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New League Buildings
À correspondent in Geneva haa been inspecting the new League of Nations Palaco.
The grandiose outside structure is now practically finished, but at least 18 months must elapse before the building is ready for occupa- tion.
Meanwhile
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1933.
LIFE IN
IN GERMANY'S LABOUR CAMPS
FORCING GROUNDS OF HITLERISM
5,000 CENTRES FOR WORKLESS
(By Mrs. Cecil Chesterton.)
National Equality
and
in
or
The Labour Camps of Germany, evening meal is generally sauerk- Gardening, road-building, and are the forcing grounds of Hitler-raut and cheese. The sleeping quar internal decorations remain to be iam. In 5000 centres unemployed ters are usually alry and fresh.
I recall one camp where the dor- done. The complete scheme in-youths between 16 and 27 years of
undergo rigorous physical mitory windows look over pleasant- cludes an avenue from the League age building to the International training and military discipline.ly wooded hills with clear lakes of Labour Office down the hill, end- Attendance is not compulsory, but deep water, green meadows and neat- ing in a square to be known as the refusal to join a camp means a lossly built farmhouses. Long lines of Palce Albert Thomas. The aquare of the dole; and for the most part bunks are ranged against white- will be graced by a statue of the the release from a life of forced washed walls bung with individust treasures. There are portraits of late M. Thomas, who was head of idling in welcomed. the I.L.O.
For forty weeks the trainees are film stars-Marlene Dietrich permanent oficials kept hard at work-digging, ditch-most cases-and of Hitler; a jar of are praying that Switzerland willing, ploughing, building, reclaiming wild flowers on a wooden bracket; go off the gold standard. Other-waste land and learning forestry, a festoon of green branches. wise with
No Sign Of Discontent. so many withdrawals. At the end of the course, it is hop-
I found nothing depressed the League will have difficulty in ed, paid employment will be forth-
cowed about any of the lads, and financing its new home.
coring.
The life is simple and healthy. discipline, though firm, is no exact-
the ing.
days Potato-peeling three Authors Are Booming The standard of physique in
of the principal and places 1 visited struck me as very running is one While Hollywood "store" executives are worrying about their high. Narrow chests, weedy bodica punishments, this being the job of ia not-all others most detested. The stop- salaries, due to the indiscreet in-were the exception. This quiries from National Recovery Act ably the case in the centres round ping of leave is reserved for wilful officials, Hollywood authors appear about Lanke, some miles from Ber-rule-breaking-unpunctuality, shirk- Hn, where the city out-of-works are ing, failure to give the Nazi salute. Smoking is not forbidden, but ci- to be on the crest of a boom.
Between £15,000 and £20,000 is drafted.
rare; the lucky ones garettes are being offered to Eugene O'Neill for
share with the rest. The first camp I went to was in the screen rights of his Theatre
Of an evening, before lights out. The boya Cuild production, "Ah, Wilderness." ¡process of construction. Another recent film offer was £7,000 were building their barracks under the whole camp signs to the thrum- for "Anthony Adverse," the huge the supervision of forenten brick-ming of a guitar.
Some miles away I found another American novel which has recently layers, masons. carpenters
birch
boya become best-seller.
Joiners. Meanwhile they bivouack-camp a small one in the middle of
wood. The When com- A story is told, too, that when led in tents and huts.
were busy replanting; another ways has been at heart, in sullen
digging a channel The China Mail
opposition to all restrictions. In Mr. George S. Kaufman was offer-pleted the barracks will house two
Mass accommodation is contingent were brief, being as yet comparativelyfed £10,000 for the rights of "Din-hundred.
Le not part of the system; the largest for a small canal; alid about fifty, I was told, had been sent to drain off Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 1933. weaponless, she falls back on the ner
not very difficult course of pas company offering to purchase their camps hold only 160-800.
Agricultural training doininated some marshy ground.
Occasionally trainees work at a sive resistance. She goes home. entire studios and theatre circuit
He was paid at the next camp. already for the same price.
saw or a flour mill-every kind of and intends to do what she
The training is! just over £20,000—by another com- well established. pleases there, at least until angli
given on neighbouring farms, where rural handicraft is included in
throughout schedule observed one stops her. Now the chance)
the boys look after the pigs and the
country. cattle and, in addition, grow veget- The situation since Germany's of anyone setting out to stop!
There is another side to these La- Geneva has her, except under the most in-
ables for their own consumption. Of withdrawal from
bour centres. Manual work is pre- been unsettling in the extreme tolerable provocation, is exceed-
course, they also do the washing ceded and rounded off by army drill. and the only hope for an early ingly remote. There is not any-Motor Show Musing
This part of the curriculum is not Power which really "You, sir-in this car you'll feel cleaning and odd jobs of the camp.
It was here I met a group of stressed, but it steadily continues. solution lies the proposed where a
Every possible manoeuvre is prae- another der-graduates from the professional Conference to be held in Italy. wishes to attack her. Far from just as if you're at home.” "'Er-please show me recognition
and military casten. Every Unitised and re-practised. Disarmament making a generous
It is only Until then the
Hitlerised Germany, kind!"
vernity student is obliged to spend
the absence of arms which differ. Conference proceedings are likely of this.
his summer vacation at a camp
entiates the labour from the military to prove futile. If Germany's which is now a doubly Imperial-
HE WAS QUITE SÅFE.
working with and for the peasants, recruit. Lectures on the science of hope was to fluster and disunite ised Prussia, has determined
to Mugguley, who rather liked
side with poor lade from
Nazi the Powers. they have wisely precisely to exploit it. to trade refrained from playing her game. on the unwillingness of others to hear the sound of his own voice, side by
It is not a plan re was recounting one of his experi-the city slums. This kind of social They, on the contrary, allowed go in war.
of the Hitler regime. themselves, and not only them quiring any very acute penetra-lences to a number of long-suffer-communiem is a fundamental part a device hasling clubmen.
"There
no be can selves. a breathing-space in tion. So obvious
"Yes," he said, with a dramatic
I equality," explained which calmer thoughts might often enough been adopted, and! arise. The Disarmament Confer-in ages when the game was more touch in his voice. "there was
it is to-day. For, standing unarmed with a raging young student. ence was adjourned for ten days, risky than after addressing to Berlin a note with all the warlike preparation, on only five yards away from me. class must always remain, but na-discipline. To us it has a mystical whom the Suddenly it took a flying leap, tional equality is a different thing, significance. We suffer that our en- Powers on
We all work for Germany without emies may suffer through us.” Hitler The New Redeemer of protest and regret, in which it those
There is no mistaking the spirit- was pointed out that Germany's League of Nations still depends and—”
"How thrilllng!" interposed one any distinction." own action has prejudiced the are loth to proceed to extremes
against the most re-of the members who was trying to
where on earth day, of which two-thirds are deal and physical resurgence of these German acceptance of a definite scheme even which would have gone far to calcitrant. The Germans know read his paper. "What satisfy German desires. For the this, and see in it an advantage would you have done if the bars of ducted for their keep, including uni-training centres moment, both sides are waiting. to themselves. The very clumsi-the cage had given way,?" In doing so, the world may wellness with which they do
Hitler shows how confident they aro be thankful that Herr
Germany's Policy On Disarmament.
in
80
•pany.
he wired back to
Your Daily Smile
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SHAME
cussed her,
does not possess powers of seri that no aggressive move la like. A mild-monnered gent of Augusta, At Had a row with his wife, then he OUR aggression. It is mainly ly to be made against them. because he does not that Ger-home. this transparent policy
able to was turned to the Government's He had to, said he, many's neighbours are
the situation with any ende in a most farcical election, When, in spite of his plea,· view calmness whatever. It is in the devoid of all real meaning. The She used his silk socks for a duster. future, and perhaps no remote situation hardly suggests optim-
Once more
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Brown: It is sad to see Johnson
one, that the gravest dangers lie. iam, but does not prompt despair. The Reason It is revealed that That "ealm examination of the leadership counts for almost possibility of reaching an under-running about after young girls. AND BETTY STOCKFELD everything. Under a Stresemann, standing which was counselled, His wife simply dotes on him, you
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though he did not pretend to be in an official communique from know. satisfied with all the conditions, Rome, is in reality already being Barratt: Perhaps he Germany was, on the whole, practised even by those Powers antidote. wisely and safely guided, so that whom the German challenge, ia many old cnmities and suspicions chiefly intended to offend. Signor Overheard at Olympia. seemed to be dwindling to decay. Mussolini hopes still to occupy: "We want to look at some cars.": Under a Hitler, all that good the key position. None will "Certainly, madam.*** · work has been more than cán- quarrel with his motives, what- celled, and Germany at this hour ever they may be, if his influence has scarcely a friend in the can soften asperities. But if it world. If one or two seem re-la true that he hopes to convene. luctant to condemn her as. em-whether now or later, another phatically as the rest, it is due Four-Power Conference, his saga- to some special factor. Not for city in that respect may no the first time, but in keeping with doubted. It la scarcely by such motor vehicles in the Union of his constant habit, the German methods, tried so long and so South Africa are owned by coloured dictator has spoken with two often found wanting, that a fair persons.
voices, addressing the outside solution can be found. A nation;}
"Something in pale belge.”
Facts You Did Not Know.
Only about one per cent of the
now
world in a less truculent tone selfisolated the same nation X-ray photographs are produced than that with which he incites which the days of her on two sheets of paper at once in- chauvinism at home. It is not strength, did much to impede stead of on single films by a to concillation, however, that his the progress of pacification has process. actions have leaned, but to sheer by her own action ranged other
defiance. Pedants may concern countries solidly against her, and The Mexican state of Chihuahua themselves with the details of meane, must be found to show has planned to set aside more than the various which Germany awaited disapproval. The 2,400,000, acres of land for coloni- has reptate and argue sa spirit of reason, must, prevall, but ration,
they please correctness must not be allowed to degener
or otherwise offer procedure. It sto into weakness. Undue yield- tion may change from hour to le enough if we take account of ing in the face of Herr Hitler's hour, but its main, significance the broad and simple fact that attitude would have two evil will remain, Germany has flout ahe Is, in effect, out of every effects, giving him for the pre-ed Europe and attempted to thing, both in letter and in spirit sent an enormously increased throw on the latter the respon Versailles, Locarno, the Four, prestige at home, and thus assist, sibility for a counteracting move, Power Pact none of these things ing him to prepare for the The burden is a heavy one, the han heaviest since Germany launched mean anything more to her. She future a menace in more shows herself openly, as she al mare words. In detall the post-war
2 the
history from the wer and standpoint are in the daily pro-
grumme.
economic an earnest "Difference of
"What you English don't under- stand," said an old Prussian colonel to me, "is that we Germans love
a Trainces are paid two marks
form. The balance is handed over Christianity is in full force. I lis- as pocket money once a week when tened to an amazing sermon preach- evening leave is granted, and framed to the Nazi storm troops on one The day starts at six a.m., with ed out that every three or four eight to len the boys roam at will. occasion, when the preacher point- breakfast of coffee and rye bread. thousand years a Redeemer is born world the immediately Work goes
on till mid-day, when into the there is a break and a meal of soup glorious example being Adolf Hitler.
(Continued on Page 10). and meat-sausage or stew. Thel
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