SPREADING CONTAGION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 55, 2 September 1943, Page 5

SPREADING CONTAGION

MAY BRING HITLER DOWN

Rec. 12.45 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 1. The growing unrest in Europe may prove to be Hitler's downfall, London

observers say. The "Evening Standard" says that the continent of Europe has taken new shape in the last few weeks. "What happens in the near future," it adds, "will not be decided in Quebec, Washington, London, or Moscow, but in the back streets of hundreds of European cities. The peoples of all the subject lands are getting off their knees, and it is a thrilling spectacle. Bulgaria was the Nazi corner-stone of the Balkans. Now the corner-stone is loose. Denmark is in turmoil, and contagion has spread throughout Scandinavia." The military commentator 'of the German overseas news agency, General. Count Stillfried, says that Germany, after four years of war, finds herself in the eyes of the world" confined to an attitude of defence and confronted by an enemy superior in men and materials. Speaking over Berlin radio, General Stillfried proceeded to argue: "There are other laws than 'armed power—for instance, the better use of labour, food, and raw materials, and more skilful propaganda abroad, but the final factor is the German soldier, who knows that the safety zone around the Reich's frontiers facilitates elastic tactics and therefore fights convinced of victory."