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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1930.
SLEEP
1919
The rise of Konrad
Henlein
The treaties of . The peace is signed. Versailles and of Triunon have transformed the map of Europe. And Sergeant Konrad Henlein is no longer an Austrian but a Czecho-Slovakian, citizen of a new country. In September, 1919, he is at Reichenau. There, in a local newspaper, he sees the following advertisement:-
"Young man having participated in the war wanted for beginner's post in a large bank. Apply to-morrow morning.- Kreditanstalt."
an
The Kreditanstalt was, and still is to-day, the largest bank of Central Europe. Henlein, after eight months of hell in internment camp on Asinara Island, was looking for a job.
At that time hundreds of thousands of young men in Central Europe had the war behind them and a future without prospects. When Henlein arrived before the Kreditanstalt the following morning, u crowd of veterans was already massed on the sidewalk. About nine o'clock the director arrived and, like a general, passed in review the crowd of candidates.
The director had not yet utter- ed a single word when, stopping before a young man whose op- pearance differed in no parti- cular from that of his comrades "What is your name?" he ask. ed suddenly.
"Konrad Henlein."
EASILY,
"Before me there was a crowd HONGKONG
of young men, and I sought a face that would fill me with con- The pendulum swings be-fidence. tween Fear and Hope so rapidly in Europe that prognostication in- is
would be futile. It consistent with the facts disclosed in messages from re- liable news agencies not to admit that Europe, including Great Britain, has been closer,
the
"Well, on that of Konrad Hen- lein, who was 20 years old nt that time, I saw from the first glance an indefinable something that told me that this man was absolutely incapable of lying."
BEING employed on a meagre salary by a
by Jerome Carsac
Henlein became 80 versatile and so proficient a gymnast that at the end of the first year, at the annual fete of the club, he won the first prize.
of
"His outward appearance
in that of an average man
-neither small nor large; his face betrays neither intelligence nor stupidity.”
SEVERAL weeks after taken all useful measures.
pass
in
"You are hired, Herr Henlein." tion of the big gymnastic federa- tion of Germans in Czecho- Nineteen years have passed Slovakia, whose statues, long be-
"I have a proposition to make since this scene. And when, a fore Hitler and National So- and 17 seats in the Prague Par-
liament, which corresponded to you, Mr. Henlein," began the few days ago, we questioned the cialism, carried an Aryan para- about 20 per
cent. German stranger. "Would you be dis- director of the Kreditanstalt at
graph.
suffrage. A set-back.
posed to retire from political life Reichenau on the reasons for his
in several months, after having to choice, he answered:
election Henlein calm the effervescence of the received a visit from two men, Sudetens? Messrs. Krebs and Jung, chief of "If you accept, B sum of And when, two years later, the National Socialist Movement, money will be deposited in your Henlein captured another bril- the twin of the National German name in an American bank. A
very high sum."
And the stranger indicated a liant victory, the club directors Party of Czecho-Slovakia.
(To-day, by the will of Adolf
A fantastic made him monitor.
The salary being superior to Hitler, these two men represent very high figure.
the sunyi Germans in
All who know the Sudeten that which he got at the Kredi- the Sudeten
Berlin Reichstag.) tanstalt, Henlein accepted.
know that before The object of Messrs. Krebs Fuchrer THE monitor in clubs of and Jung was to win the 100,000 answering the question, Henlein this type directs the members of the Gymnastic strode the length and width of to war in the past week thar at bank in a little provincial town training beginners. And Federation for a single party. the room, reflecting. Several seconds everyone has left, the Henlein accepted. any time since 1918; on
Then the stranger as a modest beginner, to lean when
over the monitor sweeps the room, covers The big German capitalists of silence, other hand, there is evidence every day for years that wise counsels will ultimate same scribbled papers, go over the floor with clean sawdust and the Sudeten region willingly takes a cigarette from his case. takes a lighter from his pocket. ly prevail, and that the dam immense columns of figures- prepares everything for the fol- gave financial aid. Henlein was And Henieln, always polite,
received with open arms.
Konrad Henlein perhaps owes holding back the flood-waters of always the same and always dif- lowing day.
By 1929 Henlein was the head He did not feel entirely at
this gesture of of a his life to war will be patched up suf- ferent-is without doubt still ciently to avert, for the time more monotonous and madden- of the Gymnastic Federation, in case in the role of chief
He leans toward the seated which are grouped all the Ger- political movement that had politeness. being at least, the torrents that, ing than prison life.
What did he do in the evening man clubs of Czecho-Slovakia, been imposed on him. He was seemingly, must one day engulf,
after work? Gymnastics! and which includes 100,000 men prudent, almost timid, but luck man to give him a light, and his hesita- then he reads on the cigarette, a the world.
Henlein joined the Deutsches speaking the same language, dis- favoured him, and
for signs of "gold-tipped," the inscription, ciplined, organised in clubs, tions were taken
"Muratti, Berlin." Whatever may happen in
Turnverein, the local organisa- saturated with a nationalistic profound political sagacity.. "Konrad Henlein- understands. the fears held by no Europe,
Four years pass, and, in the German Ideology, clubs not ad- small section of the community
at mitting Jews to their member- election of 1933, the new move. His answer is ready:---
"Doubtless I ought to nak you squadron based
ment unites 1,250,000 votes, Chater Road. in Hongkong that this Colony Italian
can be dismissed ship....
By 1929 Henlein is a married that is 60 per cent. of the Ger- to get out immediately. But I insist on giving you a still would be one of the first parts Shanghai
a petty bour- man suffrage, claiming 44 of the of the Empire to be engulfed lightly in view of the prepon-
derance of British and French man, "settled,"
72 seats won by the German clearer answer; understand, and are not only fantastic, but in warships in the China Seas, and gcois.
He is at the head of a formid minority throughout Czecho- tell your superior, that nothing, neither promises, threats, nor view of the panic such fears 50 Italy, lacking naval bases, can- easily creates, also subject for not reinforce her small oversens able mass organisation, but he Slovakia.
ignores the power the position Beginning with that moment prison can make me betray the Henlein js named confidence of the millions of op- rebuke. There are many units.
confers on him. He does not Konrad "buts" and "ifs" connected
Therefore, to admit even the know that the formidable mass Fuehrer of the Germans of pressed Sudetens." with the possibility of a direct possibility of an extension of organisation which he directs is Czecho-Slovakia.
At this time a mysterious viai- threat to Hongkong, or, for that military or naval activities to about to become something very
a the Pacific, it must be pre- different from a simple sports tor one day calls on him, ob matter,
stinately refuses to reveal the an to any part of supposed that a l'acific Power federation. European war
to the assistance of In 1929 there were two Ger- object of his visit to the secre- the Pacific, that the whole aub- will come
That Germany has Germany, a treaty ally in Japan is ad- an parties in Czecho-Slovakia, tary who receives him, insists ject could be dismissed as fan-
And here is the interview tastic and unworthy of comment mitted. But is there any rea the National Socialist Party and on seeing the Fuehrer alone. were it not for the genuine son for assuming that Japan's the National German Party. At perturbation felt by at least a obligations to Germany or Italy the elections that year the two which took place between Hen- left," the journalist remarked. section of the Colony's popula- in the anti-Comintern Pact call parties received 393,000 votes lein and his visitor.
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AFTER the departure of pushed open the door of the ad- joining room, where the manag ing director of his paper waited. "I hope that I teach you nothing new in revealing the identity of the man who just
his visitor Henlein
"I saw that fellow in Berlin two years ago. He is the right hand man of Himmler, one of the best
And Henlein answered with a whimsical smile:
By Lichty agents of the Gestapo."
"I'm thinking of changing laundries-our laundry man doem't seem to know a thing about anybody in the neighbourhood.”.
"I know it well."
That
Interview
Was an
examination. The Gestapo want- ed to know whether Henlein was
a true Fuchrer.
Henlein had quickly given proof of thie. A little while after he was invited for the first time to the home of Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden.
The former monitor returned to Czecho-Slovakia in 'a súmptù- ous German motor-car, the gift of his "great friend."
After the Czecho-Slovakian elections of 1938, the tone of Konrad Henlein's speeches changes little by little.
He talks of Volksgemeinschaft of the necessity of uniting Germans beyond the political frontiers.
the
Flattering phrases on Nuremberg laws, succeed vague democratic banalities.
MORE and more often
Henlein talks of the problem of the German race. And, the final evolution, after the Anschluss at the time of the Sudeten Congress at Karlovy- (Continued on Page 5.) -