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Show Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. WNU Release. NEW YORK The Nazis talk of scrambling out of Finland to safety in Norway Was His Norway and Big Chance and He maybe Uicy Made Most of It j,; ve"y escape will bring them closer to the day when they must scramble out of Norway, loo. and when their Po-lizeifuehrer Po-lizeifuehrer Wilhclm Rcdciss must end his dark, savage rule there, he and the renegade Jonas Lie. The story of Redeiss is hard to get at. Revealed details are few and most of them from sources which, to be mild, are unfriendly to all Nazis. But, when the bias is winnowed out, the scanty record Is cheap when ,it is not ugly. He was born in 1900 at Heinsberg, close by the Dutch border and raised in a decent, church-going family. Dull in school, he was worse when apprenticed to an electrical engineer. engi-neer. Fellow workers in the shop rounded on him quickly for habits which were later alleged against the murdered Ernest Rohm. These habits, hab-its, however, did not slow up promotion promo-tion after he joined the Nazis. First he was in the Hitler-Youth Hitler-Youth movement. Then he drummed up rookies for the labor la-bor camps. Then he swung a blackjack in the Nazi militia. At last he hit the jackpot, he was accepted in the S.S., Hitler's own Elite Guard. This corps of maulers maul-ers gave him work right up his alley. He got to be a regional group leader, and then was rewarded re-warded first with membership In the Prussian parliament and then with a seat in the Charlie , McCarthy Reichstag. In Norway, at 43, he holds the rank of police general. And there, according to Underground reports, his Gestapo command includes a select se-lect inner circle of troopers having records and habits like his own. THE quisling Jonas Lie is Redeiss native head of police. Lie's countrymen coun-trymen call Jonas Lie, Kin of him Judas. The Poet, Labeled His is one of Judas of Norway J 'lc names in Norway, worn once by one of the country's fine poets. It is a grandson grand-son of the poet who has sold out to the Nazis. Of his rule, and of Redeiss' super-rule , the Swedish newspaper Arbetaren said: "One feels ashamed to belong to the human race when one bears of such horrors. No beast would be as bloodthirsty as these men who revel in torture." And the Svenska Dagbladet, sometimes some-times sympathetic to the Nazi cause, added: "Only a categorical categori-cal denial (of these charges) by the German authorities could help here. We have waited in vain for such denial." Neither Berlin nor Redeiss ever said "Aye" or "No" but a year ago Redeiss moved to fasten his condemned con-demned rule more securely on the land by building ug a Norwegian copy of the S.S. which had trained him so well He called it the S.S. Norge. He wanted 500 Norwegians, Aryans only, who would obey orders. or-ders. He settled for 200. He finally found that many believers in Germany's Ger-many's ideal, although they were not all truly quislings. Many of them despised Quisling. , THE American navy races eastward east-ward across the Pacific with its big guns It Seems This Jap pounding Puppet Thrives on "ke Thor's Phoney Distinctions harnmer ' and it is no wonder that Jose Paciano Laurel, Japan's puppet, hurriedly declares a state of national emergency in his mutinous Philippines. Laurel is the callous able traitor who chummed up with the Japanese long before it seemed they had a chance at all in the islands. Their way of life, charmed him in contrast con-trast to that of his own people, and of the American way of life which he studied at Yale university. At Yale his own way of life charmed nobody. One professor, lately recalling his campus performances, perform-ances, said he was a perfect rotter. Another nailed the description with a story. The story is that Laurel came to Yale in 1920 for a post-graduate degree de-gree of doctor of jurisprudence. There was a mix-up and what Laurel Lau-rel got was a diploma calling him a doctor of civil law, a far higher distinction dis-tinction which he didn't deserve by half. The unversity noted the slip, and asked Laurel to trade but he said, "By no means!" According to sound reports Laurel sported the phoney sheepskin for all to see on the wall of his Manila office. Since September Laurel has held another phoney distinction. He has been president elect of the republic Japan schemes to establish in the Philippines as soon as order has been established. It can hardly be classified as a safe- office. Nine months ago, when .Laurel was only a puppet administrator, he was shot twice on a Manila grlf course. The man who pointed th rifle was never found. |
