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CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 29, 1988.
"MEIN
A Strong Man Is Strongest When Alone KAMPF"
German,"
says Hitler,
He hears voices. Joan of Arc, who
THE Get the slightest idea knew no man, and Hitler who has
of how a people must be misled if the adherence of the masses is to be gained." The words do not appear in the English version.
com-
known no woman, are at one in this. Hitler tells how one day in the tren- ches as he sat with a score of his company eating out of his messtin a They express the Fuehrer's com- Voice said, "Get up and go over to plete contempt for the mob. But the far end of the trench!" So com- it would be wrong to say that Hitler manding was the tone that he jump- shares the cynicism of his brother ed to the word, as a soldier would, One instant later, a Dictator Mussolini for the creature and obeyed. called Man. Hitler is an idealist. grenade was flung amid the But he simply refuses to recognise pany and every man was killed. Man expressed in terms of demo- Again, one evening he was flying from Hamburg to Kiel with half a his dozen companions on one of dramatic electioneering air dashes. Night fell and fog enveloped them. Hour after hour the airplane droned on, steered only on a compass. The grey Baltic mist swirled about the windows and uneasiness gradually took hold of him.
cracy.
"The majority can never replace the One Mán. The majority is not only always the representative of stupidity, but of cowardice. Just as a hundred, empty heads never made one wise man, so no heroic de- cision can be expected of a hundred quitters."
One of the outstanding doctrines put forward in Mein Kampf as the God' Guided Him programme for winning power de- mands "Respect for Personality." Through The Clouds
Hitler declares that Personality is the most precious human quality;
At length Hitler got up and went indeed, there is no conceivable sub- to the pilot. "You have passed stitute for it. "Just as a famous your destination," he said. "Turn master can never be replaced, just back." The pilot argued. "How as nobody whatever except the much petrol have you got?" asked artist himself can finish a picture, Hitler. "Half an hour's." "Turn
so nobody call fill the space that round and fly exactly in the opposite once was occupied by a great poet, direction!" The pilot swung the a statesman, a marshal, For their 'plane round. They dropped down
abilities are not to be acquired by on to Kiel with five minutes' petrol the closest imitation that is possible; in hand. But for that decisive in- they are conferred on them alone tervention the machine would have by Divine fervour."
gone on blindly until it fell like a
who come after.
Hitler regards himself as such a man. He says that God called him. "I do the Lord's work."
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Hitler meditating over his father's grave, the first place he visited after marching into Austria.
All great deeds in history, says tired bird into the dark sea. God whole meaning of Kultur. Applied will be no nonsense of "majority Hitler, are connected with one name was in that 'plane, says Hitler. as a principle to the universe it decisions." The word "council" alone. All invention, discovery, all Now for the mound of lies, deceit, would bring all order to an end. The will be brought back to its original cultural conquest are summed up in corruption and cowardice called Age of Chaos would begin. This meaning. Every member will have some wonderful name. Such names Democracy! This thing is the very planet would drive through the advisers and counsellors' at his side, are an eternal inspiration to those negation of individuality. Democracy ether once again empty of mankind but the decision will be made by
is the death of Personality. Of as it did millions of years ago.” one man alone. course, it is the forerunner of Mar- Naturally, says Hitler, behind Coalition is the final sham- xism; indeed Marxism could not Marxism and Democracy stands the unless it is undertaken purely as a exist without it. Democracy is the Jew. Himself having nothing of the temporary expedient to seize 'power feeding ground of the black pestilen- slightest value to give to the human with a view to kicking away the ce of Marxist Communism. "Mar- race, the Jew seeks to set up in place props as soon as you are secure. xism denies the value of the in- of the eternal privilege of strength (This is exactly what Hitler, did dividual among men. It denies and character the mere mass and when he coalesced with Von Papen's race, at denies nationality; thus dead weight of numbers. Thus con- Nationalist Party to get a 51 per Marxism deprives humanity of the fusion is consolidated and the art of cent. majority and become
doing nothing is enthroned as - a cellor in 1933.-Editon.) positive system of government.
For it is a fact, sad as it seems, that many men are striving for the same ideal, though by different methods. Progress is not retarded by this division of effort. Indeed, the human race has often owed its suc- The parliamentary principle sins cesses to the lessons learned from against Nature itself, refusing to valiant failures. accept the authority of Aristocracy.
God, it seeins, looks after Hitler— if you can believe Hitler, who cer- tainly believes it.
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Then again, coalition so frequently · (This idea of aristocrcay, but the means that men come forward to way, has nothing to do with decadent join a movement, not because they Upper Ten Thousand. They long honestly want to take their place in ago forfeited the respect of
the ranks, but because they want to By Aristocracy Hitler means the snatch the best parts of the pro- new race of leaders which National- gramme and form a new party based Socialism will provide). "The Nazi on them.
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Reich will, with natural sureness of Outstanding is the example of. hand, raise the best brains or the Julius Streicher who did NOT community to a position of leader- this. He merged his German So- ship and dominant influence." cialist Party utterly into the National Democracy and parliamen- Socialist German Workers Party tarianism is simply a Jewish device (the Nazis) because he recognised its for avoiding responsibility. The superior worth. It was a hard deci- very idea of making a majority re- sion, but a brave and worthy one, and sponsible! It merely means that Streicher will always be honoured.. nobody can be called to account. The in Germany for taking it. wretches who lead the nation of Such things happen rarely, and | disaster simply resign
when they do it is not coalition in And if one man does succeed in the accepted sense of the word, but, climbing to a dominant position on in fact, absorption. No really this mound of treachery what can great achievement has ever been ef-: he do? Democratic practice re- fected in the world by coalition. Al- quires primarily not that he shall ways they have been due to the. have a creative plan, but that he triumph of one man. shall understand the contemptible The strong man alone, has carved tricks of conveying his genius to a his way to Power, Fame, and Glory. flock of silly sheep and getting their The strong man is strongest when consent. In the Nazi Reich there alone, tremendous in his solitude,
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