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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 2, 1940.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
THE AIR WAR
The air war, after twelve
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Herr Thyssen's Revolt
Striking Appeal To German Workers
I consider myself the
which still bear his name,
owner
and
Nazis, and I was forced to emi-
months, is at last assum-and responsible leader of all the ing the form which it was works my father founded, some of expected to take from the therefore it is my duty to explain outset.. Germany, it was to my fellow-workers and at the
same time to as many Germans, thought, would launch at home and abroad as possible-- clouds of bombers against the reasons which made me leave my property, my work and coun-
·Britain, escorting them try and go to a foreign country. with fighter 'planes. She cather, to flee. I am against the preferred to organise her grate by their threats. I shall not aerial as well as her mili-return to Germany until this reign of blood and terror, of shameless tary strength for the power and godlessness has been lightning blows which rooted out. The wish to see this result gives me the strength to brought the Low Coun-work to free the world from these tries and France to their plagues, a world which has been poisoned by them and dragged into knees, and not even heavy a mad war, British raids into her own Over a period of several years I watched the Nazi Regime, which, territory were permitted as councillor of state and a lead- to distract her into at-ing administrator, I had good op- I perceived tempting large-scale airportunity of doing.
with growing anxiety, and then attacks upon Britain be-horror, the mistake I had made in fore the victory on land the N.S.D.A.P. together with von had been won. Now the Papen, von Schroeder, Kirdorf, Nazi air force is freed to we are, so to speak, the guaran- Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach. expend its full fury tors to Germany and the world against England, a fierce for Hitler's good conduct.
1932, when I undertook to finance
Here I must confess that I was
and incessant offensive is convinced by this awful man's likely to be maintained. power of persuasion, and glowing The Nazi High Command protestations as well as by his laughable mediocrity which pro- never shirks heavy losses mised complete freedom of action when decisive results are and America, were deceived; we to me. We, with England, France| sought, but massed day-were disillusioned by all the de-
light raids, whether brought about.
velopments that Nazi policy
It is in Hitler's)
against land or sea objec-lack of education and limited out- tives, may easily prove has brought European politics to look that his power lies. Now he disastrous if such a high a point where the only end can rate of casualties
be the downfall of Germany un- can less there is soon a change of re-
be maintained. Germany's gime.
ability to replace destroy- All Things To All Men ed machines is undoubted,
missions and money, mountains of
of the last German Government
The
LIBERTE
EGALITE
FRATERNITE
A NEW FOUNDATION STONE?
masses
or the
but she cannot so readily Hitler promised us the very things At that time, just as to-day, provide trained crews, we most wanted: to von Papen and the calculation that power and honour; to Krupp com- she has lost nearly 1,000 money, and to me in particular a 'planes since the begin-peaceful period of German politics at home and abroad; an under- ning of August indicates standing with England; an under- that serious inroads have standing with the working classes who, through far-reaching sociai been made upon her re-reforms, should be compensated serves of aerial personnel: the abolition of trade unions and for the loss of all political rights, The struggle for air the expropriation of their pro-remain in power, he becomes more wrote: "We have been shamefully, and judges who say "yes" to every supremacy, however, has pertes promise to a sheriff mad, more brutal and more ag-lied to and deceived by our Gov-crime of civilisation.
Christian state whose authority 'gressive. only begun, and, whether should be supported by the Church
ernment and Press." In the last three years Germany more is that true to-day! I am!
How much Confidence In The Army or not Britain is to be the East the Protestant-and by Afth and her population by 25,000,-ing that, this wickedness, blus-Germany put on a
in the West the Catholic, and in has increased her territory by alonly conscious of a dreadful feel- Instead of all that, we want subjected shortly to the the Army.
000 without a single European phemy and selfishness, which op-basis. Hitler promised, and this for me State protesting
progressive ordeal of attempted inva- was the most important point, not force. Hitler's
with armed presses millions of Germans, will other European States must dis- We must disarm and the sion by sea, her people are to attack the Catholic Church. He
dark, intricate, finally force them to suicide and arms too, but without thoughts certain to have to endure interview with Monseigneur Kaas, in the style of a Wagner opera
repeated this promise in a long by "the Glory of a Great War"
revenge-loving, brain is haunted complete hopelessness.
of vengeance and victory. War in a full measure of suffer- the Papal Nuncio, which he had with fairy tales and fireworks- tells us of the cruelties
There is no truth
the world of to-day is madness, in what he for it is impossible to conquer ing through aerial attacking, who was Chancellor at that keeling on the ground praying to lish and their desire to destroy Czechs. For a short time we can
without the knowledge of Brun-
with hoarse, drunken
of the another people. We have not real- French, the trickery of the Eng-ly conquered the Poles The knowledge that time. This talk led up to the fall him, and himself as the king-a Germany, the crimes of the Poles. suppress them and transport them R.A.F. bombers retaliate and the beginning of this epoch singular wonder this new Messiah All these stupid lies about. Aus-to other places but we cannot do in kind, and are daily and of German and European politics sword, press, radio and perjuries. France, England and America Russia and Austria could not do who destroys the world by fire, tria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, in twenty years what Germany", nightly ranging with de-for the second world war.
which we have to thank to-day And so has this fool, who never have about as much value as his in several hundred. We must con- moralising effect over Catholic Church, or rather the mics, the meaning of European war, his pact with Stalin, his love union of states, themselves inde- knew the power of modern econo-statements about the rights of this struct a Germany made up of a their vast target, will en- Nuncio, who influenced the course freedom of men,
diplomatic skill of the Papal history and society, the, life and for Mussolini and the unconquer-pendent, inside a union of Euro- courage the British public or politics during the last years of this war. And now that he has all this is criminal madness. ItBavaria, Wurtemburg, Austria, brought about able valour of the German people pean states. Each of these states to withstand their own conquest over
the Weimar republic, won the only drawn us into it with himself, hels Germany who will have to pay Prussia, Hesse, Rheinland. etc.
Hitler-the Con- is silent, his followers are silent, for the muddle with her life. losses, increasingly severe cordat.
From the 'first
will be partly responsible for the the chosen leaders of his party are as these are likely to be the Concordat really only existed dark foreboding, haunted by the a gangster film with a bad end: people and help to day, however, silent. His people are silent, full of
Hitler is nothing. An épisode in
security and prosperity of the come. The battle for aerial on paper, for the value of an picture of their downfall which is There is nothing extraordinary sounds for a war.
remove all mastery is far from being nicht depends on the spirit as certain as the defeats of 1807 about that, and as the English There is another point; my.can- confined to the spectacu Hitler's spirit is opposed to all
army is interested in this man, his fidence, and that of other intelli- end is certain. However, I realise gent Germans, in the leadership lar death-wrestles over example of a gross liar whose cus- have thrown everything overboard I have had with my fellow work we cannot expect salvation
agreements. He is the obvious
For myself I can say that from various conversations that of the army has been thaken, and land and sea. It is being to it is to deny to the people's that bound me to these men anders that the great question in the the Gerinan officer acted so con- waged with grim intensity and the ined that the as their councils. I am the only de- people's mind is, what is to hup-trarily to right and the proper sworn and promised them the day legate who took part at the Incat-gen when Hitler has been got rid conduct of political questions as in the workshops and on before, There exists for him neling of the Parliament without of. It is, as we have sold, like the he does to-day. His firmness and the training fields, and truth, neither a Christian tradition enough of assisting as a dumb caught the criminal then the law war. Instead of being a detence ther an objective nor subjective giving false attestations. I had had end of a criminal. When one has scruples could have prevented this one of the purposes of nor a European society. For him spectator, at this comedy, these does its work. The State, whose for the people he follows amblti- German bombing raids is every day that he is allowed to
there only exists, his own ego, and outbursts of womanish, whining, future the criminal has jeopar- ously the "Pled Piper of Braunuu"!. to check the rapidly grow-
megalomania, which were condised, starts to live again. The on all his dark ways, What is the demning to death Germany's exis-people long only for rest and use of the "new spirit of comrade- ing output of British air-
teuco, industry, army and finance. peace. Never again a party, nor un shap between officer and men craft factories and re-The aid which they can
army, nor a single man-be he a when it only helps to lead them prophet. or a genius. Never again to ruin. strict the opportunities give in providing skilled
"Strength through Joy," uniforms The most distressing thing to for training crews. It is airmen and manufactur-
for children, a private army, nor contemplate is the fact that, with It is a thousand pities that all SA, nor S.S., nor Gestapo and this deceit, fraud, suppression of here that the Dominions, ing aircraft, supplement-be crushed in this agony under "Lebensraum." Never again
life, hope and happiness should purity of aryan blood, and the truth and lust for war and beyond the reach of ing the flow of aeroplanes which Germany suffocates and Greater Germany, and 20 a destruction, no state can rest or dif- prosper. It was difficult to con- enemy bombers, can be of from the great factories will anally cease to exist. I am an ferent kinds of marks. Never again quer in the Middle Ages: to-day it old man and well. I remember the swastiks, pogroms, concentration is impossible. The technique of supreme service to the of America, will turn the last war, in fact I know more camps, torture chambers, splen-modern arms have seen to this. hard-pressed Motherland. scales against Germany. A great patriot of those times bahnen," Never again professors shot being fired.
about it than most living people.dld buildings, flings and "Auto-Germany, has lost without
in which it is made.
and 1918,
A Thousand Pities
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