UNIVERSALLY RESENTED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 40, 15 August 1941, Page 4

UNIVERSALLY RESENTED

NAZI RULE IN EUROPE

PEOPLE'S BITTER HATRED

RUGBY, August 13.

It would be difficult to find a parallel to the universal resentment to Nazi rule in Europe, says the "Manchester Guardian." It tabulates some forms in which the occupied countries are showing open resentment of the arrogance of their present Nazi masters.

Even in Denmark,, the most powerless of Hitler's victims, a historian goes to prison for writing*an attack on the Nazis in the form of a book.

In Holland the opposition is so openthat the Burgomasters of Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht had to issue an appeal to citizens not to scribble Nazi resentment on the walls of buildings. Recently a former Premier, Dr. Colijn, and 60 members of his party were put into concentration camps.

Instructions to soldiers are significant. They are told that if a German soldier is refused a seat in a tram, he must clear the tram and travel alone, and that it is unwise to walk too near the banks of a canal.

The tension in Belgium is said to be worse than at any time during, the last war. Belgians who had been forbidden to celebrate the national fete day, July 21, held great demonstrations in Brussels, Antwerp, and other towns, booing the Nazis and their collaborators and sometimes using violence to Flemish extremists. In Norway the Nazis have tried every method of repression, taking great numbers of hostages, but the newspaper with the largest circulation in the' country is the illegal "Free Norway," distributed by agents who are liable to heavy punishment. - Wherever you turn you find this bitter hatred of a people, that assumes the right # to lead and govern Europe.—B.O.W.