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peace pourparlers.
Such approaches, If made- and it is no idle guess that they may be on the 'way-would not be without a certain danger; for there are still people in England (and in France) who think that some sort of deal can be done with what are called the "mod- crato" elements in the Nazi Party.
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Now the central figure in these "moderate" elements, the man with whom it is thought an honest deal might be done, is no less a person than Field- Marshal Goering-Hitler's nam- ed successor, his chief lleuten- ant, and next to the Fuehrer himself the most powerful and menacing exponent of the Nazi regime in practice.
The theory about Goering appears to be that, though something of n genial rufflan,
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It ju commonly though the evidence is not con- clusive, that his agents fired the Reichstag in order to implicate the Communists and bring about their final destruction.
It will be remembered how, at the subsequent trial in the Ger- man Supreme Court of Justice, this strange being, then Prime Minister of Prussia, gave what mockery of evidence, literally dancing with rage and shaking both fists wildly at the
while prisoner Dimitrov, stream of frenzied abuse pour- ed from his lips.
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"You wait," he bawled, as Dimitrov was taken away, "till we get you out of the power of this Court."
It was Goering who invented. and established the Gestapo, the most cruel 'sind bestial or- ganisation of secret police over imposed upon a civilised com- munity, and used it with ruth.... Icas gusto to maintain the dictatorship until he handed over his machine of torture and death to the equally efficient hands of Heinrich Himmler.
"We need men who will be. blind and deaf and dumb when we want them to be so," he told his second-in-command, at the outset; "We want auto; matons but they must shoot. straight."
It was Goering who, in the great purge of June, 1934,
he might easily be transformed during young airman, to de- as a commercial pilot, he met "cleared up" North Germany into a good European; that he feated Germany after the Arm- Hitler at Konigsplatz in the and had the firing squads at SHOULD one listen in to Nazi did not want to begin and does istice, he has been filled with autumn of 1921; and, finding work "from dawn to dusk" in This question not want to continue the war the fury of revenge-revenge in him a kindred spirit, joined the old military academy at might have been readily and against Britain; that he opposed not only against the victorious him at once in a blood-partner Lichtenfelde, where years be- definitely answered before the and is still opposed to the Nazi-nemy, but against Catholicism ship for the smashing of "the fore he had undergone his army
training. war to the effect that no great Soviet Pact; that he has resisted and Bolshevism, against the Jew republic" and the "libern-
"yellow internationale (to quote tion" of Germany.
"It was Goering, above all, harm would come of the prac- Hitler's plans for an extension his own words) of Jewish S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. tice: Since the war began, how of the war into neutral coun-
He has remained to this very who set going the secret re- capitalism" and against the ever, the situation has changed tries; and that, with adequate democracies which he still fana- "the best of them all," said time when she was forbidden day Hitler's right-hand man armament of Germany-at a as a matter of course, and the encouragement from the Allies, tically believes to be the instru- Hitler warmly not many months under treaty more than 100,000 question may require several he could overthrow Hitler and ments and dupes of the Jewish arrange satisfactory terms which would make him the master of Much depends on the person who listens in. There are people
'old-style "Conservative" who become depressed when Germany co-operating with the mine: they hear anything unfavourable Western democracies for the going to give. Europe another to the "Ailles, even when that overthrow-of-Bolshevism-and inste_of_it."_His_reckless_and news is a palpable falsehood, the maintenance thereafter of ferocious temper gives point to They have a lingering notion a comfortable status quo in these words. that there may be "something in Europe, it." These people would be
This is wishful thinking with
He is the man who prefers happier and would lose nothing a vengeance. It is based, not guns to butter, who wants the by ignoring the Nazi broadcast.
on ascertained data, but on a world to tremble once more Curiosity and A sense of number of entirely nebulous "before the tramp of Prussian novelty induce many to listen. assumptions. But that feeling soon wears off, and all the sooner because it
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soldiers and carried out with passionate enthusiasm Hitler's He proved his courage and order to build the greatest air He once said to a friend of his inflexible will in the critical force the world had ever seen. "I like war and I am period of the Nazi struggle for. A dozen times he has declared his intention to use this mighty He-induced the-aged Hinden--weapon,"his"pride "and" "joy," "to" burg to sign the decree appoint- bring England to her knees.
gronadiers." He cares nothing
power.
ing Hitler Chancellor by telling him a lie about General von Schleicher's intention to march on Potsdam and arrest the Pre- sident.
No wonder a grateful Fuehrer has presented him with so many medals and decorations that (as they say in Germany) if more to come and
on his
He also frightened Hinden- there are for human life, and has had hurg into abolishing constitu- they are pinned on the only hundreds of his own comrades tional safeguards, thus enabling place still available |becomes plain that the broadcast One is that in any circum shot with as little compunction him as Prussian Police Minister ample form he will be unable to
to terrorise and stamp out all sit down. Penniless and embiltered, opposition and deposit the lea- economic collapse Goering could scarcely able to exist on his pay ders in concentration camps. expect to supplant Hitler, while still alive and in full possession of his peculiar faculties, as the national leader-hero.
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and most malicious of lies instances short of disaster in as if they were rabbits. tended to spread discontent and the field or. Germany's complete indecision among the Allied soldiers and civil population,
One excellent reason for ab- staining is that the Nazis wish the Allied people to listen in. Why oblige them? One listener, Another assumption, founded who used to listen to the Nazi on absurd but carefully dis farrago but does not now, puts seminated rumours of the ab- tho matter in this way: "Suppose dication, in the near future, of I have, n feud with a private
a thoroughly baffled Fuehrer, is enemy. Will I advance
my cause or improve my morale if that the rumours would not be I allow him to ring me up at a crudo Nazi trick to entangle frequent intervals and listen the Allies into sham peace nego- without reply while ho tells metiations from which it would be that I atarve my children and almost impossible to withdraw. beat my wife, forged that
cheque, and set fire to the timber But the most important as- yard 7"
Time and taste will settle the sumption of all is that, if Hitler question for each individual. By were dead or discarded, if what listening he may be at times Mr. Churchill calls "the smear amused, or irritated; but certain-of Hitler" were wiped from the ly not informed-save on the limitless capacity of the Nazi human path; the smear of Goer- broadcasters for lying.
ing would be less foul, his word more to be trusted, his rule less
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PARIS,THE... "delicate" · problem
What manner of man is this
of what to do with British Tommies Goering on whom we are to who lapse into their habit of driving build hopes of a solidly-negotiat-
on the left side of the highway hai
been solved by the French Governed permanent peace? What is ment.
These offences and other traffic his record?
rule violations willy be turned over
to military authorities of the British
Let it never be forgotten that,
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By Lichty
Artry, Minister of Justice Georges from the moment he flew back, Perhaps I can help, Modom—has ho a Grecian or Roman nose?" Bonnat announced,
Now this squat, barrel- chested giant, grotesque in his Jobésity, but as full of energy as over, has been placed by his master in absolute control of Germany's war economy. If Hitler had not trusted him he would not have placed him where he is.
In his own way he is as much an evil genius of Nazi Germany: As the Fuehrer himself. In a sense he is more dangerous since his brutal conduct is camouflaged behind a bluff and breezy manner that has de-. ceived many simple foreigners.
Criminals, great and small; have used the same camouflage with fatal success. It la not: an irrelevance that Goaring's household pet is a beast of the jungle. The man is as merci- less as he is jovial, without moral scruples of any kind; and his twin gods are unlimited. power and unlimited revenge.
Is there anything at all in his record and personality to suggest that he can be used or trusted by a decent diplomacy to bring peace and security to
a shattered Europe? In the world as it is to-day those who would sup with the devil should use a very long spoon.