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Assassination
THE fuller significance of the
anssination of M. Calinescu
the Rumanian anti-Fascist Pre- mier is not yet apparent, but it in doubtful whether the crime is an isolated example of youthful hot- headedness, unrelated to the Euro- penn war now being waged on two fronts,
HITLER'S VOICE
TITLER broadcast at Danzig on Tuesday. He years. They know his speeches almost by heart.
He is the first orator ever to have led Germany, for her lenders up to now have been warriors, soldiers, not speakers.
Hitler's climb to power has been accomplished mainly by ren- son of his peculiar brand of oratory. He was 'n talker in n country where little price has been set upon talk. He could say the things they thought and many things of which they had not thought with a freedom and a violence they had never contemplated.
I HAVE heard him on the great occasions in such pinces
as Saarbrucken, Nuremberg, and Berlin, and, thougl I have heard most of the leaders and oralors from Lenin to Cham- berlain, I have never heard one even remotely resembling Adolf Hitler.
He is the most menacing speaker on earth. I have seen people' white and agitated with apprehension as they listened to him, yes, and German people.
It is not what he says which carries this menace-that seldom varies but it is the assault and battery of his voice.
In its restrained tones that voice is strong, harsh, and splendid ly masculine; but when he raises it to impress, as men do whose arguments do not carry conviction of themselves, it becomes tattered and roucous. It is then that the menace creeps in.
HE will make a simple statement quietly, on the thick crust of his deep vater; he will reiterate it in a rising, bellowing shout, and then, when you imagine that no throat could withstand an increure in vocal power, his voice rises to its
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ragged edges and he screams words in an almost indistinguishable stream-wild, strident, hysterical, as though he were warning the world that a planet is about to strike the earth and that the end of fall has come.
In fact, he is probably saying nothing more important or dramatle than: " ..wo must work to fuim our plans. But in that awful, car-splitting, thought-shattering use of volee he makes it impossible for rational people to think clearly and welph what he is saying. -
Hla netual words no longer seen to matter once he forsakes the ordinary tones of speech; it is then only the shrieking voice which dominates everything.
IN the regular and periodic lapses to almost conver- sational tones which ho uses to provide contrast and effect for these terrife crescendos with which he yours his audience (and himself), for no one knows the effect of the voice better than he does, you can hear the thick, cracking Austrian brogue shaping the words as they fall from his lips.
That brogue is not without its effect, either. A strong country hecent is always more telling and mora umotion-provoking than academic speech. More than one of Hitler's followers has changed als consonant sounds in conscious or unconselous Imitation of the Lender.
THOSE who have listened to Hitler always hear the
same one-man vocal orchestra; the same merciless. use of voice, though some do not understand a word he says, still they are able to identify that tone of menace, that barking attack on the senses, which has enabled Adolf Hitler to drive Germans like a flock before him, and establish himself as Master of the Third Reich.
night's
was
black-out nothing new
to
me
HAVE spent the greater part of the last two and a half years in ghost cities and
The Rumanian Government im-towns. mediately classified the murder as
by NOEL MONKS,
"Daily Express" war reporter, who has
been in 150 air raids
MADRID wasn't air
raided often. That was not due so much to Franco's kindness ag to the strong anti- aircraft defences the city had..
In Bilbao, there wasn't a sin- gle 'plane to tackle the raiders. In Madrid there were a couple of hundred waiting ....
But Madrid was a ghost city at ngiht. I was mighty glad to leave there. It used to give me the creeps having to walk a mile after midnight from the censor's office back to my hotel.
Wasn't so bad on moonlight nights. But when there was no moon I just couldn't help think-
Franco's 'planes from Majorca made the lives of the three mil-
which used to prowl noiselessly Franco I experienced only one ing of the "bogey-man" tales of There was Abyssinia. Then behind us in packs of six or a nir raid in a town behind the my childhood ....
lines at Talavera, dawn, De-. Nazi attempt to overthrow the Spain. At Tarragona, little dozen.
cember 10 last year. legal regime preparatory to Gor. Government port near Barce-i
They never attacked. They Chater Road. man extension of hostilities in the lona, I experienced my 150th air
raid in eleven months. It was stopped when you stopped, mov. ************** || direction of Rumania. Equally
ed on when you moved on. But the closest call of all....
their eyes used to bore.through quick have been the Nazis to con- tend that the crime was an at-1
raids. They scare me stiff. They your back.
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WHEN I flew into Bilbao lion-odd people in Valencia, Bar- on April 19 there was celona and coastal towns a hell
We had to fly on earth.
I shall never get used to air the pitch darkness right into an air raid on.
out to sea and hide in the clouds tempt by Polish and British are the only things on carth In Franco Spain I found-con- until it was over.
dogs.
Down there all raids were cur ried out at night. And they had
I stayed in Bilbao for five plenty. Often the raiders were agents to create anti-Nazi venom that frighten me. I have yet to ditions similar - with Moors in Rumania. Such anxiety to meet the man, woman, or child acting the part of the pariah weeks. My diary shows that over the city before the syrens
Franco's German and Italian went. push the blame on to third par- they do not frighten.
raiders came over 110 times in On nights when an off-shore- Burgos, Salamanca, Talavera, ties indientes only too well that
IN Madrid, I have been
came in from the sea unheard. drop bomba... the murder bears very wide poll-
in my bed, resuding n-Seville, Algeciras......I stumbled that period. They didn't always wind was blowing the raiders. Three times I was roused from But the fear was there.. tical motives outside the range of book, with shells whistling past my way round those lightless purely domestic affairs.
the hotel windows, but, honest towns and cities night after
night, falling over kerbstones, Guernica, greatest air raid of all, my bed in Valencia not by the ly, I have not been scared.
stepping into puddles, getting is not included in this number.... syrens but by the bombs.
In the old days those
It was unsafe then to go out At Valencia, Bilbao, Barce- lost..
All Bilbao's air raids were in acted with exemplary promptness,on I have only had to hear Spanish cities seldom slept. But and If the annualnation was 13
the first dreadful note of the during the civil war, whon night daylight. The country was far into the street and seek a refuge. too dangerous for night flying. It was just as unsafe to stay in serious attempt by the Nazis to air raid syrens, and my heart fell, they became ghost cities.
But, all the same, Bilbao became your hotel. That is the hellish effect a coup, It seems in the first has nearly choked me.
I was always shy about carry- a ghost city after dark. That part of air raids—one .just place to have failed as dismally as
There is something about an ing a flashlamp, lest I be taken is one thing Franco did for the doesn't know what to do. ld litter's abortive rising against air raid that is completely de- for a spy. Funny part was in inhabitants-removed the dead-
with ly fear of air raids. Austria in 1931. The murdor of moralising. And even when the five months I was
The Rumanian authorities have
Dr. lolfass, the Austrian dicta- there is no raid on, the dark- tor, served only to cement anti-ered streets give one the jitters. Nazi Austria. A similar reaction Some people think it fun,
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is certain in the case of Rumanin, creeping round London during GRIN AND BEAR IT which, under the energetic leader-the blackouts we are now ex- But, be- ship of King Carol, has learnt to periencing at Home.
lieve me, it wasn't fun in Addis regard Hitlorism with undisguised Ababa. And it was less funny distrust and aversion.
still in Spain.
No one will envy Rumania hor
In Addis Ababa after dark position in Europe to-day. She the only lights on the so-called Ina Soviet troops parading her streets were the fiery, glittering north-eastern border, a decidedly eyes of the huge parlah doga pro-Nazi Hungary, eager for the
Calinescu may well be the first
return of lost territory in the north-west, and a cowed Slovakia, part of which has now been taken move in that direction. Tho ro- over by Hungary, fringing her in port that Germany has long been the north. Soviet Ruania has pro- preparing for an uprising by the mised Rumania that she will re-Nazi minority in Rumanía cannot spect her neutrality, but Russia bo discarded as an unrelated fac- has also demonstrated that she is tor to Thursday's crime. Tho an opportunist, and if certain Iron Guards, as an organisation, far too disintegrated exigencies arise, she may well at- have been
tempt to regain territory which to be capable of anything like an Rumanita was awarded from Lorganised coup without outside Russia after the Great War. assistance. It is fairly obvious Germany, of course, has long from where this has come, and it cast hungry eyes on the bountiful seems equally certain that Nazi mineral and agricultural wealth Germany, having now embarked of Rumania, and if she, thought upon a full-dress war, eventually sho could aucceed in her quest, intends to try and conquer the would probably display no healta-rich lands of Rumania.
Thus the stage seoma not for a tion in attempting subjugation of further and undoubtedly serious such desirable territory.
expansion of the European con-
The assassination of Prolor niet.
a.
Even deep down below in the refuge you could hear the roar of the airplane engines above.. And you just couldn't help feel- ing that a bomb was going to
By Lichty drop right on top of your head.
"This is my first time on a jury do we get paid more for a conviction than an acquittai?”.
Then the sobbing of women and the whimpering of children · as you are packed tight in the refuge unnerve you after a time.:
I have stood in refuges for jan hour at a time, barely able to shift from one foot to the Jother, so closely packed were we,
I
WHEN I returned from
WE
Spain to London, and retired for the night, my first action was to walk to the win- dow and 'draw the curtains be- fore turning' on the light. In- stinct.
In Madrid you were taught to
do that, by rille-fire. People who forget to shutter their windows at night suddenly found bullets crashing into their room. They usually only forgot once.
The Italians used bombs on Valencia and Barcelona that weigh more than a ton. In the lost air raid I was in in Valencia a child's shattered body was picked up 200 yards from where a bomb had fallen among · a group of workmen's homes. And there was a crater in the ground ́ | thirty yards across..
'The bodies of six people Iknown to be in one of the houses lat the time were never recover....... led. Not, oven a particle of them.