FOREIGN N EWS

Rising Tide

Europe was in bold ferment last week. In Paris, members of the Underground caught and killed loud-mouthed Fascist Philippe Henriot, Vichy Minister of Propaganda. In the sun-baked foothills of the Pyrenees, patriots took and held for two days the storied town of Bergerac.

In Germany, 50,000 ragged men, deserters since the invasion from forced labor gangs, were reported roaming in little bands, harassing farms and little villages at night, heading grimly toward the German lines and a chance to join the Underground. From the wooded hills around Pinczow in southern Poland, guerrillas swooped on the town one wet and windy night last month, set free 500 fellow-fighters, awaiting execution. An old story was revived in neutral capitals: Hitler, Goering & Goebbels keep a long-range private plane in readiness to whisk them to Japan.

In seething Copenhagen, Danes with rifles and machine guns ignored the rigid curfew, fought Germans armed with tanks and planes. Next day, upwards of 15,000 joined a general strike, shut down Danish war production. Stores closed, transportation stopped, telephones and telegraphs ceased to function. Crowds tore down pictures of Hitler, made bonfires of Nazi posters, books and pamphlets. Barricades appeared along with the flags of Denmark, Britain, the U.S. and Russia. Exultant Danes mingled scraps of The Star-Spangled Banner and God Save the King with their own sonorous anthem. The second night 700 Danes were killed or wounded. Then the frantic Germans declared that they would call in bombers to destroy the city. But the demonstrators kept up their ominous preview of what the Germans might expect as the tide rose in Europe.

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