Penalty of Prominence

Adolf Hitler's considered policy for ruling conquered Europe embraces two lines of action: I) arrest of potential leaders of revolt, 2) confiscation of food stocks. By this policy Hitler aims: I) to quench firebrands before they can set smoldering revolt ablaze; 2) to weaken populations by hunger to a point where the will to resist is gone.

> Five hundred prominent Belgrade citizens, including publishers, editors, doctors, lawyers, priests, schoolmasters and politicians, were held as hostages last week. Many of them will probably be shot in reprisal for Chetnik warfare in Serbia. In the last two weeks 2,300 hostages have died for the killing of 26 German soldiers. Among those slain were many schoolboys and a priest named Jovan Knezevic, whose brother, Radoje, is an official of the court of young King Peter.

> Five prominent Norwegians were arrested for helping friends escape to England, a crime punishable by death.

> In quasi-occupied Rumania Dr. Juliu Maniu, Peasant Party leader, wrote an open letter to Dictator Ion Antonescu protesting Rumania's military collaboration with Germany. The Nazis promptly arrested 200 members of the Peasant Party and many Liberals, whose party concurred in the protest.

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