THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 30, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
THE MODEST MARSHAL
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Had it not been for the Hess episode-plus the curious case histories of the leaders of Nazi Ger- many-rumours of a rift between Der Fuehrer and the many-uniformed Reich Marshal` Goering could be dismissed as sheerest guesses, or what the Italians delight in calling "tendentious" re- ports. But with the fan- tastic Odyssey of Nazi No. 3 as a background, it is necessary to remain open- minded about the activi- ties of Nazis 1 ́and 2.
It is a fact that little has been heard of the large Marshal Goering
since his congratulations to the Luftwaffe over its success in Crete. This is in contrast_with_other major campaigns which the Germans have under- taken. Early in the drive on Poland it was an- nounced that the Marshal was directing the German air force in the field. Just before the attack on Nor- way Goering warned of a blow in the West. Imme- diately after the opening
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Black Sea Drama
they hope to enthrone Skoro- padsky by accepting Naj tutelago. In this way they plan to make the Black Sea a German lake so that Nazi forces may move to the oil wells of Baku or carry on their
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The activities of General Skoro-thrust toward Iraq and Iran, rudsky are of interest here because their hordes toward-Iran and be In Iran the one man of impor yond. I met him years ago in tance -until recently WAR Paris, when he lived in rather Reza Shah Pahlevi. Soldier French capital. But poverty had rose from the ranks. First humble.. circumstances in the minded and soldier-born, he not broken him. This 70-year- trooper, then captain, colonel, War old leader of the Cossacks bore Minister, Prime Minister, till, by himself as a Duke.
evicting the: Kajar dynasty of soft-living Shahs of Perala, he was Sitting in a chilly room with a elected as Shahanshah (the King November wind, lashing snow-of Kings) in 1926. Like his Tur flakes on the curtainless windows kish counterpart, Kemal, the creat-
ed a modern state, destroying dri-. bal and feudal domination and re- organising and re-equipping the army. He controlled the power of the clergy, placed public finance in a sound state, revived indus-
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of the campaign against FOUR men - a Russian, an] Germans, the Russian dictator'a | terrorist anti-Soviet movement→→→ the Low Countries and Iranian are playing their part the desired effect. It will have
Afghan, a Caucasian, and an personality alone will not produce Ukrainska Vijskova Organisatsia France it was announced in the Black Sea drama.
to be something much more po that he was again direct-
tent, a tangible menace, as for ex- arrival of German ing operations. Much Stalin is included, because the ample, the
Black Sea's storm clouds are cast troops in the ancient cities of was made, in Berlin dis-
Bamarkand and Bokhara, ing their shadows eastwards to patches, of Goering's per- Afghanistan; likewise because the sonal conduct of the Russian-Caucasian dictator, being Battle of Britain last partly Oriental, has a name that September, including the has a bearing upon the reaction of report that he had pilot-in Middle East, in addition to those who may feel the Nazi thrust ed a bomber over London. his being directly concerned in the The plump Hermann Russo-Nazi struggle. was not much in evidence
I once saw Stalin, looking like during the Balkan a weary farmer as he sat on the battles, and during the
trunk of a fallen free, addressing a group of Uzbek peasants. His present war with Russia words were being translated by a he has apparently dis- Bokharian youth who seemed ill at ease in his embroidered skull- appeared from an excit- cap. The graybeards of the de- sert shook their heads disapprov❤ ing and portentious pic-ingly as they heard him repeat ture. Such modesty on Stalin's remark that Communism Marshal Goering's part is was simply their ancient faith in distinctly unusual and lends a certain colour to
In the evening.Stalin's disciples harangued the people in the public the current rumours, square. The propagandist dilated however
the fully upon Stalin's association with suspect
Lenin şince 1903; how he had bro- of his apartment, be regaled mo sources of these rumours pagated the great revolutionary's with stories of long ago when, as doctrines through the columns of the Ukraine also looms large in may be.
Borba Proletoriata. This was Central Asia as the Tast barrier The last important figure is His That the stories of the true, but quite beyond the com- before the Germans may hurl Royal Highness Sirdar Mohamed confinement of the second prehension of the average Tura dashing young Colonel of the Hashim Khan--the Afghan Prime koman__farmer. But when the Cossacks, he acted alde-camp to, Minister. He Is the uncle of the man in the German Reich speaker pointed out that it was the Czar and had actually be youthful Afghan monarch, could be entertained for a Stalin w Aslan Republics, against the provitice was under German and hard-working, he began. Itte struggled hard for come ruler of the Ukraine, when Mohamed Zahir Shah: Religious: moment is 8 pointed the thraldom of the Amir of Bok Occupation during the World War, as a Civil Servant during the re- commentary on the revo-hara, the eyes of his hearers | sparkled in appreciation, for here. lutionary character of the was something which they could Hitler regime, the explo- understand something", which
had melted them. sive personalities that compose it, and its But if they are called upon to money then went to Tetanbul Shah, in the recent war of Arghan
join in the struggle against the offering to incorporate his coun: Revolution.
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essential lack of slability One can be sure that in
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who
- shadowed Germany such vided for them.
stories are circulated should the British under the ross, probably as P. Herbert,
Sirdar Ikbal uy, and strove hard to mak
Ali Shah
Iran a self-sufficient country. Without borrowing from foreign- ers, he financed from national re- sources construction of an 870- mile-long Trans-Iranian railway line which connects the Peralan Gulf with the Caspian Bga;:
gime of the ex-King Amanullah Khan, and rose to the status orig Governor, :Thence he was transi ferred to the army, where he rose Later in exile, he organised the to the rank of general and foll National Caucasus Moverment hard in cooperation will against the Soviets with Nazi brother, the late Mohamad Na
try into the Turkish Republic, if vid they could be mada king of the But Ukraine once again. But Kemal Ataturk declined the offer. Isles, MP,,|
For 20 years (@kotópadský, has """|"waited,~-over-planning,- ploiting, with emendations and en- once said, "shake to an md keeping in close touch with
largements that would ung seem incredible to better-
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Since then he has been Prime Minister at Kabul. He has organ fred Afghan trade, education), and industry upon modern lines), wi the result that, the Afghani to-day has”no_national del agriculture" and industry
ted Thud 88 but also in Roland, redzotlova proaching, self-suf
his "oella" not only in the Ukraine have improved to the
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