WHERE STANDS AMERICA ?

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVIII, Issue 125, 22 July 1940, Page 3

WHERE STANDS AMERICA ?

NAZI METHODS IN HOLLAND AN APPEALING STORY. NEW YORK, June 12. In a letter to the New York “Her-ald-Tribune,” Hendrik William Van Loon, historian and biographer, revealed a little of how the Nazis made such a devastating- attack behind the lines of his native country, the Netherlands. Listen, America, here is something you ought to know, he wrote. After the last war the people of the Netherlands took eaer of half a million German children, received them in their homes, fed them, clothed them, and kept them for one, two or four years that they might he restored to normal health.

And 20 years later, those nice, dear children, speaking-, of course, perfect Dutch (had they not been full-fledged members of a Dutch household for many years?), returned to the land of their hospitality, garbed in one of those 50,000 Dutch uniforms (about which our correspondents have been cabling for three months), but, again, nobody would believe them, and thusly disguised those grateful little Germans, now completely contaminated with the Nazi virus, burned down the houses that had been their homes and struck down the hands that had fed them and saved their lives.

But America won’t listen, and America won’t believe, until it will be too late and the vermin has eaten its way into the fabric of our own edifice of State. And for this letter I will he called a warmonger, and the Nazi boys will smile slyly and say, “Just because we burned down his own birthplace he,is perhaps just a little hysterical,” which God forbid!