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October 21, 1939.
MY
HITLER
NOTEBOOK
"Do you think it possible to preach prace to a people for ten years 'on end and then suddenly to launch them into war?
"I know the horrors of soar 100 well. No possible profit could justify the sacrifices and sugerings that war entails."
G.
by WARD
PRICE
known as the Fuhrerbau, BOTH SIDES
Twas Hitler who said 'this to me less than five
"I found the Polish statesmen He takes his impulses for sup- suddenly announcing that he hnd
inspirations. Doubt years ago. I remember that talk well, made a ten years' pact of peace most magnanimous, and just as ernatural
and self-criticism have vanished peacefully minded as myself. with Poland.
"The gulf which was thought from his mind. He la free from for it was the only time I It was with special interest ever saw him in the Brown that I asked for an interview unbridgeable has been crossed. all misgivings and scruples. As House, Munich, the head- with him on this matter, for I The two nations have come a result of being so long served quarters of his party before remembered what Marshal Foch, closer together, and I sincerely by men who refer of him as it it came to power, which whom I often went to see in hope that our new understand prophet, he has come to consider have now been transferred Paris during the closing years ing will mean that Germany and all opposition to his will as in- of his life, had said to me upon Poland have definitely abandon- trinsically evil. A fanatic belief to the huge twin building that very subject.
ed all idea of a resort to arms, in himself justifies any course of The great old soldier had a not for ten years only, but for action in his own sight.
Hitler's announcement from on the east side of the curiously staccato way of speak. ever."
I ask myself, as I recall these his "Field Headquarters" that stately Konigsplatz.
ing, and he led me up to a map The room was nothing of Europe which hung on the and many similar statements of the German Air Force will hence- like the vast apartment in all of his room at the Invalides, his, whether Hitler really meant forth bomb open towns and For a few moments he stood what he said, or whether he was villages is an example of the which, at the Munich Con- looking at it in silence, puffing deliberately deceiving the public ruthlessness that has developed I incline to from the blind determination to ference a year ago, he re- away at that pipe of his which for whom he spoke. ceived Mr. Chamberlain, M. was always going out. Then he the view that he was at the get his own way so oder an-by FOR CHI TING-On Wednesday,
fair means or foul-to quote the October 11, 1039, at his residence, Daladier, and Signor Musso- ran his pipe-stem up and down time sincere. Robinson Itand, Mr. Fok Chilini.
the Polish Corridor.
The Fachrer has been ruined phrase he used to me last Sep-
Ting, whose funeral will tako
"Mauvais; mauvais, tout ca," by power and the pride that tember about his intention to
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Furnished in the modern style, place at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday with white walls, it was rather he said, "C'est la que commen- goeth before a fall, For six take over the Sudetenland.
It was on that occasion, the small, and its only ornamente cera in prochaine querre." ("A and a half years he has had
It's there unlimited nuthority over 4 day after Mr. Chamberlain had were a picture of Frederick the bad business, that. Great, the death-mask of that that the next war will start.") nation that now numbers 80, left Berchtesgaden, that I first
Fuch had been dead five years 000,000. When there has been samo originator of the present when I saw the Fuehrer after the opposition he has. broken it saw a symptom of the Fuehrer's
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Nazl technique of swooping
time of peace, and a great bronze hend of Mussolini on a pedestal. Healthier Then
upon neighbouring countries in
THE Fuehrer then looked
Poland. He spoke of that treaty and objections he has overruled with pride.
Ruined By Power
them.
Pointing out Salzburg from the terrace of his villa, he ex- Self-confidence and the relent claimed, "The Austrian fron less pursuit of his aims have tier used to lie between here and "ALL attempts to lay gained him a hitherto unbroken there. For years I looked at the basis of a last- series of successes. It is not Salzburg and longed to bring it THE feeling of intense satis-normal type of man than his ing peace in Europe have hither surprising that his people have into the Reich, and at last, this faction felt in Britain and present appearance would sug. to failed," he said, "because developed a mystic faith in his year, by hypnotic force, that has
public opinion believed that Po- infallibility. Franer concerning the conclu-gest that he has since become, innd and Germany were irrecon- slon of the Anglo-Franen-He sat there wearing a double- Turkish mutual assistance pact and
breasted blue suit, with white cilable enemies.
a healthier and more
When
"I have never held this view.
tion.
been brought to pass."
He almost shouted the words
1
"durch hypnotische Kraft," and
of normal mental balance.
Hypnotic Force
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cribed as a great diplomatic nation seemed genuine enough. victory over Germany; but it is much more than that, as the terms of the pact indiente in no uncertain degree.
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SINCERE'S
Moving
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-It's a New Problem These Days
THE Brittsh
Force moves across
он
He had just made a broadcast speech about the return of the Sanr to Germany as a result of the plebiscite. In it he pro- The agreement appears vir- claimed that no territorial. dif- ferences existed thence-forward tually to be the beginning of between Germany and France. the real alignment against I told him that many people aggression: Turkey's lead~has expected his attitude of recon already given a much needed ciliation to last only until Ger-
Expeditionary; horses, Now, white horses take up breakdown gangs, spare parts, and filip to the jittery Balkan many had rearmed to a point at
to less room in a ship than mechanised highly trained mechanics. States. whose relations with which she felt strong enough to France. We think of 1914 again and trucks and wanks (there were
Trains are still used as the Chief and the Old Contemptibles. Nazi Germany during the last start another war.
and tanks in 1914), one horse accounts means of transporting men
soldier, whereas the materials from the inland camps to seven years have never been "It is feared," I said, "that horses on the march with bands play- for only one
the shoulder, modern Army truck carries several the coast ports. If there is no con-
men plus Bren guns. and guns following on behind. much more than enforced polite- your peaceful overtures maying rifles slung over
venient means of rail travel, Dien prove to be a bluff, hiding in-
What
While the men and horses in 1914 long marches are now avalded where difference to-day. Our! nees.
With a well-armed Tur- tentions of aggression in the Expeditionary Force now consists of walked on board the transports at the possible by the use of the motor key, backed by Allied resources, future."
a quarter of the number of men, with Channel ports, the trucks and banks trucks, which maintain a continuous the Balkan States are now in a
to-day drive on. While the horsesus" service until all the men have His reply was the words four times the striking force.
Let's look back to 1914; look in then carried one day's forage with been oirried to their port. of em- more favourable position to have quoted, and he went on: mare detall at the first Expeditionary them, the motorised units now have barkation. ignore Nazi coercion, which "The results of another gen-Force that crossed to Flanders,
their patrol tanks filled up.
The modern motor-cycle battalions, Three divisions of 18,000 men each Where there hitherto they have had to coun-eral bout of European slaughter
were forage stores of course, drive straight to the ship.
secret underground
Marching In Threes and In France, now.
ft
Men
ter by whatever diplomatic and would be even more catastrophic went across to begin with, plus a then, there are
cavalry brigade of 5,000 en with petrol dumps, both in this country
gans, all borse drawn. and the modern mechanised force takes
WHEN a battalion of intan- try does march now it
political expediency was within than in the past.
| 5,000 horses. their power. For this reason "The only gainers would be There were also several brigades! While the horses then needed vets,
the Communists-and I have not of alone, Germany cannot but re-fought them for 16 years only accounting for about another 5,000 with it travelling workshops and looks completely different from 1914. gard the tripartite pact in any at the end, by this roundabout light other than n severe jolt means, to set up their mad rule."" to her south-eastern aspirations.
Europe
Foch Was Right
AS I go through my
notes of the many con- versations I have had with the man who began the present conflict I find sentiments of this kind constantly recurring.
Italy is certain to find the necessity of reoriontating her ideas about the Mediterrancan, and the effect of the paet is just as likely to drive her into the arms of the Allies, as it is to
In 1933, only a few montha | persuade her to back her Axis partner. With a big naval and after he obtained control of me in air threat from both the east Berlin:
Germany, he said to
and west of the Mediterranean, "Almost all we leaders of the Italy may feel her position too National Socialist movement jeopardised to continue to be a [were actual combatants. I have neutral; by the same token, she yet to meet the combatant who may appreciate the necessity of desires the renewal of the hor
rors of those four and a half entering the Allied cause.
years.
At the outset of the following year he startled the German people and the world at large by
Russin's so-called neutrality may also be stretched to a breaking point. The provision in the tripartite protocol that nothing in the pact affects the agreement already in existence agreement depended upon this between Turkey and Russia is issue. liable to be disarming. The At the moment, the effects of; solid terms of Turkey's pact the tripartite pact, are proble- with the Allies clearly means [matical. Much depends on the that the Dardanelles will be reactions of Germany, Italy and opened to the British and Russin. But the conclusion of French navies should the terms the treaty clearly strengthens of the pact have to be invoked.the democracies in their war This would never plenso Russia, (agaițist aggression, and gives a who can envisage a threat to much needed tonic to British her southern seaboard. It is diplomacy following the wretch- highly probable that the break-ed fiascos in Berlin and Moscow down, in the new Russo-Turkish some months' ngo.
GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty
Th
"I wish you'd talk to the landlord about those people next door- they argue all day long in some language I can't understand!"
To begin with, It is smaller by several hundred men. The colonel and the company commanders travel in coss.
The men march in threes instead of fours, and the Transport, carrying blankels, overcoats, morters, ammuni- tion, tools, und food, dashes ahead in a column of handy trucks, so that all may be ready for the men when they arrive at the end of the first day's murch.
These vehleles, when they have up- loaded, may return to pick up the "lame ducks," or even at intervals help the whole battalion on its way.
There are no horse-drawn cookers, belching smoke, and splashing the alew over the roads.
In 1914 the French admired our. field cookers, which were new then, but how soon we came to loathe the filthy, wasteful things! Now a smart motor-kitchen travels to and fro, It is great asset to our new Expeditionary Force.
This time the French gasp with notonishment at our Carrier Platoons. Small, beetle-like tractor vehicles follow every baitalion on the march. Their purpose is to feed the troops with ammunition. in battle, or them- selves to exploit sudden situations in the field of action. They can cross bullet-swept areas in perfect safety, worrying small crews of trained ex- perts who are masters of their weapons.
"Land Battleships"..
THERE is a vast difference in the armaments carried by our Expeditionary Force. Where- as the men of a 1914 division had. apart from their rifles, only Maxim guns, the man of a division, to
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