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"Calendar of Conquests
that
LEON TROTSKY, in an
article dealing with the |situation between Germany
and Russia, recently wrote ́ of the exposure shortly after Munich by Dimitrov, secre- tary of the Comintern, of Hitler's calendar of his fu- ture conquests.
This was illustrated with maps in a leaflet published in Germany before the ins vasion of Czecho-Slovakia, under the heading "One People, One State, One Lea- der." The leaflet showed a succession of maps dating from 1938 to 1948, giving
Stubbs Rd. Phones: 27778-9. the order of Hitler's con-
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Wedding of Mr. G. B. S.
Themson
and
Miss Katherine
quests in Europe.
(1) Austria was scheduled · for Spring 1938. Austria
fell according to schedule.
(2) Czecho-Slovakia was
Seth will take place at the Union marked down to Autumn Church, Hongkong, on Friday, 1938. This was only par- 24th November. Nu invitations
won't come
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have been lasted, but all friends tially accomplished, owing
(4) Poland was scheduled will be welcome at a reception to Munich, but was fulfilled to fall in Autumn 1939.
in Spring 1939.
to be held at the Hongkong Hotel at 3 p.m.
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Then in Spring 1941 will Europe (including Britain) come (7) France, Switzer- and Asia Minor were to be So far Hitler has been land, Holland, Belgium (with under Nazi domination— (3) Hungary was given three-quarters right. Luxembourg), Denmark. with a share for Germany's the date Spring 1939, but no (6) Jugo-Slavin is mark- And in the Autumn of 1941 then Axis partner, Italy.
lowing Czecho-Slovakia in 1940. (6) Rumania and Bul- cumb.
be German and the white- terfered with this.
garia for Autumn 1940. And, finally, by 1948, all Italian..
Hongkong Telegraph. doubt the delay over swal-ed down for the Spring of (8) Soviet-Ukraine will suc- The shaded areas were to
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Murder Most Foul
Which
WAS talking to Blank yes-
Iterday. Blank 1g a man I
HITLER BREAKS hier word simply
Blank was drawing up a catalogue
Good Old Days?
By WILL SCOTT
of all the things we've lost-lost only used to grouse about the train every
cannot stand in the ordinary way. But these times again. He breaks also the last are not the ordinary way by any codes of civilised decency. He means. They make you want to
talk to anybody. Even Blank. cannot cripple the might of Brilain with his U-Boats, so he commands his submarines to lay indiscrimin- ately in the paths of neutral and Allied ships alike those grim and deadly mines, which are respectors of neither man, woman nor child.
"I am not going to fight women and children," said Hitler when he ordered his legions to march into Poland. His words. of course, have as much meaning as the idle wind. By his black deeda is he condemned.
Still, by the chicanery known only to Nazi diplomacy, his words Ilo is can be proved literally true. not fighting" the non-combatants. What he is doing is wholesale slaughter of the innocents.
What von Tirpitz did in 1917 Hitler is going to double In 1939. The eald-blooded sinking of the Simon Bolivar, carrying neutral passengers, has provided the world with yet another instance of the Nazi disregard of common human- ity and the pledged word. The Submarino Protocol of 1936, to which Hitler was a party, definitely forbids aubmarines from laying mines in areas which have not been notified as a mined area. So the Simon Bolivar was mined, and her helpless passengers were left to drown; all, indeed, would have died bat for the prompt aid of other neutral shipping and the British Navy.
It
That foul crime is on a par with the Nazi methods of terroriam used to suppress all epposition to the Nazi regime in Germany; is akin to the rape of Austria, Czecho Slovakia and the wanton aggression against Poland. Hitlorism knows no law but that of the jungle: its acts are based on the doctrine that Might Is Right.
Thuro fa no hope for civilisation until this man has been crushed.":"
And the things we used to say (about Music. Hull}
Even the week-ends in my own house.
I used to fume about the dis, Teil the youngsters that all the younger generation was good at was making an enormous row at somebody else's expense. The only thing they used the piano for was jazz. The only thing they used the radio for was jazz.
The only records they ever bought)
for the time being, we all hope-the night. "Three minutes late to-night." things that made life worth living in "Four minutes late to-night," were Jazz records. the days that now seem so far away."Draught in the carringe all the way,
Trains seemed to be his first regret, down."""The beer" was flat."- (Blank goes up to London dally, now
Man
the
Nazis
Fear
na best he can). He's got a blue Ught then. But they were fed up well, they'd turned that into a bear light in his carriage at night. Ho
They could do crosswords in a good) As for my hut on the beach.. UP in the Tatra mountains,
just south of the Polish
can't see the people he's travelling with crosswords. "They get silller gurden, and I'd no longer any in- border, lurks Karl Sidor, Slova- with. He can't read a book. He every time you look at them." terest in it. Life was just noise; they kla's Robin Hood and sworn can't do a crossword.
lived at the top of their voices and enemy of Hitler. annoyed everybody within a mile.
And now.
You could get all the petrol you wanted in those days that "were the days." Bul do you remember how so
Whole valleys are under the con- lic was sighing for the days when
trol of his men. The approaches to the train was a club on wheels, when
are so filled with he know balf a hundred of the fellows many of us had decided that motoring The boys gone, the girls gone, these valleys on it, when he spent half the journey was simply dashing at fifty miles an everything quiet, Blank sighs for the mantraps that the Nazis have not yet break into them. From this base Sidor has for several going along the corridor from door from some place where you train he used to curse, the car that had the courage
didn't want to be to some place where used to bore him stin, for everything weelts been leading out his armed to door, calling on his pals,
you didn't want to go?
bands and harrying the I open an album of snaps of won- Army communications. Convoys are derful summer days gone by,"
raided; equipment is stolen, snäll Those were the days..
garrisons are set upon and wiped out. wide among the peasants,
and Sidur's induence, spreads for
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"Those were the days." said Blank to me yesterday. "You could get al drink on the train then-ten if you wanted. Look at things now."
I helped him draw up his cata- Jogue.
It isn't till things are taken from you that you realise how much they have filled your life. We got quite a long list.
No patrol, for the car; therefore no car. No Music Hall and no In Town To-Night on the radio.
We went on collecting items be- tween us..
Until the war broke out my own house was a riot of noise at week- ends, filled with young people, My. hut on the beach here was mine only in name. I could never get near it. for my daughters and their dozens of friends. Bathing costumes drying on the shingle, gramophone go-
og....
The week-ends are quiet now. Nobody in the house, the beach hut deserted and locked up. The boys have gone into the fighting services, the girls Into the Land Army and the Red Cross.
We've got, an album of snaps of wonderful summer days gone by; that's all that's left...
Those were the days.
"I wonder how long. it will be be- fore they come back again," and Blank to me yesterday, "My hatt how we'll cheer! Life was worth living then."
When he'd left me I thought it over. "How we'll cheer!" And I wondered: shall we?
What did we do with those wonder- ful days of peace when we had them? What did we do about them? Did we run round. In large circles, 'shout- ing to the skies, "These are wonderful days, of peacel · ́Im't · life · grand? Cheer, boys, cheer!" "
No frò afraid: we didn't ge Blank and his pale (if he had any)
"Get the old bus out? But there's nowhere to go. We've been every- where."
We can't go to the concert party
that's gone..
German
They know him of old. It was he
And how we used to grouse about to-night. When we could how we them when we had them. used to grumble about it! "I can't stand the comedian." "The baritone's! Shall we grouse again when they who with others refused in 1914 to awful." "Concert partics are all come back? nilke, anyhow."
I wonder.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
SOU DOF MANčare hav
By Lichty
LONG
HAUT
serve in the Imperial Austrian Army ~80 loyal was he to the cause of Slovak Independence.
It was ho who, after the war, be- come second in command to Father Hlinka in building up the Slovak People's Party..
THE Hlinka-man were no de- mocrats. They disliked the new Czecha-Slovak State and wanted home rule for Slovakia. Sidor founded the Hlinka Guard and be came is supreme leader. It was n body of black-shirted store-roopers on the Fascist model, who gave the Nazi salute.
Even in the Slovak districts the Hlinka party never got more than a third of the voles. But after Munich they camo into their own. Nazi money flowed into party headquarters, and Sldor, cock-a-hoop, went to Pragua to become vice-Premier of Czecho-Slovakla.
When he got there his eyes began to be opened, He became more and more loyal to the Czechs, more and more certain that Hitler, meant Slovakia no good..
When Hitler was about to march on Prague lost March,' Sidor, went backc to Slovakia to become its Premier for in day.
After the Nazis came, he was de- posed, but was made Minister of the Interior.
nerfiercely ciftlclied the No
Nazis' treatment of the Slovaks. It was at thin time that his popularity spread among the Slovak peasants. · He' alone among the Hlinka-men became anti-Nazi, and ho grow into a national hero,
The Nazis wero frightened, and he was hurried out of the country and, made Slovak Minister at the Vatican.
ATEW weeks ago ho cropt back. People of all kindr
rallied round him.
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