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VAUXHALL-engines get 20% more power out of every drop of petrol used. That is why recent R.A.C.official trials over 1000 miles of public roads, produced these extraordinary results :---
25 h.p.
14 h.p.
10 h.p.
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474
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22,48 m.pl
30,31 m.p.#
43.4 m.p.8.
Compare these figures with those obtain- able on' care of similar power. And thes compare general performance. We will provide an adequate trial mus OS BRY Vauxhall model and prove in petrol OCENERY,
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MOTHER-I'M NOT GOING OUT WITH SIR VON PLATTER AGAIN- ONLY YESTERDAY!E PHONED AND ASKED ME TO GO FOR A RIDE IN HIS CAR-THEN LATER HE CALLED AND SAID HE'D FORGOTTEN HE DIDN'T OWN
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EXAGGERATED? MOST OF THE NAZI SUCCESSES HAVE BEEN OBTAINED BY THREATS
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HE Nazis' successes have all shrouds the facts of the Nazi re- of these deps
been achieved by threat of gime, and the many uncertainties achievement Before each new acquisition about the nature of 1939 war re-
need terrify of territory, there has been an im- quirements make correct computa- We need pressive display of armed force. tion impossible, But we can point fact that Ger The Nazi propaganda machine has to a great many facts about which inadequate. ( belched forth alternately threats secrecy cannot possibly be main- tent of about and boasts of the might of Ger- tained.
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GERMANY'S STR
many's strength and the opposi-
There is little doubt, even in Ger- tion has not tion, potential and actual, has been man military circles, about the dis- proved by th terrorised into submission. In the advantages from which Germany cho-Slovakia. conquest of Austria, of the Sude- would suffer during a long war and by the f tenland and' of Czecho-Slovakia, the that is, a war which lasted more ganda machin same technique has been employed. than, say, a year. Even in the most exerted the n And there is every reason to be favourable circumstances for Ger- crease agricul lieve that it will be used again in many, in which Italy and Spain there
is a the near future. Yet, on every were her allies and Russia and workers from. single occasion, when the techní- America were malevolent neutrals, ample evidenc que has achieved its object and the and in which there was no effective self of the ov Nazi troops have triumphantly oppositión on the Eastern front, the are on the lar marched in, independent observers difficulties which the German arm- to increase p have been peculiarly unimpressed by the actual strength displayed. The standard of equipment and even the technical organisation of the troop movements have been not nearly as impressive as the speed and energy and organisational pow- er of the Gestapo in rounding up potential opponents of the new re- gime. Military observers, in fact, have been surprised that the much- vaunted German military machine has not been stronger.
"CONQUEST BY THREAT”
Ever since this technique of con- quest by threat began to be em- ployed, indeed, a considerable sec- tion of public opinion has taken the view that the bluff should be called and that the threats should be re- sisted, confident that in the actual event the Nazis would not take the risk of a plunge into war. Obvious- ly as the Nazi strength grows, this bluff-calling becomes increasingly dangerous. But it is eminently ne- cessary to consider whether Ger- many could, in fact, afford to go to war with any prospect of success. On the answer to this question, in- deed, depends the whole of British policy. If Germany actually can- not hope for success, then it is very difficult to believe that the policy of united resistance could lead to war. Wild and irrational though the Nazi leaders may be, they will hard- ly plunge the world into war if they have no reasonable hope of win- ning it.. It is uncertain, indeed, whether even the purged Reichs- wehr would follow them in such an enterprise. The object there-
discover fore, is, to
how strong Germany's
potential tually is, The secrecy which
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SIGNING OF THE GERMAN-ITALIAN AGR hall of the Ambassadors of the new Chancellery of eign Ministers of Italy and Germany signed the e States. Photo shows Count Ciano the Italian Fore members of the Berlin Fascio who formed up at th
"Ehrenmal" in Berlin.
WELL-I HAVE SO MANY THINGS THAT I SHOULD HAVE DONE YESTERDAY THAT IVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT- THAT IT WILL TAKE ALL DAY TODAY. FOR ME TO TRY TO RE· MEMBER WHAT THE WERE-DO YOU MIND
HELLO-MAGGIE - SIR VONT PLATTER IS
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