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ER 30, 1938.
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the journalist said that in bart of Germany where he had recently been no German would allow any but his own family to be in the room. when he turned on his wireless, - as it was a penal offence to listen to subversive broadcasts, and if an informer was present it concentration might mean a camp. In these circumstances few people probably tried to listen to foreign broadcasts. If war came he hoped the first thing the other Powers would do would be to drop pamphlets all over Germany telling the Ger mans why it was happening and what the issue was.
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facts which had not appeared in got out of unrelieved Morse tap- the German newspapers were pings. They broadcast speech radiated in the German language and music, which often puzzles in the form of a special news the listener with a highly selec- - bulletin. Mr.
Chamberlain's tive set who may be experiment- speech and President Roosevelt's ing with his tuning-knobs. These appeals were among the contribu-broadcasts, however, do not in- tions. This action is, undoubtedly, terfere with the programmes to an answer to the question which which most people listen, for the has been on many lips: Why amateur transmitting sets are should Herr Hitler think it worth limited to a narrow band of while to coerce Czecho-Slovakia to wave-lengths which is outside the point of war if, as now the range of the stations to been made clear, he has to face which the listener usually resorts. the possibility of war with three The recruits under the Air Min- Great Powers once he invades istry's scheme will be under the that country?. Will Germany control of the Director of Sig- really be behind him if he takes nals, and they will receive train- the risk? One never hears iting in their homes, by means of doubted that Czecho-Slovakia, if regular broadcasts, and in occa- invaded, will fight. The reply sional attendances at Royal Air offered is that the German peo-Force stations. ple, having hardly any access to objective news because of its Government press and wireless,
can only know what they are Tasks Unfinished allowed to hear, and in any case, if they do not like the dictator's
It is in the nature of things actions, how can they protest or even express doubts in the that an author who dies in har- hearing of an informer? It is ness should leave unfinished useless to expect that the Ger-work, and there are man people will know the facts precedents for the forthcoming of the situation before they are publication of a history of Eng- olish poetry by John Drinkwater committed to act.
A business man has related which breaks off in the middle how he had recently been in Ger- of a sentence. Dickens was many, and through an accident the middle.
numerous
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stayed his pen, and with a senior German officer Thackeray was just warming up who said that he could not un-to "Denis Duval" at the time of Stevenson, derstand why foreigners were his sudden passing. excited about the German mobil- in addition to "St. Ives," cleverly isation. Nazi Germany, he said, completed by Sir Arthur Quiller- was a new country, and this Couch, left but a fragment of was the first time they had had what many think would have a chance to try their organisa-been his masterpiece, Weir of tion. And when could they have Hermiston Disraeli, Meredith, manoeuvres in an agricultural Gissing, Jane Austen, Mrs. Gas- country except after the harvest? kell, Conrad, and Charles Kings- The Englishman mentioned the ley also left novels coincidence of a million and a but far enough⠀⠀ half Germans on a war footing at justify, publication. at same time, as a mobilisation know whether to be of German labour to build forti- that they were less fications and an attempt to ter than Wilkie Collins, who, dying
in his journey became - friendly when death 1 “Edwin Drood” ·
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what was virtually a surrender written, left such elaborata nõtes of its independence, but theme of the concluding portada that points did not seem to have oc his friend Sir Walter Besant had
little dimanty in completing it. urred to the German at.