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Newsmen on Tour. U. S. correspondents in Berlin usually get no information except what comes to them from these soldier-journalists, handed out daily at press conferences by the Propaganda Ministry. But so proud, last week, was Adolf Hitler of his Army's swift advance through Flanders to the English Channel, that he issued a "personal invitation" to three alien news men to visit the front.
Westward across the German border in staff cars rolled Louis Lochner of Associated Press, Frederick Oechsner of United Press, Pierre J. Huss of Hearst's International News Service, over roads packed with advancing Nazi columns.
Wrote Louis Lochner, as he passed through desolate towns laid waste by Nazi bombers: "In no Belgian community through which we have crossed this week . . . have I noticed more hatred in people's eyes than in Aerschot, ten miles northeast of Louvain. . . . I suppose the population takes me for a German. If looks could have killed, I would be a corpse today. . . ." Said a Belgian woman, wife of a soldier at the front, to Frederick Oechsner: "I must say the attitude of the German soldiers has been very correct and orderly. . . ."
At week's end, Hitler's guests, standing on the shore of the English Channel near Antwerp, heard Nazi soldiers sing: "Wir fahren gegen Engeland—We sail against England!"