were revealed by dint of our own investigators and with the help of the communists who had complete and exhaustive data the federal bureau of investigation was able to take the necessary steps to break up the complicated plots and counter plots to wreck american industry so far there have been very few if any major cases which have been branded as sabotage in Ws this country thanks to mr hitler on pronunciation you may not know it but nobody thinks broadcasters know how bow to pronounce the names of foreign places some write in and tell us abou tit and even the news services try to help us when an item comes over the news ticker about or chumbly they obligingly put the pronunciation in brackets the other day the news services had something to say about disturbances in lyons france now ive iva been hearing about lyons all my we life and I 1 know perfectly well that lyons Is pronounced like two lions in the zoo I 1 also know that the same city is spelled by the french without the as s lyon lyan and ive visited that ancient and attractive city and I 1 know how the french pronounce it so when the ticker said lyons pronounced leeon lee on I 1 got the same feeling as when I 1 once heard two frenchmen disputing whether washington was called or Vas lyon it if you want to be pedantic Is not pronounced leeon lee on or anything like it if you want to pronounce it the french way have to study french As for me ill go on saying lyons and ill continue to say paris Pari snot not pah ree and rome and vienna and the hague and cologne and athens although I 1 know that the natives dont call any of those cities by those names notes from a broadcasters diary Is the government farm conscious it Is I 1 am going to risk a gentle indiscretion and quote a suggestion from a high government source to broadcasters it is part of an appeal to encourage enlistment in our merchant marine that must have one hundred thousand skilled workers tor for the shipyards in 1942 must have experienced seamen here Is the suggestion take care to specify that the merchant marine does not want men engaged in farming or war production work they do their share n now ow any change would bring more harm than good it does however want the young the strong the adventurous tor for seagoing jobs and the skilled capable workers tor for the shipyards and the government wants the skilled farmer to stay on an the farm where he is food will win the war and write the peace the whole truth the nazi regime is not usually credited with doing much to encourage truth hitler himself spends many paragraphs in mein kampf telling about the importance of being a good liar ilar but strange as it ma may y seem according to a tale that is whispered behind the closed 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 declared war on the united states last december alter after pearl harbor there were still several hundred americans men and women living in paris many of them had lived there for 20 years getting their american passports renewed periodically some of the ladies it seems took advantage of these periodical renewals to lop a couple of 0 years oft off their age now and again and who would grudge the ladies a few years stolen from the calendar especially in paris but the gentle prevarication bounced back with a vengeance for when the nazis announced that women under 60 would be interned in concentration camps while older women would be allowed to remain at liberty a certain number of american women suddenly discovered that the age shown on their passport was erroneous they hurried to the swiss consulate which had bad charge of american interests and swore out affidavits to the effect that they were not say 45 but 62 not all of these belated amendments were accepted by the nazi nad officials gallant tor for once the consequence Is that th the e rigors af f the nazi internment camps are now being in g suffered by women who it if they had been less coquettish about their years would now be tree free buy war bonds BRIEFS by baukhage the has just completed a survey of automobile graveyards for the war production board there are sti still a number ol of men who have rushed into washington to do war work who honestly think the sun rises in the east river and sets in the hudson they work on the basis that it if new york never heard about it it exist buy war bonds getting enough workers is the number one problem of wartime war time farming arming buy war bonds the USO at phoebus va riot not only provides hostesses for or its guests but precedes its dances by a charm school so EO that hostesses will present the ultimate in charm poise per sona sodality lity how to wear their hair and how to play games well |