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of documents provided by Nazi authorities and by doctors and scientists of the Reich, and has written an article entitled "Heil Hunger," which is condensed in the Reader's Digcat,
His researches led him to the conclusion that Germany is breaking down physically. What is said to the contrary is sheer propaganda. This national tragedy is the résult of under- nourishment, excessive labour, and rigorous over-training, to which childhood and youth are subjected in the insane effort to make a nation into a military machine.
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men, he will consider ceasing to send out ships to pick up these German airmen when their planes are brought down in the sea.'
Again and again we have sent out our ships and men to search the seas nt considerable risk and expense for possible
German survivors from planes which have been shot down.
If their bodies are found we read
of official funerals, and wreaths in-
scribed "Ton gallant enemy."
At
NOT BACK?
Why do we rescue Nazi airmen who have been
shot down into the sea?
Why not let them drown?
HERE IS A STRIKING CONTROVERSIAL VIEW -by Colonel.
J. C. WEDGWOOD
M.P., who won the D.S.O. in 1915
the same time we hear of the spray dare not say why that is not done brutality has he not already com Ing with bullets, officially described now.
mitted?
as murder, of our unarmed seamen by those same "gallant enemies."
Omcially, of course, the answer to He has turned the prisoners of our all this is that Hitler would retaliate, ally Poland into slaves, slaves for At the same time Goering, with How can he? What has he got to whom the medieval galleys would be whom we are at war, praises our retaliate on? What horror and a pleasant change. At sed he cannot "gallant airmen," and I suppose Mr.. Churchill purrs with satisfaction.
What humbugi
SIGNOR MUSSOLINI'S son was
an airman in the Abyssinian War, and described in print with great gusto the fun of spraying Abyssinians-hOW they scattered, how they threw themselves on their faces, only making them
૧ better
target.
It was, then only Abyssinians, but
it made us feel pretty, sick. Now it is Englishmen and the "rabbiters" become "gallant enemles.“
I want to know! In the Spanish war the Italian and German airmen chot at those who jumped with para chutes, killed them easily in the air; it was more important to kill the pliot than the machine.
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do worse things than he has done-o- uncharted mines are everywhere, no- law of the sea or international Iow has not been broken.
There is no British money left in Germany for him to confiscate. Our prisoners in his hands cannot much exceed 100. In the last war retalla- tion was a very real threat. It forced Mr. Churchill to restore the criminal U-boat men.
BUT now, for all these crimes is.
it not our turn to retallate? We might sow mines, as they row mines, in the Baltic, and along that Norwegian coast,the highway for their iron ore supplies."
We might employ German prison- ers at sea. We might employ them making roads in France, or, better. still, in Sierra Leone or St. Helena.
They want colonica; let them see the colonies and develop them. There la that rond into the ine back blocks of British Gulana (through o forest) which was suggested to the Jews.
None of these things need be more than a threat, if it would stop In- discriminate mining and torpedoing, and save some of those miserable Polish slaves,
There is no other way, save to re- move Hiller)sm.
GERMANY
Correspondence With Dr. Dietrich
By LORD KEMSLEY
HAVE been credited recently over it was there that I received on that fice of Finland and the Ballic to Rus- the Hamburg wireless station date the felter-untranslated, in its sia, nothing would have induced me and in an address to German editora original German text-which was into make the offer I did.
It is worth noting that
at Wiesbaden by Dr. Dietrich, the tended as a draft for publication. It
on
only
Ithe headed "Tho. Price of and
offeint head of the German Press, had been posted by Dr. Dietrich in thirteen days after Dr. Dietrich had with launching an attack against him Munich, according to the postmark posted from Munich his article which
the Bri
British
radio and in the on the envelope, on August 18. control. He newspapers 1
has had reached my address in London Germany had invaded Poland with
among other on August 20, and had then been charged me
forwarded to Deauville. things, lack of fairness, with varleation and mendacity.
pre-
This accusation. coming from
The Soviot Pact such a source, I need not seriously
But on August 21 there was on concern myself with. It may, how nounced from Berlin the fact that the ever, be advisable in the interests of Soviet-German Pact had been suc- Or is it both the German and the British cessfully negotiated; as the official our orders, too? Is there an under-peoples for me to review in chrono record shows, it was simed on Au-
Is this now "bad form"?
ected gust 23 by
the continued on her orgy of plunder and slaughter, proving incontestably that the offer from Dr. Dietrich was a mere trap, and how right was my tions. decision to terminate the negotium
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man airmen that it shall not be done? with the proposed exchange of news- As this docuentrop and Moloto, text of a letter sent by me to Dr.
Or la i another one. ¡ded piece of decency?
We did not torpedo the Bremen because there was no certainty that the crew could be rescued; but the Seven Seas are full of British and neutral ships sunit with all on board. We "play the game." What a game
it is that Mr. Churchill boasts of!
fact.
Challenge Accepted.
two
cause
been
and
try to the Prime Minister's phate.
Everybody here recognises
while on the one hond our Govern ment look forward wholeheartedly
to the time when confidence has: been suficiently restored to
It possible to begin the tive work of building peace, they have had no alternative, on the other hand, but to take the steps that have been taken to the strength of the country. ateps which
con- resulted from a viction that they must resist fur- ther attempts to
by force
to conshost
unilateral changes-bazen received:
the
complete support of every
public opinion.
section
on
ed
of
I am not sure how far I succeed-
in
Lotter To Dr. Dietrich To conclude the matter, I give the
established and Dietrich on August 1 and the trans- standing between British and Ger-logical sequence the events connected
paper articles between the
finally decided a
reorienta-lation of his reply on August 17. If a complete countries, an idea for which Dr. tion
of Germany's traditional I needed anything to establish the Dietrich was originally responsible. Communist policy, and alliance be- bona fides of my intentions in con- On May 13 of last year Dr. Dietrich tween Germany and Russla against nection with this correspondence and published in a number of the lead- the Allies, it made any hope of my visit to Germany, these two let- ing German newspapers a statement
entire probable I was
This was my view at the Chandos House, London, W.1. that he had offered to put the entire agreement by discussion very im-ters I think provide it to the full.
August 1, 1039. German Press at the disposal of an
by some of the
Dear Doctor Dietrich, political exchange the right of inserting in
In authorities
I have been thinking over the American writer if he could have in view and I was supported in that
in this co
conversation that I was privileged certain American newspapers an in- Notwithstanding this trembling and formative article about Germany threatening nature of the Inter-
to have with the Fuehrer-nt from the German point of view. Ho
national situation, on the afternoon
Bayreuth on July 27, You will Hesse, the
the German
in that conversA- remember that THERE was nothing like it in the reveal, it is unter hat bere he of August 22 Dr.
tion, as well as in my talks with Press Attache in last war. Listen to Mr. Chur-Jected, and he made capital of that
in London, at the re- quest of
DH. Dietrich in
you, Herr Rosenberg, Baron Weiz- Germany, called upon me at my chill then: "We cannot recognise
house
sacker, and others I laid emphasis upon London to inquire if the article had
the wholehearted persons who are systematically em-
support ployed in the sinking of merchant
which is being given in this coun Six days afterwards, on May 19, 1 been safely received. He gave me hips and fishing boats, often without learned of this suggestion and took a personal message from Dr. Dietrich warning, and regardless of the loss up Dr. Dietrich's challenge immedia- to say that the article representing The whole range of children's of life entailed, as on the same foot-tely, and on behalf of my important! Germany's case should be published one stating the infectious diseases, says Dr. ing as honourable soidlers" (Han- group of British newspapers notified in Britain before the
my willingness to accept the offer British case had been sent to Gumpert, has increased sharply. sard, April 27, 1915, p. 573), and he in question on the same terms. Six published by the German papers. This Ingenuous suggestion was, need- Rickets, 4 vitamin-deficiency decided to imprison them specially, days after that, on May 25, an answer
from Dr. Dietrich CX- to say, not acceptable to me.
less disease, fast disappearing in separate from "honourable prisoners came to me from
ings as to whether misgivings as to
the I could only remind Dr. Hesse that most countries, ahows an appall of war," till they could be tried for pressing
proposal would really serve
ause it had always the
understood that of ing increase in Germany. These their crimes,
should peace, and asking for certain as there.
be simultaneous children belong to the Youth or-
the Crimes! Why,
U-boats or surances, mainly of a character pro- publication of the views of both sides ganisations, and the premature 1015 were
in both countries, that it would be| tective to German interests, and the in bot virtuous, in comparison definiteness of the exertions of the long marches with the German airmen of to-day, made. I at once expressed hopes for reading the British statement at tho
to exchange be manifestly unfair to the German
letter
to deny thear the right of in a
people and military exercises under amusing themselves with fishing-to Dr. Dietrich my sincere mine the growing organisms and boats, lightships, and swamped boat-peaceful understanding between same time as the British public was contribute to the bone deformi- loads of escaping seamen.
England and Germany, and Informed given the opportunity of reading the
case. Nevertheless, him that the points he raised would German ties which begin with rickets.
be given full consideration and dealt August 23 I acknowledged to Dr. Medical reports of the Uni-honourable enemies, and Goering is vacation.
Never mladi Goering says we awith by me after the Whitsuntide Dietrich receipt of his letter and ar tlele, and Informed him I was ar versities for the last four years an honourable man, He won't be indicate a marked physical de hard on us when he is the Reich
Six days afterwards, on May 31, I ranging for the translation, of the
to. Dr. Dietrich article. terioration, with an alarming Governor here. He will decorate our wrote once more increase in heart complaints.
Infamous Bargain Young factory workers are in
that an oficial' German representa- I will not express any opinion even worse condition. Women,
tive should be appointed who would upon the German article, but content once dedicated to the kitchen
be empowered to discuss with me myself, with pointing out that the every detail of official procedure in essential condition of and the nursery, are now em- ployed in factories in work far
ponding article in the German boyond their strength, with
pppers, that this particular German serious effects on their health.
awaited ¤ mutually agreed Of course, these were only Boers, Fifty-three days later, on July 23, translation, and that although an En- not German gentlemen; otherwise we on the personal and urgent invita- Many more startling facts are
glish article had been prepared, that snilor from revealed-increase in alcoholism, might put a German
some scuttled ship in each fishing tion of Dr. Dietrich, I went to Ger- also awaited an agreed translation; suicides,
clear many to discuss all the points with and it was quite In and tho death-rate
mind my trawler or lightship. The crew
nt would see that he did his shore of/him, and on July 27 I arrived could be agreed the crisis
that among them,
Bayreuth, where I had an interview We are so much accustomed work, and the spraying with bullets with him, with Herr Hiltier, and im- the two countries would be pre-
portant German ometals. Dr. Dic- cipitated beyond repair. to look with caution upon every. would be less fun..
At that
Conference could There are now some 3,000 of these trich, however, took up the attitude, moment the international situation thing that pertains to Germany that even the statements of prisoners doing themselves well in in response to my request for im was at such a tension that any idea mediate action, that that particular of reciprocal newspaper exchange scientists are scrutinised closely, our internment or prison camps.
one for the was beyond consideration. My Information from the north is moment was not the right But there are good reasons for that they are behaving with in-publication of the articles. A later
I reiterate my assurance
to the balloving what Dr. Gumpert solence, confident aiready that their date, he suggested, might show an German people that in conducting
the Improvement in international nt-
at these negotiations I was throughout says of the general condition of day will come.
which
hich would give greater perfectly sincere in my desire for the German people.
between peace. It must bo obvious that I There is not to-day in Ger- WHEN I last asked the officer hopes of a
W prisoners were costing us £2 the two courochemcing the mado every effort and took every many, he says, a definite state of per head per day to feed and house,
opinion that the sooner the articles reason
reasonable step to bring about this exchange of hunger, us in the days of the without including the cost of barbed were published the better. I left Dr. very desirable mutual
Dietrich with the expression of a views, but if I had been made aware World War blockade. But there wire and troops to keep them in. hope from him that he would be able during the course of my correspond- is the much more treacherous It would be cheaper to let them to send mo the German article very ence with Dr. Dietrich my
visit stato of continuous and chronic | and their own way back to that soon.
to Germany of the nature of the in- undernourishment. The Nazis other pelson comp which is Germany. Nothing further, however, won famous
that bargain must have been have produced not health, but In the last war they were made to heard by me from him until Monday, in the course of malting at that very sickness.
work on the land, or behind the lines August 21. I was at that time taking time between Hitler and Stalin for reconstructing France. I know but a few days' holiday at Deauville, and the division of Poland, and the sacri-
graves with wreaths, and the British agreeing unequivocally to all the Union of Nazis will shed tears as points he had raised. I suggested
they kiss his hand.
If I remember aright, we put a connection with the exchange of the was the right to publishing it
In the Boer war the Boers pulled up rails and wrecked railway trains. couple of Boer prisoners on the en-articles. gine as a protection.
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Visit To Germany
mosphere
corrca-
before these two travel all
and
conveying to the Fuehrer that British opinion, although it would like to arrive at an understanding with Germany, has had its con- fidence so shaken that discussions with that object in view do not: www. seem
to be feasible in present cir cumstances: I realise that the Fuchter (and you, too) don't con- sider that there is any justification for this attitude of our people. don't want to argue that now, but it is very important, and indeed
sential, that
the facts should be known by the Fuehrer and there is no question whatever as to the fact that
confidence here does not the moment exist.
It opinion here could be convinced
confidence could
established, i.c., if the fundamental basis of the Declaration which the Fuehrer and Mr. Chamberlain signed the day after the Munich be accepted afresh by both sides, there would be much better hope of useful cussion.
You will remember that towards the close
close of the convermtion at Bayreuth, Its reply to my inquiry as to whether he had any proposals: to make for a better understanding,
Hitler suggested that each
hould ·
put its requirements on paper and that this might lead to a
a discussion. It seems to me. that we have here a suggestion that ought to be followed up and I should like to pursue it. In order to make progress, do you think it: would be possible for you, in con- Adence, to obtain the Tuchrer'as
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