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The Game Is Up
HITLER ADDRESSING THE reichstag
How Hitler
writes
his
speeches
Dai Dau -by N. B. W.
EXICUS wallowed in the sensuous luxury of a warm and scented bath, sloughing off
the humours of the long humid and enervating day.
He mused, idly watching
T 7 o'clock (H.K.T.) many, even if he was still taken finger on the pulse of every the play of his twitching to-night Hitler speaks. as a joke, except by his fol- town. He knows what German toes taut against the gleam
lowers. He had taken part in the opinion will stand; and what it But the world ΠΟ unsuccessful Munich "putsch" hopes for.
of nile-green marble. longer gives him the sombre when the Nazis tried to seize
He wished, somewhat' wist- Goering and Keitel say how | satisfaction of contemplat- power in Bavaria.
strong the armed forces are, fully, that he might slip into THE Europen news of the lasting its unashamed anxiety So I was anxious to see him Funk, the economic dictator.fresh, cool silken pyjamas and three days has demonstrated as it awaits his utterances, again. When he appeared, what and Ley, chief of the Labour have an evening snack on the
That is a thing of the past. that he still looked shabby and he usks for it.
impressed me most was the fact. Front, send him information if verandah.
Instead, he had been booked Let me try to tell you all down-at-heel.
Then Hitler retires quietly by Mrs. Lexicus for a formal about the way be speaks, how
He came on to the platform in away-sometimes for days. He dinner engagement he started, how he prepares his his famous raincoat. We had studies all these memoranda. though clothed during the day speeches.
at least one thing: that Hitler will
not be permitted to conclude a peace treaty with the Allies on any terms
Save his surrender, which means that the conflict will continue until the Nnzi nonster is forced by sheer exigencies to 'capitulate.
to
>
and she,
In Mein Kampf," he says come to know that raincoat a As he does so, he jots down in the semblance of a ratcatcher,
little in the newspaper pictures notes.
yet was a stickling purist when Signor Mussolini's refusal
about his first appearance on a
in Central Europe.
He listens to no one when he evening fell. And Lexicua groan- handle. Hitler's peace proposals to public platform: "What I had
It was a bitterly cold evening, is planning his speech.
Oftened. dicates that their terms bear no re- always presumed without know-
This bathroom in which he so Intion to the British Government's ing it occurred now-I COULD Yet Hitler took off his raincoat he decides to introduce matters conditions, and this studied rebul SPEAK.”
and stood there shivering. He that his underlings have never thankfully recuperated the phy- mentioned. Often he leaves out (sical and mental vigours so from his chief ally must be giving
Years have passed. To-day looked frozen,
I matters that they have stressed. abundantly dissipated during the Then he began to speak. the Fuchrer considerable pause for Hitler will speak before his own thought. Neither Is there any in-hand-picked Reichstag, sur. was surprised at his ungramma- Then he takes a sheet of paper day, was the ne plus ultra of the dication that Russia is willing to rounded by uniformed suppor- tical German. He seemed to be and begins. to write the main neighbourhood, indeed it might associate herself with the Nazi ters, with five or six microphones using long words without know headings of his speech. He be said of the Colony. Gleaming pence plans, and Hitler's new dotted round hira and a "radio ing their meaning. He sounded puts them down symmetrically chromium; pale-green marble; dunger of so-called
encirclement hook-up," which will include the like a very good orator talking one after the other. He under- glistening rails; resplendent, seems to be of passive disassociation United States.
in a foreign language.
lines the most important points. bright-hued, scrubbiest of to- by his reputed friends.
But twenty years ago, in the I left the meeting very un- Towards the bottom of the wels; voluminous bathsheets; Russin still holds the key to the words of one of his friends, "he impressed. Hitler seemed to me sheet he generally makes his lines of shining crystal bottles; present situation, and until her real used to speak in lightless court in no way to stand out from the favourite "doodles." He draws the alcoved shower with curtain- intentions are known, she is capable yards, mail public-houses, dull hundreds of other petty agita- three little compartments. In ed privacy.
All this comfort was and he _of_danging all the belligerents or a ofices-and-dusty party-rooms,tors who swarmed in Germany one he writes "Yes." In an- not coder flmselt-blessed-be-
other he writes "No." In the yond other men.
piece of string.
The hint that she may attempt to break the German blockade In the Baltic is not so chimerical os might
0
Lexleus had the priceless gift of
at that time.
Since then he has made hun- middle one he puts two angry Oddly, his hobbies turned to the dreds of speeches. I have heard little scratches to show that domestic side of affairs; in the atting normally be intagined in view of THE earliest mention of Hit- some of them. So, perhaps, there is no halfway house be-up of kitchens and bathrooms of their little house he had played a tween Yes and No.
most prominent and, to the mind of Russo German agreements. ler is a speaker that I can dis- have you,
A handwriting expert tells Mrs. L., superabundant, role. Primarily, those agreements favour cover comes in the "Muenchner
me: "This doodle is characteris-
The lady herself, by the way, spent Russin nl the expense of the Reich, Beobachter" of November 15,
tic of a man who pretends there intending the tollet and the cuisine a large portion of her time super- and the fact that M. Molotof 'ut the 1919. It was then
a semi- time concluded
EVERY same
mutual Fascist paper, and it said:
of one
Hitler's is no compromise, no middle of her two graceful Australians, or assistance pact with Estonia, and "The German Workers' Party speeches, if you examine them, way. In his subconscious mind skimming the country upon their
well-sprung backs. simultaneously held conferences (Munich Group) held a meeting falls into one of two groups. he knows that there may be a with the Turkish and Lithuanian on November 11, at 7 pm. Either they point to some com- middle way. But he refuses to the ability to throw off completely Foreign Ministers, clearly Indientes Among the speakers were... ing event and make threats; or recognise it." that Russia is prepared to act Adolf Hitler:-subject-Treaties else they explain some recent independently of her partner in of Brest-Litovsk and Ver- happening and make apologies Poland, I sho BO desirer. The salles."
of one sort or another, position must be odious in the ex-
At this meeting was. founded All his speeches can be split
WHEN he has finished his treme Hitler and his satellites, the National Socialist German up into five
sections. Like page of notes he calls in his who for so long employed the same Workers' Party, and its German this:-- tactics and enjoyed a similar post-opponents soon derisively, nick-
favourite typist, a buxom lady
tion of strategical ascendancy,
1. History (of Germany, of of forty-two, and dictates to her named its members "Nazis."
had shuffled over the border Neither con Russia's new spheres The name stuck.
her enemies, of the Nazi while she types.
alone and unconsidered; nothing of influence in the Ballfe give any
party).
This last week his plans for he carried and nothing he possessed pleasure to the, Nazis, who realise
frame, and thirty Chinese cents, that sooner or later the Soviets will
With matted, uncleanly, unshorn
use their new seaboardd for increased
commerce with the world, not ex-
slood, but the very fact that in
L
of foundation Hitler only played On that night
A small part.
in his all too scanty leisure hours the cares of osice; and doubtless to this faculty was due his enormous capacity for grinding, unpalatable, monotonous work in an enervating, allen climate-with no apparent ef- focis detrimental either to physique or mentally,
DAU
•
2. Nazi philosophy (Hitler's preparing his speech have been beyond the rags upon his raw-boned
code of morals which puts, thrown out of gear by the fact the State above every that right up to the last the hair, his sunken eyes, his shambling thing).
European situation has been guit he appeared a mere travesty of. changing. Russia and Italy are any image of God."
He looked, as indeed he was, half- by no means as steadfast as he witted, but in his native haunts it had, by means none loo gentle, been drilled into him that Authority in Uniform must be most obsequlously treated and other little foibles of a
3. Boasting and prophesy, 4. Demands.
ever
considerable portion of the represen-
runk Indelibly in 'fils dim, disabled
those carly days,
I can remember the Hitler of
When I was cepting the Allies. Germany chin high school student in Vienna, a 15-year-old look forward to a musty dilemma; elther she has got to sink the very interested in politics. Í Russian trade ships as she is doing came home one October evening
5. Offers and promises, (Cou- would like them to be.
So Hitler has not been able to pled with threats). the Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and from night-classes. It was in Dutch, or she must permit right of 1920.
How does Hitler prepare one get his speech cut and dried way, which would largely defeat her As I passed the Gschwander of his big speeches? I can tell some days ahead. blockade plans,
beer-garden in the suburb of you a good deal about that be. When the speech is typed a talves of authority had somehow Hitler's avid desire for peace, now Hernals, I was attracted by a cause I was once given a vivid few of his big men, Goering, brain. He knew that when in trou that he has grabbed most of what great deal of noise and found a description in a conversation Goebbels, Ribbentrop, and so on, bie worse might be avoided if he he wanted, can be readily under political meeting in full eruption, with Captain Wiedemann, Hit are allowed to look it through. were but possessed of the where
Generally they want things withal. Having no home-If he had. A big blonde man was ex- ler's former A.D.C.
altered. Almost always Hitler Dat Dau had, of neealty, been ac such as he would be better off- obtaining such ill-gotten guias, he pounding the 25 points of the The preparation generally be- refuses to alter a word. has had to compromise himself with Nazi creed. His name was Dr. gins, he told me, with diplomatic Then comes the day of the inexorable demands of nature as did customed, unrebuked, to satisfy the the hated Communists, serves only Dingfelder. After he had ant activity. (This time, for in-
Do you
bis fellows. Nor could any notion of to strengthen the Allies position down the chairman явяоunced stance, Hitler has been con- speech itself.
decency or its inck have plumped Hitler's bidding would be more the next speaker Herr Adolf ferring with Count Clano, Mus- laten. in to Hitler on the wire-the depths of this animal existence. less? Do you hear the hoarse, But now he found himself angrily Hitler came, to the front of Then when he has some iden rhythmic "Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil, handled by someone in a yellowden roads, and he knows not which way the platform. He looked such a of how things stand, he demands Slex Hell" ("Hail Victory") of untram, harangued in language of
which he understood but litijo. on the Western Front, a restless not even wait to hear what he chiefs. Ribbentrop sends in a
This much, however, he gathered- focs dull, shabby little man that I did typed memoranda from all his his hearers? How is it dono?
I will tell you. Goebbels alts that by some means he had erred; or sleeping partner on the Eastern had to say. I wont home, Front, a suspicious and possibly
massive document on the post- or stands near Hitler. Whenever was if that the law needed something.
Even him? dlagruntled ally in the soul, and the certainty of Internal disintegra-
tion abroad, the strength of he hears a point he likes, he of him? tion if the war continues for n
feeling against Hitler in Eng, starts clapping. That is the
Hat he had none, but bow he did, land and France, whether Roose signal.
stormleaders obsequiously endeavouring in stum throughout the audience start bilag words to appease the growing NEXT time I saw him was in velt meana business or not of bother, and his country considor Munich in 1925. This, time I and so on.
their Sieg-Hoils. The rest of anger to understand the nature of able suffering and misery, if he travelled from Vienna to hear
his offence, if any. realised that at long last the game him. He had travelled, too on tapo chief, sends in a detailed
Shifty-eyed Illmmler, the Gen- the dudlence chimes in.
After the speech is over Hit-of the hairy hand.
No result other than the tightening account of the feelings of the ler manages to keep up his He was known all over Ger- German people. He has his-
PLEASE Turn To Pago 3..
ot
Any contemplation of peaco than dishonourable; it would be dis- Hitler, from Munich." astrous to the democracies' cause.
Hitler now has reached the cross-
to turn. Ho faces inflexible
Indefinita period.
Hitler would save himself a fot
is tip, and that he and his satellites his road to fame and power. should retire as gracefully, as posel-
ble from the scene,
solini's son-in-law).
The
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Tremblingly, us a fast resource, the
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