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NE day recently, in
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The Menace THE POWER of Hitler is best exemplified by the sickening suspense that grips the world just prior to one of his periodic speeches.
THE last war caught us unawares. The next one may come suddenly, in the night. But not one of us will be able to say next time that he has been caught unawares. Nobody will dare to say it. The writing is on the wall; in the very skies, for all to sec.
Those two young men on the beach at Woolacombe were fully alive to the fact that they were living in an exceedingly perilous world which might at any mo- ment plunge them into personal disaster. Want one of them could not understand was why it should be so.
"I don't see that there is any- thing to fight about," said he. "Anyway, what country wants to attack England?"
us
EUROPE
Says A.J. Cummings
Covenant, with the backing of 50 nations, against Italy; theroby destroying wantonly the one
check *ffective
inter- upo national gangsterism and letting loose the Hitlers and Mus- solinis to wreak their vengeance upon law abiding neighbours and create turmoil in Europe.
*
THE British diplomacy, if such it can be called,
is to buy from Hitler, if it can. a temporary peace in the West. and let the East of Europe go to the devil, in the vague hope that the devil will keep his bargain.
This is a half-hearted version of the policy of "splendid isola- tion," the simple slogan with which Lord Beaverbrook has to been trying so insistently seduce a not so simple public. Lord Beaverbrook's theory is that if he were dropped quietly into the lions' enclosure at Whipsnade, and the lions were fighting mudly among them- selves, he would merely have to declaim the magic formula, “Ma for splendid isolation," at the same time showing his teeth, and the lions would turn away in respectful awe and go on tear- ing each other to pieces.
Britain would have about as good a chance of keeping out of any major war started any- where in Europe as Lord Beaver- brook would have of escaping from the Whipsnade lions.
Already the European lions are lashing their tails. Already Hitler is organising a movement to divide Europa into two hostile camps. Already Mussolini is re- ported to be working harmoni- ously with his fellow-dictator to unite Italy with Germany, Hungry, Poland and the Little Entente in a holy war against Bolshevism. That means that least П dozen European
"Germany," said the other. "But Hitler is showing almost every day how anxious he is for our friendship and good tion at our command, and Berlin present himself with a hopeless at
still remains the real storm. vacuum and probably sign his nations will be lined up for zero will."
ning for a "localised" wax. "Eyewash. He means to lull centre, the main anxiety of own death warrant as a ruler, hour, which is not a bad begin- us to sleep and then at a favour statesmen and their military ad able opportunity go for our visers. colonies."
If Germany were to renounce
WHAT I
Britain's
answer to be to the
Now another speech, his ad- dresa to the Reichstag, has The world come and gone. breathes more freely at his ns- Burances that there will be a
HE has set the machine of war in motion. He long period of peace, until it is
That is an exact transcript of to-morrow her claims to "expan- cannot stop the war machine remembered that Hitler has
an interesting scrap of conversion" in Eastern Europe, the in- because he has nothing to put in German war bloc? followed previous assurances
sation which reflects much of the surance rates on war risks which its place, and nothing but the We know that the British with actions that have ended confused apprehension among have been rocketing skywards laborious construction of this Government wants to limit its peacefully only because de decent, peace-loving people to- would slump immediately to sub- gigantic machine to offer mil- "risks" under the Covenant in mocracy has retreated before the day.
normal. But Hitler's Germany lions of German unemployed. dealing with treaty-breakers; "The man who said "Germany" is determined, in her "national He makes so many insolent and we know that it is rearming menace of the mailed fist..
nation with more energy provocative "The sword was not neces- was both right and wrong. Ger- interest," to re-make parts of and
gestures at the that even his own than it has shown in any other sary." in the year that has past, many does not want to attack the map of Europe; and Hitler Russia Hitler says, because Britain and us; and I do not believe that knows that in a world in which generals are alarmed lest the field of statesmanlike endeavour. But naked re-armament, France saw eye to eye with Germany would pick a quarrel collective authority has sagged anti-Russia war which he en Germany's claims. We did with us about her lost colonies. almost to vanishing point the visages should come before their though it may help us not to not threaten anyone." he con- Some time ago a leading Nazi first requisite for re-making the armies are ready to take the lose the next war on the field of tinues apropos the September journalist said to me: "English map is
battle, will certainly not keep vast military do- field, crisis. "We only defended our-politicians are mistaken in think- minance.
Hitler has Russia on the brain, war even at arm's length. selves against an attempt by aing that the crucial question for
A cool-headed foreign observer, Germany is a colonial one or that Many of the photographs of third party to interfere."
could be Then, significantly: "I need it
an insuperable Hitler unposed reveal the melan- long resident in Germany, told not assure you that in the obstacle to Anglo-German friend- choly, careworn features of me once that in his opinion only Blood Transfusion future, too, we shall not tolerate ship. We intend as a great man not invincibly sure of him- a miracle of European states- any attempt by Western Powers Power to establish as a recogni- self and his mission. He is no
attacking Russia-at a moment to interfere with affairs which sed principle our right to the Mussolini to look at.
N ambulance drew up outside the solely concern us, for the pur- colonies of which we were de-
Yet, even though his dreams ing.
recently and from it was lifted bearing 11 pose of preventing natural and prived, but we do not intend to
Government stretcher
white-faced, He was
carried reasonable solutions."
fight for them because they are might be disturbed by doubts
through the casualty en- Is the inclusion of Memel in not a prime economic necessity. about the final outcome of his appears to be acting-or, rather, middle-aged man. the greater Reich to be "a Our aim is not colonial expan- present policy, could he renounce remaining passive on
Behind the arrival lay a dramatic natural and reasonable solution" sion, but expansion in Europe.", disaster? To abandon now the when it comes, can be localised. story of a fight by
that policy now without personal assumption that this
iwa doctors For a number of reasons I of the difficulty there? Will
man alive by transfusing one the Polish corridor provide the think the Nazi journalist was practical philosophy of "Mein Mr. Baldwin, in the supreme keep next territory necessitating a telling the relative truth. His Kampf," screamed forth from a crisis of his political life, shrank drop of blood into his arm every one "solution"? Will the territorial | explanation
the League jou over frozen roads. thousand platforms, would be to from applying was sufficiently integrity of Rumania be violated alarming to justify the young
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ous province of Ruthenia, be forced to submit to German "de-
GERMANY is the im fence against attempts by third
mediate cause of world parties to interfere" with the rearmament.. There is not a establishment of a Ukrainian re-country in Europe-not even public?
Poland, Hitler's uncomfortable Herr Hitler does not say. In eastern ally-which is not sus- ranting of the injustice of picious and fearful of Germany's Germany being called upon to policy of European "expansion," "pay immense tributes in re-backed by military forces grow- parations and at the same time ing day by day to undreamed-of being deprived of her Colonies"
proportions. as an outcome of the Great War,
If by the waving of a wand he is discreetly silent on the subject of Germany's treatment one could eliminate Germany of Rumania and Servia when as a potential cause of war on they were forced to capitulate the grand scale there would he to the Central Powers, of the nothing or little for civilisation stupendous claims which Russia to fear in the coming years. was forced to agree to when she Will any person of unbiased was beaten and sued for peace. intelligence deny it? Let us not Fine words Hitler is discreet, also, regard- deceive ourselves. ing his claims for former Ger- butter no parsnips. All the flat- man colonics possessed by Italy teries Invished on officially con- and Japan. He makes no men- ducted tourists from English tion of the unfortunate Germana public schoolboys to Ministers of who are now a minority in Italy. the Crown-all the raptures of For Italy and Japan are his returning visitors over German allies. In the East, the Japan kindness, the wonder of Gor ese nation, which in the last many's now roads and two years has set so many punctuality of her trains; all aro examples of glorious heroism, is placed in their proper setting by undoubtedly fighting in the one speech by Hitler. service of civilisation."
Which, we think, sums up the Nazi conception of "civilisation."
the
Bestow on the German people and their loader all the good will, and the friendly considera
a
manship can prevent Hitler from Every 1.1/2 Minutes (as he hopes) of his own choos A Middlesex Hospital in London
The British
conflict
the "
trance.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
The le
"I don't think it's a very good carts, Jones had one only a
week then the smashed it up!!!!
21
to
and a half minutes during a 70 miles
patient, William Halcrow, a 58-year-old printer had been lying in Kettering District General Hospital for nearly six months.
severe haemorrhage made his condition critical, and it was decided to transfer him to the Middlesex,
But would he be able to aland the Journey to London?
Dr. L. C. Liddell, house physician at the Kettering Hospital, sought the advice of the medical officer at the Middlesex,
DOCTORS FROM LONDON It could be done, it was decided, but Halcrow would have to receive constant blood transfusions - during the journey. That, too, was possible. Four Kettering blood donors ave their services, and two young Mid- dlesex Hospital doctors went by train to Ketloring to RCCOI- pany the man on the journey and keep him alive, by transfusing 40 drops of blood into his body every hour, uni London was reached.
FOUR HOURS' JOURNEY Because of the treacherous stato, or the road the ambulance lind to travel at less than 20 m.p.h., and the.. journey took four hours..
Sergeant-Major John Miller, or the Kettering Division of the Si. John Ambulance Brigade, said that
hroughout the
the Journey there
heavy snow-storms.
were
The worst
worst part was from Rushden
to Bedford," he said, "but Driver
Bull kept the ambulance well on the despite frequent skids caused
by leo patches.
"The apparatus for transfusing Die blood was brought up to Kettering by the two Middlesex doctors. It wan a simple arrangement of glass pipettes and rubber tubing, but 11 waS (LUME portant that the rate of the 3 tryu- fuslogs should be regulated.”