Police Call

Nothing that happened last week could prevent the spreading of cold rage through an already frigid spike of a man--Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Hitler's chief executioner. For, clearly, the thousands of tired bodies he had rushed to the rope or the firing squad had not cowed Europe's revolt against Hitler's New Order:

Chetnik guerrillas and Serbian regulars, united under Serbian General Draja Mikhailovitch, were reported standing off as many as seven German divisions in the mountains south and west of Belgrade.

> In Paris, where the shooting of a German medical officer had brought threats of reprisals if the responsible man was not discovered within 18 days, a bicyclist rode brazenly up to a German major, shot him in the hip.

> In Annemasse, France, a French War Veterans Legionnaire protested when a Nazi official did not doff his hat to a passing Legion funeral. The Nazi kicked the Frenchman in the stomach. Two French men thereupon broke the Nazi's jaw.

> In Brussels the faculty of the University, entirely French, went on strike when the German occupation authorities ordered 18 Flemish professors, including two vio lent pro-Nazis, added to the staff.

> In Norway, because they were so shunned by patriotic Norwegians, quislings began opening their own restaurants. Because they found it hard to get medical care from patriots, quislings began training their own nurses.

These were only symptoms. What they stood for could be guessed from the fact that Adolf Hitler increased his police force in the occupied countries by 50%. Ankara reported that Germany had asked her allies for 15 infantry divisions for police duty to replace Germans sent elsewhere.

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