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LEON TROTSKY, in an
article dealing with the Įsituation 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 in- vasion of Czecho-Slovakia, under the heading "One
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der." The leaflet showed a succession of maps dating from 1938 to 1948, giving the order of Hitler's con- 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. No invitations
have been issued, 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. to be held at the Hongkong in Spring 1989,
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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 (5) Jugo-Slavia is mark-And in the Autumn of 1941 then Axis partner, Italy.
be German and the white lowing Czecho-Slovakia in- 1940. (6) Rumania and Bul- cumb. terfered with this.
garia for Autumn 1940.
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
HITLER BREAKS his word again. He breaks also the last rodes of elvilised decency. He cannot cripple the might of Britain with his U-Boats, so he commands
Which Good
WAS talking to Blank yes- terday. Blank is a man I simply cannot stand in the ordinary way. But these times are not the ordinary way by any means. They make you want to talk to anybody. Even Blank.
Blank was drawing up a catalogue
Days?
By WILL SCOTT
And, finally, by 1948, all Italian.
Old Man
And the things we used to say about Music Hall! ·
Even the week-ends in my house.
own
I used to fume about the din. Tell 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
of all the things we've lost-lost only used to grouse about the train every the plano for was Jazz. The only
The only records they ever bought
his submarines to lay indiscrimin-for the time being, we all hope the night. "Three minutes late to-night." thing they used the radio for was jazz.
things that made life worth living in "Four minules late to-night." were jezz records. ately in the paths of neutral and the days that now seem so far away. "Draught In the carriage all the way -Allied-ships-alike-those-prim-and.. Trains seemed to be his. Arst regret, down." "The beer was flat."
(Blank goes up to London daily, now dendly mines, which are respectors as best he can). He's
got a blue light in his carriage at night. He of neither man, woman nor child.
can't see the people he's travelling "I am not going to fight women
with. He can't read a book. He can't do a crossword. 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 deeds in he condemned.
Still, by the chiennery known only to Nazi diplomacy, his words can be proved literally true. He is not "fighting" the non-combatants. What he is doing is wholesale slaughter of the innocents.
He was sighing for the days when the train was a club on wheels, when he knew half a hundred of the follows on it, when he spent half the journey going along the corridor from door
door, calling on his pals.
"Those were the days." said Blank to me yesterday. "You could get e drink on the train then-ten if you wanted. Look at things now."
I helped him draw up his cata- “Toque.
It isn't till things are taken from you that you realise how much they have led your life.. We got quite a long list.
No petrol 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
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 en the shingle, gramophone go- ing..
What von Tirpitz dld in 1917 Hitler is going to double in 1930. The cold-blooded sinking of the Simon Bolivar, carrying neutral passengers, has provided the world with yet another. Instance of the house was a riot of noise at week- Nazi disregard of common human-ends, allod with young people. Ity and the pledged word. The Submarine Protocol of 1996, to which Hitler was n party, definitely forbids submarines from laying mincs in areas which have not been notified as a mined area. So the Simon Bolivar was mined, and her helpless passengers were loft to drown; all, indeed, would have died but for the prompt aid of other neutral shipping and the British Navy,
That foul crime is on a par with the Nazi methods of terrorism used to suppress all opposition to the Nazi regimo in Germany: it akin to the rape of Austria, Czecho- Slovakia and the wanton aggression against Poland. Hitlerism knows no`law but:that of the jungle; Ita acts are based on the doctrine that Might is Right..
There is no hope for civilisation until this man has been crushed.
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 como back again," said Blank fo me yesterday. "My hat! low we'll cheert 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 largo eireles, shout- ing to the skies, "These are wonderful days of peace! Isn't life grand?! Cheer, boys, cheer!""."
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"No, I'm afraid we didn't. "U
Blank and his pals. (if he had any) |
the
Nazis
Fear
TP in the Tatra mountains,
U just south of the Polish
They could do erosswords in a good
As for my hut on the beach light then. But they were fed up well, they'd turned that into a bear with crosswords. "They get silller garden, and I'd no longer any in- border, lurks Karl Sidor, Slova every time you look at them." terest in it. Life was just noise; they kia's Robin Hood and sworn
lived at the top of their voices and enemy of Hitler.
Whole valleys are under the con- annoyed everybody within a mile."
And now..
trol of his men. The approaches to with are so led The boys gone, the girls gone, these valleys everything quiet. Blank sighs for the mantraps that the Nazis have not yet train he used to curse, the car that had the courage to break into them. used to bore him stir, for everything| that's gene.
You could get all the petrol you wanted in those days that "were the days." But do you remember how so many of us had decided that motoring was simply dashing at fifty miles an our from some place where you {didn't want to be to some place where
you didn't want to go?
From this base Sidor has for several weeks been leading out his armed bands and harrying the German "Get the old bus out? But there's
I open an album of snaps of won- Army communications. Convoys are nowhere to go. We've been every-derful summer days gone by.
raided, equipment is stolen, small Those were the days.... where."
garrisons are set upon and wiped out.
Sidor's influence spreads far and: widę among the peasants.
We can't go to the concert party) And how we used to grouse about to-night. When we could how we them when we had them. used to grumble about fi "I can't slund the comedian." "The baritone's Shall we grouse again when awful." "Concert" parties are all come back? alike, anyhow."
I wonder,
GRIN AND BEAR IT
"L.seo.out men are having word
They know him of old. It was he they who with others refused in 1914 to serve in the Imperial Austrian Army -80 loyal was he to the cause of Slovak Independence.
It was he who, after the war, bes came second in command to Father
People's Party.
By Lichty Hinks in building up the Slovak
LONG
HAUL
THE Hlinka-men were no de- mocrats. They disliked the new Czecho-Slovak State and wanted home
rule for Slovakia. Sidor- founded the Hlinka Guard and be- came Its supreme leader. It was a body of black-shirted storm-troopers on the Fascist model, who gave the Nazi salute.
Even in the Slovak districia the Flinka party never got more than a third of the votes. But after Munich they came Into their own. Nazi: money flowed into party headquarters, and Sidor, cocle-n-hoop, went to Prague to become vice-Premier of Czecho-Slovakia.
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 last March, Sidor went/back to Slovakia to become Its Premier for a day.
After, the Názle came, he was de- posed, but was made Minister of the Interior.
Fio fiercely criticised the Nazis' treatment of the Slovaks. It was at liis time that his popularity spread among the Slovak peasants. Ho alone among the Hlinka-men became anti-Nazi, and he grew into a national hero,
The Nazis were frightened, and he was hurried out of the country and made Slovale Minister at the Vatlean.
A FEW weeks ago he crept back. People of all kindr rnilled round him..
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