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-Strube in The "Daily Express".
Hitler, you don't
in
understand English
HIS is the true story
of a dictator.
He came to power his adopted country
Czecho-Slovakia for example, is through a great national
admitted by the enemy. Before the war is over the Czechs, with
revolution.
And soon he who de-
.
their ardent love of freedom,lighted to call himself a "corporal" withdrew into seclusion the majestic which surrounds a monarch. An Strict etiquette ruled. invitation to his table was eagerly sought.
will prove a serious ability to the oppressor.
How far the Fuhrer is at issue with his generals as to the future course of the war, cannot be determined. But the information available certainly points to indecision and divided counsels.
True, the society of his capi-
detestable.
As for the dictator, he trusted none of his subordinates and treated them all to brutal out- bursts of ill-temper. When ono of these men ventured to re- monstrate with him over some ill-treatment of foreigners, he shouted in a fury, "Don't trust too much to my friendship. The day when I doubt yours will destroy mine!"
A8
SO
have this article
translated
by GEORGE
MALCOLM
THOMSON
He spoke in eloquent words of the natural strength of the two countries, his own with its mighty army, Britain with a fleet that made her mistress of the seas. "Two such countries by a proper understanding might govern the world!"
BUT it was not all plain
sailing for that Bri tish Ambassador. The dictator had an ungovernable temper. He could be rude. Once he insulted the Ambassador at a public reception. Once ho kept him waiting five hours. in an anteroom.
ОКСА And
he or- dered his Foreign Minister to sce the British representative- it was in a period of peace-and protest against the hospitality shown in London to emigres from his country.
Above all, "Tell the British aggression against weaker Government it must make-the- neighbours, he roused the alarm and hostility of Britain.
Britain went to war with him. Yet he continued to protest his desire for peace with her,
GRIN AND BEAR IT
the newspapers keep within bounds usual towards nations. with which Britain is at peaco.
But war with Britain coming again. The
Was occasion
By Lichty shall be the last to lay it
down! They shall be responsi ble to all Europe."
One last insult he kept for the Ambassador. He was not al lowed to sall for England before the dictator's Ambassador had left British soll.
To one exalted Englishman he was trifling: "I cannot under- His companions, the rough,
wrote: "How can two nations, stand," exclaimed the dictator, ruthless men who had gathered
the most enlightened in Europe, "how a great nation can declare round him as he marched up-
powerful and strong beyond war over a miscrable piece of All this emphasises the wis-wards to supremacy, blossomed
what their safety and indepen-¡land."
causes of the war dom of the Allies in waiting on out in splendid uniforms-when
The real dence require-how can they
ideas of re- they appeared at the state func-
sacrifice lo events, conserving their
vain lay deeper.
Of the final interview the Am- grandeur the well-being of com- sources and strengthening their tions of the dictator's "court.” position, so that the poisons at
tal was not to every one's taste. tlon, again in a foreign land. merce, domestic prosperity, the bassador in his despatch, wrote that he found the dictator "un- work within the Nazi structure
An English peer who went His own land he ruled through happiness of families?"
To the British Ambassador der very considerable agita- may continue to weaken it.
there and many of them went an efficient secret police. His
a man of he said, "I repeat continually, it tion." There is a great deal to be said to admire the great man-des-chief of police was
is on the peace between our two "So you are determined to ge for abstaining at this juncture cribed the ruling caste as people genius.
a result of his endless great nations that the happiness to war," were his first words.
"The Then he burst out: with "the dress of mountebanks from action that might apply and the manners of assassins." ambitions, his censeless acts of of the world dependa.”
British want war. But if they stimulus to German unity and The Foreign Minister, he re-
are the first to draw the sword, patriotism. Time is a formid-ported, was everything that was able ally of France and Britain. For the first time Hitler finds himself faced with major prob- lems incapable of being solved by force. If all the truth were known, it would probably be found that the Nazi chiefs are in an unenviable state of mind. In happy and encourging con- trust is the methodical, business like way in which the Allies pool their
and resources
make
HE carried out vast pro- arrangements for the most effec-
jects. He trans- tive prosecution of the war, however long it may last. There formed the law. He constructed may be a sudden collapse within a network of splendid military Germany but neither the French roads. He built up a powerful those nor the British Goverment will roads. He rebuilt the capital
army to march along depend on that. They think in of his country according to his terms of years:
own views of what was impos From the outset of the war, ing and worthy of his epoch. unity of command was an accom- He signed pacts, and tore them plished fact. Now there has up. He reshaped the map of been effected a completa co- Europa by a series of swift ordination in the economic field successful aggressions, and in such vital matters as the supply of munitions and other matoriale essential to success in war. To an extent never before achieved, the two countries will act as one. And their combined resources aro immenso. One more reason has been provided. for looking to the future with complete confidence.--
When the Spanish Govern- ment annoyed him by showing favour to Britain, ho changed that Government by military intervention. His excuse was that Spain was falling into a state of anarchy.
Ho practised political kidnap ping in neutral countries. Ho stooped to political assassina-
"It'll be a rollef to grow up and powder our faces Instead of washing them!"
up a
THE British Navy ruled the seas. The dicta- tor replied by building system in Europe boycotting British trade. ""That is the only way to strike at Britain," he said By force and black- mail he compelled one nation after another to come into lina until only Russia remained out- side.
Ho sot his scientists to in- venting substitute materials to make up for the goods which Britain supplied. Cane sugar being cut off, sugar was made from boet.
But could Russia be brought into the system? That was necessary if the grand design against Britain was to triumph. The dictator met the Russian ruler, then his enemy. Ther. Russian's first words were: "I shall be your second against- Britain."
"In that case," said the do tator with joy, "everything ca PLEASE Tum To Page":