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October 20, 1939
Hitler Infallible
"WE Nazis know weil that
everything the
Fuehrer does is
| right," said Herr von Ribbentrop ta
a Nazi demonstration. Of course
he does not believe that. No mor
tal enn say that of another. It
was said only to tickle the ears of
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HITLER: "Now don't forget! You go as I direct you!"
War Cabinet
comes to life
HIE conclave of our new
War Cabinet assembled at No. 10 Downing Street yesterday afternoon. the people, who appear to be too Two of its members, only- ready to accept the legend of Hit-Winston Churchill and Sir John Shnon-could look back to war- fer's infallibility. 'The public time discussions under Asquith memory is short. else Germans and Li G. in that same elegant,
historic room. might in a thoughtful moment ask
themselves these question:-
In those days our Chancellor had not Alied out into nearly such a power in the land as he has since become.
Was Hitler right when he wrote that "those who are in power in Russia to-day have no idea of form- ing an honourable alliance or of remaining true.to.it.if they did.with a scat_in_the_Cabinet, _He
Was litier right when he wrote, "It must never be forgotten that the present rulers of Russia are blood-stained criminals, that here we have the dregs of humanity which, favoured by the cireum. stances of a tragic moment, over- ran a great State, degraded and extirpated millions of educated people out of sheer blood-lust, and that now for nearly ten years they have ruled with such a savage tyranny as was never known be-
fore"?
Was Hitler right when he wrote: "The Russin of to-day, deprived of its Germanic ruling class, in nol a
possible ally in the struggle for German liberty. From the purely military viewpoint a Russo-Ger- man coalition waging war against Western Europe, and probably against the whole world on that account. would be catastrophie for us."
Was Hitler right when he wrote: "political Bismarck's
sagacity would never allow him to ally him- self with a State that is doomed to disappear“?
Only the very wicked ones in the City worried a brass farthing about him., for in 1914 he was simple Sir John, Attorney-General,
might prosecute the wrong 'uns, but honest bankers had no interest In him.
Next year he got a leg up to be- his come Home Secretary: but conscience did not allow him to keep the job very long. He re- signed on the issue of conscription.
am pretty cert
that he be- cerlain Heved a couple-if not more-ol with his colleagues would resign him. But they came to the con- chision which Bir Jolin's COR- science itself has reached in 1939
that conceription is not a re- signing matter.
So he went out a ewe lamb, and passed the rest of the war in the most unlikely way, a Major serv- Ing with the R.A.F. in France.
Now, though the Conservatives still don't like him, he 13 firmly established at the Treasury.
success beller with Agures than
with
Auman belts, because his zeal and acumen are immeasur handling men. ably greater than his power of
He will try to make his extrac- tions from our pockets as painless as possible. He will never lose that smooth snillo which masks his shy- ness, however, badly things may go,
When Sir John sat under Asquith in the Cabinet..his present chief was doing his bit as an on the Birmingham Alderman City Council, wearing a very hand- some gown with fur on it.
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About the time when Bir John' commences Home Secretary, Mr. Chamberlain was aworn in as Lord Mayor of his native city, and wonderfully well ho aallsfied thro Tory buTGORICA,
Was Hitler right when he wrote: This colossal Empire in the East is ripe for dissolution. And the end of the Jewish domination in Russia will also be the end of They said that they never had Russia as a State. We are chosen auch an excellent chief magis- by Pesting to be the witnesses of trate. He was diligent, he was punctual, he was tactful and he a catastrophe which will afford the
was seemingly never bored by airstgent confrmation of the pubito dinner). nationalist theory of rave" 7.
Thosa questions might be built!- plied many times, every one of thopt góing to prove either that Buffer was wrong then or that he baa wholly abandoned one of his most ranallen) conviction,
Birmingham had always classed him as the fool of the family n different breed from 'Joo' and Ther rovlacil their Austtil opinion when he had worn their lorety chain of office for six month, They began to mutter that old slogan, "Ho will go far.”
A FRE later, soon after Major
Bir
BY TOM DARLOW
John Gimon joined his squadron in France, the Lord Mayor went as far as London. He became Director-General of
National Service,
Auston's "Merely a job for brother," sald the Landon world, which had never met him. His department found him a cold fish, but a very efficient fish,
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Civil servants liked him because he knew his job, because he treated them as intelligent col laborators, because he was not a "politician." Novertheless, he completed his war service without making an noticeable impact among
the tritons. His reputation was won among the minnows.
He rounded things off by getting elected to the Commons in Decem- ber, 1918, acepted Lloyd George's coupon as his ticket of admission. “Nów, isn't that nicol “ said son- Uimental M.P.8. "Another Cham- berlain! I never heard of him before." And, for some years, they never heard of him again, unti his talents earned him the place of Postmaster-General in 1922,
Kitchener became Secretary of State for War under Mr. Asquith, displacing peace-time Haldane, the victim of a disgraceful intri- que. Mr. Chamberlain has stuck 10 peace-time Leslie Hore-Belisha, who was an ornament of the R.A.S.C., and a major by Novem- ber. 1918. Then he resumed lis Interrupted education at Oxford.
Immediate
under- post-war graduates, a tough lot, took to Him. They elected him President of the Union in 1919, since when he has never looked backward.
I can remember him, more heavily mannered in those days,. very obviously hitching his wagon to the star of Benjamin Disraeli, but a most accomplished fellow. Wo hoped great things..for him thon at Oxford. Ho is still one ́of our brightest young men.
Bir Kingsley Wood was busy during the last war-but, not nearly so busy as he will bo during this one as Air Minister. He was a soundly conservative' member of an LOC, which stil, lived in Spring
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1017 he promoted the memorial the food controller that all bread should be sold by weight. A soundly common-sBELIKO suggestion. Like the Premier, he entored Parliament in 1918 on LOS coupon. Next year he was knighted. Perhaps someone re- membered that bread business.
Since then Bir Kingsley has been "váry much up and doing. Whether you agree with his views or not,
you must admire his zest, his drive, his smile-wreathed energy.
He is always in the picture, and he is eminently sensible. The RAF. entered the war yesterday magnificent in moralo and equlp- ment. Thank Sir Kingsley for that.
Lord Halifax
Just Mr. WOO Edward Wood last time we fought the Germans. Ho became A colonel in the Yorkshire Dragoons, but his withered arm made his military career the local formallty of the son of an ancient and noble house. He had launched his political career as M.P. for Ripon in 1010, but he first found a place
himself for
As Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies in 1931.
Mon like Lord Baldwin thought worlds of him from the first. I remember that shrewd old artist Sir William Rothenstein saying of him, "Edward Wood will be Prime Minister. He has the most com- pleto integrity. That counts most in the end."
Bir Bamuel Hoare waged the most adventurous Inst war of them all. He had been in the Commons since 1910. In August, 1914, he joined his regiment, the Norfolk Yeomanry, but was in- vallded out with rheumatic fever. While he learned Russian, and Kitananile making light of the fever, sent him to Russia to organise British military intelll- gence there.
After the Bolshovik regime was established they sent him to-Italy as chief of our military intelli- gence there. He talked Italian. too, you see,
After the war he was one of the principals among the Tory MP3 who torpedoed L.-G.'s Coalition administration, and 80 accured himself a right to a seat on the Inner Tory councils.
He somehow reminds me of a most Intelligent and liberal- minded maiden-aunt, for all his carcer of adventure and athletics. You would never imagine that ho came from a Bolid brot
and banking background, Mixed with these delightfully conscrrative strains, however, runs a tincture of Quaker blood, Sir Samuel is proud that Elizabeth Fry, the prison reformer, la a collateral ancestor.
he gets it from.
Admiralty, 80 wonderfully de- scribed in his book, "The World Crisis," was the centre and soul of his life.
Now he has come back to con- trot the service where his heart lics. And the nation generally feels that the right man is in the right place.
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There remains ons mora name. I was wrong carlier when I said only two of the new Cabinet sat in the war Cabinet during the 1914-1018 struggle. I forget an invisible man, Maurice Hankey. mado a peer when he retired aftre so many years as Cabinet Secretary.
He was there all the time-who- ever may have missed a meeting. te sald very little and only when asked to speak, He listened always. He remembered. He never forgot a fact, a figure, a situation.
Now, with rare wisdom, they have called him out of retirem.cnt. He returns as a Minister, where he sat a secretary. Other people might call it a triumph.
Lord Hankey would regard you with cold dislike and go on with his work, if you dared to mention quite such a distasteful word to him.
Food For All If War Comes
THERE will be adequate food supplies for the population of Britain in the event of war.
The Government is satisfied with the position; there is no possibility of the country being starved.
A Government official gave this assurance recently,
The public are asked not to buy more linn a normal week's supply of food. Divisional Food Officers make the suuestion that, in addition, housewives should provide an "iron ration," which would also cover a week's supply.
Private Evacuation advised by the Government.
not yet
Private car owners are asked to volunteer to help in the evacuation of hospital patients. Their cars would. be needed for only 24 hours. Over 500 are needed in London alone.
A.R.P. Swindler
Tricks Women
Perhaps that is where A MAN who pretends to be an A.R.P. gas mask inspector has been victimising housewives" in the Balham, Strentham and Brixton districts of South Lon- don,
And Anally, Winston Spencer Churchill. What a day it was for him yesterday! Once again ho sat at the Admiralty, in supreme charge of the British Navy, as ho had sat on the night of August 4. 1014.
Some careers are touched by the anger of fate, and Winston's is one of them. His tenure of the
After examining gas-masks in the house, he produces an "offetal first- ald oulät" and says there is 23.04. to pay. If his victim objecta he brings out a notebook and threatene to "report" it.
The "outh contains iodine and two bandages worth about 68.