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Before the Nazis Came
BISMARCK, Germany's Iron Chan-
cellor, was broken by the iron will of William 11.. the Kaiser.
Before the break between the old
Chancellor and the young Monarch,
Bismarck ruled Germany with an iron hand.
He used every opportunity to push operation his anti-democratic no-
by EMRYS JONES
more it is seen that persecution gets
to-days.When a tinsmith made an at- nowhere, for the Social Democratic
movement grew stronger.
tempt on the life of the Emperor
VAUXHALLWilliam 1, he tried to make that an
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The Task Ahead
banished from the earth."*
to
excuse to introduce legislation against the Social Democrats, the party that rose to strength among the German working classes on the theories of Karl Marx.
In the end he succceded in prohibiting their meetings and associations.
Professional agitators were Hable to be banned the country; and even martial law could be proclaimed in districts, where it was considered that the party were a menace to the State.
The Social Democrats had to print their newspapers in Switzerland and smuggle them into Germany. Once
Bismarck, however, introduced a cer- tain amount of legislation, including a system of insurance for the workers that served later as a model for other countries. If by that method he hoped to wenn the workers from their party allegiance, then it was a failure: the movement continued to grow.
In foreign affairs Bismarck's main object was to keep the peace. The new, unified Germany needed it to strengthen her trade and solidify her internal organisation.
France was £1 menace. Smarting under the loss of Alsace and Lorraine, the French were rearming, strengthen-
"THAT CHAP'S
POTTY!"
The time of the landslide ME whole thing dated from
and the rather inconsiderate descent of some tons of rock the under-lying King's Highway.
reason
·or
by N. B. W.
*
doleful washed
ing the fortifica- tlons along the German frontier.
The Balkan pen- insula was a mell- Ing pot; Russia was. a thorn in the Ger- man flesh.
But the peace held,
Meanwhile Bis- marek was dream- ing of a colonjat
empire for Ger-
39
DROPPING THE PILOT
"Bismarck had to go
And here is the famous “Punch” cartoon which the event inspired.
many, though his ideas in that direc tion were never realised,
When the old Emperor died, his
COON relations between Britain and Germany became critical.
and inspiration the idea of war and Its glories sank deep into the German mind.
was
were
Inten-
GERMANY'S General Luden-
The
tells 138 that after
way
trembled
recom- Prince
son Frederick III, came to the throne Treitschke, the influential German
Britain but his reign lasted only 99 days, historian, taught that A BIG section of the democra
Then
came his son, the 29-year-old the enemy, called it a "robber- fie world has gone to war
William II., the last Kaiser. In State." and that the British telligent, tactless, Of course, the story was pooh-
susceptible to destroy Hitlerism, and all!
to not competent to govern the nith of The day was hot with September | Battery, the Kaiser und grund the world contained in her Empire. believers in justice and reason pooled and tut-tuttal, and the heat, the yellow dust swirled, when nations about monarchy, believed in
details discussed with avid in-the policemen made
In this way the mind of Germany a thomurth the divine right of kings. are rightly convinced that there terest as a welcome variant upon fould nothing and saw nothing or in the divine right of Chancellors. Many warungs Frans
was prepared, search of the suspected terrain--and It appears that Ilismarck believed Fear of German ambitions grew. could be no more honourable the former themes of hungry nobody of whom they could, honestly and before long the young King and tons cause for which to demand auch wolf und roaming tiger.
were given in France and entertain suspicion. The matter was the old Chancellor were quarrelling. Britain. tremendous sacrifices #8 this All the same, in the gathering dusk nientally put down to the debit of Bismarck had to go.
with a mistaken and
In 1913 France passed her Three new holocaust is bound to ex-muny a furtive, anxious look was cast some idler
From that time wild and bitter Years' Service Act; Germany greatly towards the heights, and bays and dangerous sense of humour-danger speeches by the Kaiser set ck. Mr. Anthony Eden made amats shunned their once short cut ous to him. they resolved should
the increased her fighting forces. world's nerves on edge. They were the position of
Then on June 28, 1914, Francis. the fighting across the bracken-covered rise. they ever tay hands upon him.
ju prelude to the Great War, the Ferdinand, heir to the throne
of No one heeded the servant's whis- democracies perfectly clear in
overture to catastrophe,
Austria, was assassinated ol Sara- perings-and
credence was given to neighbourhood continued, not
jevo, and that for which the German his speech on Monday, when he what was credited as usual to without reason, to be shunned Tension
mind had been prepared game. said: " ..there can be no last- Chinese superstition until one bright until a party of Scouts, with a sense
This time the pence did not hold. Spring morning when Asta,
searching
ng of security perhaps in the unity of ing prace until Nazism and all the bill for specimens for the incon-ubers, decided to give a practical At the time of the Jameson Raid in that it stands for in oppression,,
veniently
Insatiable members of the demonstration ol their tracking eracity and broken faith, isntany class, came suddenly into abilities and, in the now soft and 1800 the German Government were four years of warfare their "Black
view of the peering wild-eyed, soddened earth, came upon footprints Inclined to step in on behalf of the Day" came on August 8, 1918.
Boers. tousled-headed crenture, half-hid of naked feet.
From that day exhaustion and One smart laddie noticed the oddity beyond the rock.
Jameson was defeated and
cap moral breakdown increased daily. It is for this supreme pur-
Immovably Itured by the Boers, and since The low brow, the unusual width of and stood and stared.)
the
great
German milltary pose that millions of lives, hirsute face, the bushy, rufous eye-Deeply imprinted and quite unmis-that the raid was neither authorised gear by the combined force of the
planted upon his well-tried pale.British Government mude it
clear
machine had been thrown out of perhaps, will be sacrificed, and brows above the deep-sunk, oval, takable was the impress of six toes nor consented to, there was no cail
goat-like eyes, the powerful deep-
had given Alles; discipline incalculable material damage tanned shoulders conveyed to Asta on either foot. The Scout scarce-for the Germans to interfere.
rapidly to insubordination. ly believed his bulging eyes, but suttered,
Then Britain became angry when Back home the people But it is a purpose, an uncanny sense of the primitive. the excited band, urgently called,
28 with his best wishes and hopes for a tember German GJLQ so long as it is completely ful- INDEPENDENT, 1ot to say militant. Confirmed the diagnosis in unanimity the Kaiser sent a telegram to Kruger on the edge of revolution. Os Sep- The eager, young amateur sleuths
an armistice and unnatural in the creature's demean- the shore, where, to their
as was the girl, something almost ally followed the traces is as successful defence of the Transvaal. nended
This was regarded here as an in- Max of Beden becaine Chancello or made her halt in her impulse of chagrin they disappeared,
terference with our Empire affairs, Germany offered to accept Presi eestigation. She would have re-away by the tide.
Following unsuccessful negotin- dent Wilson's "fourteen points" as
basla traced her steps, but
of negotiation, and the tions between Britain and Germany a instinct
Armistice was signed on November forbade any movement how-favourable to rearward action.
The Journalist, the Professor and came the first Morocco crisis. And the mere Globe-Trotter were in lazy
France was busy establishing her- 11, 1018, the path was narrow and the slopes conclave ut the table in the window, self in Morocco.
Meanwhile revolution broke out precipitous.
50 the Kaiser In 1905 took in Germany. It began in the Navy, something of golden content in tali Asta's unusual but, in the circums- glasses at their elbows.
Mediterranean cruise, stepped off at spred to the, soldiers and workmen,
set tances, understandable,
councils. informed the Sultan who indecision
up their "Not a bad little burg but the Tangler, and
Nothing that he regarded Morocco as a com- Civil war started. was terminated by her massive bull- burghers a bit high-hat eli? terrier who, having lagged
behind in
Then Prince Max off his own bat, seems to happen here. What'ye pletely independent country.
abelicaton of the the pursult of some to him-dellei- scribbling at, John?"
France saw in this an attempt to announced the ous scent, now bounded joyfully from Oh, just a line about that chap get concession out of her, but toe Kaiser, who fled to Holland, the undergrowth, almost covered by The task lies beyond the little burrs clinging to his fine and for out of the harbour-had six final result was a victory for France owed by the Crown Prince. The winning of battles and the scen cout.
little,
The Professor, who had piggy but
It was a near thing, but the peace dethronement of Hitler and his were bright with enquiry, and re- converting his sensitive fingers into Naval Race
highly intelligent pink-rimmed eyes dreamily sprawling in his deep chair, held. satellites. In the distance one celving no immediate response from pyramids, and occasionally clawing
the
suspicion of MEANWHILE, the
fascinated Asta, he took matters his abundant blond hair, abandoned work enormous
of
Germany's ambitions grew into his own pays and bounded to his attitude of laissez faire and reconstruction, which will be wards thost blazing eyes above the quickly glanced up. Not at all the in Britain as the German Navy grew
accepted Idea of on necessary if Nazism is never rock in enger and hostile investiga- commonly
tion.
erudite scholar, with his gleaming steadily bigger.
At the Hague we tried to make a called Ebert, the Socialist leader again to threaten the existence The attendant vocal clamour was head, his keen, blue lassless eyes, naval agreement With Germany, but from Heidelberg of civilisation. This is the evidently too much for the visitor, his dapper air of sartorial Immacu- Germany argued that she could con-
only the needs who precipitately left the shelter of lateness, yet one peculiarity, he bad, sider ultimate which has to be kept his cover and incontinently fed, the always wearing a white cotton glove judged to be her safely.
of what she cost of only 15 lives, overthrew the dynasty; overthrew the 20 in mind. It will be the driving joyful dog in yelping profitve venturesome that he had, when faster, and the naval race was on
monarchies that made up the pursuit, Asta upon his left hand; explaining to the
Britain, In reply, began to
Empire, kh became a republic. force behind not only thenow had a
Tall and broad-shouldered beyond young man, suffered the effects of
Bethmann Hollweg,
came a struggle between the gallant armies, which may be the ordinary, the limbs and sturdy
fordyinishing the wrong chemicals!
desired a naval agreement majority Socialists of Ebert and the Eh?
cellur, What's that, John"? he
Communists led by Karl Liebknecht, called upon to die on the battle-torso-weathered to a tint of mahon asked, "chap with x He with Britain some years later. but
of Spartacus field, but of those behind the belt of rush, entirely ranked except to the particulars which the flippent, Tirpitz.
any deerness-were, but for a scanty listened with keen and rising Internet he could not destroy the opposition whose nom de plume
was inken by his party. of the Kaiser and Admira) von
The revolt was smashed, and the lines whose sacrifices may be as
for the coarse and shaggy growth of Jontter-of-fact John vouchsafed.
usual
sual reign of terror followed. Then
the once more, in 1911, great.
Then gazed mushigly across the Moroccan The whole ensemble had upon shining harbour. "How old d'ye Germany said that they could not Rhine,
Meanwhile the Allied troops were business flared up. Now occupying the area west of No circumstances must ever Asta a distinctly repellent effect.
with the bridgebends of again be permitted which will But she noted the gangling arms of suppose I am?" he asked, with seem-tolerate French supremacy in
Mor- Cologne, Koblentz, and Mainz. irrelevance. ing disproportionate length, saying as he
occo without some sort of compen- "Oh, about 40 or 45, I should
In 1919, after elections had been provide for a renaissance of ran, giving an impression of semi-
"How much d'ye give me tention.
held, the Germans met at Weimar Nazism or its counterpart. For uselessness. In spite of her quite
Kiderlen, the German "Let's say up to sixty-never con Minister, asked France to cede he did so in an atmosphere of starva- Foreign to trame their constitution. They too long Hitlerism was regarded natural alarm she thought curiously tell with you wiry Britishers."
that all four limbs appeared strange-
whole of the French Congo. Then he tion as well as anarchy. "Well Pm 80." The
To add to that came the news of
filled, which will be worth the agony the world is about bear. There will be no shrink- ing from the immense task; even at this early stage, ever, it is timely to warn that the masses will never forgive their leaders if the pernicious and terrifying system of Nazism is not crushed once and for
ever.
kecs
ogre,
rufous hair.
His
·
toes."
in that part of North Atrien,
been
Professor
a
own
fol-
Princes of the various States quit, too, and republics were set up all over Germany. End of a Dynasty
ORDERLY Germany gave place
to chnos.
In Berlin the noble Prince Max resigned in favour of an ex-saddler
build
Chan- now
and In
So the revolution In Berlin at the
gian
Then
the
with almost studied amusemently inadequate to the obvious strengthheld up a restraining hand. "No, persunded the Kalser. to send the as an experiment "which was and power of the body As he ran, spore me your remarks: it's true: warship Panther to Agadir to pro- the Allied peace terms, of which one bound to fail". The democratic the long coarse hair flopped and I'll tell you something. "It's all due tec German subjects in Morocco of the leaders said, "Those who sign world has learnt its lesson. floated round the oddiy-shopen head, to my having six toes, and on each during the fighting, angered France, tence of many millions
this treaty will sign the death sen- The "exporiment" became an towards the back.
which appeared to reach n peak foot. Yes, I have! like that pour The implied threat
of German anxiety in Deltain, chap. D'ye suppose I could get a caused But its viciousness lies
look at him?”
the House of Commons Mr. Lloyd men, women, and children."
The Germans lost Eupen and Mal- not only in its militarist aggraation, with a trusted colleague. it every time! Well, go on, teli us!"
BEYOND a quiet, private conver- "Not a chance, old boy-up against George made a strong speech. medy, Memelland, part of Silestu. aiveness; its threat is to
Once more the pence held.
Poland WDS reconstructed out of tional liberty and to individual Asta said nothing about the matter.
part of her. And there was a huge Tact was indicated by those
Professor freedom. The removal of such charge of some scores of young, im-
In THE
bill to be paid in reparations. She comfortably, cleared his throat,
ERMANY moderated her de- was to be branded with the "war a threat requires more than pressionable girls.
1st a cigarette and began: "Suppose
mands; France ceded a part guilt" battles between armies. There Bat, some time later, when a little you fellows have never even heard of her Congo in exchange for a tree Weak -Leaders must be a new Way of Living: band of boarders returned from a of the Six-toed Nantus? I won't go hand in Morocco.
THE miracle of Weimar Meantime, the Kalser was always THE ramble (venturesomely disregarding into the technical detalls of anthro- this will be the final task of the tutorial suggestions) breathless and pology, but it is well known to talking about the "mailed flat" and
that out of that assembly democracies in the utter elmina excited-one the borders
armour." and at the came a liberal and democratic con- of science that such a tribe inhabited the "shining tion of Hitlerism. This is the bysteries and related
whole of the adult population, and all traces of them hove pence in Europe.
The plain fact was that he devoted an elected President.
on
settled himself War Glorified
is
somewhat parts of Asin lose sight of it, even in the chunks of rock rolled down upon disappeared.
the time had arrived for other peoples on account of their emelency of his Army and building however is one of democratic leaders more than passivity.
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goal before us. Let us never I incoherent story of having had large since when up to the Middle Ages, | same time posing as the apostle of stitution, with free elections for the
agony and excitement of carry-agency,
them by an unseen and unknown "They were feared and shunned by his life chiefly to increasing the The story of the German Republic,
ling out a bloody warfare.