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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
-WINDSOR HOUSE
NAZI THEORY
Hermann Rauschining. earlier example of a Hit- ler enthusiast who found he could not go on, has expressed a theory that Hitler does not really want to destroy the Bri-' tish Empire. For this he gives two reasons. Hitler is not ready to take over the world inheritance of
Great Britain. Too sud-
den collapse might actually bring the greater immediate profit to cer- tain rivals of the Nazi Reich, who have their homelands outside Europe.
In the second place, Hitler does not want to embark on the destruc- tion of the British Em- pire because that obvious- ly cannot be accomplish- ed without some very heavy fighting; and in the course of such a strug- gle it may very well be that decadent and de- generate Britain may find her soul and her strength| again. Better let the Bri-|
HESS
SHADOW - LAND
HITLER I WARN YOU. THIS MUST NOT AGAIN OCCUR, HERR HIMMLER. HIMMLER: MY PERSON AL OBSERVATION ASSURES ME THAT ALREADY, MY DEAR FUEHRER, ALL PRECAUTIONS TAKEN HAVE BEEN.
Morale In London
By the Right Hon. J. C. Wedgwood, M P.
Last war, when Jerry dropped a know there may
be
for not
to one.
of every
no Jerry which have played their part as tish Empire succumb to few bombs on the East End, men within fifty miles and the odds never before--free, determined, the inevitable process of bolted blindly, women hid their against their being hit are demun- eloquent, but critical decay which now has it in faces, and children ran screaming, strably millions
Many alaise of power. They have shown its grip than risk a Bri- All cursed Government
'may be inwardly terror-stricken; eut there is something to fight| protecting them and the rich for but see how hard they try not to for, as well as against. tain rejuvenated through
escaping, and smashed the shops look nervously up into the sky. war. Such is the Rausch-of German Jews. They felt that Drivers may "step on the gas" a ning theory.
was expected of theni, of all bit, because it doesn't show. The eivilians. Danger and courage girls in uniform consciously walk were then the exclusive perquisite of the armed forces.
This war, when and death hurtles
the sky cracks down, all may
are expected to. Praise a man! for fine qualities and he will seek to deserve that praise.
But if this was the ori-
on chalting, and other girls "don't There is yet something else, ginal strategy with re-
like to do different " All do what largely unnoticed, which has spect to Great Britain, it!
is expected of them, show nothing; steeled our nerves, I come back; must surely be evident
follow, or set, the approved ex- to the truism with which I start- that now it is too late.
be just as afraid, but they don't ample. That is as well, for feared. People will behave as they The harm has been done. show it and try to joke about it is horribly infectious. To any one reading the It is "bad form" to show fear. bulletins these last eight Public opinion is much stronger months from the skies, than any law. over London, from the If that miserable siren starts River Plate, from Coven-moaning when you are out shop- try, from Glasgow, from ping in the morning, everybody five years ago? Plymouth, from Libya, in the open is gripped in some from East Africa, fron degree by fear, Greece, from Taranto, from Liverpool, from Bri-
although they
Why this change from twenty-
The British and British courage have been praised as never before in my lifetime, probably as never before in history; not by ourselves, This: This is a very united peo- which would be easy and value- ple. They know there is no way less, but by those afar who have out, With all Europe behind had much to criticise in our past.
Dutch welcomingi him, Herr Hitler's "peace" could I think of the formulas only give him time to hit again our death-dealing stol, it must be plain that juvenation
'planes over praying for the any process of decay has known to science or irresistibly by sea as well as air. Amsterdam and
safety of our pilots of liberation. been pretty well arrested. legend. Usually the opera- To be fighting alone, deserted, in
the last ditch, exalts one morally. Above all I think of America. tion arrests decay for a If it was Hitler's ori-term of years. If it leaves
Few can have read without deep We are united also in intense' emotion the press extracts and ginal idea to kill the Bri- the patient only half as appreciation and
America about our admiration, if letters from
land and our Londoners. Few tish Empire with kind-
young or strong as he not love, for the most remarkable' here have ever heard of Dallas. there in Texas, a ness, the opportunity dis- used to be, he is very well Prime Minister, who will promise Yet far away appeared after Dunkirk.
pleased.
nothing save "toll and tears, blood leading newspaper has this poem, quoted for us by the "Daily Nazi philosophers gave
and sweat," who invents only im- Express": mortal phrases which shape our
"Grim and gay," says he, and around us take on a
Do ye ken John Bull, with his clones so red?
Do ye ken John Bull, with his. up-flung head? "We will fight on the landing Do ye ken John Bull, with no
will fight in the sign of dread, streets," and straightway a million}
As he faces his flight in the morning?
the British Empire just In the present case it is one more generation be obvious that Hitler's cal-new lives. fore it succumbed to fatty culations started out with decay of the heart. But the British Empire, and he the ruins another generation of ends up facing the British new aspect. British decline at the rate Empire plus the United since Dunkirk might easi-
States. Hitler's advisers grounds; we ly find the British invalid were afraid that a full- and a half men spring up, unpaid, playing a good game of sized war would tone up to defend their homes.
the system of a com- "Never in the history of human tennis on the Rhine.
petitor embracing, say, many to so few," and the thought Hitler's gloom over the 80,000,000 English-speak- of our boys in the air anakes rebirth of Great Britain ing folk. Hitler's war has courage easy and fear shameful pleasing taste for the day. If it in the fires of war may be brought about a solid "It just goes rolling along," had come from Amsterdain or accentuated by the union of 200,000,000 Eng-says he, and we see a dawn of Athens, it would have been pathe- hope, of irresistible reunion, with tic and inspiring. But from Dallas, thought that it actually lish-speaking folk on both the New World, stepping forth in the Lone Star State, one gets a leaves the British Com-sides of the Atlantic. to be rescue and liberation of the lump
|·Old.". monwealth stronger than There is probably nothing ever. That does not usual-like such a result in the ly happen in the re- annals of rejuvenation.
conflict was so much owed by so
And so on for many stanzas. If that adaptation had come from Calgary or Wagga Wagga, or even from Aldershot, it would have been "Jolly fine;" and left a
in tho throat. It is good to have friends and re- lations who can appreciate it und Hitler has united, us, Churchill us. We will see to it that they has inspired us. But close behind never have cause to change their comes: a Press and Parliament vision,
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