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Mussolini's New Play
Signor Mussolini's new play, "Julina Cæsar," which he began to write after his Napoleonic drama of the Hundred Days; is finished.
It is to have its world's first night not in Rome but in Vienna, where it is to be produced in the Burgtheater at the beginning of the New Year.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1933. - CAN ADOLF HITLER
BE TRUSTED?
GERMANY HOLDS KEY TO PEACE
| OLIVE-BRANCH OFFERED TO- WORLD
(By G. Ward Price.)
Berlin.
The peace of the world depends upon the answer to the question in the headline of this article.
Unless Germany wants it, there will be no more war in Europe in Lour time.
ment of the country. As was the The title part will be played by
case with Mussolini, bis hands will Werner Krauss, who was
several years to come seen in
be fall for Sun- London recently in "Before
with this arduous task of reorgani- feet."
until sation-and
a country lo Krauss is Mussolini's favourite
thoroughly organised it cannot be actor. He played Napoleon in the
emclent either in war or peace. Duce's "Hundred Days." He was
If Germany wants war it will I believe, therefore, that Hitler is- not chosen for
the part of Cæsar come, despite her present disarmed sincere in his proclaimed intention without a test. Ho went to Rome condition. A nation of 65,000,000 of directing to internal alms all the and played a scene from Shakes hard-working, highly intelligent, enthusiasm and energy of the peare's "Julius Caesar" in the Pa- and patriotic people will ultimately youth of Germany which he 'com lazzo Venezia.
And the arms it requires, and they mands. He has won a position uni- The modern Cesar was satisfied. may prove to be of a kind that will que in his country's history. He Roosevelt In Opera put earlier weapons out of dato haa surpassed Bismarck; he will Mussolini is the only head of The disarmament of Germany not emulate Napoleon.
But thought we may trust: Hitler State who writes plays. President has freed her from the conserva- Roosevelt, however, has appeared tive control of a General Staff. personally, can we trust him to re- in opera.
Who knows what deadly new wea-tain his present dominance of the His appearance was for
One pone may have been devised by her German people? Will his, control night only, but it was on a world-brilliant chemists and ingenious in- endure?
ventors during these last fifteen famous stage.
In 1900 he was engaged with a years? group of other Harvard undergra- [duates as a "super" by the Boston
Opera Company.
Causes Of War
The two main potential causes of
The opening performance was war in Europe are: the Harvard "Tannhauser," and "supers," arrayed
medieval 18 spearsmen, took their stand just behind a snow-white charger in the hunting scene. "S"
1. Germany's determination to recover the Polish Corridor;
Again, I belleve it will, because the tide of the times is flowing with It.
Contempt For Democrats
Hitler has always had complete contempt for democratic govern- ment and a similar contempt in [spreading among intelligent people 2. Her desire ́for revenge on throughout Europe. In the third chapter of the German edition of Herr Adolf Hitler, now the un-his book, "Mein Kampf." ("Mỹ
|Struggle"), there is
France.
German
bitter
ciplines, there is no sphere of As the tenor began his aria, he challenged head of the life, sacred or secular, which has was met with laughter from the au- nation, has made plain statements not been modified, and
often dience. Turning round suddenly, on both these burning questions, analysis of the incompetence of the drastically. In 1928 a law was he saw Franklin Roosevelt prod. In & broadcast speech he held out Austrian Parliament and the whole served it during his two years in passed abolishing the State re-ding the restive charger with his the olivebranch to France. In his system of majority rule as he oh-
interview with me, he not only re-
Vienna. ligion. Connected with this was spear.
and said:
dis-some
J
"No one in Germany thinke of [starting a war with Poland about
the Corridor."
If these declarations truly re-
man nation, we need not fear an- other war. Can we trust Hitler?
country; and
But in Germany the democratic idea never really took root. The aution has only known happiness when it could hear its master's voice. That happiness Hitler has now restored to it.
Nor do I believe that his rule rests upon Lerror. though 'stern
ven-
the seemingly trivial, matter of At the end of the act the apears-newed that offer but went further discarding the fez, a headdress men were dismissed on the spot. which rendered possible that
He "Scooped" Yale Ten years ago the National touching of the ground with the Franklin Roosevelt's Harvard Assembly of Turkey declared forehead required by Islamic days were in fact. lively ones. that country a Republic, and ritual. Later in the same year Among his feats was the securing elected Mustafa Kemal as Presl the neo-Latin alphabet was estab-of a journalistic "scoop" over Yale Preaent the diaposition of the Ger dent. The anniversary of that lished in the place of Turkish in 1902. event has just been celebrated, characters. Coincident with this,| In that year the Harvard and
I have made this question the penalties await anyone who and the President (re-elected the whole system of education Yale football match was played on
a-country in which nothing BUC- every four years) is still in office.jhas been remodelled on modern the Yale ground. Roosevelt, then subject of a good deal of thoughttures to challenge it. Germany is He and his people together have lines.
possible editor of the Harvard "Crimson and inquiry during my present vials reeds like success, and I am quite giving every
ito Germany. jexperienced marvellous changes. facility for the, study of litera-produced a match edition of biel
The conclusion I have come to in prepared to admit the Nazi claim that the great muss of the nation Fortune has fought strangely ture. science, law, and medicine. paper on the ground half an hour that Hitler is sincere.
standa behind the new regime. against them, and, at times, still The 70-year-old University at before the Yale "News" made its
I believe that, like Mussolini, he:
When I went to the mass meet- more strangely for them. But Constantinople has been abolish-appearance.
1. In obsessed with the im-
ing in the Berlin Sport-Palast. as their greatest asset has been theled in favour of a new institution.| He had hired a shop in New
mense task of internal reorgani-which Dr. Goebbels, the Minister personality of their leader. The and it is intended later to found Haven, Yale's home town, and set
sation that is required in his for Propaganda, opened the cam- Ottoman Empire, once one of the another at Angora. These things up a small printing press for the
paign for the elections there were strongest Powers in the world, were not accomplished without occasion.
2. Has a former combatant's ten thousand people in the build has for centuries been
friction yet surprisingly
sversion from the chances anding and another ten thousand out- integraling ("consolidation" alittle. It may be that in certain
calamities of war.
side. I had expected to find the cynical English statesman called directions such hasty reforms
Meteoric Rise To Power place filled almost exclusively with the process). Yet the end of may do harm, but there is as yet
Here is a man who, by the most young men, most of them in brown that Empire, following hard on no evidence of evil effect, rather the close of the war, saw the be-the reverse. Most significant of
amazing process in the history of chirts.
Backed By Nation Englishman bus invented a modern politics, has risen to the ginnings of a new revival on en-all has been the emancipation of tirely novel lines. Europe had at women, the removal of those
Įdark room for news photographers virtual dictatorship of the largest To my surprise, the audience con- that CRA be worn around their nation in Western Europe. What he tained a very large proportion of last destroyed its "sick man," restrictions which were the most
bodies, suspended from
their has achieved would have acemed in bald or grey-baired heads, and the Jonly to raise up in his stead an characteristic feature of social
es the apparently healthy heir. The life in the old Turkey. No shoulders, to enable negatives to be advance utterly Impossible. In the women were as numerous
winter of 1910 I was a young cur- men. latter was aided almost as much greater contrast could be afford- developed and printed at once.
respondent in Vienna. If anyone Yet there was no mistaking the by disagreement among the ed between past and present in
Held in place on the back window had then pointed out to me an Aus- fierce enthusiasm with which they Powers as the Sultanate for so this respect than the fact that a
about my own received a two-hours-long expost- long had been helped. Largely night by the first Turkish woman of an automobile by a suction cup, trian workmas of ta the hands of the Allies, the pilot formed one of the attrac star shaped red reflector has been age mixing mortar on a scaffold, tion of the aims of the National- last of the Sultans tried to put tions of the decennial celebra invented to catch light from follow- and told me that twenty-three years Socialist Party-and If those aims an later I should meet him in Berlin jinclude aggression against other down the Nationalist movement, tions. After that there shoulding headlights to serve
as Chancellor of Germany, I should nations it was indeed odd that one and so helped to set Constantino-be surely no going back. Turkey additional tail light.
have thought the prophecy not only of the huge mottoes stretching ple in pointed opposition to made a false stafinch before,
along one side of the building Angora, in Asia Minor. From when the Young Turks soner's voice heard by a large audienco
To Improve the tones of a sing-incredible but mad.
Fate has lavished her favours should have read: "Stand by 1920 to 1922, Mustafa Kemal, proved themselves little better) a Vienna scientist has invented Aupon Hitler. Is it likely that he Hitler against the madness of world
into
Facts You Did Not Know.
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with Angora as his headquarters, than their predecessors. The fought the Greek invasion back present renascence gives signs of singer's larynx, his voice
microphone to be strapped to the will put his fortunes to tho, same armamento!" the sea at Smyrna, and more reality, more permanence carried to a loudspeaker. utterly undermined the old, in- and no-charged of corruption efficient regime. In November, have been laid against its officers,
being test as brought to ruin the House of The commonest argument against Hohenzollern, whose record of ruler-the durability of Hitler's regime ship in Germany goes back for al- takes the form of the question: For Illuminating bicycle head-most as many centuries as his own "What has become of the 14,000,000. 1922, the Sultan fled, and the All of which may with almost lights a dynamo operated by frie- yet numbers months?
German SocialistaTM and Communista National Assembly declared his literal truth, be laid to the creat tion, against the front wheel, has Like all leaders of a successful who voted against him last
office abolished. At the Lausanne of one man. It is again a strik been invented, a simple governor revolution, he finds himself now March?” Conference of the following year, ing lesson of the incalculable controlling its operation to limit the confronted with the gigantic task I have put that inquiry myself to the Turks regained much terri-value of leadership. A country amount of current supplied. tory which had at one time seem- which, though in the end it re
of setting, the national house in every prominent Nazi with whom I "order. Public administration is a have talked in Germany, and the re-
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ed lost, and also rid themselves covered a good deal, is still shorn A French engineer has proposed highly technical business. The ply has always been: "Three-quar- of all Allied control. The new of much that it possessed before that a railway be built to pick up men who helped Hitler to win his ters of them have come over to our Republic, therefore, began its it entered the war on Germany's the largest ships and transport way to power may not be the best alde," course with a measure of prea-side, is to-day manfully making them across the southwestern cor- to help hing carry on the govern- dige which subsequent events the best of things and regain- ner; of France between the Atlantic
are increased. The choice of a ing prosperity with no ostenta-ocean and Mediterranean sea. few capital was but the fore-tious gestures. The difference and g rimmer of many sweeping trans-between her demeanour and that Operated automatically by thermo-| formations. In making that of Germany herself is sufficiently statie, metal -when- the temperature choice, the Republican Govern-¡clear to even the least obser changes, a damper has been in rent was not at all sorry to find vant-and so is the difference vened, for warm air pipos, of hems s_spot more truly national in between the results. Germany heating, systems. to prevent cold air. character than Constantinoplo, is showing what:leadership of entering when the fire is shut off, At Angora once a shabby, vil- the wrong kind can do in the way
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lage, a prosperous city has been of promoting ill will and uni. To enable deaf persons to bear created, and at the point whereversal suspicion. The Turkish through their bongs a European In- the now part of it begins stands autocrat me qe such Kemal is, be-ventor fax combined a microphone, a huge equestrian status of hind the constitutional; forms— battery and electric oscillator that Kemal himself. Altogether there has for more, than”, « decade can be worn on a head band or are three of him in Angora and threatened offence, to none: ízīns háng on ʼn necklace like a lorgnette, one in Constantinople. Such ternally, het haar devoted his images, of course, are startling energie to genuinely: construc- Innovations in Turkey," and re-tive policies. Time alone will mind us how utterly old customs preven
the forma all bullt
have been swept Away,, In Uhlal survive their maker, flitherio" kit once conservative country, which at least this man- has deserved ma reemed likely to be the last most highly the grati stronghold of unyielding dis-nationa
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The Difficulty of Shaking Hands With Gods
(Low in the London Evening