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too faithfully they are living up to the principle of their Lender that any lie is justifiable so long
ns it serves the purpose of its
author.
The German broadcasters have
announced so often that the
Athenia was sunk by the British that they must by this time have begun to believe it. In a message to American listeners they have told the latter not to sympathise any longer with the British, who deliberately de- troyed
liner. Doubtless the Americans are well able to form) their own conclusions about that, and have at their disposal a mass of evidence much more trustworthy than that of the servile parrots who speak on the Nazi radio.
As a wireless speaker sald re-i cently, late and humbug do not broadcast well. The Germans' campaign of mendacity defeats; itself.
It It lacks subtlety. would not deceive a child. They never were skilled at under- standing the psychology of other peoples.
Mrs. Hitler's Electric Light Bill
"B. E. Hitler," called the warrant officer at Highgate (London) Police. Court.
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1. E. ler was identified as Mrs. Bridget E. Hitler, the wife of Harr Hitler's half-brother, and she zurnmoned for the non-payment of a charge of £1 0s. 10d. for electric light,
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It was stated that the mummons had not been served.
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BRITAIN'S hidden ally
by
WILLI FRISCHAUER
HE British Government has made it quite clear that we cannot expect Nazi Germany to "crack up one of these days." It would definitely be wrong to assume that after a short time of war- fare Hiller and his Nazl satellies will disappear.
This is going to be a long war. It has only just started. And though we know that behind all the Nazi truculenec. behind the war fever and the magic faith in Hitler, there loants The Other Germany, we are not likely to hear of it for sonte ume
That Other Germany, the Ger- many of Thomas Mann and Albert
Einstein, is under the control of Himmler and his black guards. Tho moas of the German Socialists. trade unionists, Intellectuals and scientista, cannot yet raise their voice.
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But those of us who know Ger- many well have faith in The Other Germany,
Has Hitler in six and a half years stamped out that Germany altogether? Has a whole nation changed?
Think back to the clrcumstances of itler's rise to power. He was never the people's choice,
At the last free election to be hold
in Germany, in November, 1832. the Nazis got only 33 per cent. of the votes.
Then In January, 1933. Hitter be- cane Chancellor with the support of the Nationalists, but without a majority. President Hindenburg let him rule by decret.
NAZIS secretly set fire to the Reichstag, threw the blame on the Com- muniats and started a great "Red scare.**
New elections were held. this time In true Nazli atyle. All the Communiat leaders and many of the Bocialist lenders were put, lix Jail. The oppo tion partles had their newspapers banneủ, were forbluiden to issue leaflets or to hold processions.
The election was a mockery. Volern were intimidated at the polls by brownaiiet guards. But still Hitler
did not get bis majority. He gol fra than 44 per cent, of the votes.
Only by arresting every single one of the 79 Communist A.Pa was he able to get a majority when the new Relchstag met.
What has happened since to those millions of Socialists, Communists and Catholics who made up half the nation and who to the hitler end refused to vole for Hitler?
Many of them have in the last six years been awept along on the Hitler Vide Not all of them have been heroca. Not all of them have been able to see through Nazi propagandi. That La no reflection on them. It is only to be expected.
Most of them withdrew altogether from German politica and succumbed to the spirit of discipline that ha always been strong among the German people.
AFTER all, most of them had families to provide for. They lived in deadly fear of the sack, the concentration camp and, even, the executioner's axe.
Out of the sixty million Germans who in 1033 were amitten by the Nazi plague only a handful continued to fight it.
These fighters were a splendid lot They devoted their lives to their idents. A constant stream of anti-Nazi propaganda flowed into Germany from abroad. These fighters directed it in- to the homes of the German people,
They operated secret printing preasca and gave out bulletins from Blega! wireless stations.
They were supported by Russian and other diplomats who put their diplo matic bags at their disposal. In this way they were able to correspond with the thousands of Germans living in exito.
One day the full story of this under- ground struggle against Eitler will be told, and then the men who waged it will become the true heroes of this tragic century.
Their work has had its successed Many Germans have told me how when first legal leadets and books were put into their hands by Wigenious mean they used to throw them hur riedly and disgustedly away.
But they told me how some time Inter they began to be curious about these strange papers. They would peep at them timidly before destroying them. Neighbours would catch one another's eyes and each would know that the other had been reading.
In the secrecy of their homes, they
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discussed these things a bit. But they never really knew which told the truth the illegal leaflets, or Dr. Goebbela. Germany became afflicted with new craving-curiosity, a longing to know the real truth.
People began to hunger for these Icanela and for the anti-Nazi broad- custa. They would indulge in the te illegalities secretly. They dared not tell even other members of their family, leant of all the children. all of whom were tauglit to repeat to hig authorities any subversive talk by their parenta
Often they did not trust the foreign accounts. Yet again and again these accounts alowed contradictions in Hitler's statements, told of facts whose truth could hardly be questioned,
Utter disillusionment with Nazism was not always an easy tung to in culcate into Germans by these under- But doubts could be ground means. inculcated and were
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A Look Through The Telegraph"
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 6, 1889, A man tried to sneak off yesterday with an unbrella belonging to Police Horgennt Witchell, but was caught by the Sergeant's "boy". As thard had bren previous convletion last month against the ana party for stealing a ilk Jacket in the same way, Mr. Wode- house ordered the man to give him manual services to Government for throo minths. •
The Society for the Petting of Bul- diers han coñmpuced its annual crunde early this Reason. Lectures by Dr. Canille and Blihop Burdon buvo already bern given, in the larrison Theatre, and Inst wight Mr. Bateman improved the shining tour. Em moh- jpet was the novel, one of "Trip to Japan". Even long-suffering Tommy Atkins
(boxe I Relling fed-up with hackneyed narratives. of paddling little euzelans-how the feeturer liked the royage, and how much rickaba coolles charge, and no ost, and the Theatre was very eumfortably empty. The Rev, Douglas Hanillion prosided and, after sailing Mr. Intenien golog, ant with 3 pained expression on hia clericat coun. Tonner unt the end of the dintriko. Mr. Bateman followed the unual Me good ship-fare-flying dah-beautiful moon-Japon, land of chrysanthemum- hotel --couldn't find on expenses-map of the place-show-bath-tarif-in vostigation--10 mixed bathing-dia. appointed--pannports --- pirlee church. Finished up with a lal nut of a book. The "men"-Mr. Bateman's phrase- scented highly edited, and sang a bit of the National Anthem at the end with
root laxitrile.
25 YEARS AGO
Nov, 6, 1914. An Anglo-French Syndräu kunsbarded the Dardanelles at long range at day. break on Tuesday,,
The forta replied. No ships were hit. A large explosion, with valumes |of smoke, serurred at Bolles Fori.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 6, 1020. British policy. In regard to Russia will be fully drated in the House of
· Commons Looday, when, the Government socks the sent of Parliament to its plan for the resumption of full diplo matic relations between the two coun- tries.
5 YEARS AGO
Nov. 8, 1934. One of the larger China Merchants 8. N. Company's ship, che Kuho, has licen pirated usul taken to Saml Point, In Hong Hai Bay, shout sixty miles north of Hongkong.
Germans Told You Thrive on Rations'
RATIONING is fun in
Letters I have been receiving from Germany. At least, one
Germany for some years prove it.
Some of Hitler's greatest triumphs Would imagine after listen- have helped to expose him to sing to a broadcast over the
people as a fraud.
Austrians and Czechs have looked German radio. at Germany from the outside. They know what the world has known. And when they have mixed with Germans
An expert was brought to the microphone to explain that, they have told them things that Ger following the discovery of a mans have uover.before been told scientific-way-of---measuring-
need for their ap
Austrian workers who went on a
Strength through Joy tour in Ger- many were interned because they were telling people that Hitler was bring ing Europe towards war and that Ger- mans would soon be in the trenches again
.
Do not think of the Ger- man people as if they were all brown-shirted storm troopers commanded to cheer their tender.
The real German people is made up of solid, stolid ordinary people who
ovo never worried much about poll- les and are only learning by bitter experience how important pollites can
be
Now they are beginning to wake up. The housewife who carmot get enough food even with the help of her ration cards. The trader with nothing to sell. The worker whom wages uro eut who has first been forcibly removed to some new place of employment, and has now been sent to the battle-fron All of them are to-day doubtful, Im!?- hearted, depresszú.
food, there was no Germans to rely on petites.
does not
"The timount of food inafler 80 lang as the necessary amount of albumeri, fats, and vita- mins are assured," he said,
When the expert had said his piece the announcer asked his audience to examine the question from different angle.
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"Ration cards help enormously to draw people nearer to each other." he said.
"For example, when we wanted u shave we used, to go to the barber or shave ourselves. Now we have first to approach the mayor to get a ticket allowing us to buy shaving Creum.
"You see, people are interested in us nowadays. Even the State takes an interest in the growth of our beard!"
SOAPLESS NATION SOAP. That is what the Germans When a woman saya good-bye to her are most in need of. Tollet soap in son as he goes to war, she stops to ja thing of pre-rationing days. It has think. The German peuple loathe war.all been commandeered for use in They see now that the gurious mer hospitals,
who came to lead Germany back to dig pity and prosperity has brought her way to agony and penury.
Instead, the authorities have pro-
mised a special "war soap," but it
Sure enough the German soldiers has not yet appeared. have marched forward at the word of Only one piece or tube of shaving comutatd. They are fighting bravely. soup may be bought in two and a But back homo in the heart of Ger- half months. many the mass of the people thinks and suffers.
HARVEST CLAIMS GERMANY claims that her har- REMEMBER that for vest will unmount to 27,500,000 tons, four years the Germans compared with a normal yearly con- have lived under war zumption of 25,000,000 to 20,000,000 conditions. Rationing and food short tons, thus leaving her accumulated
stocks intact. ago are nothing new to them. They are as exhausted now as they were After two or three years of the last
war,
Do you remember the day when hunger and despair roused the German people at the end of the last war? When starving women, carrying emaci- nted children in their arms, defled the guns of the police?
Shortage of labour, it is stated, in being overcome by recruiting Inbour from newly conquered Polish terri- lory.
AIR RAID FEAR INCREASING fear in Germany of British and French air raids is re- flected in the tightening up of bluck- Not for nothing does Ultier intend out regulations, especially in western to keep over half a million of his crack Germany. Forty-five prosecutions in. party troops, the 8.8. black guards, to
one day at Kolscheld, near Alx-la- police the home front. That is a Chappelle (Anchen), are reported in messure of the internal opposition to the Germani Press. Nazlam.
These black guards are there to keep
thinkers.
BRITAIN ATTACKED
down die Other Germany, the Ger GERMAN newspaper continued many of the trade unions and the | their propaganda drive against Socialists, the Catholics and the Britain, The. Borzen Zaltung Liberals. the selentists, poets and stated, "Britain destroys peace. For has prepared War two years sid The people of Germany are for the
Deutsche All- time being weaker than their rulers, against Germany." But many Gemmans, perhaps most gemeine Zeltungi "Britain. is waging Germans, hate Nazism' as much a war against Germany's women and Englialumen do. This war is for thele children. While other nations have freedom as much an Dritain's.
They will prove Britain's strongzet
to give their blood. British strate- gists stay at home organising econo- mic; warfare.“