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Feet ictieeeinag universal carriers,
'with a opgedi of 0 Miles per 'hour
over rough tOrant and protected
against .spual� aritas fire by armour -
plate, for" Pert of Canada's contri-
bution to the Modern way of waging
'War in mechanized vehicles.
Impleiveinents and adaptations
Made in • the, Dominion have turned*
what formerly were scouting and
light machine gun carriers into form-
idable armored fighting vehicles.
Production of universal carriers in
Canada now is sufficient to fill all
Canadian requirements and the Brit-
ish government is taking large quan-
tities of these powerful tracked ve-
hicles that can "turn on a dime,"
roar up steep hills or leap over small
ditches with ease,
One of the greatest improyeramits
in the Canadian -made cannier is inede-
veloping metal for the tracks, through
heat treatmemit to last longer and
withstand' greater ppunding than the
British -made model. The wheels on
which the tracks rotate also received
attention in Canadian experimental'
laboratories and now they tee have
longer life, adding greatly to the
use of the carrier and cutting down
the expense of production.
LieutaGen. A. G. L. McNaughton,
general officer commanding the let
Canadian Army, commenting on the
arrival in England of a fleeteaf Cana-
dian universal carriers, said:
"We are tremendously enthusiastic
about the new carriers and the way
they operate, and very 'pleased about
the various extras added to this Can-
adian equipment"
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"Hltr-In! Here's 'a story about a
collar button found in a cow's stom-
ach."
"That must be a take. How could
a cow get under a bedroom dresser?"
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veinenebe is the tea* death toll on
the ,Rusidan Elliot 1.11Se' Waage areal
accustomed to Gerfate cleetlis. Berl*
has been practioa.1W untouched by:
R.A.F._ bainhinge. Fgvishe first tine,
the Russians brews0,012e, eealitieeo
war home to the aditaeane. A j left
Berlin, families weraeibern,g informed
of the deaths of thf4r acme in the
Curt manner of TAO effilcialdom:
"Several weeks ago 'lour son, Hans
Wolfgang, died is thee greater glory
of his Fatherland apt Pulver. It is
the wish of the Gefi'Man High Com-
mand that the relattv-es concerned do
I saw the *lit cm* In German
morale when the hlitn, :victory over
Russia, premised by ltler aIlI to
materialise. Later, I saw the Wide.
spread uncertainty of Victory grow In-
to a conviction of defea,t.
• A year ago I would not have' both.
pi -ed to ask the Man on the street
what he thought of -Hitler or the war..
But, on the eve of Pearl Harbor, Gore
many bad heen, so undermined with
hopelessness that -taxicab drivers,.
shopkeepers,, and even 'Nazi officials
talked to nee openly of their fears of
ultimate disaster. 1 don't mean that
the Nazi aeginte is about to crack up.
Far from it. Its fighting machine is
still magnificent — despite losses on
the Russian Front estimated at up-
wards of 100,000 men killed. In fact,
recent setbacks have given Germany,
a will to fight with new ferocity.
The Germans believe that, when
they stop fighting, a murderous horde,
of avengers—Russians, Poles, 'Czechs,
Serbs, Norwegians, Belgians, Danes,
Dutch and Freficha-will swarm ever
their land.
"If' Germany is defeated," a Nazi.
officer told me, "thiity million Ger-
mans will di—and not en the 'battle-
field."
Where we of the. United Nations.
are fighting for victory, the Germans
are :fighting to delay defeat. Hitler's.
Personal insistence en the Russian
war has shaken the people's confi-
dence in his omniscience, and I ques-
"tion whether any later victories can
completely erase the doubt theyhave
acquired in recent months.
Today the average German — and
I talked with persons in every" seg-
ment 'of society—faces the war like
this: "We've knocked over nine
countries, and what has it got us?
Our food isn't better, and our, clothes
are worse. Something has gone wrong
in Russia, and now we've' got the
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One day, OertlY ;before I left
an army' cystptfrain who serves. as.
an Offkial apokeateian for the I -1/g4
Command wee sitting with me in the
bar of the Kaiserhef Hertel. .
"Not going einp,.eily as you boys
planned' in Rues/la?" I Yee:tared-
., The captain hesitated!, then mut-
tered caUfidentially, "Trouble is, there
is no terminal point. In every other
campaign, there was,' In Hollana,
Rotterdam; in France. Perla,. In
England, it would be London. But in
Russia, where is it Not Leningrad'
or 'Moscow—those Bolsheviks would'
keep right on fighting?" He grinned
sourly. "Maybe it's Vladivostok?"
"But, now that you've started it,
when are you going to finish ltjj-
"Who knows?" he shrugged. When
lie spoke again;there,was a tinge of
sadness in his voice: "Iserhaps never.
It was his big mistake."
The next day I was in a Berlin
apartment with a half 'dozen German
friends listening to a -BBC news pro-
gram. Watching the group, you'd
never suspect that they could 'have
lost their heads if the Gestapo had
caught . them listening to "foreign
propaganda." among -the guests, was
a German major general, a brilliant
geologist, whom I had known for
some time. Within a week he was to
go to 'Occupied Russia to search for
chemicals and minerals 'to help sup-
ply the Nazi war Machine. He told'
me, in short, bitter sentences, what
he thought of the Nazis..
"You may think you hate them,"
he said gravely, "but really to hate
them, you've.got to he German. Look
at the situation they've put us in. If
we win the war, they'll have a tight-
er grip around our necks than ever.
If we lose . . ."
In what he left Unsaid I sensed that
universal fear of postwar reprisals.
^Then. why," I aSked him, "do you
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keep on obeying the orders of the
Nazi leaders?"
His eyes flashed as he replied.
"What else could I do?" Yet hegave
me at least a hint that there is little
love lost between the 'generals and.
the Nazis.
One evening shortly 'before I left,
Berlin, I challenged the, military cen-
sor of the German radio, a Lieuten-
ant Oberm'eyer, to make a tour of
'Berlin with me. "We'll talk, with cab
drivers, 'waiters, newspaper vendors
and' grocery clerks," I -proposed.
"We'll ask' them what they think of
the government, If more than one in
five say' anything favorable, I'll 'pay,
you 50 marks. Of course, you'll have
to wear' civilian clothes and keep
your mouth shut. How about it?"
Lieutenant O•bermeyer's only reply
was to laugh uneasily and 'stride
haughtily away.
For Americans, it's difficult 'to Im-
agine the disbelief with which the
average German reads his papers' or
listens to the radio. When Colonel
Werner Moelders, Germany's .26 -year -
'old war 'ace, credited /with shooting
down 115 enemy ;planes; crashed 'te
death in a transport plane on No-
vember 22, Goering published in the
'party newsPapers a moving tribute to
the dead aviator. But another story
spread th°rough „Berlin like wildfire..
According to this account, Moelders,
a Catholic Youth leader prior teethe
Nazi regime, was disturbed by the in-
creasing . government seizures of
church -Property. He was- especially
distressed' When he heard that the
Gestapo was ,about to close.,a :cloister
in Breslau where his sister Was a nun.
The Bishop of :Breslau appealed to
Moelders to intercede with Hitler,
and Moelders acted without delay. "I
cannot continue to fight for the Fa-
therland,," he telegraphed to the
Fuhrer, "if the Gestapo continues to
attack the home front." The Gestapo
revenge was -prompt: its agents eee
gineered an explosion in the trans-
port plante in which 'Moelders was a
passenger. .
I can't vouch for that story. But
it's significant because I heard it from
a dozen German citizens and minor
officials during My last days in Ber-
lin. They., were, in short, charging
their own government with lying and
murder.
Grumbling 'in Germany increased
tremendously when the 'promised Rus-
sian blitz turned into a prolonged
campaign. Today the average 'Ger-
man is grumbling -about taxes — for
ffveYlears now,. ItieThas been paying
one-thitd of his income to the govern-
ment in direct taxes, to say nothing
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THAT SOLO BE PULL IN A Ayr()
not go into ,alevione .felfourning.'n
When Hans' pareafr tried to inset -it
a death notice infeepe newspaper
they' were Old,' moreaKtOn than not,
"Sorry, but we can.*iet only 25 no-
tices' a day, 'and weg-0 already filled
up for a couple of weeks." In Nazi
Germany, even death "is rationed.
nation at war is usually keyed to
excitement: But when • the Nazis
were announcing their early victories
over the Russians, ,tlee German peo-
ple were apathetic. ;They seemed to
sense that these' vietnries were as
ersatz as the woorinlheir overcoats.
There was absolute silence in the
theaters when the news reels showed
German troops marching into some
new Russian town.
I met innumerable Germans Who
reacted to the racial and cultural the -
pries of the Nazis as if they were
pure nonsense. During my entire
stay in Germany. I never saw a Ger-
man civilian ParticiPaite in an attack
on a Jew, despite the relentless press
campaign exposing the "Jewish men-
ace." A Berlin rabbi told me that
only Hitler's S.S. troops continue to
torture the Jews. He added that
many Aryan Germans 'risk their lives
by giving milk and freeh vegetables
to Jewish families, But the Nurem-
burg laVvs and the S.S. men suffice to
make the lot of the Jew in -Germany
pitiable. When I left Berlin, Jewish
suicides were running as high as .300
a night. , As many as 2,000 Jews
were being traasported in trucks to
Poland every day. an Switzerland I
heard reliable reports that hundreds
were being gassed to -death en route.
After two and a half years of, war,
Germany is rife with anti -war and
anti -Nazi sentiment but the Allies
must not commit the unpardonable
sin of underestimating Ge r m an
strength. There is no immediate
chance of internal collapse in Ger-
many. There is no organization
among the dissatisfied elements.
Catholic and Protestant clergymen
are not prepared to take political ac-
tion. Communist unite are springing
up again throughouteethe Reich, but
they are waiting .untlE-the 4:lak of de-
feat to -act openly. So far as I know,
only one secret radio'station is oper-
ating, and I suspect if is controlled
by the army. It attacks' only the Nazi
party, never the military leaders or
Hitler himself. These are not the
days of the French Revoiutiont. You
can't overthrow a government with
leaflets, pitchforks end ideals.--
But eeeia more important is the av-
erage German's dread of, what will
happen to him aster the war. , He
places no faith in the'protestations of
the democratid world that a fair
peace will be 'established after the
Nazi overlords -are dethroned, He
thinks of President Wilson's Four-
teen Points that never materialized,
and he describes the Roosevelt --
Churchill Atlantic charter as "Wil-
sonian idealism boiled down.. to eight
points." , He k-now,s that before vic-
tory is in their grasp the United Na-
tions must suffer tremendous losses
and endure untold hardships, and so
his fear of postwar. revenge, I am
convinced, will keep him fighting
desperately to the bitter end.
orlimmors•Asser. Arrirmammor
WINTHROP
The Red Cross meeting will be held
Tuesday afternoon, July 21. Workers
are urgently needed. Please try to
attend.
Mr. and Mrs. William Montgomery
of Brantfoxd, spent the week -end with
relatives in the village and Blyth.
Ross and Mac Montgomery returned
home after spending a week in Brant-
ford.
Mr. and Mrs. Foster Bennett, Mona
and Billie spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. George Eaton.
Mr. 'and Mrs. Wilmer Scott moved
Mr. William McSrpad-
We welcome them to
recently into
den's house.
the village.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Smith, of
-Stratford, spent Fridal evening with
the former's grandmother, Mrs. John
R. Jones.
Quite a number from this vicinity
attended the Cochrane picnic held in
Hayfield on Friday.
. Haying is just ,about completed in
this district and all report a bumper
crop and the weather has been very
fa yorable..
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Goodwin, of Kit
chener, visited with Mr. and Mrs
William Davidson recently.
'Mr. William Reichert is -confined to
tile house for a few days owing to a
slight accident, when a, horse became
frightened and ran away with the
hay rake. .Mr. Reichert jumped clear
but received 'a bad
Mr. Robert A. Martin, of Strath -
chair, Man., visited recently with his
Meter, Mrs. John R. Jones, at the
home of 'Mr. and Mrs. iWm. Davidson.
Mr. Martin 'was accompanied on the
trip by Mr. A. McIntyre, his nephew,
also of Strathclair, Man,
The friends of Mrs. Bose Love 'are
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glad she is recovering and' able to
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bb around again.
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Mike was smiling all over his face,
"I've a dandy job now, Pat," he told
I.is friend. ,
' "Who is it ye work for?" asked Pat.
"Casey's, the contractors," was' the
reply.
"Plitwat is it ye're, doin'?" inquired
his friend.
"Diggin' a well," replied Mike, with
an artful wink. "I've dug down so
far new that th' -boss can't see if I
am workin' or not."
Once in Queen Victoria's' time a
femouS medical professor at Oxford
was called.awarbefore hie class hour
and left the followine notice on the
classroom door:
'1'1 regret that clas.s- cannotebe held
today, .inasmuch as I had the honor
to be called to,attend Her Majesty
the Queen."
A -student wrote underneath: "God
save the Queen." .,
Mrs. Hazel: "What dreadful lan-
guage your parrot uses.,"
Mrs. Knutt': "Yes, my husband
bought the bird in town and drove it
home in his car. He had three blow-
outs and engine trouble on the way."
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Aaron approached a market stand
on which some questionable looking
fruit was for sale.
'What do You sell' these for?" he
asked the seller.
- "I sell them for profits," answer-
ed th-at individual sarcastically.
"Is that so!" answered Aaron in
unfeigned surrise. "I am glad to
know they ails prophets. I took them
far Patriarehs." "
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The following story Is one that the
late 'President Wilson Used to tell.
The., -professors of a certain college
met to consider an not iftolge.onclunt
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on the part of one ef the students.
One professor insisted upon punish-
ment, saying:. "God has given us
eyes."
"Yes," "said one of his colleagues,
with 'a kinder nature,' "and eyelids."
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A comedian stopped a newboys who
was vigorously Plying his trade.
"I say, sonny, d'you want a new
job?" he asked.
"Don't rinind, sir; what is it?" re-
plied the boy:
"Well, my manager is looking for
.a lad like you to play the fool."
"Oh, he is, is he?, What's his idea
—to fire you or to. keep two of us?"
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Dear Old Soul: "But, doctor, if
this is going to make me ten years
younger, how do I stand about my
old -age pension?"
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Said the dowager as she watched
the crowd busily eejOying them-
selyes: "In my young days shaking
in one's shoes was a sign of timidity,
b,it now it is merely a new dance."
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Father: "So you've bees fighting
again, have 'you? Then you ,go to
bed without supper, young man."
Freddy: "All right, dad, I've only
got too teeth left, anYhow."
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'I'm generally the first to laugh at
my' own foolishness."
"What a merry life you must letter,
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