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hostages who are to be shot.
By doing so, we will at least ensure that, the relatives and friends who usually stem from the same circles as the perpetra- fors disturb themselves and at least try to find the culprit.
A merry fight has broken out
Marshall and Hopkins, who in Australia about MacArthur's have returned 10 the United States, fairly outdo each other bragging.
jurisdiction.
the
They issue insane Ågures about production, and claim that with in three months activities will have begun on the Continent.
The Americans would like to ve him Five the supreme command without any strings attached, but Australians don't seem very much inclined to approve.
It appears they have #OCT
I see in these Anglo-American through this American movie threats nothing but an attempt to
eral with his somewhat un- frighten us. general military propaganda methods. April 28: Neutral reporters Americans' indicate that London is full of In
the any case
directions. Churchill is certainly Americans are thinking up desperate measures their letteres bragging about millions of sol- to galvanise the English public.
All reports from the United
that there recent
States agree
of enthusiasm for spark
war to be seen there,
We have received amazing re- about conditions in ports
The Fuehrer Angry At Escape Of General Giraud
raida.
They must receive at least [ficcomplished", with enough food and clothing to re- munitions; centres.. tain their capacity for work.
Like the English we misst at- The Fuchrer arrived in Berfin tack contros of culture, especially at noon. I had a talk with him, those which have only little anti-
He looks wonderfully healthy, aircraft. -
and is in the best spiritual and Such centres should be 'attack- physical condition. However, heed two or three times in succe is in extremely bad humoliralo and levelled to the ground; about the poor anti-aircraft de-then the English probably will no fence at Rostook.
forger, find pleasure in trying to frighten us by their terror. attacks,
Escape of Giraud
In addition, the Fuehrer is in a black rage about the escape' of General Giraud,
London continues to tarp on the theme of invasion, but no longer with the same pep and enthuslaxym as last week,
and Miss Bessie Thom wish political and military prestige has rumours about invasions in both which several battleships and the thank God, from not having any after night until the English were
diers whom they are training by all rules of the book for overy theatre of war.
to thank all friends and re-sunk very low. latives for of condolences, and. attendance at the
In funeral,
their bereavement. They also wish to thank Miss Noreen Lum, Mr. Yuen, nurses and staff of the Hongkong Sanatorium and Hospital for their kind-
ness and assistance.
BRITAIN'S BUDGET
The first Budget for which Sir Stafford Cripps is directly responsible, and which he will present to Parliament today, promises to be the most interesting and crucial for years, although there are no expectations of fundamental taxation changes, either for better or for worse.
to
demon-
isn't a
possible whatever cultural work has been done in Europe.
word
to
ner
convincing argument. 0
During the evening we had a little party at home, and I had an opportunity to speak at length and alone to the daughter of the Duce, Countess Clano.
She impressed me this time as exceptionally serious and earnest.
succeeded
in
on
and by
The Jewish Question
I talked to the Fuehrer once
He agrees that the Press take! Our reaction has alrendy taken n hand in the seach for him, and effect. The English have get cold offers a reward of 100,000 marks feet. for his capture.
It is reported that the English Anybody who extends aid and have already stationed demoli protection to him is to be punish-tion squad, in the Caucasus. ed by death. Giraud is extraor That's exactly like them! dinarily dangerous.
themselves They have proved If he
In fleeing to throughout the world to be great England he
he will surely replace destroyers of other people's pro- General de Gaulle, who
is of perty.
I had lunch with the Fuehrer, spiritual and moral calibre-11e le very angry about the Eng- function properly during the last } This would be very embar-
fish attack on Rostock. raid on Kiel, in the course of rassing, for the French emigre
The Fuehrer declared that he movement suffers at prosent,
night would repeat those raids Monte Sarmiento were seriously
real head. damaged.
aick and tired of terror attacks. This denial by the naval com- General Giraud
He shares my opinion absolute- mand is not very convincing. The escaping from German Imprison- ly that cultural centres, health leadership of the German Navy meni once before in World War resorts, and civilian cities, must... lan't what it ought to be. There I. That ought to have been be attacked now; there the pay- It would be better if some tens
is too much praying going on double the reason for the guards ohological effect la much stronger, these
thore and not enough work. soldiers of thousands of
to keep a most careful eye on and at the present moment that. were already in the zones where
[Grond Admiral Erich Raoder him, but this seems not to have is the most important thing. fighting is actually taking place. Kulbyshev [Rusia). Hell has
WDS a staunch Protestant.1
been the caso,
The *munitions Industry, he The latest act of sabotage (in broken loose. One can under-
The inhabitants of the Ukraine That is what enraged the sald, cannot be interfered with France) against a German mili-stand, of course, that Stalin is
were at first more than inclined Fuehrer, and rightly so,
Jeffectively by air raids, most serious dificultles
the regard the Fuehrer as
The navy's building activities tary train resulting in several having
We learned that lesson during with about food. deaths will
saviour of Europe, and to wel-do not mest with the Fuehrer's our raids on English armament be punished
It is reported from the United severe reprisals,
come the German Wehrmacht approval,
centres in the autumn of 1940, The number of people be States that the Americans have most cordially.
The navy is about 28 un- and had a similar experience declared our patents vold. That shot will be doubled and over a
This tutudo has changed com- modern as anything can be. It has when, vice versa, the English, pletely in the course of months. no leaderħlp of any calibre, and attacked Germun munitions thousand Communists and Jews fits their mentality exactly.
I have the Impression anyway We have hit the Russians, and therefore does not exhaust" the plants, will be put into guards' vans and that the Americans participate in especially the, Ukrainians, too possibilities that present them- 28-0.0
Our task now must be to reply shipped east.
war every
And Inventions offered to terror with terror quarter hard on the head with our man-selves. There they will soon cease to European
order to be able to see any fun in disturbing Ger-century in
ALore used only sparingly. of dealing with them.
razing English cultural shrines to Blero as cheaply and easily as clout on the head is not always In this connection the Fuehrer the ground. That is now to be many's politics for order in
expressed the opinion that the done
the biggest scale Europe.
Sinta should buy up every inven- possible. Gandhi Interview My articles aro described as
tion, even though it cannot The English will be surprised Gandhi gave an
when this undertaking is launch- interview in being exceptionally effective. The
be used for the moment, which he once again urged non- article about the "War of Paper"
Inventiona must never be solded on a big scale, Thoy belong to foreign countries, Main background to it, of resistance.
to a class of human beings with veritable He Is a fool whose has indeed wrought a
Unfortunate experiences In whom you can talk only after further and miracle. course, is the very heavy sur-politics drag India
to you have flṛat knocked out their further into misfortune.
My definition of grumbling as
World War I ought really plus of income over expendi-
The birthday of the
the "soul moving a bowels" She is extremely intelligent, and deter us from irresponsible treat testh, Fuehrer: ture during the last year, was celebrated in the late after-so I am informed-has already whert one talks to her at length ment of German inventive genius.
become a household amounting
she reveals. herself as the real to well over noon by an unpressive
The Tank stration in the Berlin
throughout the nation. Philhar- £600,000,000.
daughter To outside observers this monic Hall. huge internal surplus must in the State, the Party, and the seem paradoxical when it is Wehrmacht were assembled there. taken in conjunction with in- My speech met with great ap- dications that
is proval. Britain
In the evening Goering issued struggling against tremendous odds to avert economic disas-German people in which he paid birthday proclamation to the ter problems, which are only tribute to the personality of the to a limited extent modified Fuehrer in very dignified lan-
For instance, they gathered by the passage of the Aid Bill guage.
an offensive in The East) the in Washington and its signa-
April 21: The military com- together soldiers who had return- The anti-aircraft didn't; func- Fuehrer is exceptionally optimis
in France ho adopted ed from German Imprisonment in tion properly, so that damage to tic mander ture by President Truman.
In normal times, a Budget more stringent measures on ac schools where they were briefly public buildings was more exten- He has received very depressingį.
count of rullway sabotage.
indoctrinated and then
sent sive than in all other Engilm air report about internal conditions was in good form even though Thirty hostages surplus indicates current or
(Jews and round various troop elements to raids since Luebeck.
in the Soviet Union. They have he spoke recent prosperity. Condi- persona close to the perpetrators) deliver lectures about the cruel 1 I sent R couple of robust nothing to eat, they live from that he
of prisoners by the journalists into tions today are, however, a are to be shot Instead of the 20 treatment
occupied France hand to mouth, and the popula-
rather originally intended.
Germans.
terrifie physical and spiritual with an assignment to give pro- tion feeds on bread and pickles. long way from normal and
If the perpetrators
which not are
instructions have now been
be had' The soldier's equipment is sald exertions
to make por Press treatment to under- the very size of the surplus caught within three days
have
taken an issued by us for better treatment takings such as that of Boulogne to be the poortet knaginable during the winter is a significant underlining of additional 80 will be shot and of Soviet prisoners and for dif- Our reporting hitherto has been There are heaps of examples and their
toll
all and Communists ferentiation between the treat too dry.
proofs of widespread pating of the unbalanced state of Bri- thousand Jews
Soon, however, he became fred (instead of the
hundred ment of deserters and of real
the English you human flesh, not only by To impress
enthusiasm. tain's economy. Part of it for originally intended) will be de-
prisoners.
must present an undertaking of Bolshevik Army, but aleo by Churchill in a superior and extra- instance represents, in actual ported eastward.
I have recolved statistics about that kind more as though it were elvillans.
ordinarily ingenious manner. fact, the conversion of Bri- The English are at present in a the
The Fuehrer devoted of Jews in the a sporting event.
ex- The generals were put in their number American radio, film, and Press Lain's dollar loan into goods very difficult milltary position.
You must not limit yourself to tended chapter of our talk to the place, He also spoke of which have been sold to more of them than they are at
The Bolsheviks are demanding industries.
-a mere rehearsal of facts, ........vegetarian question. Ha belloves duals who failed-at-criticalt,mo-. The percentage is truly terri- It appears that British air raids more than ever that meat-outing ments and lost their nerve. British manufacturers for present ready or even able to fying. Jews are 100 per cent, in on German cities are not taken is harmful to humanity,
In this connection the Fuehrer sterling on Government ac- give. So they have to do a lot control of the film, and 80 to 85 count. Another part repre- of bragging.
per cent, of the Press and radio. the English would like. Embarrassment sents the holding back (by
That fact explains the confus- They have now chosen the ox-reverse our food
the war, however, he intends to demand was taxation) of the spending This cause us a certain embared spiritual conduct of the war pression "to Luebeck" in place of
tackle this problem also, potential of the country in-rassment since we consider better by the enemy. The Jews are not the expression "to Coventrise" in-
He may bo right. Certainly Goering then introducel the ternally to prevent it compet-not to deny the crazily exagger- always as clever as they would vented by us.
his arguments are wery compell- ing in home markets which ated reports they issue about the like themselves to bellave.
Whenever they are in danger possible to prevent this expres- {success of the British air raids. are already markedly short The German people, of course, they prove
be excessively sion from being used in interna-majority of humanity is living a
tional terminology are quite aware of the efficacy" | stupid. of consumer goods.
The new law vegetarian life, and that animals My health leaves much to be All Reich departments affected which live on plants have much passed amid stormy anivos Unless the Government had of these ale attacks. achieved this surplus, thetish claim they
When, for example, the Eng desired at present, and I believe are now in favour of new regula greater powers of resistance than applause.
have destroyed I shall need health more than tions for the employment of in-
After the speech I had another money would have been run- and ruined the Ruhr region al-anything else during the difficult bour from the mast in the long those that food on meat,
It is also significant that hu-long conversation with the Fuch- run we cannot. solicit additional man beings, generally speaking, Ter. He was very happy to have ning round loose and tending most completely, everybody knows months ahead.
April 25: this is a athpld and obvious le
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East if we eat only the meat of animal talked himself out. ... There is no reason to expect with which to impress the Bolsho- energetically denied the allega-] treat them like animals within which themselves feed on plante)
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which conditions there must be simply catastro- phic. The deserier claimed that) more than 1,000,000 people and already died of hunger.
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The report is so revolting that? it makes ann's stomach turn read it,
April 22: The De Gaullists and Cominumista claim-and they are not entirely wrong-that Laval was earlier involved in French corruption acandali and is not qualified to represent. France in the New Europe,
To
The Russians in Berlin have paused, after an obviously auference. We could hardly and Uis that is a matter of in- calculated move in the cold a better man then Laval for our war, designed to test nerves policies.
We shall probably have to pay at a critical juncture in Euro-
him
something- if he fulfil the pean affairs. The Immediate hopes we place in him. But first tension may be considered it" is for him to show what ho over, without providing a can do p substantial casing of minds. Paris Reprisals The Russians have shown During the night ", another plainly enough that they have fatal, attempt was: made on the no intention of operating life of German soldier in Paris. four-power government in ren hortages are being shot, 000 2. The reprisals are very severe. Berlin on any basis of give Communists, de Gaulilists, and and take or cooperation," "The Jews shipped to an okatern, 18- bluff has been called but, tem bour camp, the curfew hour la porarily, doubtless while they theatres, cinemas, and places of | being wet much fu' earlier, Stand look around for another way amusement closed altogether. of playing-thefry hand, Sewa mamla
of her father. Russian Deserters I gathered that the Italians pin The tank was invented by a more in detail about the Jewish
all their hopes on the success of German-Austrian, but was then question, April 24: The number of [Russian] deserters is on the in- As things stand they cannot be no interest in it in Germany, wants, in all circumstances, to our impending summer offensive. sold to England because there was His attitude is unrelenting. He crease, although the Bolsheviks de have heard about
fexpected to last through an end-The State must be much more push the Jews out of Europe. executions,
careful in this matter. less continuation of the war.
The Jews have brought to freezing, and bad treatment in our prisoner-of-war of German imprisonment. camps, and are therefore afraid The Bolsheviks made clever use of such information.
exposure to
to
CARNIVAL
Rostock Damage But just as you cannot expect, much misery to our continent
a cow to lay eggs, so you connat that the serverest; punishment April 26: The British
are expect a bureaucrat to look after meted out to them is still too publicising their last air raid on the interests of the State pre-mild, Rostock in the grand manner. It perly in such matters, pretty disastrous.
has been, it must be admitted, In judging our possibilities (for The Reichstag convened at 3
นก
p.m.
There was an atmosphere- great tension After a brief Introduction by the Fuehrer spoke. He' Gooring
rather
He told me
felt
Arst haltingly after his speech numb. The
at
the with
even
He criticised
indivi-
as seriously by the Bolsheviks asing the war we cannot completely ers for himself,
Of course, he knows that dur- demanded absolute plenary pow», system. After ference ton
Individuals. tically and noisily.
with re-
enthusias
This
approved
new
Bil giving the Fuchrer full powers to remove
We are going to do everything|ing, is actually true that the great judges whenever he considers it
rather than on those which are carnivorous.
Coming of Spring
By Dick Turner
The
ow don't you be a coward, Homeri Yo that history prof and nak him tà
Fuehrer's
necesary.
officials and
Need of Holiday
Was
The. Fuehrer told me, that the condition of his health, was Kuchi dominating that he simply" must take thres thought is his joy at the malistic months" leave sometime, die den lcoming of spring. He tells me But when, how, and where can
that never before in all his life he go on holiday,
He realises has he awaited it with such fer himself that it can't be done.. VOLLE,
And yet he is During the coming year Ink God,
never wants to see snow again,||
Least he will now
It has become physically repul- go to the Obersalzberg for a few sive to him.
As regards, the French, the day, even though it be for im Fuehrer is of the opinion, as be portant talks with the Duce.
The Obersalzberg always han: « fore, that we shall never come
to a friendly agrement with soothing effect on him.
them.
*
moment.
Talk about collaboration intended only "for", the
The Fuehrer must now be very careful about his health. For this reason we installed no spotlights He wants to soe deads before in the Reichstag There - words, However the war may Alk
De dur-i:
ways the danger that he might end, France will have to paying a very severe strain
muter a dangerous dearly, for she caused and started is touching to hear the Fuch=" hit with that he may
it
She is now being thrown back
It
to her borden of 1600. A.D.. This] beprosto in to see, the
victory.
menos that Burgundy will again day of vic
The visions be
become part of the feich, wysta fas of the
the coming, peace, are truly We shall thereby win, a pro- intoxicating vince that so far as beauty”and] April 26 The air raid last wealth are concerned compares night on Rostock was even, more more than favourably with any devastating than those before 12 d ofbur. German province,
April 27** Last night the Community life there is pracfleira
launched had wrtho gwenport, azfphic,REAN FREN
heaviest air attock hitherto yetition plus an unchi
The altua-,
Rostock once again. He objecave orders
orders to havs handbrits tive. Tremendous damage is re-printed ; with...
with pictures ported,
Pas damage, done
the
the
Reld
-All® long-distance : communica-17′′.
and under ther tion with? Rostock has been in-|-** announcement terrupted. Seventy per cent of
all houses in the centre of the raid are dominates using lower arts said to have bom dian
gig leghere handbill are to be drop- Reprisal Raldspin are for?
I now consider it absolutely tacked; I axpect quite
ntial that gre contintie with logical, effect from; this.”)
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sexes, that not much is to liv