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Nazi View Of Future War
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THE VIEWS HELD BY THE GERMAN GENERAL STAFF ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF A FUTURE WAR ARE AUTHORI TATIVELY OUT-LINED IN A PAMPHLET, *DEFENCE POLICY," BY LT.-GEN. HORST VON METZSCH, A WELL-KNOWN WRITER ON MILITARY SUB- JECTS.
During the war he was Chief of Staff of the Twelfth German Army Corps.
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"We can see our salvation only in a harder stroke," he writes, "never in a 'long wind.' We must never against give the world chance to exhaust our striking pow- er before a decision is reached so that we then succumb to superior economic endurance,
"The search for a quick decision," he adds, "requires that no limita- tions which might delay victory must be imposed on the employment of force. Our reply to anyone who says that we must aim at the
humanisation of war is that the shortest wars are the most humane
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"AGGRESSIVE POSITIONS"
Answer to-morrow,
2-cigars 3-watch 4-stockings 5-umbrella
He Has Put On 31 Lbs.
LONDON, MAY 26.
Gen. von Metzsch adopts the in- teresting standpoint that any future war in which Germany is engaged must of necessity be a "defensive war" because she will be defending A STATISTICAL WORK OF 30 PRINTED PAGES “ALL herself against the Treaty of Ver- | ABOUT THE FUEHRER” HAS BEEN RELEASED BY THE sailles.
GERMAN MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA AND SENT TO ALL GERMAN NEWSPAPERS.
Consequently, any attack made by Germany in any direction would be a "provoked" attack.
It is significant that among the "aggressive positions" against Ger- many created by the Treaty of Versailles he mentions the handing over of the Brenner frontier to Italy and of Strasbourg to France, as well as the creation of an independent Czechoslovakia and Austria:
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1 upplication. that Herr Hitler's yearly and balance sheet of Herr Hitler for stated 1938.
salary is 100,000 marks, about £8,- BANKING CORPORATION. During that year Herr Hitler in-500, which he spends almost wholly creased his weight by three and a on charitable purposes. half pounds, turning the scales
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He had 8,922 telephone calls, which he personally answered or requested. The Fuehrer made 97 speeches in 1938.
During the same business year raincoats,
WHY IT IS CALLED Herr Hitler bought two
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The London on New York King George met President Roose-tificial teeth fitted.
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He visited the theatre 31 times. the New York Mansion." It was the British who He saw "Tovarich", a play with an--U.S.$4.68-9/16. unwittingly gave it the name the ti-Bolshevist tendencies, three times, world knows well.
As an act of retaliation for the burning of York, now Toronto, by the American troops during the War of Independence, the British forces sailed up the Potomac and President's burned the Capitol and home.
To hide the scars the drab buff stone exterior was given a coat of white paint. But it was not until long afterwards, during Theodore Roosevelt's Presidency, that the
and on three occasions he was pre- sent at the operetta "The Merry Widow.”
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