SPIRIT OF THE DANES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 114, 16 May 1942, Page 5

SPIRIT OF THE DANES

LOOKING FORWARD TO

FREEDOM

RUGBY, May 14,

The Danish Minister of Commerce in 1940, Mr. Christmas Moller, who has escaped to England with his wife and son, described the feelings of his countrymen under the German occupation. He was forced out of politics in January, 1941, because he organised patriotic meetings which attracted large audiences

He said that 90 per cent, of the Danes look forward to the day when Denmark will be free again—that is, when Britain and her Allies have won the war. He added that although Denmark has its traitors and quislings, they have no active power. They are not represented in the Government, and of the 225 members of Parliament only two are quislings, and these are despised.

Two years of occupation, he said, far from strengthening Danish Nazism, have weakened it. The fight of the free Danes in England, the United States, and elsewhere was the fight of the Danish people.

After speaking of the loss of Danish trade and of Nazi thefts in Denmark, Mr. Moller said that the Danish people believed that from all this struggle and suffering a new world would emerge. They knew there was nothing in the so-called German New Order. He hoped he would be permitted to join the Free Danish movement. "I know how little small countries count when great Powers are locked in mortal struggle, but still we have our part to play," he said in conclusion.— 8.0. W.