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you don't
understand English
HIS. is the true story
of a dictator.
He came to power in his adopted country through a great national revolution.
And soon he who de-
the war is over the Czechs, with lighted to call himself a
their-ardent-love-of-freedom;
"corporal"
the
withdrew into seclusion
majestic
will prove a serious liability to the oppressor. How far the Fuhrer is at issue with his which surrounds a monarch. generals no to the future course invitation to his table was Strict etiquette ruled. An of the war, cannot be determined. But the information available eagerly sought. certainly paints to indecision and divided counsels.
SO
have this article
translated
·by· GEORGE
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 1 proper understanding might govern the world!"
BUT
it was not all plain sailing for that Bri- tish Ambassador. The dictator had an ungovernable temper.
Once He could be rudo.
he insulted the Ambassador at a public reception. Once he kept him waiting five hours in án anteroom. And onco ho dered his Foreign Minister to see the British representative- it was in a period of peace-and protest against the hospitality shown in London to emigres from his country.
or-
Was
Above all,"Tell the British against wenker Government it must make the (ARHINO ( aggression
the neighbours, he roused the alarm newspapers keep within and hostility of Britain.
bounds usual towards nations" Britain went to war with him. with which Britain is at peace.".
But war with Britain Yet he continued to protest his desire for peace with her coming again. The occasion To one exalted Englishman he was trifling: "I cannot under- wrote: "How can two nations, stand," exclaimed the dictator, the most enlightened in Europe, "how a great nation can declare powerful and strong beyond war over a miserable plece of what their safety and indepen-|land"
MALCOLM
THOMSON
dence require-how can they The real causes of the war sacrifice to ideaa of vain lay deeper.
grandeur the well-being of com- Of the final interview the Am.
His companions, the rough, ruthless men who had gathered round him as he marched up- All this emphasises the wis wards to supremacy, blossomed dom of the Allies in waiting on out in splendid uniforms when. events, conserving their re-they appeared at the state fune- sources and strengthening their tions of the dictator's "court."
True, the society of his capi- position, so that the poisons at
tal was not to every one's laste, tion, aguin in a foreign land. merce, domestic prosperity, the bassador in his despatch, wrote that ho 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
of police was 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
is on the peace between our two As |for abstaining at this juncture cribed the ruling caste as people genius.
a result of his endless great nations that the happiness from action that might apply with "the dress of mountebanks
and the manners of assassins." ambitions, his ceaseless acts of of the world depends." stimulus to German unity and The Foreign Minister, he re- patriotism. Time is a formid ported, was everything that was able ally of France and Britain.
detestable. For the first time Hitler finds
As for the dictator, he trusted himself faced with major prob- none of his subordinates and lems incapable of being solved by treated them all to brutal out- ill-temper. When one force. If all the truth
were bursts
ventured to re- of these mon known, it would probably bo
monstrate with him over some found that the Nazi chiefs ard-treatment of foreigners, he in an unenviable state of mind. shouted in a fury, "Don't trust In happy and encouraging con- too much to my friendship. The trast is the methodical, business day when I doubt yours will like way in which the Allies pool destroy mine!"
their resources and make arrangements for the most effec
HE carried out vast pro- jects. Ho trans- tive prosecution of the war formed the law. He constructed however long it may last. There may be a sudden collapse within a network of splendid military roads. He built up a powerful Germany but neither the French
along those army to march nor the British Government will roads. He rebuilt the capital 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 waring and worthy of his apoch. unity of command was an accom Ho signed pacts, and tore them plished fact. Now there has up. He reshaped the map of been effected a complete co Europe by a series of swift ordination in the economic field successful aggressions. and in such vital mútters aa the When the Spanish Govern supply of munitions and other mont armoyed him by showing materials cagential to success in favour to Britain, he changed war. To an extent never before that Government by military achieved, the two countries will intervention. His oXCURO act as one. And their combined that Spain was falling into a resources are Immense On state of anarchy. more reason has been provided a practised political kidnap- for looking to the future with ping in neutral countries. Ile complete confidence.
stooped to politični assasaina-
Was
GRIN AND BEAR IT
Jich
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By Lichty
"It'll be a relief to grow up and powder our faces instead of
washing them!!!
"So you are determined to go to war," were his first words.
Then he burst out: "The British want war. But if they are the first to draw the sword, I shall be the last to Iny it down! They shall be respons!- ble to all Europe."
One lust insult he kept for the Ambassador. He was not al- lowed to anil for England before the dictator's Ambassador had left British soll.
THE British Navy ruled the seas. The dicta- tor replied by building up a system in Europe boycotting British trade. "That is the only way to strike at Britain,” ho said. By force and black- mail he compelled one nation after another to come into line until only Russin remained out- sido.
Ho sot his scientists to in- venting substituto materials to make up for the goods which Britain supplied. Cane sugar being cut off, sugar, was made from beet.
Was.
But could Russin be brought into the ayatom? That necessary if the grand design. against Britain was to triumph.. The dictator met the Russian.
The ruler, then his enemy. Russian's first words wore::"1 shall be your second against Britain."
"In that caso," said the dle
| tator with joy, "everything can'
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