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Greek Tragedy. Nowhere in Naziland is there greater suffering than in the olive-green countryside of Greece. Shipments of Canadian wheat are only a temporary relief to a few thousands. There is no clothing for children, no fuel for winter. The death rate from starvation is at least 500 a day. But it took the Germans and Italians a full week to break a general strike in Athens. In the mountains the Cretans trapped a German punitive expedition and annihilated it.
French Omelette. After two years under German rule the French remembered Voltaire: "Ah, how wretched men have been, and how much to be pitied; and they were wretched only because they were cowards and fools."
There were no eggs for omelettes at La Mère Poulard's famous restaurant on Mont-Saint-Michel. Customers shivered in the cold behind the glass winter windows of the Café de la Paix, the Deux Magots, the Dôme.
Pierre Laval and Marshal Pétain tried to keep up the illusion that there was food in France. Frenchmen knew that French food, like French heavy industry and French labor, was being transferred to Germany. Hitler was following Machiavelli's preachment: "He who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty. . . ." In France last week the sound of the watchword was growing louder.
* Reported the Berlin radio: The King's horse "shied for some unknown reason, then bolted. The King was thrown and his head hit a stone. He did not suffer brain concussion."