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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 30, 1941.
[UNITED STATES STRENGTH RECOGNISED
"THE GERMANS
US" REMEMBERED
FEAR ---John Cudahy
(John Cudahy, United States Ambassador to Belgium in 1939-40, recently returned to the United States after a three-month visit in Germany, during which he interviewed Adolf Hitler and many Germans high in the official and business life of that country).
AN ACCURATE STATEMENT is that America's formal entry into the war will have a profound de- pressing influence upon German public opinion. Our non-fighting belligerency is recognised and accepted by the German people generally, but that is far from active shooting participation.
The prestige of the United States is very great. It is known that we have never lost a war and never made a compromise peace, and the Germans fear that if we move into this conflict, we will move in for the knockout blow.
When I talked to Herr von Rib- bentrop Germany's Foreign Min- ister] he mude no effort to dis- parage American military poten- lia.ities and the significant in- fluence they might in time bring to bear upon the trend of con- flict, but he expressed the opinion that modern warfare demanded such mechanised could not mobilise the force of America before it was too late, before Germany had gained crush- ing ascendancy that could neve be over-taken.
"The German people will eat stones if need be," he said grim- ly. "They are united to a man back of Hitler, no matter where
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POLISH GESTURE
TO RUSSIA
he leads them, no matter what SPEAKING AFTER MR. EDEN happens to Germany."
Fuehrer, no matter
TO
A
AT THE FOREIGN PRESS The war is not popular. But LUNCHEON IN LONDON YES- that does not mean that the Ger- TERDAY. THE
POLISH PRE- GENERAL SIKORSKI, man people will not go through to MIER, effort that we the grim end and follow
MARTYRED POLAND, their SAID
COULD BE NOBODY how desper- WHERE ate the situation may become. I FOUND
SUPPORT suppose a war referendum would | POLICY OF COMPROMISE WITH WAS WHOLE- have resulted 80 per cent, against, GERMANY,
the die has been HEARTEDLY IN THE CAMP OF The post-war generation of Ger- but now that
DEFENDERS OF FREE- mans do not feel the same appre-cast, all Germany is prepared for THE hension about America, as they are tude is negative rather than post-
a finish fight. The common atti- DOM OF THE WORLD. ignorant of the war a generation tive, with no sense of triumph agr Their profound faith in their
elation over the Fuhrer gives them a sanguine
of military successes. feeling that cannot be shaken They are impressed by the un- broken success
of the German
or
unbroken series
General Sikorski continued: "The Polish nation firmly stands with the British and American
not Democracies and now will hesitate to come to an agreement with Russia on honourable and just terms.
"We are acting in accordance conceivable terrain from the Hotel, the swankiest spot in Ber-with the interests of the Polish fjords of Norway to the Maginon, when the announcement came raisons d'etat and are ready Line and the mountainous going over the radio of the capitulation assist everything which acceler in Yugoslavia and Greece.
No Cheers For Victory of collaboration Army fighting over nearly every I was in the bar of the Eden
Hitler's undisputed, manding eminence in Germany
to
of the Epirus army, which meant ates the victory which is certain.” com. the end of Greece. But people
is illustrated by the Hess epi-wine and a sloppy, almost kickless seated at tables, drinking Rhine
sode. Rudolf Hess, a man of
beer, recorded nothing. You might education, was a tough rough- neck, a hard-hitting, two-fisted have thought they were listening
to a weather report. fighting man who stood by Hitler in the early days of the I was in Berlin after the fall of National Socialist movement. the Low Countries, when every
I was in the Ber in Foreign Of-house was, by order, decorated fice when the Hess sensation broke with Swastika flags. But bey d and the effect was such panic this display, there was no celebra- stricken consternation that
tion. Not a note even of satisfac-
a
Reuter.
NAMES REMOVED FROM LIST
Forty-six names have clumsy story was put out in the tion. I was told the same thing been removed from the "Voelkischer Beobachter" that he was true after the fall of France.
mission.
in
a
was Insane. It was twenty-four | The attitude is negative, yet there United States black-list of hours later before the Propaganda is an unyielding determination to firms and agents in Latin- Ministry regained its composure win.
America acting on behalf enough to print the explanation of So there is no chance of an In-} an unauthorised negotiated-peace surrection under prevailing condi- of the Axis powers.
tions, and one would have to re- This was announced The effect of the first story lin-cognise overwhelming defeat, Washington yesterday by Mr. gered among the people, who had crushing to German morale, before Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary a feeling of bewilderment and re-any movement for different lead-of State, who said further dele- sentment against the government, ership could be effected.
tions and additions would Be Why, they asked, if Hess was in-
I came away from Berlin the made from time to time on sane, was he continued in a res- ponsible position, and what kind last week of May, after a three-basis of continuing study.
Wellés simultaneously of government was it that kept month stay. My notes record six- Mr. crazy men in office who might air raids during that time. I lived issued a formal statement saying of the some-day rule?
at the Adlon Hotel, close by the that the chief effect ;' Had not Hess been solemnly Brandenberger Gate; on Unter den black-list was "to deny the bene
Linden. The attacks came in the fits of inter-American trade designated No. 3 by Hitler to suc-first hours of the morning, usually persons who have hitherto been ceed the Fuehrer after Reich Mar-
using large profits. and finance shal' ́Goering? What did the a half-hour or so after midnight."
for subversive activities aimed whole thing mean? people asked The most telling attack was | at undermining the peace gloomily. They took a very black made in April, when more than independence of the view. But, of course. no one 100 incendiary bombs were dron-hemisphere."-Reuter. thought of doing anything about ped on Unter den Linden, twenty- it. Nor is it easy to see what three of them in the Pariser Platz
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they had been minded to protest. lit up the scene with the lurid
Hitler's Prestige
to
and
.western
BADLY BURNED
light of flaming torches. The old Opera House was completely gut- Badly burned "when corrosive ted, the University Library wreck-acid was thrown over his body, a Certainly, the prestige of Hitlered and severe damage was in-15-year-old Chinese lad was ad- was not affected. And if, as many flicted upon three business build-mitted to Kowloon Hospital yes- people believe, the flight of Hessings facing Unter den Linden, illustrates clashing interests, dis- trust and jealously within Nation- al Socialist ranks, none of this touches Hitler. To-day, all ób- servers, agree, regardless of their wishes in the matter, that Hitler is Germany and Germany, is
Hitler.
Great Damage
terday. If is alleged that the acid was thrown by 2 19-year-old youth who has been detained - by the Police
THEFT FROM A.R.P.
TUNNEL
The common run of people in Germany stay strangely detached; as though they were indifferent spectators of this war, which will control their destiny and the des * Ever-since the beginning of the tiny of unborn German ́genera-
An electric cable, some 150* National Socialist regime some of tlons. When the British sky raiders yards in length, was stolen from SAVES YOUR TEETH BECAUSE IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR GUMS us had been hoping for an Insur stayed until the early morning the No. 5 AR. P. Tunney, Hung
rection in Germany and an over hours, I heard Germans say They Hom, during, Monday night. throw of Hitler. - Months before must get going now, the light will m GIBBS
the Blitzkrieg. came to Belgium | be coming and they will get shot we followed eagerly a line of down." They said this with" "sin- speculative evidence that indicat cere solicitude.
It wa very hard to understand. ed a breach between the Nazis And, more, curious,” was the 771 never gotë to; -Hamburg, and the army chiefs, who the oculist on Freiderlechstrasse It Bre or the Ruhr Industrial. story went, were convinced that was the day after the big raid, that section but people who had seen Hitler was a wild, frenzlist, fana- knocked out the Opera House, the British air damage in these tic But Count Jacque Davig-Those must have been American regions told me that it was far non, Belgien Ambassador in Ber-planes last night, they bombed us greater than that suffered by the lin, told me that such a hope, like so wel," he said, enthusiastically, capitali. This was especially true. so many hopes looking to German as if he wished to share my pride of Hamburg and Bremen, where Idefeat, was based on delusion in this American achievement that they said the docks, had been where the wish sired the thought, Ihud rained hell upon his country. amashed with great effect.
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