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THE CHINA MAIL,
„WED NESDAY, APRIL 21; 1948
The rise of Hitler to power, the
all Germany, and the rapid, ac- at Gottman armed live growth power led to further differences between me and the Government and the various political parties
The Fifth
Instalment
THE
Churchill's Memoirs
GERMAN MENACE
man
£3
fortify my opinion about the Germany. Our family expediable style that we all enjoyed wrong or are against the country, Hitler movement. For my part, tion, which included "the Prof," ourselves immensely. He seemed I understand resisting them with the many connections which Journeyed agreeably along the to know all the English tunes they try to monopolise power in I now had in France, in Germany line of Marlborough's celebrated that I liked. He was a great en- any walk of life; but what is the and other countries, I had been march in 1705 from the Nether-tertainer, and at that time, as is sense of being against a able to send film a certain amount lands to the Danube, passing thứ known, favourite of the simply because of his birth? How of information which we examin-fhine at Coblenz After passing Fuehrer. He said I ought to can any man help how he ed together.
a day on the
fold of Blenheim, meet him, and that nothing born?" From 1933
I drove 1033 onwards Wigram be-
Into
Munich and spent would be easier to arrange. Herr Be must have repeated this to came keenly distressed at the the best part, of a week there. Hitler came every day to the Hitler, because about noon the polley of the Government and the At the Regina Hotel a gentle hotel about 3 o'clock, and would next day he came round with the forthcoming marriage of ¦ domination of the Nazi party over chicts torined every day a higher Hanfataengl, and spoke a great
While his official man introduced himself to some be very glad indeed to see me. course of events.
rather a serious air and said that of my
party:
was Herr
the appointment he had made I had no national prejudiges with me to meet Hitler could not opinion of his capacity, and while his influence in the Foreign Ofee deal about "the Fucbrer," with against Hitler at
this time.
I take place as the Fuchrer would TO- whom he appeared to grow, his thoughts turned
be inti- knew, little of his doctrine or not be coming to the hotel that male. As he seemed to be a record and nothing of his charac- afternoon. This was the last peatedly to resignation.
Rively and talkative fellow, ter. I admire men who stand up saw of "Putzi for such was his It was of great value to me, and speaking excellent English, I for their country in defeat, even pet name--although we stayed
1 The years rom 1931 to 1935, it may be thought also to thu asked him to dine.
am on the other side. several more days at the hotel, He gave a most apart from my anxiety on public country, that I should have the
Interesting though
had a perfect right to be ก Thus Hitler Jost his only aftales, were personally very plea-mos conducting searching account of Hitler's activities and patriotic German if he choses I
chance of
meeting me. Later on, discussions for and precise
FG outlook. He spoke as one under always wanted England, Ger- when he was all-powerful, I was sant to me. I earned my livell- tourtery) Ice House Streal, hood by dictating articles which many years in this very small the spell. He had probably been many and France to be friends. to receive several invitations from
circle. On my side, however, I told to get in touch with me. Hn had a wide circulation not only eire
However, In the course of con-him. But by that time a lot had in Great Britain and the United gathered and contributed a great was evidently most anxious tuversation with Hanfstaengi, I happened, and I excused myself.
happened to say, "Why is States, but also, before Hitler's deal of information from foreign please.
(To Be Continued) I had confidential con-
After dinner he went to the chief so violent about the Jows? World Copyright reserved. Re- in the sources. shudow fell upon them, la
tunes and songs in such remark-gry with Jews who have done Lianguage, strictly prohibited,
are
Cruz at St. Joseph's Church, Garden Road, Hong Kong, on Saturday, 1st May 1948 at 4 p.m. No invitations cards
being
All issued, but relatives and friends are cor- dially invited to the sermon and thereafter to the recep- tion at Club Lusitano (By
Hong Kong.
In the State.
your
most famous newspapers of six-tacts with several of the French plano and played and sang many) I can quite understand being an production, avan partially, in any
teen European countries.
me.
saw 战
dent
Berlin Raid Havoc
Goebbels Diary
H.K. EMPLOYERS'
I lived Ministers and with the successive
Chiefs of the French Govern FEDERATION
in fact from mouth hand,
produced in
thement, succession Coinciding as it does with
Mr. Ian Colvin, the son of the various volumes of --the
Life of a voluminous correspondence
famous leader-writer of the Marlborough. I
mediated con- Morning Post, was a correspon in the Press alleging exploita-stantly upon the European situa
in Berlin. He plunged tion and the 'sweating of tion and the rearming of Ger- labour, the formation in the many. I ilved mainly at Chart- very deeply into German politics, and established contacts of a most Colony of an Employers' well, where I had much to amuse | secret character with some of the November 25: 1943 The [second] Federation is likely, along the built with my own hands a important German generals, and heavy air raid equalled the first also with independent men of in intensity. The English got wider field of observation, to large part of two cottages and ex character and quality in Germany away pretty cheaply with this at- be viewed with a somewhat tensive kitchen-garden walls, and jaundiced eye.
The bitter made all kinds of rockeries and who saw in the Hiller movement tack.
their Conditions in the clty are notive land. letter of one of the so-called waterworks and a large swim- the approaching ruin of HK$315.00
pretty hopeless. There was no- Several visitors of consequence thing to be done except to press white-collar class, published ming-pool which was Altered to limpidity and could be heated to
came to me from Germany and everybody available into service Hm lavishes special praise en to-day, will more accurately supplement our fickle sunshine.
Stalin, the murderer of the Czars. depict the immediate verdict Thus I never had a dull or idle poured their hearts out in their and wait for rain,
bitter distress. Most of these Gradually we are learning to He praises the successes attained of the Common Man than any moment from morning till mid-were executed by Hitler during accustom ourselves again to by English arms, but forgets to viewpoint based upon easy night, and with my happy family the war. From other directions primitive standard of living. In add that it was the weapons of acceptance of the outline of around me dwelt at peace within was able to check and furnish the morning in Goering-street ate pirates operating chiefly with Information on the whole fleld of there is no heat, no light, noblockbusters to destroy dwellings. afms and objects announced my habitation.
our air defence.
water. One can neither shave
This cheap, bigoted hypocrisy During these years. I at Monday's inaugural meet-
In this way I became as well nor wash. One must got up in really makes one's blood boll. ing.
of Frederick Linde-instructed as many Ministers of the shelter by the light of a
November 20: The English are Crown, All the facts candle. In trade and industry, there monn (now Lord Cherwell) Pro- the
achieving nothing with their at- I got up at an ungodly hour tempts
to unload the respons- phy at Oxford University. Linde-clu especially foreign connec-
warfare on us. I reported to the Govern- than ever before. All day long Everybody in Germany knows altruism, and the profession mann was already an old friend of a desire to promote under- of mine. I had met him first at ment from time to time. My per- headaches pursue me. What of that the English started it and
the previous wor, sonal relations with Ministers and it? I simply must go to work. standing between employers the close of
hit the blood gulit falls on them. in will not re-
which he had distinguished also with many of their high off-
I am very much hampered in | and employees
They talk with brutal cynicism move the conviction that an himself by conducting in the air cials were close and easy, and
are about the blockbusters that were reach the outside
Et work on the capital and which Employers' Federation must a number of experiments, hither- although I was often their critic, down: I can
to reserved for daring pliots, to we be primarily designed to de-overcome the then almost mortal maintained a spirit of com- world only with the help of mes- will continue to come.
The English
English In the early afternoon I visited have a bad conscience. of a of the dangers
I was made officially Later "spin." fend the interests
have the Reich Chancellery. It looks
According to the English yel- their We came much closer together party to much of
most been bombed out. Ministers and terrible. All the rooms that were low Press, the conference of the Funda- employer
from 1932 onwards, and he fre- secret, technical knowledge. From departmental heads can be found once so beautiful and so dear to Big Three is to decide on mill- mentally, no ground for from
quently motored over from Ox-my own long experience in high only with difficulty.
us are now destroyed, burned out
tary plans of Critical conflagrations are still or full of water.
great magnitude criticism can here be found. ford to stay with me at Chart-office I was also possessed of the
Germany. Here we had many talks
against most precious secrets of the raging in some sections of the Employers as a class are as well.
November 27: As regards our
Anglo-Americans The
have All this enabled me to city. much entitled to link them into the small hours of the morn-State.
situation in the East, the chemy asked Stalin for airports within and about the dangers which form
maintain opinions About 400,000 people in Berlin credits u with more than we the territory of the Soviet Union, selves in a cooperative or n
really have. ganisation for the mainten- seemed to be gathering upon us. which did not depend on what are without shelter
so as to be able to bombard Ger- Lindemann-the Prof." as he was was published in the newspapers,
the Berliners Our attack did not really get many from the east as well. ance of sound common stan-called among his friends-became though these brought
Churchill again intends to cede Idards, as are workers to form my chief adviser on the scientifle to the discriminat many items I should get 50 grammes of extra under way. It got stuck, as
all of Eastern Germany to the Poles as an equivalent for the Soviets laying claim to Eastern Poland.
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I ordered that
meat per week. Ten, cigarettes were, in the mud. He had ex- are being distributed to every-pected so much of it, and so lit themselves into trade unions.
At Westminster I pursued my body, also some other delicacies. tle cario of it. The test is less in the forma
I everybody gets W
something We are having a streak of bad tion of a solid bloc than in
two themes of India and the Ger- man menace, and went to Parlia- into his stomach, and is given luck this year that is simply uni- I can hardly imagine that the the practical application of Another of my close friends was ment from time to time to deliver something to stimulate nerves que.
leading English statesmen are so (now
which Major Wing speeches, the principles guiding it, and Desmond Morton
.com- strained to breaking point, it During the last ten days, thank stupid and shortsighted as to put did not, helps a lot all round.
God, our casualties have not been that sort of an estimate од that can only be applied when Sir Desmond Morton). When in manded attention, but the
Contrary to expectations the too high. They totalled 8,473 Bolshevism. Stalin, won't think the Federation begins pro ex-personal staff with young omcers crowded, puzzled,--Houses-which number of people killed is, thanked-in-action, rounded; 180 of -Fuldling obligations-ho has
proper-1017 Field-Marshal Haig alled his unhappily, wake to action
fresh from the firing line, Des-
Des-heard
God, quite During the first officers; 20,000 3,800 entered upon England pressed by our correspon moni was recommended to him
America. On the German danger I found air raid we registered 1,600 and missing. That is bearable. myself
In Parliament during the second about working
1,200
On the other hand, sickness has
The air dent, of course, are based as the pick of the Artillery. To
dead.
Increased, and, above all. the night was exceedingly severe and Leipzig last upon a suspicion that the ten- his Military Cross he added the with a group of friends.
Sir Austen Chamberlain, Sir an organisation unique distinction of having been Robert Horne, Sir Edward Grigg, for the present we are unable to ly and spiritually because of our pared for such a massive attempt There is no dearth of food, but troops' morale has sunk physical fateful. The city was not pro- dency of
shot through the heart, and living Lord Winterton, Mr. Bracken, Sir deliver it. which foresees "the necessity happily ever afterwards with the Henry Croft and several others,
at terrorisation. The fire dem! of keeping labour costs of bullet in him.
What the enemy Press is writ- At noon I had a long talk with partment was not adequate. production within such When I became Minister of formed our circle. We met re-ing about the raids simply can't Speer. He is somewhat sceptical
150,000 to About
200,000 people Their shout our prospects in air war-
without shelter. bounds
the Munitions In July, 1917, I fre- ularly, and, to a large extent, he beaten for impudence.
triumphant tone is enough to fare, especially since reprisals
con December 0: In the spring, Colony's products competitive quently visited the front as the pooled our information.
Commander-in-Chief's guest, und
The Ministers eyed this signi- make one go mad.
begin only in March. The zaro after the German cities have been in the world market" will be he always sent his trusted alde- their own supporters and former hopes chiefly on breaking down and again.
ficant but not unfriendly body of The enemy now places his hour is being postponed again reduced to ruins, the English al- to set the standard by the de-camp, Desmond Morton, with colleagues or seniors with res our morale. In an appeal to the
legedly want to start the invasion. That's the terror of terrors. If Of course, chills run worst type of employer, in- me. In 1919, when I became stead of by the many better Secretary of State for War and Pect. We could at any time com-1 Berliners I am calling their at- we could at least strike at the backs' even at the van this
and mand the attention of Parliament tention to what is at stake.
But look where word. English soon! Air. I appointed him to key and stage a full-dress debate. that any levelling is
position in the Intelligence Ser-
Compared with all these prob- you will, no such possibility is to likely to be down rather than vice, which he held for many
lems, of what Importance is the be seen.
on the Fuehrer's orders to The reader will pardon a per- speech that the English King:
Schaub took me through the
prepare abréfaliatory years,
|sonal digression in a lighter vein. delivered in Parliament? It is Fuehrer's private He was a neighbour of mine. In the summer of 1932 for the as inante as can be and bubbles These have been completely dess against England. We need about
200 heavy dwelling only a mile away from purposes of my Life of Marl over with childish phrases.
troyed. prime Minister, Mr. MacDonald, Belds in the Low Countries and won victory, with the aid of God. greatly overestimating the dam- course, of one night Chartwell He obtained from the borough I visited his old battler
England, he maintains, has
they are
England permission to talk freely to me
age done to Berlin. I forbid any and strike a heavy blow against By Dick Turner denial. The sooner London is the British capital Naturally we convinced that there is nothing cannot repcat such an assault as left of Berlin, the sooner will often as we would like, but it they slop their alc
offensive will give the English something against the capital.
to think about. In the evening the so-called
expect great psychological "Calais Soldiers' Broadcast," results from it.. Reuter reports which evidently originates in that Count Cland has been England, gave us something to
ones:
up.
.
There is, too, another point calculated to cause comment, The Employers Federation is by no means fully representa tive: at the moment, it claims
and keep me well informed. He CARNIVAL a membership of 72, composed became, and continued during the very largely of foreign in- war to be, one of my most Inti- terests: but its invitation Is mate advisers till our final vic-
tory was won, wide open and it could very readily grow to the full pro- I had also formed a friendship portions contemplated by its with Ralph Wigram, then the ris- original sponsors. The trade ing star of the Foreign Office and unions on the other hand are in the centre of all its affairs, Ho had reached a level in that not permitted thus to
or Department which entitled hims ganise themselves. Anything to express responsible opinions in the nature of a Trades upon policy, and to use a wide Union Congress is specifically discretion in his contacts, official and unofficial. He was a charm- prohibited by the recently enacted Trades Unions and ing and fearless man,
and his
Disputes Ordinance, although know based upon profound
and study, dominated
saw as clearly as I did,
partial amalgamation is per- his mitted unions in closely Ho affiliated industries. The cir-but with more certain Informa cumstances, no doubt, cannot on, the awful peril which was closing In upon us. This drew justify the making of a big us together. Often we met at Isque out of this, but it is a his little house in North-street, point-not likely to be over- and he and Mrs. Wigram came looked by the more active of to stay with us at Chartwell. Like other oficials of high rank, he local union officials.
spoke to me with complete con- Generally, however, wis-ndence. dom would suggest the neces- All this helped me to form and sity of waiting upon events.
The deliberate policy of en- same value, and, until proved couraging the development in to the contrary, to be based. the Colony of efficiently or on enlightenment as well as ganised trade unions is re-resolution. Its inauguration. cognised to be for the ultim-is far from automatically n at benefit of industry in the declaration of war: on the Colony, and the simultaneous contrary, the reply is that formation of an employer special machinery of this type group, coming in natural may very easily promise the séquence, must be credited best chance of peace;, and with...... having › preclicly the prosperity).
November 28: "The British are
December 7: Gom
I
their
90%
travelled
blow
planes
executed. Unfortunately this
worry about. The station does a report does not correspond with Very clever job of propaganda the facts. and from what is put on the air
not.
The English are waging war in one can gather that the English Italy 'most effectively. It is by know exactly what they have no means true that they lack Cestroyed in Berlin and what combat experience. On the con- trary, they making very - London reports that more than clever use of every advantage: a million people” met, their death Their most striking advaninge in Berlin. That, of course. is their superiority in the air. arrant consense, for the number Every day they lay'n curtain of of fatal casualties due to three bombs on us in numbers hitherto heavy air raids totals between unknown in this
Ward
three and four thousand. But I December By At noon I am not issuing any denial. The addressed a meeting at the Pro- sooner the English believe there's plea Theatre, in celebration of no life in Berlin, the
the better for German
us.
Railwaymen's Day. Even
averiinbla hurricane,
November 30: I discussed a number of personnel Questions
with "Bormann."
on the stage · a .of applause Every point I made an enthusiastic cho
Bormann" ex- curried me.
pressed himself, as very much The
were simply mod
concerned over the war in Hon- with enthusiasm. When pointed eral. It is so hard to get the cut what the enemy intended to Fuehrer to make DDY!
and of course
war
decision, do hgainst German war morale We can't
can't win the in the way of propaganda. with morale alone; wa
wa must
December 9: A Barious, epide- have arms and manpower.
sof infuenia has broken out,
The King, too, is
w
"Our arms," production is being in Wonderful
fasto 111
destroyed by enemy air raids
very noticeable degree.
If the epidemie were to prove fatal. December We have recely. That exactly would sult ed a valuable report vin Lisbon that's too good to be sub
rult us. But about the domesde altuation. If
[The entry for December 9, England, PARA PADA 1943, whas the last found among
the Goebbels papers.: Sure
'supposed to put on a big front at the party tonight?man retaliation is almost in
lì that a smart crack?'1⁄2
According to it the fear of Ger- describable, especially in the
END OF THE QOKBBILS,
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