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Page 6A EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, 1 ' U Hern ar two n was in mis Ttall itf i Til 1 If Aypp for the city's approximately 500,000 Jews. The razed tenements CCl have gone from the scene and these apartment buildings erected in their place. LSflPSff-- -Vrfj V-T Fear and Feeling 0 Quilt Increasing in South Arica By RICHARD R. KASISt 11KK Of ths Atftucialvd 1'ren DAR ES SALAAM. Tanganyika South Africa has a heritage today of fear, hatred and guilty conscience. Hatred is the oldest of the three elements. Fear is increasing, and so, apparently, U I widespread feeling of Built among the whites who rule the country. These are the impressions ot this correspondent, who has just lctt South Africa after a three year assignment there. Antigovernmcnt sabotage is increasing. Police drives against Poqo, the African underground terrorist organization, bring headlines. But Prime Minister Henrtrik Vcrwoerd's government has many guns, and is making and buy ing more daily. Furthermore, South Africa still lias a row of while-ruled states between it and the wave of nationalism that has turned nations to the north over to black rule. Since the Congo explosion of nearly three years ago it has been stiffening the determination of the white minority to stand and fight for what they now hold. Verwoerd's government has quadrupled military-police spending in recent years, expanded those two forces and opened new plants for manufacture of small arms and ammunition. It is buying abroad the warships and planes it cannot manufacture. Now 10,()(M) trained men arc ready to smash any internal revolt, or to repel any "African Nationalist Communist in- . . vasion," the reason the gov ernment gives for its record peacetime arming. Thousands more can he called up on short notice. In nearly every sizable town police reserve corps and vigi lante groups could spring into action the moment the new nationwide commando police communications network spreads .an alarm. The militant determination of Vcrwoerd's Afrikaner na tionalists is repeatedly ex pressed with hluntness: To hold vast and enormously rich South Africa as a last re doubt of "Christianity and Western civilization against a reversal to primitiveness and chaos." Barking up Verwoerd is his tough minister of justice, Bal thazar Johannes Vorster. Ho Is regarded as the No. 2 strongman next to Verwoerd, swinging I he cudgels at al leged saboteurs and subver sives, black and while. White liberals say Vorster Is one of the biggest obstacles to chances for an eleventh hour p e a c e ( u 1 solution to South Africa's racial prob lems. Vorster, 47, was interned as a Nazi sympathizer during World War II. For years he held off Joining the National party because he considered its policies too lame on racial and other issues. He became minister of justice in August ll)l. The press supporting the government depicts him as a gleaming St. lieorge slaying dragons labeled "Poqo," snakes labeled "Communist sabotage" or rats labeled "Lib-erals-Cryptoeomiminisls." For the past car Vorster I .:, i. J-r.. . .V ... V- ;,-.(, Loch Lomond Bonnie Banks Soon to Support New Dam HALLOCll. Scotland i. Loch Lomond of the tionnie, bonnie banks is going to be dammed up to supply a wide arm of central Scotland with fresh water. The high road tu the lake will become a bit lower Steps lll be Uken to Insure that the low road doesn't disappcr Itogether in the 7 million pound I 1 9 ft million) project. The secretary of state for Scotland has given the to-ahead to a plan to put Loch Lomond on tap. It will provide up to 100 million gallons of (rrsh water a day for new industries all over the industrial belt of Scotland The natural rise and fall of the inland loch as a result of rain and drought will he controlled by a dam across the Riser Lcven, which runs from Loch Lomand down to the River Clsde. The control point will time a special fih 'ladder" to ailow salmon up to the loch. It will alto have a rami system for the pasagc of small craft. Sunday, April 21, lta raw views of Dart of fhe central in 1955 in reconstruction of the city which was almost totally rle VjllGllO stroyed by Nazi Germany after Warsaw ghetto uprising in 1943. area mat me iazi government crucicu a wan as a pen Rudolph Hess Termed Thoroughly Vicious Man HKIU.IN W Adolf Hitler's onetime deputy, Rudolf Hess, will he 09 Friday behind bars at Spandau War Crimes Prison. It will be his 22nd birthday as a prisoner. He was captured iu May, 1041, when he flew to Scotland. There will be no birthday greeting and no special treat ment fur the former deputy fuehrer. If he continues the pat tern set several years ago, it's a safe bet that he will spend the day harassing, his guards. "He is a thoroughly vicious man and always tries to get a guard or other prison worker into trouble," a knowledgeable source said recently. "He will ask guards and warders to do things which he knows arc against prison rules. Then, when one of them com plies because he feels sorry for the old man, Hess reports him to an officer." Hess refuses to receive visitors although he is allowed one 30-mimilc visit a month. He is serving a life term for war crimes. The only other prisoners in Spandau, Baldur von Schirach and Albert Specr, are serving 20 years. The prison is ruled jointly by the United States, the Soviet Union, llntain and France. Troops of the lour nations rotate the major guard duty. has been on the attack against what he calls "the white in citer who lurks behind the black saboteur." His police round up hundreds of Poqo suspects. They bring dozens of Africans into court on sa botage charges some facing possible death sentences. The Ministry of Justice has imposed house arrest for terms up to five years and silenced scores of South Afri cans of all races. The ministry is pushing efforts to seat off the three neighboring British protectorates of Basutoland, Swaziland and llcchuanaland. Daubing of antigovernmcnt slogans in public places is -1 area of Warsaw, shown punishable by six months In prison. Slogan painters work ing at night use indelible paint for "Hang Vorster" and "Vorster Is a Nazi" signs on bridges and w alls in Johannes burg, Cape Town and Durban. Vorstcr's reply to charges of repressive laws and actions: "1 have no apologies. I get my power from a democratically elected Parliament." It is Nationalist-controlled and whitc-dnminatcd. The lihcral-mimlcd Johan nesburg Star, an Foolish-language paper, says power is nut enough and efforts must still be maile toward some kind of racial harmony. A combined note of plain thencss and determination is increasing among many South African whiles who are not ardent nationalists. When this correspondent left South Africa a surprising number ot whites said fare well along these lines: "Now don't say too harsh tilings about us after you've gone Ucniember our prob lems. Remember we built up tins countrv, snd nut the blacks. "U we hul to give it up, where would we go? The Bel gians from the Congo could go back to Belgium, the trench from Algeria back to France, the Dutch from the Fast Indies back to Holland We've got no place to go. snd that's why we haxe to stay and fuht, it neccMary." Infamous Event of 20 Years Warsaw Qhetto All But Erased WARSAW, Poland Des perate, doomed resistance broke out 20 years ago last week behind one of Europe's most infamous walls. It was the Warsaw ghetto uprising against Nazi Ger many which ended with de struction of the walledup area in the center of this capital. Nearly all the occu pants were killed. Today, no traces remain of the red brick and grey stone walls built 12 to 15 feet high by the Nazis in 1940 as a pen for Warsaw's approximately 500,000 Jews. The razed tene ments are gone too, except for a handful of reconstruct ed buildings and one or two ruins. In their place are block after block of postwar apart ment buildings. Many are four stories in Soviet archi tecture of the Stalinist pe riod. Some, in more modern style, are of eight floors. A few rise from grassy embank ments created by the rubble of the prewar city. 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Josef Cyrankiewicz, prime minister of the Polish Com munist government and a sur vivor of Auschwitz concentra tion camp, is patron of the Polish observance. Warsaw scheduled a civic memorial program in addition to the annual laying of wreaths at the grctto monument, a two story structure ironically made of granite which Poles say was brought here for a monument to Hitler. The monument dominates a still - unfinshed square at Zemcnhoffa and Aniewliwcza Streets, facing the burned-out skeleton of the building that once housed the Jewish com munity's headquarters. Only a few thousand Jews remain in Warsaw and fewer than 50,000 in all of Poland. The square is near the cen ter of the irregularly shaped former ghetto which the Naz 1 K M ; IT.-. Hi Ml I V ! fly i - vf e . We pack a free interested in becoming 225 River Road Ago is fenced with 3 or 4 miles of wall, barbed wire and evacu ated buildings in somewhat the same fashion as the Com munists walled off East and West Berlin. Fighting broke put at 6 a.m. April 19, 1943, when SS (Nazi elite guard) troops moved in to the ghetto to end resis tance against a German cam paign to move the city's re maining Jewish population out of Warsaw. Starting in July 1942, more than 315.000 Jews had been transported from the ghetto, ostensibly for resettlement, but actually to gas chambers in nearby Treblinka extermi nation camp, says the Jewish Historical Institute of War saw. When word of the killings reached Warsaw, political fac tions in the ghetto, from Com munist to right wing, joined in organizing resistance groups and urged the 60,000 or so remaining Jews to sell - " a' ' : ' . 'n't'. " 'SJ V--V 1 '" ' 'f ' '' ',1,1 i h ni hi m tww iis'iiiliilit lli ii it serviceman in every washer. fv 1 HL'jjJ m icLA-MAirr 1 DISCOUNT y STORES MfOT SMI 9 WMtrt a member please For more information their lives as dearly as possi ble. Led by a tank and two arm ored cars, the first German units to enter the ghetto met a hail of sniper fire and Molo tov cocktails and retreated. Stronger Nazi attacks within two or three days forced most of the Jews into sewers and tunnels, where they had stored food and water. The Germans flooded the sewers and on April 23 Good Fri day set fire to the ghetto, block by block. Some Jews escaped through the walls by tunnels or through buildings. "If you had a friend living near the edge you might be able to get out. Or if you had no friend, you paid money to escape through someone's house . . . The Poles were not particularly good to Jews, but they did not denounce them to the Nazis. The Roman Catholic clergy disinterested ly saved many children", said one Warsaw Jewish girl who hid in a convent. The girl recalled: "Smoke was pouring from the entire ghetto quarter. Outside the wall, trams sped by without stopping. 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By May 15 the Ger mans felt the uprising had been quelled and blew up Tlomackic Synagogue, War saw's largest. The Jew ish His torical Institute stands on the spot today. There is one mod est synagogue in another part of Warsaw. The late SS Maj. Gen. Jucrgen Stroop reported to his superiors that up to May 16, "of the total r.f 56,065 captured, about 7,000 were exterminated within the former Jewish residential area and 6,929 by transport ing them to Treblinka. . . be yond the number of 56.065 Jews, an estimated 5,000 to 6.000 were killed by explo sions or in fires." Stroop was captured by the Western allies and delivered to Poland, which tried and executed him as a war crim inal. Sporadic battles actually continued in the ghetto until early July, with occasional fighting into September be tween German troops and small bands of men and wom en fleeing from tunnel to tunnel and sewer to sewer. s ! 1 J our guest!
