HITLER’S VICTIMS

Evening Star, Issue 23745, 28 November 1940, Page 5

HITLER’S VICTIMS

“ Any supplies reaching Nazi occupied Europe are a direct or indirect asset to Hitler, who will have no scruple about turning them to his own uses. ’ _ “ The Governments of some of these countries have taken refuge in Great Britain and are carrying on the struggle as our Allies. All of them have a claim on our sympathetic understanding. Nor should we the probable effect of reiterated Nazi propaganda on populations exposed to privation and cut off by barriers as impassable as the invader can make them, from independent sources of information and opinion. “Germany, they will be toldis not only willing, but eager to help. Nothing but the British blockade stands in the way. It is easy to see how simply and plausibly this story can be told by Dr Goebbels and his machine to the suffering peoples under Nazi yoke. “No doubt should be left-—if any doubt exists—that Great Britain cannot agree to relax tho stringency of

where Hitler rules. But cannot soma message of hope for the future ba given, through such channels as ara open to us, to these unhappy lauds? The reaffirmation of the integrity of our blockade might well be softened by the assurance of immediate relief so soon as the iron hand of Hitler is removed. Our answer must be the double one that it is Hitler who is starving Europe.”