Warning Voice

A favorite work of Nazi organizers in foreign countries is drumming up young recruits for the German Army from families of German birth by paying the recruits' fare back to Hamburg. Nowhere is this more avidly practiced than in Germany's former colonies in Africa, for on their arrival in German barracks the recruits serve a double purpose. They swell the regimental ranks and become living symbols of the "lost territories" Germany so insistently demands.

Southwest Africa, a long slab of coastline between Portuguese Angola and the Union of South Africa, is particularly singled out for such tactics. A League of Nations mandate awarded it to the Union of South Africa after the War, but even today one-third of this former German colony's 30,000 white inhabitants are still German. For two years the Deutsche Bund, a Nazi organization, has marched and drilled there, boycotted Jewish and British traders, set up secret courts and a veritable state-within-a-state. Last week the Dominion of South Africa took notice, issued decrees:

1) Non-British residents of Southwest Africa are in future to be barred from all public offices in the mandate unless special permission has been obtained. 2) Non-Britons may not address public meetings, vote, or otherwise influence public bodies. 3) British subjects in Southwest Africa who swear allegiance to any head of a state or government other than that of George VI are liable to -L-100 ($500) fine, a year's imprisonment or both.

Three days later in Pretoria, Nazi Minister Emil Wiehl went hustling to protest, "The measures taken in Pretoria are in violation of the terms of the Mandate, and antagonistic to Germans and German interests."

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