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Bad And Regrettable
That means it is u insult to say of a man, even though he is a popular hero, that he was o Catholic and practically an enemy of the State, That kind of jus- tice is utterly worthless,
Goebbel Diary
own something that t
xtable,
I am now going to have a nùm- ber of the clergymen who remil' Moelders' letter from their pul plts, and who refuse to publiRİ A denial despite being taught the facts, taken into a concentration keeps its value and which one comp. I shall then publish ajenn loter pass on ns au inherlt- bulletin about it.
March B In one army corps | Alone 18,000 horses fell during February, 785 of them from ex- haustion.
ance.
Whether the Indians will take their file into their own hands ì, very doubtful. They are divid- en by so many religious Reets and so many rucial elements That they are scarcely capable of a unified and energetic expression of will
The Vichy people are seeing to it that the victims of the English bonih ruft are buried as quickly as possible. They are being in- terred in the various cemeteries March 14; In the afternoon we early to the morning
arrived in Vienna. The great Attendance, I am told, is very | Anschluss celebration took place small beenuse nothing Is soulf on Hero's Square, with about about the place and time Di† 19,002 peuple taking port, burial.
In a few trionumental sentences other words, Goebbel's gave a picture of the preseal funeral sifation which drew storms of Krantly plamed state Bizzled out.
applause. Vienna has indeed be come Reich eity.
There were March 15:
raids on the Reichs with Cologne as the principal target.
Java's Fall
com-
The Havana conference on trade, and employment has (now ended with the signature of the "final net" of the con- |ferenen by all the participat- ing eosintries except Argen- Line The final et ostab lishes the text of the Charter for the International Trade Organisation and it remains
March 9: The Dirteh for the governments to von-
rutique [about Jayn] is really søder whether they will for the last wont on the situation.
11 25 bad and mally accept the Charter and thus bring the organisation Europe that Holland should lowo her colonial possessions, but in into being. It was this Chur- the last analysis so small a preple ter which Mr William Clay-fas ne right in any overseas poss tom, head at the 11.5, delegā- | Lessions while antio of Ger tion, said right "well prove many's rank has none.
We are faced with the difffeult to be the greatest step in his- tory towards order and jus man people that if Churchill falls task of manking clour to the Ger- relations England PRIC 11:
need not necessarily Camong the members of the collapse; on the contrary, it might 1.
world cottrininity."
mean nu even more vigorous and i
Bee
-{
Five major, 20 medium, and 35 maller fres. The country near
1.v phrostibarous was hit regettable for y
bombs. Several railway lines are commission, temporarily To date five dead and 29 wound-
out of
A borste {31-4 the bridge
currents
are
Nationalist creasingly noticeable in all for mer Battle Stale.
Paris Bomb
Damage
result frain the English blockade but merely from the general war situation."
In Paris the bomb damage was not so bad as at first appeared. The population has already for gotten it. The French have ba come very insolent. But we'll dent with these when the time come.
Baltavia Pierced Baltic
Black-Out
Whether we shall succeed this spring and summer in defeating This is the story of a Russian the Bolsheviks no man call say. woman who couldn't say "no" to We must rely to some extent on English cup of coffee. It upon our good luck, and fight, comes from a thousand miles dile Many such situations arise dur- enst, from the crow of a British ing a war.
ship which sailed through the Iron Curtain, along the grey, shallow Baltle to a land of misery.
The victor will always be the one with the greater courage and the stronger nerves. Undoubted- ly it is we who have both.
March 20: Through snow and frost we drove to G.H.G. Morale there is extraordinarily good.
My work is praised by every- body.
The Fuehrer, thank God, ap- pears to be in good health.
He is really to be pitled. He - must take the entire burden of the war on his own shoulders, one can relieve him of and no The enemy is now making use responsibility for all the desi- of horoscopes in the form of sinus aut must be made. leaflets dropped from planes pro-
I became especially conscious future for of this during phesying a terrible the German people.
talk with Schaub Hitler's personni adjutant]. I um having counter-horo- told me that the Fuehrer had re- scapes prepared for distribution cently been not too well. One especially in the necupled areas. can understand this, for СУСП Fuehrer Speaks physically it is impossible for one
To
He
The Japanese have become He has absolutely no oppor-
carry such a gigantic March 17: The Fuchrer spoke person across the Rhine at Muehlheim; in Berlin. He gave expression lond over an extended period. traffic there has been Interrupted, | to his absolute coufidence that Added to this, the Fuehrer been completely destroyed, The cineras office of the gau has the Soviets would be completely practically lives in a concentra-
tion camp. Our destroyed this summer. department store
burned Was
The Fuehrer has offered a re- "ward of 100,000 marks for the up-dor to energetic proserution of the war.
This, of course, cannot hurt us prehosum of the methor of the much
to the long run, but 11 Forged Moelders letter. might cause un temporary trou- ble.
March 10:
somewhat insolent arcel over tunity for relaxation, and is lang confident. Their new ambassa-as he is awake is surrounded by
the Soviet
has work and responsibility. rashly declared that
The solitude victory
in which he is Haval parade of the Axis Powers rompelled to perform his duties
Union
20
To-day yoll
don't hear much about the three unhappy States lying along the const where the Baltic Sea swings ninety degrees north towards Finland.,
Estonia, Latula and Lithuania 'ore their names, and they're part of Russia now. Between the two World Wars they wera happy rep.blies that ran their own show very well. We
Used to cat
tons thousands of Baitie butter, you may remember. But it is no fun being a buffer State in wartime. By the timo
richly
wooded there fertile, countries had been annexed by tho Russin in 1940, overrun by Germans in 1941, and overrun 1944 by the Russians again la there wasn't really much of them left.
of
In fact, the difficulty is to find out exactly what is left. The So- viet official statistics about them look nice.
Stories from Germany and Sweden by Baltic refugees
By
in London or New York was no must sooner or later affect him Nicholas Carroll
Wehrmacht Caught merc dream or fantasy. but dreply.
was
distributed very widely in Vienn
I learn that this letter
tolleers
would really happen.
March 18 1Lord Halifax bigot«!
Generals No Help
a Communist regime.,have the
etrain or
ed Itinerant preacher, who, after) The generals, for the most about the gentle art of imposing of the Wehrmacht. the Western offensive, declined part, have not helped matters. Among others event General
the hand of the Fuchrer stretch-igh general staff officers, shinply atmosphere of horror that Streccius, personally participated ed out to him on behalf of peace cope with heavy spiritual crisis. はい the distribution, belleving it to be genuine.
cannot
Can now
prophesy
nothing
stand severe.
But dark and difficult times. It is just something they haven't
Ilo ha to admit that the lotter was sent him by Field Marshal General von Mackensen a Field Marshat in the 1914 war). This uk gentleman, who knows plti-are playing with the
has grown commonplace east of Ger- many.
Tempted, She Fell
The United Kingdom has beer commed at every stage drafting of the Char- H is a document of importance for
England is on the toboggan. The misfortune which has over- Butem which depends, per- taken her in the weeks is like haps more than any other on
an avalanche that begins with the expansion of world trade. small snowflakes and later, with The Charter is, in the nature thunderous noise, rolls irresistibly of the case,
down into the velley. a compromise,
Cries of distress are and as such is bound to give heard from Australia, less than full satisfaction to
The possibility of a separate all the governments concern-
peace with Japan is already being ed in its preparation. This discussed on the quiet. The Jap- applies to the United King-e have come so close to Aus- tralia that it seems to lie directly to others. before their I dom as well as
eyes as ready and The United Kingdom delegate enticing booty.
much must him because be apron strings of the English will expressed conviction, how-
Our fime:al ceremony at 1 such an important personailty. Place de la Concurde in Paris]} ever, that the principles be-
I have a report from Furls that never grow up. ems to have been treinendously sentiment among the Parisians is
The slogan of increasing pro- The fact that he gave no sign of hind the Charter are the right impressive. On Sunday hundreds by no means as anti-English as prove very effective once the de- renson why the front did not be-anchor a large boatload of Soviet
duction In Germany will not principles and that the ITO. of thousands of people led by we imagined. has great work inefront of it. the entufalque.
The Havana conference has been continuous session
in for four months and has brought
Lo
a
seems
Heavy Raids
fully little about pollfies.
Unfortunately
one
No doubt he would think twice today if the same opportunity were offered to him again.
March 19: In Australia they
scorched earth slogan. These states And countries thist are tied to the
cannot do Su
learned.
Besides, their initial success in this war have convinced too them that everything many of can succeed at the first attempt, end that serious dimculties can not possibly arise anywhere. front during the past winter. The Fuehrer alone saved the
weakness whatever was the real
food rations becames come shaky,
and then
The captain and crew. of the British cargo ship Baltavia found out something about Latvia last load of spring. They took a U.N.R.R.A. supplies to the port of Liepaja), destined ultimately for Libau (the Letts used to call it the Ukrainian Government.
Some time after she, dropped
officials came out to make a search of the ship. The captain! invited them into the room.
smoking
The Parisians are a peculiar crease in people. At firs! they rejoiced known. that the English had inflicted Nevertheless we are not mak-damage upon the Germans with
il vir homes. ing much conclusion
of this event in the German Press since there have
Then, when they learned that work done in London in also been heavy air raids on the hardly a German died, but that severe shock at the time of put some extent from his immediate asked: "Would
ensualties occurred only anong
Also, the suddenly com- Frenchmen, they The German people would had lained that Parks had not been been ordered it hard to understand it the Ger-protected sufficiently by anti-alr-dieties of the English food when he does he resents all such
Press shed leurs for the rift guns and that no alert had siltation, so that the pubile may Parisians but gave only
deduce that our shortages do not bean sounded, a few
You lines to our own losses.
cats't
much with Frenchmen. They are. a. macabre, people evidently doomed to na- tional-palitical destruction.
Realising this situation, I con- I have given orders that reside it all the more my duty to
Fuehrer now Jet the nanouncement about the decrease should leak put quietly here and have reports, news and Informa
Through An interpreter ho there, so that there may be notion which will distract him to
you care for lication.
war tasks.
Rome coffee and biscuits while It must be done adroitly, so you're checking the papers?" us that he won't notice it, because
Ruhr which we cannot splash in the German Press
1946 and in Geneva last year by the Preparatory Commit- tee of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. There were 58 de- legations at Havana as com- pared with the 18 countries To think what a number of do- which formed the Prepara-mestic questions are laid befor
one in the course of a day! tory Committee.
Should dancing girls be induct-
Same
sideration of the Charter-a
has
do
themselves,
German Press
to report on the
efforts.
(To be Continued)
You May Call Him "Tayshok"
Some of tho omcials looked enger. Their smiles dled away us the commandant, folling- Back In a chair, snapped buck: "We neither seek favours nor grant them.
The search began. One of the officials was a woman in uniform. She
examined the officers' cablas, then went down to look at the dining-room, galley and store- room.
The lost was her undoing. She LAW on opened. tin albisculls. She gulped, amb looked at the
who A stocky, greying, middleaged | Bar at University College, Dublin. sleword
taking her man whose features have a dis-1 Mr. Costello smokes cigarettes can I have one of those?" she in tinet "bulldog" Churchillion look but seldom drinks alcohol, al-
even
We know his line. It is above with us loyaliz of collaborating|ble wife and four of his Ave chil- I-home.
duy longcra
Toughest Job
WIEL
The crew haven't forgotten that visit to Libau For-four. hours they stood on the decir, in a temperature well below froëz-
March 18, 1942; The Moelders In one respect the Havana ed into the Women's Labour Ser-letter is now going the rounds of conference covered a smaller viec?
foreign countries. The B.B.C. field than the Geneva confer- the not they fail to get seized upon this forgery. It
necessary Nazi indoctrinu- | *
is interesting to note to what de- one agrees, they become ence. The latter concluded tion; if one
fat, ungainly, and unfit to dance rats, headed by von Mackensen, featist work the German gene- tariff negotiations between We are now trying to put them
Virals, members of the Preparatory through
lent and I have special
Courses, and Committee who were at the while organising them as in Ia-though unwittingly.
The activity of Partisans them the time considering the bour service. to give provisions of the Charter kind of work which will not dis- the occupied East has increase is Eire's new Tuvisnich (Prime though he is no teetotalier. At asked. "And perhaps”—sho Rinister) the first change for 10 week-ends he plays self, he is gulped again--perhaps a cup of whereas the Havana confer-qualify them for their profession. ed noticeably in recent weeks.
March 12: Eden has delivered They are conducting a well-years.
his year's captain of the famous coffee?" ence was confined to con a speech in the House of Com-organised guerrilla var. It is John Aloysius Costello, K.C., Port Marnoch, County Dublin. The Russian commandant was
mons accusing the Japanese of very difficult to get at them be- is the
popular conception of a Club. After the game he usual still looking through the ship's sufficient task for so many frightful atrocities against Eng-cause they are using such ter-decent Irishman." Retiring, un-ly leaves the 19th holers to their papers in the smoking room....
lish prisoners of war in Hong ritorist methods that-the-popula assuming, he liver quietly with cards and drinks and drives countries of varying econo-Kong
is afraid mic structures and stages of
dren-three boys and a girl-in development.
all an eloquent sign that the The spearhends of this whole Herbert Park, fashionable Dublin English are in a very bad way. Partisan activity are the political suburb. rest after defeat they begin den-Jews. It has
Every time they encounter de-commissars and especially His elder daughter Grace- prac-Conservative the opposite to Mr. were searched. The ship's radio
therefore proved tised at the Irish Bar until she de Valera, the narrow doctrinaire was scaled. ing sentimentality and weeping necessary
Nationalist. His newest „Jobis once again to shoot married-a solieltor. His eldest crocodile tears.
son, Declan, is studying for the one of his toughest ones to weld together into a National Govern- ment men of Ave groups who
When the ship was finally; al- have been bitter political enemies all their lives.
lowed to berih, her, cargo At 57
Mr. Costello can look unleaded by gangs of slave,da- back on a life divided into, two hour. Some were German War distinct parts. His first part, rioners. Some were Letts. Others were made up of assorted from 1923 to 1932, he spent la politics although he is one of nationals. All were filthy, zag- heavily and the few Irish politicians who took xed, underfed, no part in the trouble," the 1910, brutally guarded. rebellion or the Civil war.
He preferred his law studies.cognised a fellow-Pole in one of He held office in the State Pro- the gangs. He was a man who visional Government set up af- ter the rebellion.
The main lines remairi much the same as in the Geneva draft. In particular on a matter of great impor- tance to the United Kingdom, the articles,dealing with most favoured nation treatment
and the position of existing preferential systems such as that of the British Common- wealth, remain substantially unchanged.
D
The Japanese immediately gave tart and convincing answer. The House of Lords has once again taken a stand against the Arabs and for the Jews. It is surprising how much Jewish m Quence there is among the Eng-
st lish people. especially in the upper crust, which is hardly English la character any Jonger. doubt the fact that these Upper Ter Thousand have become so infest- ed with the Jewish virus Jewish murringes that they can hardly think in English.
Land Urge
The chief reason is no
by
In the section on economic development (which includes reconstruction) however, the provisions regarding new pre- ferences between territories which form an economic re- gion are now so drafted that
March 13: I should very much such new preference, will au-
like to have an estate of my own. tomatically be given the ap- earned by my own labour. It is. proval of the International of course, very difficult at the Trade Organisation if they moment to buy land because no- satisfy certain detailed cri- body wants to sell,
But I will continue to pursue teria. An explanatory note this aim. It is especially desir- says that the Organisation able for the sake of the family to may interpret the term
"economic region" in such a treatment of other regional way as not to require close groups and that of the Bri- geographical proximity if a tish Commonwealth," and no sufficient degree of economic doubt the commercial rela- integration exists between the tionships between the Philip territories concerned.
pines and the United States These provisions go further were very much in his mind. than previous drafts in 'their Generally speaking the re- recognition of the possibility, sults of the Havana delibera- of new preferences. On this tions will be hailed as a dis- fatter the United Kingdom tinct forward step. It is, at delegate said In the final ses all events, the first impressive alon that the United Kingdom demonstration in two years of Would expect the Organisa- the ability of nations to work tion to administer, these pro- out an 'acceptable compromise visions "so that there is no in circumstances not obvious- unfairnesans. between; the | Iy! favourableAHe
more Jews.
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What 'Jose
of plock, watchers.
He has been called a Liberaling-point, while their quarters
Three times in 1920, 1928 and
Slave Labour Gangs
WAS
A Polish grenzer on the Delta- vin got a shock when he re-
bad
Poland" in 1945 returned to and had "disappeared"
after a
Members of the labour gangs
1930 he represented the former few weeks at home, Irish Free State Imperial Con- ferences in London. He drafted used to toks letters on to the deck the famed Statute of Westmine at night. They were mostly, for Germany and Fo- ster, which deined the relations addresses ins
of Commonwealth countries with and The captain had them the Empire. Five times he was on another search.
Irish delegate to the League of Nations.
Phato
burntųj He wasn't
taking
Because, the slave
chances
labour, gangs
... frequently,, taken away to work on newly arrived Soviet
In 1932 Mr. de Valera was ships the Baltavia spent 10 days elected to power. Mr. Cosgrave unloading. Instead of a normal remained in polities and Mr. Cos three days." tello a front bencher. But, the
Estonians and Isecond phase of his life opened. Lathare "Scaltered "avor
He concentrated on law. Within the world. Thousands, fled west
few years he commanded the
during the2
War Thousands..it la biggest fees at the Irish, Bar, once said, have been „deporfed East/
In court. his cross-examination Shortly after the Baltavia's is devastating, and has, reduced; visit to Libau the Under-focno- many a witness to shattered in-tary for Foreign Affairs, fold coherence.
Parliament that, the British Gay- Now, John Costello's! ordered
erament had recognised - Soviet life is to be disturbed again. He administration in
was loath to return to wholetime, the
boliterous Irish politics. But he Nothing else would be a sebe. takes life and politics seriously, ible course," he said. "It i He accepted the Coalition Frex good thinking whhfully about it miership because he balloved or burying our heads in the gonuinely that it was for his pandehifespan wendy and mind, phra "country's, good.
V MiThai House, then adjourned, for ALAN MONTODMERY the Whitsun holidÁRKA,