BBC BROADCASTS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 26, 21 November 1944, Page 3

BBC BROADCASTS

SHORTS FROM THE TALKS

Extracts from talks and commentaries in the i3BC overseas shortwave transmission:— Dane's Scored a Victory "The Danes put up with a lot without complaint. But when the Tivoli, their famous amusement park in the middle, of Copenhagen vas partly destroyed ) and when they were told they must be in their houses by 8 o'clock at night they decided that .they* had had enough. They broke the German domination by the. simple expedient of explaining that they could no longer work on Fridays because they must have time to cultivate 'victory gardens*.' And the Germans were in a dilemma because, they can't afford to feed the Danes well-enough to keep factories in fu:l production and yet they mu&t have the products of those factories. Within a week they had accepted all the conditions for resuming work that were put forward by the underground resistance movement."—Vernon Bartlett < talking in the BBC short-wave serie.s j "Current Events," Nazi Asks What is "Think" "The other day a j'oung German prisoner, captured in was questioned by an Allied officer. This youtli was not a Nazi and didn't seem to like the Nazis, but when he was asked what he thought, of, he answered: 'What do you mean by "think"? One doesn't think.' His answer may be typical of most Germans, under 10 years of age. They have been trained i:ot to think. They have been taught to be brutal. and to obey orders. Superior force is the only argument they appear to understand. .And unless 1 am mistaken, it is precisely in the degree in which the Allied Armies will, apply this argument to the, German soldiery, and to the German that the thought of surrender will form itself in their minds."—Wiekham Steed on "World Affairs" a BBC ' • \ '■ overseas series.