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GERMAN MASSES TIRED OF WAR:
Apathy in Reich, Secret Agent Reports
By LOUIS P. LOCIINER {
.LONDON, Dec. 16.-(JP)-Apathy
among the masses, confusion, lack of
coordination among anti-Nazis and
fear of punishment in Nazi ranks,
were found to be the dominant char-
acteristics of the German situation
by an agent of German refugee cir-
cles who recently returned to a neu-
tral country from a clandestine trip
to Berlin, Leipzig and Silesia.
I was permitted to study his de-E
tailed report. Knowing the source,
I feel his observations deserve atten-
tion.
Apathy Among Masses
The great masses, especially indus-3
trial workers, cherish but one wish,1
this observer found-that the ware
may end. Doggedly they trudge to
their work in such complete apathy
that even the attempt on Hitler's
Senate Group
Investigation
WASHINGTON. Dec. 14.- (A)-
The Senate war investigating com-
mittee's inquiry into the cigarette
shortage ended today with its mem-
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BEARDED YANKS AT THE FROI
Pa., (foreground) and buddies of
Infantry Pivision eat their first h
Hurtgen, Germany, using china
Source of the plates, a rarity in fron
(a1- wirepnoto irom ,jignai (;orps}
life with its attendant purges left
them untouched.
If they mentioned the officers'
putsch at all, they said, with a shrug,
"After all, these men went with Hit-
ler while the going was good-hence
their motives now must have been
selfish and not patriotic-to ditch
their Fuehrer now that disaster is
imminent."
The people were found to snap out
of their lethargy only if authorities
fail to provide the prescribed rations,
or if the number of war casualties in
any given family piles up particularly
high, or if their ire is aroused by
insolent Nazi leaders and their wives,
who continue to live off the fat of
the land and bear few hardships.
It might then easily happen that
someone would "accidentally" run
into such Nazis or their wives with
their bicycles, or pounce upon them
in an air raid shelter and give them
a sound beating. These cases, how-
ever, were exceptional.
Apathy Slows Work
From the viewpoint of the Allies
this apathy has its positive side.
Hundreds of thousands of tired work-
ers aren't even aware that they are
slowing down work to an alarming
extent, thereby committing negative
sabotage. In fact, attempts to speed
them up are often met with insulting
profanity.
From time to time this apathy gives
place to temporary outbursts of hys-
Fil7s To Tell
Role of INegro
Post-War Council will present two
movies, one on Negro education and
the other on participation of the
Negro in the war, at 7:30 p.m. Satur-
day in the Rackham Amphitheatre.
The movies, which will last until
8:45 p.m., are the second in a series
of educational films to be offered by
the council this year.
"As Our Boyhood Is" will show the
advances that have been made for
the Negro in rural education. It will
also emphasize the fact that progress
is yet to be made for the schooling
of Negroes on the elementary, high
school, and college levels.
"Negro Soldier" will reveal th(
role of the American Negro in war
telling his story from the time of the
Revolution to the present war. The
picture was produced by the Signa.
Corps, United States Army, unde
the supervision of Colonel Frank
Capra.
teria which may prove contagious
throughout a war plant. Only sharp
measures by the Gestapo can then
restore the equilibrium.
Nowhere except among Nazi office-
holders did the secret visitor find
anybody who was not aware that
Germany has lost the war. Many
workers, in fact, were offering for-
bidden shelter to deserters from
Nazidom's foreign conscript legions
or from foreign labor camps, as a
sort of insurance for the future, in
proof that they were different from
the Nazis.
Countless times the visitor asked
people, "If everybody is so sick of the
war, why don't the people demand
peace?"
To this he received two answers.
Food Situation Better
The first was Gestapo terrorism.
The second and somewhat surprising
one was that the food situation con-
tinues better than anybody antici-
pated. By no means has the low
food level of 1917-18 been reached.
The observer estimated that only
five per cent of the people were de-
fiant, fanatic Nazis. This may well
have been due to the limited con-
tacts he dared make among them.
But whatever the percentage, they
were all filled with fear.
More than anything else has been
hammered into their consciousness
the dictum of Propaganda Minister
Joseph Goebbels : "Peace will be
more terrible than this war."
Hillel To Hold
Holiday Mixer
Saturday Night
Dancing, Dreidle Gane
To Be Entertainment
Featuring dancing to popular rec-
ords and a full program of student
entertainment, the annual Hanuklah
mixer will be held from 9 p. m. tc
midnight tomorrow at the Hillel
Foundation.
A dreidle game will be played con-
tinuously throughout the evening in
one room of the Foundation, the pro-
ceeds of the game going to the Jew-
ish National Fund.
Student entertainers are Sonya
Heller and Ruth Wolkowski, who will
present an original song and dance
number; Eugene Malitz, A-S, singer;
Edythe Levin, who will deliver dra-
matic monologues and the Avukah
choral group, which will lead stu-
dents in singing of traditional holi-
day songs. Judy Jacobs will lead the
group in folk-dances.
Several varieties of potato;latkes,
traditional holiday delicacy, will be
served by Hillel hostesses.
During the dance intermission and
immediately preceding the entertain-
ment program, Beth Laikin will de-
liver a brief talk on Hanukkah.
Dr. Dresden To Speak
On Meaning of Hanukkah
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Lane Hall Dir
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te liquor set-up might be subjected Franklin H. Littell, recently ap-
to change by Aaron. pointed director of Lane Hall, now
guides the extensive religious-educa-
tion program at Lane Hall.
Par-ties ToBe Holder of Phsi Beta Kappa and Tau
Kappa Alpha (honorary debate fra-
ternity) keys, Littell was graduated
H e Tol11 7Efrom Cornell College, Iowa, at the
age of 19.
Two Church Groups Preacher at 15t
To ClebrteLiristas 's religious career started
To Celebrate Christmas with his being licensed as a preacher
Among the parties planned for at the age of 15 through his pastor-
today will be the Friday Night Frolic ship at Myrtle Beach Community
which will be given by the Congrega- Church, Conn., and his work as re-
tional-Disciples Guild from 7:30 to search director of the Conference on
9:30 p.m. at the Disciples Church Disciplined Life and Service.
recreation room. Youth and education organizations
Besides games and folk dancing, a have held a special attraction for
magician will be included on the Littell, who is a member of the Na-
entertainment program. There will jional Council on Religion in Higher
be a small charge for refreshments. Education, was Minister of Youth at
The annual Christmas party of the Central Methodist Church in De-
the Newman Club will be held from troit, 1940-42, and has been Youth
8 p.m. to midnight today 'in the Secretary of the Board of Foreign
clubrooms of St. Mary's, Student Missions of the Methodist Church.
Chapel. All members are invited to While he was Social Action Chair-
attend and are asked to bring a gift, man of the National Council of Meth-
cost not to exceed 25 cents. odist Youth 1937-41, Littell first met
IT--Stephen Longstretn, Uarnegie, bers pretty well fagged out.
Company L, 121st Regiment, 8th They packaged up a lot of new
ot meal after 15 days of siege of testimony from a manufacturer who
plates with their canteen cups. could increase production 25 per cent
.t lines, is not disclosed, if he had more tobacco and a grower
who fears for the price of the crop if
1945 quotas are raised more than
seven per cent.
Rolled up in the other evidence was
ethe tiny spark of hope that things
ector Ental - ! might conceivably get better for
smokers as soon as the Army-Navy
nce with Youth pipelines (not relation to pipes) get
filled up. '
S. Clay Williams, chairman of the
board of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
his wife, who was president of the Company, (they make Camels), said
Methodist organization.-j 511%2 per cent of his production goes
World Conference of Christian Youth to the armed forces.
Delegates to the first World Con- In normal times, he explained,
ference of Christian Youth, 1939, in manufacturers operate on a machine
Amsterdam, Littell and his wife also to mouth basis, keeping the supply
attended the United Conference of only 30 days ahead of consumption.
European Methodism, in Copenhagen, Because the military can't take
in the same year. chances, they must keep the chain
He receievd his B. D. at Union smoke line between this country and
Theological Seminary, 1940, and was troops overseas constantly filled, and
a minimum of 90 days' supply abroad.
He brought this out when Senator
Ferguson ,(Rep., Mich.) wondered if
the soldiers were overpuffing, a
wonder raised by the thought of 12,-3
" 000,000 Americans using up 5112 per1
cent of a supply made for the whole
' population.
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The investigator found much evi- "The meaning of Hanukkah to the
dence of underground resistance to Modern Jew" will be the topic of a
Nazism, but said it was neither well sermon to be delivered by Dr. Max
organized nor unified as to purpose Dresden of the physics department
and outlook. at the conclusion of religious services
Underground Unorganized which will be held at 7:45 p. m. to-
And this underground effort lacks day at the Hillel Foundation.
a positive political conception as to Services will be led by Rabbi Je-
what should become of Germany. hudah M. Cohen, director of the
Vaguely, the resistance groups are Foundation, and Eugene Malitz, A-S,
made up of Lutherans, Catholics, will serve as cantor.
Socialists, and Communists, and Refreshments will be served during
vaguely they all want some sort of the social hour following Dr. Dres-
democr atic state with a social out- den's sermon.
look. They are through with the
Junkers, the big business tycoons, Post-war Plans
and the millionaire bankers. But
beyond that they differ widely as to WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.- (P)-
what should happen after the war. The House today approved a joint
Some lean to Moscow, others to the Senate-House conference report au-
western powers. thorizing a $500,000,000 post-war
One encouraging sign about the rivers and harbor improvement pro-
Gestapo he found, was that it is gram and sent it to the Senate.
absolutely on its own. The time when
citizens, even members of a family,
denounced each other is over. An
MICHIGAN
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FRANKLIN H. LITTELL cember 18 to January 6. Please
. . . Lane Hall Director. write Mrs. J. A. Miller, Michigan
doing graduate work in Church His- Union, December 14-16.
tory at Yale University just before SALE
his appointment as director of Lane
Hall here. GIRLS-Want two good meals ev-
A large collection of stamps illu- ery day? Apply at 825 Tappan.
strating church history is a result of LOST AND FOUND
Littell's hobby of stamp collecting.
Archery is another of his wide va- LOST IN NOVEMBER. Would ap-
riety of hobbies. preciate return of green striped
Littell has two children, Jennith, Shaeffer pen. Gold clip extends
3, and Karen, 1. over top end. Please call 6710 or
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MYDA To Elect Officers
At Union Meeting Monday
Michigan Youth for Democratic
Action (MYDA) will meet at 8:30
p.m. Monday in the Union to elect
officers and members of the execu-
tive board.
Included on the agenda are the
program report of last year and plans
for this year's activities.
Old and new members are urged
to attend.
Dr. Van Dusen To Talk on
Student Work in Europe
Dr. Henry Pitt Van Dusen, recently
elected President of Union Theologi-
cal Seminary, will deliver an address
on student work in Europe at 8 p. in.,
Monday, Jan. 22, at Lydia Mendel-
ssohn Theatre, Franklin H. Littell,
director of Lane Hall, announced
Wednesday.
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