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Eighteen years after one of the most tremendous decisions in Britain's history we learn what the other side thought...
Hitler would
THE - CHINA-MAIL,
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
1956.
By SEFTON DELMER
We know what he mid coonsiderably in the next." Tow because a top-secret record wast years, " kupt of the meeting by Hitler's, interpreter, ambassador Paul
Schmidt,
now
And that
dig. record was Fuvared among the archives of the German Foreign Offer In 1954 and
has - published, with Many other German Foreign Offleo recorda luminating the period of Hitler's blitz Invasion of Den- mark, Norway, Holland. Luxem - burg, Belgium, and France,
have done what Chamberlain did
H
ITLER would have
been a appeaser and a Munich-ite if he had been Neville Chamberlain's shoes. He would have done every- thing to postpone the show. down with Germany for an- other two years and give
rearmning Britain
France time to catch up with Germany in military might.
I have about
no
hesitation
saying this. For Hitler himself told Mus- solini that he was convinced that had he not attacked Poland in September 1989
he would have had to figh her and the British and the French within two years. And with this difference- that by the time the new war broke out the balance of military power would have turned against him.
ch German
Vol. P.
Documents Polly 19th-3845, Atailunery Oftes.
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OTHER SECRETS
REVEALED:
Azenis gave Ribbentrop Foreign Offler valuuies of
a storet conference of our cavoys in the Balkan and Danubian Htale
held London from Aprij Я
April 15, 1940.
2
The essential points Roosevelt's Jetter Churchill
In
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Because fat tla longib, the German eastern · frontier would have been most unsuitable for purely defensive operations.
"I would therefore have had been to assemble the same military strength in the cast as
Inst year," mid Hitler, "while In the west I should have been faced from the very start off with about 130 divisions against 00
Britain's introdue tion of onscription and inrge- 2x als vestmament. Fler <x- pluspal to Musolini, that windd have unco delay in September 1939 fatal for 5lm.
*Withor
over-estimating or
sat derestimating the British he sted, I can be assumed
hul ra
Two years they would have Taksici
million 10 1,200,000 meri of whom they
German divisions.”
to
1 confeas that after reading this I find Hiller monDPOW make out quite a case for that policy of buying time.
The purpose of the Brenner meeting was to put Mussolini in the picture about the coming German offensive, so that ho could get, Into the war at the right moment,
A
Bul although Hitter Was positively girilish in his effusive- NICA....such
long time, Duce, since we met and to me it seems twice as long"....he told Mussolini almost nothing.
The truth, as Schmidt reveals
in his memoirs, is that Hitler ¦ did not trust Musolla,
10
In
No invasion dates-not even the nines of the countrie be Invaded-were reveled detall to Mussolini, who was tok nothing but generalItles.
"Are the
cheny exporting this offensive?" asks the Duco rasher pathetically at the eur of it all. "Yes." answers ter "They know it's coming.”
variet bove thetry moolised PUT even at this
800.6)
of
few weeks
Lo
the
des.
concerning transfer or 60 0.8. troyer, kunk, ammunition, and alert were got hold of by the German Embassy In Home.
2 Hans Thomsen, German
Chare
d'Affaires In Washington, reported that a contact of his in the State Department oyphar ollice had revealed to him the gist of Ambassador Kennedy's reports from London.
·He revealed this sensational appraisal to Mussolini when the Foreign two of them met, each in his
high up on The Brenner Pliss.
FL.M. own special dictator's train,
meeting on
million within AD the eve of his greatest and most dramalle, super mes, Hitter showed himself aware of the factors that were ultimately to prove his undoing.
THUS Germany, Hitler argued,
Pullat, 00 French, and 40 to 45 British divisiotis,
"Moreover," he adtied -f van almost hear um laying down the law to poor Benito--"Thes? forces would have been reacy for action against Gern y almost from the first moment of the conflict in contrast to the present wor when our enemies nee only able to mobilise theli forces.slowly and gradually."
As *regarda the Polish Army, its armoured troops, ar: Ky. And uir force,
he calculated, would have improved
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"The sécurily of the Ruhr." he said, is a matter of supreme Importance for ust, If there are perxistent intacks un the Ruhr territory from the long-range
ulr or by arilllery Germany cannot win the war."
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And he also achnitted that if the war should bog down and become a drawn-out affair the odds would favour the Allies.
"Only in the energy of the leadership and in the readiness of its people to make sacrifices Germany cannot be surpassed. That is why I um convince that
we shail defeat O
+ enemies,"
All through this volumé ibere further fascinating **X-
Hitler
nie
DT
changes between Musolini, showing the almost hypnotic thraldom in which the German held the Itallin dictator.
But what interests me even more are the flashes of india- cretion from these documents | that will prove highly en- barrassing to some of our still active and still powerful con- temporaries.
Generalissimo
Franco,
Francisco
for instance, and his followers who are always telling fus how France was secretly on
our side all along.
Cummings
ARE WE LEADING UP TO THE SAME DILEMMA AGAIN?
U.N.O
FOR EXHIBITION PURPOSES
ONLY
Don't call the policeman-he's only stuffed
danger signal in U.S. POLITICS
DEMOCRATS LOSING MEN OF IDEAS
T
Washington. But it is extremely signi- But here we carn that
HE "intellectual ficant for two quite different carly as May 1940 the Spanish
"front" created by reasons. dictator was permitting German meteorologioni aircraft to
Roosevelt in the
In the first place, it means with Spanish markings; that the
1980s, allowed to crumble Spanish radio station at
by Truman La
in the late that the Democratic Party, Comma was working for the 19408, and desperately
which throughout most of Luftwaffe; and that German vived by Stevenson in the this century, has been the submarines were being refuelled and supplied in Spanish waters, early 1950s appears to be innovator of political ideas the verge of final col- be deprived of its principal in America, is now likely to lapse.
driving force, Left without
evidence, BY rights, on this
Franco could be 'sued for damages by the owners of the ships
theso submarines tor pedoed and the widows of the sailors who were drowned.
The real reason why Franco
on
ro-
America's academics & powerful force in a country with 1,600 universities and colleges have been · bit- terly ⚫ disillusioned by Stevenson's campaign.
did not enter the war comes oul Reports from universities
Doo. For Hitler, anxious not to across
the country this
cutrage the French for fear-the week showed, beyond any French feet would join up with
BY
ALEXANDER BROAD
it
In practice, this tends to mean that neither party is now very Interested in ideas, and that both parties are primarily, in- terested in winning votes rather than in putting into practice a coherent ideological programme.
This split between politics and
letening could, in the long run,
GOT A PAIN IN YOUR
BIG TOE? S
self
by CEDRIC CARNE
I
HEN in doubt,
think of gout,' whispered to my-
as I often do when anyone complaine to me of a painful joint.
Sidney Oakes stared glumly al his big too.
"But I don't drink, doctor. 1 really don't, Mind you, my grandfather was a bit of a gay dug in his time.
"Fine thing," he added. "He hed the fun-I've got the pain,” Mr Dakes had gout all right, though the acute attack WALE nearly over now.
I explained to him that alcohol does not nctually cure the disease, It's just that some people fire prone to gout and others not.
The lucky ones can drink as much as a dry-tongued poet coming out of n Turkish bath without suffering froin gout at all. Others
just have to anim the sherry in trifle and ther joints swell up. It 13 the heavier red wines of Burgundy Father
the light whito wines which lead to trouble. AND NO HERRING
than
"Some even think beer is worse," I said, "though oddly enough whisky drinkers and gin tipplers usually don't get gout."
"Isn't gout due to too much acld in the system?" asked Mr Oakes.
There is more uric acid in the blood of gouty subjects than in nthers. That is why people wau are inclined to suffer from Ruut should avoid not only alcohol but ccrinin foods, which, when digested, free acid in the body.
-What foodsTM** Me: Oakes asked.
sardines, "Herrings, sprats,
"And for example," I said. liver, kidney, heart, and gune
birardines? Why, grandfather
can
uso:1 to love sardinca!" Oskes continual horking back to his grandfather was not entirety Irrelevant. For gout does russ in families. Indeed, one -tako samples of blood" from the
relatives of someone
suffering from gout and though there tallves may never have had an attack of yout ever. one finds that they have a high level of acid in the blood.
"Anyway" I said, "now that your scu'e attack is over we want to bring down the level neld in your blood. That's want you to take
of
why
aspirin."
Though the pata during an acul* attack is one of the most severe that man cats experience, fortunately
there is a specific drug which can be given for the railer and treatment of gout
Not aspirin
for that too." interrupted Mr Oakes.
was, in fact, referring to colchicine, a substance
present In
crocus.
1185
the autumn Strangely, though min known about its remarkable properties for over 1,400 years, doctors still do not know how or why it works.
"I sec, doctor," Mr Cakes sald be extremely serious.
"Colchicine during urs tu class, like the administran attack occurring."
attack and aspirin to keep the For America has no intelleo- | level of neld down to prevent ve class of the British Civil
Service, which
18 concerned specifically with business of ad-
BACK TO NORMAL
flare-up 1s
ministering the country, Each
Deaplts the intense now administration must bring during an acute attack It its quota of intellectuals into followed by complete recovery power with it, And these are normally recruited universities,
In
from tho
a two-party system, In which one party is the Ideologt- cal innovator and the other de- the British, refused to under doubt, that the academics
votes itself primarily to en- write Franco's jacked claims at are not deeply inspired by Its Intellectual backing, soldating government and pre the expense of stricken France either. Eisenhower
or would very likely fall into saving old idem, it does not matter if the "consolidating" Franco demanded, so these Stevenson and that they the hands of the local poli- party his fow men of ideas in records show, that France should feel Stevenson has let them tical bosses, the ward its ranks. What it needs is redo western Algeria to Spain down badly.
heelers, and the Southern simply efficient administrators, and French Morocco ahould be incorporated Wilh Spanish They have found in his
colonels.
But the innovating party Morocco in one Spanish pro-campaign little to, distin- In the second place, the fact must have men of ideas or stop
guish him except political that the ccademies have become innovating. Not surprising that Hilter zeal.
disillusioned with Stevenson **
And the danger is just that would not grant him this, it
without becoming in any way the, Democratic Party will stop he wanted to keep those French Now this disillusion can supporters of Elsenhower Innovating, leaving no serious battleships neutral..
not be a deciding factor indicates that neither party is difference between the two par
currently very interested Ara the election.
winning their support.
tectorate.
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and the joint returns to normal, generally in a few days. It is mid that one of the winners of the
the Marathon in Ancient Greece achieved this athleuc fent between attacks of gout li his big toe.
"Incidentally.
suffor
from
roomy
. If you you should wear shoes to avold compres
ing the big too joint," I said,*
"Anything else, doctor, besides that: and
ind
starting
5ט
in
certain fooding alcohol a
Being
down' common a causo for acuto attack as any Hi
"Um.” zulá- Mr Oakes. "My grandfather: used to, say that the best way to avoid being run down was to take sardines and port regularly for break-
fast."
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