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-whose articles in the London "Daily Mail" on Nazi Germany below-the-surface are arous ing exceptional interest throughout the United Kingdom-tel.s you to-day of the smouldering rivalries between the Nazi Party leaders and the heads of the Gorman Army.
Nazi leaders and
Generals
Army
seldom quite agree
IN
man
well.
News-by Order
FOR
Ours to Reason
Why!
HOW amusing it is now to re-
call the almost frenzied ecstasies of rellof with which we acclaimed Armistice Day, 1918. The news seemed too good to be true. After nearly five years of desperate fighting, of ruinoua expenditure, and tragic slaugh ter. which meant the total eclipse of all normal happy peaceful life, the interminable horrors of the Great War were
over.
All bats were In the air. then. Every face wore a smile of in- relief. The tranquil expressibly sun was no longer a goblin. Skies were bluc
malevolent ngain. A mankind, and the minatory mutter cennon no longer held men's hearts and hearths in daily and nightly thrall. The troubled world had known nothing like it since the dove brought back to Father Noah
t
"Advantage!" he excialmed. "It's disapprove of peace time high Ger-
thing we the very
OR purposes of internul have officers
fellows have most. These young
propaganda the wireless spoken to me of defects in their been given such a big conceit of
forces. It may, of themselves in the Party formations is the principal Instrument of the armed
felter Hadanovsky, the energetic course, have been their aim to that they think they know every. German Government, Reichssender-spelt has been suddenly lifted from
in young man who is in charge, under Since the big Array purge allay the suspicions of a visit thing. Raing newspaper correspondent as February last year, when 15 generals Dr. Goebbels, of the German Brond- to the use that Germany might were dismissed, the Party has com casting system, has, done his' work Every large town in Germany has ultimately make of them-but pletely penetrated the Army. All have had to attend three there are common-sense reasons troops
restaurant and beer- to restricted for believing that what they political lectures a week, and officers wireless loud speakers on the lamp-
giving posts; every been have said was true.
technical instruction. The soldiers, house is almost compelled to keep set constantly turned on, and "What we lock are efficient officers after completing their service, now s
nickl rank und experienced return automatically to the ranks of cheap home-receivers have been pro- vided at a price within the scope of the poorest, so that the official news of N.C.Os," they told me. "We have the Storm Troopers,
Not Enough Pilots
supplied by the Deutschen Nachrich- The cap excellent generals who learnt their
ten Buro is sure of instant transnis- business in the last war.
sion to the, great majority tains and subalterns are hardworking
all Germany
knows that and high-spirited.
Revenue Officer W. C. Humphreys wishes to extend thanks, to all friends for their floral tributes, messages of condolence, and their attendance at the funeral; also to the staff of the Kowloon Hospital in his recent bereavement.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
Morale In War THERE is nothing to be more war scrupulously avoided in than a depreciation of the power and spirit of an opponent. It is facts that count.
Secret Contempt
wonders,
of the
God's wrath was appeased. that olive branch which meant that
Incidentally these sensations of inanite heavenly rellet were shared not least in Germany. For in that country the full Ude of disastrous war was swiftly avalanching back on
its
own homesteads. To all Ger- mans it was starkly evident that the hour of dreadful retribution was at hand. The field grey legions, who had marched forth so proudly and hal years earlier, and had held the miseries of the confidently four and wor nt ann's length from Fatherland, were in full retreat along the whale Western Front.
Foch Calls Their Bluff How great and genuine was the relief of Armistice Day to Germany only those quite understand who saw the German peace envoys as they waited on Foch in his corridor train in the wood. They were no longer the arrogant swashbuckding Junkers.
were of gay August, 1014. They pate-faced, haggard with fear, and stamped their feet with impatience as the Allied Generalissimo" quietly prepared to receive them. Their illustrious War Lord, Ludendorff himself, had bidden them lose not one instant of precious time.
milltary Germany's stupendous machine was jangling to ruins about their ears. The pickelhaube was on the lethal brink of a frightful sauve qui peut. Even then the Prussian mentality remained constant to its they tradition. Thought jackboot were biting their nails with sus- pense, they blufied.
TN the German Air Force the short space of time avail- "But there is a serious shortageable for building up esprit de corps nation. which it will take years to make up a not so serious a handicap. Air -of majors and lieutenant-colonels fighting culls for more individual ini- nothing unfavourable to the Govern-
Even under and colonels, owing to the fact that tiative, and the German lying men ment would be communicated.
ormat condillons, are enormous, every foreigner who talks to Ger- for the first 15 years after the war have been put through a hard school. the Reichswehr was limited to 100,- Training casualties 000 men, and the type of man who but no statistics of them have op mans detects an uneasy eagerness to hear the facts about many matters would normally have become an peared,
German that have been the subject of ex- Whereas ariginidly the
German omeer and risen to field rank went
Air Force. was stalled by officers tensive treatment by the who volunteered for it, the system wireless station", Wyndham St., Hongkong into civilian life instead.
In wartime, the feeling that un- uf appointment by order has been
pleasant truths are being systematic- *Phone 26615
ERMANY'S armed forces substituted.
I was told in Germany last, spring ally withheld may act like dry rot date from 1935. The men October 26, 1939
have done two years' service with that the production of aeroplanes on the mural of the German nation,
What About the Future the Colours, and those who were too was actually being; slowed down be-
It is not the ex-soldier's way to old to be conscripted have been re- cause their Force was not able to
ery over spilt milk. What has hap- peatedly called up for spells of produce enough pilots to fly modern
too. how training of six weeks or two months. high-speed machines.
the pened is accomplished latory. But Onc
If the whole This experience is not as much as
งงด be done the German General Staff would like torpe-like obedience theory" will what of the future? for men who have to face soldiers work in war. The first principle of wretched business
being that "The over again, will the sequel still be with the unbroken military tradi- the Nazi creed
Fuehrer is always right, it has been the same? We do not tear so much ons of the French, Moreover, during those four years assumed that the minor Fuehrers now, in the light of present events, though German was all rubbish about Germany be- the Army has not been a happy each in his degree-are also infalli- from those dear souls who told us it family. The officers have had to put ble. Splendidly
And what about the parrot-cry that it is impossible to keep a great When the last World War broke up with many slights from Party organisation works on nomuat neca- ing responsible for the Great War. bones, for whom those of the old tions, it is never at its best in an
nation down? If there is guing to be A Weakness
next War and Germany happens out there was no doubt of the en-Genaan Army, at any rate, feel a emergency,
THERE is a new weapon in with better luck this time to win it. thualaam of the German people.secret contempt.
I shall never forget the Nuremberg
this war whose muzzle the Naz! bludgeoners will show us
When Fach demanded what they They were told and they firmly herParty Congress of 1935. A special
Make no error on that score. It raine for, their reply was that they lieved that they had been called meeting of the Reichstag was sum reaches into all our homes. The all about that plitle,
moned there.-and-all--the - senjog
giving the Nazi salute to our Prussian overlords, of the Fatherland; and they foughi They sat to one side on the ground Propaganda Ministry con be heard we had "lost" tlie" inst-war-we-should-f-came to discuss-pencoterma. But
no anti-gas. precautions have to-day
We should not ing them.
been found necessary to deal with and jumping to .
have been allowed or encouraged with a devotion which all the world was in a gallery overlook on the other every evening, and so have been
Goering, as President of the Reich them in this country.
the For if there is one weakness in to rearm ourselves, and our grand-
sweating. would still be stag, acknowledged.
iwo hence, to pay off many admirable qualities-it is con- generation
indemnity which white, and red fing with the Iron penital ignorance of the psychology a swingeing war
the Germans would have collected Cross was to be replaced by the of other nations.
and, if necessary, at On Tuesday night I heard ronts punctiliously, "The Fuehrer has pulled the old of laughter coming from the Daily the bayonet's point. There would have been no societies started In Nazi Swastika, nag out of the mud into which it fall wireless room.
They were repeated so often that Germany to cultivate friendly rela- had fallen," said Goering with dan- gerous eloquence. "It is now to be I went to inquire what the Joke was. tions with conquered Britons, and 1 would have assured their replaced by the Swastika, which is 1 found four or five people listening doubt whether any of the German Ad- that Great Briwin which was followed by an Ameri- countrymen the symbol of the fighting spirit that to the English broadcast from Berlin, rairols
I can expressing his profound admirnoffered to defend the German Empire! What Gerinan was it who said, The words shocked even me.
of the fact that it war' still Prussian military tion have lived in a
their flag possible to get a drink in Germany. "You will always be fools and we family and know what
To a German the British character shall never be gentlemen"? It is meant to them-the flag that flew victoriously at Koniggratz, and was and the way to make an impression borne in upon me that he may have
in on it will always remain a mystery. been right. carried triumphantly to Paris 1870.
upon to defend the life and freedom
It is doubtful if the whole Ger- man people are fired now by equal ardour.
Day after day, of late, reports have come through various chan nels of discontent and disorder: "Berlin is a city of sad faces. There is no wish for war, only a dull fear that it may come, and the fervent] hope that it will not,"
That message, which comes from Brussels, might be said of any nation confronted with the dire prospect of another world war, but It may be of more significance among a people who have been fed for years upon the glories of war and been taught to look forward to It with joyful anticipation.
The food question is perhaps one of the chief causes of this reported depression. The last war was well
generals and admirals attended it. Wireles-broadsides of the German
announced
atl that
far
standards of the armed forces were the German character-which has sons
black, changed. The old
to
be
will rebuild Germany."
Ups
weather- I looked
at the hard, beaten faces of those German Army
H ever I saw commanders.
theirs Gripping 1/on they were tighten and eyes fish with Indigna their sword-hills. they sat staring straight in front of them as they
heard the second man in the Reich declare that the flag which embodied their honour as soldiers had "fallen into the mud."
What private protests the generals It is significant that when the new two may have made, I do not know, but
standards appeared on its way before food shortage Service
months later the old Iron Cross de began to make itself felt in Ger-sign was combined with and not re-
placed by the Swastikn.
In the early days of national ser-
masy.
On this occasion shortage began vice German officers openly taught even when war seemed to be on the their recruits that the army was a distant horizon.
Party
for
much older Institution, with aner traditions, than the Party. Nazi In a remarkable book, "Germany'e influences were strictly kept outside
the barrack gates. Young War Chances," written a fer weeke bosses drafted for military service ago by a Hungarian Professor of found themselves singled out Constitutional Law, and banned fatigues and snubs.
Refused to Sing become contents had After its
this
HOW passage public property, occura: "Long before the begin-f
TOW often have I watched the group of generals at
big Party functions-always stand- ning of the struggle restrictions on ing together-a finelooking, impres all sorts of foodstuffs have already sive, reserved group, avolding all but Although the the most formal of contact with the the- two been introduced.
officials. When Nazi national anthems were sung at the end of the ceremony you would see them join in Deutschland über Alies, the Horst Weasel Lied, the Party but their lips stayed firmly shut for song that followed..
masses of the Germnt. people are not starving yet in the strict sense of the word, it is none the less true that there can be no talk of their being sufficiently fed.”
Such reports, and all other rẻ- porte of a 'like' nature, should be rand with the utmost caution and with a liberal discount. But they need not be ignored altogether.--
"It must be great advantage for voce to a regimental you," I sald
the Storm omter, "that all your recruits have They will, at previously served in Troopers or the 8.8. any rate, have learnt bartack-square], discipline."
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Foch, a soldier and no pollucina, was not in any inbod for bluft. His plain, blunt reply was that he had no peace terms to propose. Then, and then only, the German emis-
Leased
bluff. They their surics meakly told the Generullssimo. that they came to sue for peace.
The Gangsters Again
That was twenty-one years ago next November. Less than a genera- tion ago. Judging by the astound- well have been a century. For what a contrast presents itself to Europe's pallid face at this moment. Ger- many, doubly rearmed and with the old arrogant, domincering spirit of "Deutschland Uber Alles" tuned to a yet more strident and caddish note, is no longer humbly suing for peace. but menacing the whole Continent with another ruinous holocaust of old bloodshed. The battle and wicked Prussian policy of ransom is once more being addressed to Ger many's neighbours on the approved Chicago gangster methods. Because the whole philosophy of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and Goebbels' gutter backchat boils down simply to "Stick. 'em up!"
ing eircumstances of to-day it might
This is a metamorphosis startling and incredible enough surely to make angels weep tears of blood. It took us nearly five years to draw the dragon teeth of Germany, But it was well and truly done. in 1018 we had Germany down and out. It Cost us twice a thousand million
and pounds
over A million British dead, not to mention the ordeal of tint long, squalid, ver- minous struggle in the mud and blood.
To-day we awake to the realisa- lion, that all that appalling_sacrifice has been made in vain. There are still with us some millions of those ex-Servicemen who did their manful It bit in the Great War to and war. might be a healthy experience for some politicians if they could hear what those men are saying about this great betrayal now. Hier has fooled us to the top of our bent. He- has bluffed us out of the deathright of all those filmitable" soldier ceme teries of ours,
It would be egregiously presump- tive for anyone to pretend to speak for all ex-Servicemen. But there is not much doubt what the average man thinks and feels now who ccarried a pack and shouldered 'a'rife In the last war. His sentiment in one of sheer amazement that any politicions outside a lunatic asylum- should have 'made such an utter and ; calamitous muddle of the oppor tunity presented to them, in