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TEN DAYS IN GERMANY The Very Idea
usefully NO. 3. BERLIN UNDER NAZIS GRIP
By MILTON BRONNER
Berlin. The
empty. Jews,
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A QUESTIONNAIRE By. Prof. Eddie Kelly, B. Grade,
WE
E have just received young Eddie's school
report.
mediated somo disputes. And recently it has boldly rendered Judgment and mobilised world opinion against the use of force by Japan and Peru. It hus stood
Almost everybody likes ni rost were almost rigorously against the readjust-
parado. And Adolf Hitler, us who formerly were the best spond, ment of relations between coun-German dictator, is seeing that ers here, were conspicuous by their tries by warlike means. But Berlin has plenty of them. Not absence. One restaurant, in the it has not sufficiently demon-only by day, but occasionally at arcade of Unter den Linden, dis- strated methods for making such night when great torchlight pro-plays a sign that it in a pure Ger
In case you've never heard changes peaceably: Possibly it cessions are staged. Dozens of man house and has a Nazi band as of young Eddie, he's our was no fault of the League that Nazi bauda lead thousands of unia dally attraction.
|darling son, the brat! Japan did not make use of formed men marching beneath a In the big hotel dinning rooms and in famous restaurants, where Geneva's machinery before at sea of waving banners.
Although the report was antis. Thon, as a regular parade diet, before the war, monocled Prussian factory, we belted him on prin- tempting to settle her differences with China at the point of the every Monday and again every officers were once conspicuous, a ciple. Knowing how school teach- Thursday, a police band marchen | frequent sight now is that of cont- bayonet. Yet it must be clear through Unter den Linden, follow- leas Nazi officers, their Sam Browners lied when we went to school, that a settlement could very welled by platoons of polico nad Nazi belta strapped over their brown we felt safe in doing so. have been achieved without auxiliaries.
shirts with a revolver awinging Kids nowadaya want belting. force had the situation been sub- On the surface all acoms normal from the hip.
It was different when we were peaceful in Jected before September 18, and
Small shops throughout Berlin young. We never wanted it. Not. 1931, to anything like the atten-atrests are crowded here as in recall the early Fascist days in that we didn't get it. tion it received after that date.lorence in the usual animated with cheap pictures and medal larger cities, The only Italy, their windows being Alled Such an arrangement as the Lytton report proposed would Japanese Government in 1930. But once militariam WAS un- leashed such a settlement be- came extremely difficult, if not impossible. It is much easier to get a bone away from a dog be- fore he has his teeth fastened on it. To-day in Europe there are several "bones" which can be removed from the path of temp- tation or equitably divided if the nations have the wit and the courage to undertake the job before the jaws of nationaliem clamp down. For one instance, there is the Polish Corridor.
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FRAY, MAY 26, 1933.
FOUR-POWER PACT CRISIS
League for
Abracadabra
of
Parading Brown Shirts, flaunting the swastika smblem of the New Germany, swing along Berlin's world-famous Unter den Linden.
don papers and literature.
It usu-
The amusement of the moment
And you can't blame the teach- ers for sending in glowing re- ports. If they didn't they'd get. the sack.
For instance, what would you say if you got a report like this about your Cuthbert:-
Scripture. A boy who thinks. that Jonah was the first Prince of Wales must be suffering from Home hereditary complaint.
English.-Writes worse than his father and spells us badly as his mother. Uses slightly moro intel- lgence, however.
"French-Appears to have pick- ed it up from Le Vive Parisienne, Parenta should not let such litera- ture lie about while their children ure at home.
Latin-A living argument for the abolition of dead languages," Et Tu. Brutus.
Mathe. What would you Ex- pect, with his father working in Ice House Street?
History. His knowledge of this subject is confined to stories of his parents' past, and to what he sees on the films.
Geography-Can tell you where Repulse Bay is, or why girls leave home. Takes an intelligent in- terest in Hollywood."
Gamer.as an intimate know- ledge of the intricacies of pak-
and other indoor games. Fear he is following in his old man's foot-
steps.
gent.. Ile takes after his father in Not that our Eddie fan't intelll-
that respect.
We gave him a test only the other day. Nothing much to it, of course.. Any civil servant or normally intelligent child of soves could do it standing on their hends.
A normally intelligent child of twelve could do it without standing on his head, Well, how many can you ans- wer? But don't say we didn't warn you:
Why 18
Kelly Questionairro
The Empire Fair? A Blonde fair? A Fair Cow! What is:- Houko?
The Houso? Our House? Limehouse? Housey Housey? What are:-
Blue Peters? Red Noses?
White Horse? Pink Spots ?
Col. House! White House? Porterhosao? Westinghouse? Public House!
Black Marian?
Pink Snakes 7
Binck & Whiter
What is it that Robert burns 7 What did Castlo peak at7 Who did Hongkong?
is a potential cause of war which might, and probably would, in- volve the whole continent. Will the nation's drift along until there is an. attempt to deter- mine by might the right of that situation? Or will they set out calmly to reassess the various rights involved and readjust The four great Powers of Eur-them in the light of reason? Can ope having successfully over-wo have Lytton reports only come the difficulties crented by after they are unacceptable? their own prejudices and arrang. Why not provide now under the picture is to be found in the lions of Hitler, as well as numer kap-pui, fan-tan,. poker, two-up,
an impartial ex- marked presence of the Nazi que books and pamphlets, the pro- ed, to all intents and purposes, amination of some of Europe's Brown Shirts. Many people are duct of Nazi authors whose works for the signature of a Four-loose "bones"? And then carry still patronizing the big Jewish were rushed into print, Power Pact, are now faced without the adjustment recommend boycott, and despite the daily opened shops where they special
shops despite the recent one-day.
Early adherents of Hitler have opposition from the smaller Po-ed. Just one auch proof that excited anti-semitic attacks ap-ize in the anle of Nazi uniforms, wers which cannot entirely be Article 19 is operative, that pearing in Angriff, the paper con- insignin mednis, banners and ple ignored. The reported threat changes can be made by peace ducted by Minister of Propaganda tures.
to Goebbels.
They are doing a good of the Little Entente nations to end talk of using war than any
able means, would do more
business us there unquestionably There are no visible signs of is a strong movement of the withdraw from the League ja
fear or nervousness, other one thing.
There has, younger element to join up with now denied, but there is no at-
however, been a noticeable cessathe Hitlerites. The pavements in tion of street fighting between front of these Nazi shops always tempt to hide the fact that they
Nazi and Communists, owing to are crowded with people gazing are exerting strong pressure,
the complete domination of the at the window display. particularly upon France, the
former. There now are only beca sional outbreaks in the slum quar-
Mediocre plays are to be found weakest, perhaps, of the links. The recent successful celebraters of various cities, and these at the theatres. At the movies France owes responsibilities to tion of the Diamond Jubilee of soon are put down. Many Ger-one finds films approved by the the Little Entente and feels the Maskelyne Theatre in Lon-mans say the streets are safer Germany triumphed over France Nazis. These tell stories of how them deeply. She can be expected don, perhaps the most famous than at any time in fourteen years.in 1870 and of how Germany house of conjuring in the world, One of the most marked chang- to apply pressure for modifica-draws attention to the fact that es to be found in the German citi-fought the World War. The wind tions to meet the wishes of her here at any rate is a form
zen is in his disinclination to dis-up is usually a picture of Hitler proteges. But if the new crisis entertainment that cannot
cuss politics. As in Italy where and his storm troops. Menntime be Mussolini or his policies are never the police or Nazi auxiliaries raid threatens to torpedo the Four-taken over by the screen. For publicly discussed, the German of the poor Jewish quarters almost Power Pact, it would be disas- the whole art of conjuring lies to-day will not discuss Hitler or daily. The raids are declared to trous for France to risk the in the capacity of the conjuror the Nazi government with those be searches for arms and forbid.
to perform his tricks in the whom he may meet in public. substance for the shadow. If
of an audience. presence
Ac- Kurfuerstendamm, Berlin's ally is announce that pistols, dag- pence is to be preserved in Eur-cording to Mr. Jasper Maskelyne, white light district, bluzes with gers and seditious literature were ope, international thinking must the passage of time has effected lights by night, with bands and found and many arrests made. be raised above the plane of little alteration in the main women singing. At the famous for idlers in Berlin seems to be to
orchestras playing and night club selfish bargaining. If the Four-outlines of conjuring. It is pro-Haus Vaterland, where each vast stand for hours on Wilhelmstrasso Fower Pact was satisfactory in bable that many of the most room typifies various sections of in the hope of catching a glimpan Rome, it should be satisfactory "pplauded tricks of to-day were Germany by scenic effects, bande, of Hitler or Hindenburg as they throwing Roman audiences into walters and menus, found only pass by Hitler is becoming al- in Geneva. France may annoy ecstasics of delight on the same three rooms fairly crowded. The most as invisible as Hindenburg. P.W.D. be P.D.Q.7 the Little Entente, which
ap-afternoon that Julius Caesar parently fears that the Pact im-landed in Britain: The famous plies attempts to diamember decapitation act, for example, them, but she must take the risk which was unknown in England when bigger issues are at stake. performed as long ago as 3766 till 1874, is believed to have been The peace omelet cannot be B. C. In the second century cooked without some breaking Lucian explained how a magician of the eggs of hypernationalism.] read messages in scaled Since the war definite sacrifices lopes, in essence the popular have been made to preserve trick of to-day whereby à blind- peace. The remission of re- folded conjuror identifies objects parations at Lausanne and the held up by an assistant in the grant of armament equality to audience. But it would be Germany are the most notable wrong to assume that no pro-; recent instances. But most ofgress has been made in conjur- these concessions have come too ing in historic times. The late. Nations, like individuals, Maskelynes themselves have drift along until they are been responsible for some of the on the very brink of disast-most striking advances. The er. Then a change of course writers of the Middle Ages were may avail nothing. What very fond of describing char- in needed to-day is a free-will acters who were able to make offering of sacrifices to peace, themselves.invisible, but it was not forced contributions. The J. N.. Maskelyne who, in 1886, pence-makers at Versailles recog-first discovered how invisibility nized that the relations between could really bo achieved. Again, nations are fluid, and cannot be though in 1835 it was possible to permanently frozen even into suspend a body in the air ap- penco treaties. Thus they put parently supported by nothing into the Covenant of the League but a hollow bamboo pole, it was of Nations a far-sighted provi-not until many years later that sion for the peaceful readjust the way to suspend it without ment of the positions establish- apparently any support at all ef in 1910. This is Article 19. was discovered. But in spite of It has grown rusty from lack these advances it remains truo of use. Indeed, much of the that most new conjuring tricks talk of employing force is due to are really ingeniously disguised & belief that this most important variations of old ones, rather Instrument cannot be made to than fundamentally original operate. The League has furic-'efforts.
enve-
"All ready to skoot, Ed., What do you want the seastor to say 7"
How can Z, Bo Wi
What makes whiskey dry?
In digging up roads shouldn't
Who, what, and where are:-
Macao.
MacWhirter
.Mackay
Why:-
MacAlpine Machinery
Mae's Cafeteria
Did She repulse Bey Do they tai pans?
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Are Wo asking all these damfoor
questions?
He appears in public only at such times as he may be delivering a speech or reviewing his Nazi troopers. The crowds turning out to greet him are always jmmoneo Land wildly enthusiastic. Ho al- ways is well guarded because of the genuine danger of a Commun- istic attack upon him.
Hitler is perhaps the hardest working man in Gofany. He livoa, mululy, in the Chancellery, on Wilhelmstrasse, where he re- celves deputatlon after deputation of doctors, farmers, Nazi business leaders to whom he has entrusted the key positions of the country, correspondents and, others. He does not drink or smoke, is said to have no inclination toward cons viviality.
The telegraph lines of Germany- are owned by the government. All news dispatches filed on these ilnan, therefore, are seen by gov ernment officials, but dispatches aro not usually held up, or delet- ed, unless there is some direct at- tack upon the government. The gonoral run of dispatches, repre- senting straight reporting of facts, are being passed, I was told. The dispatches are read, however, prin- cipally for the purpose of detor- mining the "tendencies" of the man filing the nows.