DUTCH READY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1942, Page 4

DUTCH READY

WILL ACT-WHEN ALLIES ' INVADE EUROPE. SOME WAYS OF HELPING ALREADY FOUND. BOSTON, May 9. When the United Nations are prepared to invade the continent of Europe, they will find 800,000 men in the Netherlands ready to give their all to the Allied cause of freedom from the tyranny of Naziism, Prof. J. A. Auer of the Harvard School of Divinity, said today on the eve ol the second anniversary of the invasion of his country by the Germans. Just two years ago tomorrow, Professor Auer said in an interview at Harvard, the Nazi hordes swept into the Netherlands without warning to subjugate a peaceful-loving peoples. The” Dutch stand ready to throw off this yoke with the slightest Allied aid. From reliable sources Professor Auer has learned that conditions in this once prosperous nation are now so alarming that the Germans themselves are becoming disturbed over the drop in production caused by food shortage. The Professor declared that ms countrymen were finding many ways of aiding the Allied cause. News of German troop movements, he said, tiavels to England with incredible rapidity—“ Christian Science Monitor.”