HUN PRIDE

Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 82, 18 July 1941, Page 2

HUN PRIDE

Cassandra in the “Daily Mirror” writes:— On May 31, 1937, a German cruiser and four destroyers appeared off Almeria, on the Spanish coast, and bombarded the city. Scores were killed and injured. It was Hitler’s first demonstration of the brand new Hun pride and brutality that he had hatched out underneath his blood-red rag branded with a swastika. z

The Prussianism that, until then, had swaggered inside Germany, went afloat.

Let the world see how Awakened Germany was quick to avenge her pride!

See the fearful destruction that befell those who offended Nazi elite'!—otherwise identifiable as a jack-booted collection of perverts, crooks, strong-arm men and backstairs bullies who had bludgeoned their way to power in Berlin by all the artifices known and respected in thieves’ kitchens and gunmen’s hideouts!

On March 31, 1941, nearly four years later, the United States of America seized German and Italian and Danish ships in American ports, totalling 300,000 tons. They just grabbed them and then made it fairly clear that they would eventually hand them over .to Hitler’s deadliest enemy, Great Britain, for use against the precious Third Reich and the not so precious Fascist Italy.

What now happens?

Does a proud squadron of Nazi warships sail up the Hudson and pitch broadsides of fire and steel into the Empire State Building? -V

Does a Boche battle line steam up the Potomac River and pump high explosive into Washington and the White House? Certainly not. * I’ll tell you what happens. * . . ' A slick fifth-column diplomatic crook by the name of Hans Thomsen, who masquerades as German Charge d’Affaires in Washington, protests to the State Department. Cowering in his dirty wake is the Wop Ambassador, Prince Colonna, who also tosses a piece of paper at Mr. Cordell Hull. In accordance with past Nazi lack of principles, the seizure of the . Axis merchant fleet would be the ideal casus belli. But this time they are not up against defenceless and innocent Spanish civilians. They are up against the greatest industrial power on earth specifically pledged to wipe them out as surely as if they had never been born. / Go on, Hitlershoot! “Deeds not words”—that’s your own war cry. Poles, Czechs, Danes, Norwegians, Dutchmen and all the rest are in your maw. Surely the Great Messiah, scooped out of thd 1 gutters of Vienna is not afraid of President Roosevelt, a man who has not yet distinguished his prowess by butchering his best friends and betraying his dearest comrades? Act, you cur!

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