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has written, much to the advantage of his opponents.
The advantage to the Western
For all our children's fate, Stand up and take the war.
The Hun is at the gate! Our world has passed away
In wantonness o'erthrown. There is nothing left to-day
But steel and fire and stonel
IN
Though all we knew depart,
The
Commandments' old stand:- "In courage keep your heart,
In strength lift up your hand." Once more we hear the word
That sickened earth of old:— "No. Law except the Sword
Unsheathed and uncontrolled." Once more it knits mankind, Once more the nations go To meet and break and bind A crazed and driven foe. Comfort, content, delight,
The ages slow-bought gain, They shrivelled in a night. Only ourselves remain
are"
To face the naked days. In silent fortitude, Through perils and dismaya Renewed and re-renewed.; Though all we made depart,
The old Commandments
stand:-
"In patience keep your heart,
In strength lift up vour hand." No easy hope or lies
Shall bring us to our goal, But iron sacrifice"
Of body, will, and soul. There is but one task for all- One life for each to give What stands if Freedom fall?
Who dies if England live?
GERMANY'S WEAKNESS
war, the two things
ship and backing. What is the
strength of Germany in these respects?
Hitherto Hitler has wielded supreme power. Unquestioning obedience to his orders is the basis of the Nazi Government.
I have been alone with Hitler and Goring at the height of a crisis, and seen the deference which even the second man in the Reich pays to his chief.
G.
by
Ward
Price
BRITAIN'S BEST-INFORMED, WRITER ON HITLER AND MODERN GERMANY
in
creed
inured
to
map in German colours, and of which The cost will be crushing?
I am convinced that the Germans of 35 upwards have not their hearts in je struggle.
We have no English equivalent for the word Gemutlichkeit, which is so often on German Ups. It means quiet and peaceable well-being. It forms the background of the mind of every German once he has settled down in life.
What have the Nazis done for Ger- man Gemutlichkelt?
in
Powers is that they knew before. Resting that idea. "But don't this conflict with despair In their they have neither the individual in- lining the streets for hours as
mo
an
Up to the age of 21, they have all For the past four years, alnce Gor- "We were wrong in imagining Benny Goodman's Orch." that mine adversary had
hold up the started in the Hitler Youth, a well- ing one Saturday morning in April that Japan would written a book! Exactly what
whole of the British Fleet in the run organisation in whose camps 1 1935 revealed to the world For East;
have found the boys being systems. interview with myself that Germany the Patriarch meant by that is not
It was at the time of the Ger-
"We were wrong in thinking that tically taught to absorb the principle: was putting her civilan air force on a miltary busis, the German worker quite clear, except that he might man reoccupation of the Rhine- .
Spain would furnish us with sub- We are born to die for Germany.
The slightly older men have been has been under crescendo strain,
about from marine bases;
He has been shifted have had the opportunity of criticis- lund. War seemed imminent. I asked Goring whether Ger-
"We were wrong believing Storm Troopers, and have done their ing the book, adversely. Leaving many
her would withdraw
that Poland would throw in her six months Labour Service before one job to another at the behest of the "honres"-as they call them-in All hand when we Bxed it up with going into the fighting forces.
have been lectured and propaganded Berlin. Ho has had his pay Heavily that to Biblical experts, one can troops from the French frontier
Soviet Russia to divide her:
docked for Party subscriptions, while to make way for the occupation
"Of course, we know that the and steeped in the Nazi turn with a certain satisfaction to a of a neutral zone between her
Fuhrer is always right, but IS HE?" "corpse-like obedience," an the Ger- the bonzea, once poor as himself in
inans themselves call it,
many cases, built their grand villes and had strings of big Mercedes cars. book which
and France by British, Italian, an adversary
Physically they are I am convinced that, with the ex-
He has had to work almost con-
overtime. His ception of three or four million young hardship. Mentally, they have never tinuous
cherished and Swedish troops, as in the Saar during the plebiscite.
men, who may see in war an oppor- learnt to think for themselves. Like leisure has been reduced by constant He said he would take me to unity for excitement, glory, and pro- young men everywhere, they are full attendance at politient meetings by Hitler for the purpose of sug- motion, the German nation enter on of spirit, and should fight well. But order of the local Party boss, or by souls. That mood bodes them ill at telligence of the French soldier nor Storm-Trooper to provide a popular Pay you mentioned it to
the very start.
the stubborn determination and self- reception for a Minister on his way hand precisely the
to make a speech. course that first," he added earnestly. "The
They are a tough and disciplined
Even when he gets a free evening Hitler's policy would take in his, Fuhrer might charge me with They may fight bravely, of course, confidence of the British.
The Old Men mixing myself up in foreign race. They love their country. To
at his favourite Bierstube, it is likely monstrous ambition to subjugate polities, which are not my con--them-Hitler-hus-hitherto stood-for-
[NTMthe new kind of "national to be interrupted by a long broadcast, Germany and its well-being. They
oration from Dr. Goebbets or some war," however, the strength other purveyor of pompeus political Europe.. Peace is far from the cern.'
have trusted and admired him. If they stand by him at first, it will be of a country does not lie solely in platitudes, to which he is compelled thoughts of the Fuhrer, and ever
because there is no one else to stand marching battalions of fine young by prudence to pay attention. has been. His guiding principle, as
Is this extreme concentration by. But doubt, miegiving, and re- men. Juctance of power an asset in war?
The Industrial organisation of # the terrible price of pay told in his own words, is that this
Weary Officials It has been partly reduced by the his overweening ambition will all the belligerent State is just as important is a world of everlasting struggle, delegation of Internal administrative time be gnawing at their hearts. as its armed forces, and here the
THESE people have borne it alt with the patience of an over- where one creature feeds on the authority to the Council of Six, In the past they have rejoiced over German Government will headed by Goring, while Hiller has their Fahrer's successes. But now face a different situation.
worked, underfed horse. Up to the other and where the death of the gone off to exercise his absolute rule the bill for all these easy triumphs The skilled workers, key-men, present I do not think they have weaker implies the life of the as Commander-in-Chief.
In this capacity the Fuhrer, for has come in-and they don't like it. managers, and organisers of the face even resented it very much. It is With this background, let us con- tarles are all naturally older than now, when the whip of war begins the Brst time since he took office, sider the strength of stronger.
Aghters. Their minds were to full on their weary Hanks, that formed in pre-Nazi doys. They they will feel the strain. Following this conception of will be faced by opposition, No war machine on lis human side.
longer are his orders sure of the de- Firat ceme the young men, who accepted Nazi rule with enthusiasm Nor they alone. Even the Nazi human life, his doclared aim has sired result. The forces of his ad- will have to do the fighting and main- because it exalted their country, and Government officials, with all their
won triumphs at no cost.
amenities of prestige, authority, and been to swallow any Staic which ta versaries are there to obstruct and thin internal order.
upset his plans.
Every young German in the ear- Will they be equally enthusiastic comfortable living, sometimes show emaller and weaker than his own.]
Nor can a generalissimo command lier twenties has passed through the for it now that it has plunged them signs of cracking.
Twice it has happened to me that Ho counts it a divine right that like an autocrat. In peace time, as Nazi training organisations, which into a war not defensive but aggres
I have been told by those near to have been compulsory for the past sive; a war which, even if successful, I have been sitting with high Ger- Germany should go on expanding him, Hitler will dismiss a subordinate six years.
could only paint some more of the mon executives at times of crisis.
With Autumn now in full swing, we have just received A shipment of men's lies to meet your requirements in keeping up with the ume. Bart patterns and stripes koyed to now sultings.
SINCERE'S
His Secret
in whatever quarter he considers for raising the least objection to his
words orders. The
"Aber, meln desirable and feasible. "To-day," Fuhrer ." are enough. This has
in
he says in "Mein Kampf," "there become an Ingrained habit with him. A commander who will not listen to his stat officers saying "But.. is as sure of disaster as an engine- driver who shuts his eyes to signals.
the
are eighty milllon Germans Europe. And our foreign policy will be recognised as rightly con- ducted only when, after barely a hundred years, there will be 260 ndence of a sleep-walker." A gen-
million Germans living on
this
as
Continent, not packed together the coolies in the factories of an other Continent but as tillers of the Boll,"
The Relch, in his estimation, will never be accure unless It Is in a position to give every descendant of the German race a piece of ground that he can call his own Germans must never forget that the "most sacred of all rights in this world is man's right to the earth which he wishes to cultivate for himself, and that the holiest of all sacrifices is that of the blood poured out for it."
Hitler bimself has described his method as "advancing with the con-
eral might sleep-walk into victory against primitive savages, but not in a European war
Will-power-that is what Hitler declares to be the secret of his suc- cesses hitherto. He believes, with all the earnestness of the authors who write books or popular psychology, that if he wants a thing hard enough he will get it,
With the Gestapo at hand to sup- press all wills but his own, this may work all right, but the Fuhrer is now confronted for the first time with the united will of Britain, France and Poland--as strong and for dogged than his own neurasthente
volition.
more
The dominating power of Germany is not alone in finding itself faced with new and formidable conditions: over which it has no control. So nl is the nation on which it de pends to carry out its aims.
The German people have awaken- ed with a shock to the discovery that Nothing is said of the sacred all their complacent calculations have rights of the peasantry who must of been wrong. If you' could look to-
necessity bo violently dispossessed before the German can step into the holy heritage."
How Hitler is to get rid of the presant inhabitants to make room' for his consécrated German peasan- try has still to be disclosed.
day into millions of German minds, you would find them secretly stag- gered by the following realisations:
"We were wrong in thinking' that, Britain and France would neverj nght:
"We were wrong in thinking that the Dritish Dominiona would de- clare themselves neutral:
་
"We were wrong in thinking that Indin would rise in rebelilon; ..
to
the
German the
GRIN AND BEAR IT
have 10
like the sudden swoop on Prague Inst 1year, and the seizure of Memel that followed it-sitting quietly over a bottle of wine in the evening-and
By Lichty my companion has suddenly exclaim-
—this battle has come to you through the courtesy of the
Itsy Bitsy Cookie Company."
ed, like a man who must tell some- one and did not dare to confide in his own people; "I can't go on like this. I've not had a decent night's sleep for weeks. I'm kept always on the
I must have a rest."
run.
That pressure will now be multi- plied tenfold.
Men whose nervea are worn rovert to type. Artficially formed habits of mind fall away. Their hidden in- stincts come to the surface.
The fundamental Inclination very many German workers is to- wards Communism.
of
I do not expect anything to happen until the hardships of war have broken superficial crust of Ger- man solidarity, but it was perhaps significant that as Hiller drove away from the Chancellery to assume command on the Eastern Front, four of his bodyguard were standing on the running-boards of his car.
I have seen Hitler moving about Germany scores of times, but nover before has he needed such protec- tion.
Faithful Fan Wins Mercy
COLUMBIA, S.-C.
A rabid baseball fan escaped a fine. or jail sentence for drunkenness when an understanding Judge heard" this case.. The fan, arrested for drunkenness while en route to watch the seventh-place Columbia. team play, was released when his attorney Baked: the judge: what else can you expect of a man watching that team play this reason?”.