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The Spirit of Hitler
There is much talk to-day of making war not on the German people but on Hitlerism, writes Anne Morrow Lindbergh in the "Reader's Digest."
She asks if Hitler and his regime is not the embittered spirit of a strong and deeply humiliated people. It is irrele- vant, she argues, whether or not this spirit is justified.
The fact is, it is there. You cannot kill a spirit; you cannot incarcerate it. It returns like Hamlet's ghost. The ghost of Hitler will haunt an uneagy Europe for generations if the of this war and its consequent peace is the same as that of the lust war.
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BALKAN Bag-o'-tricks
Four men are looking into it anxiously to-day
and Greece has been tempor- arily persuaded to play sum.
That is peace-maker Sarajuglu'sj work, though Bulgaria has re- served all her rights to present her plate again after the 'war.
Bulgaria's standstill agree-
THROUGH the analystreaked V.C. and the British M.C. in the ment has gone a long way to-
passes of last war. sleek blue coaches of the Orient Express have brought three statesmen to meet a fourth in
realising dead Kemalt Ataturk's dream of a Balkan bloc in defence of peace.
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A
Shukri Surajoglu, - Turkey's Belgrade. And nearly 60,000,- Foreign Minister and peace-
Still, there are three very 000 people are anxiously await- maker-in-chief to South-Eastern ing the results of their discus- Europe, is quite prepared. for fairsized cats left. Those of sions, which begin to-day,
another tough job."
Hungary, Germany and Russia. For 60,000,000 people inhabit He ought to know what tough And all of them have their eyes Greece, Turkey, Rumania and jobs mean, after those fruitless fixed in the most interested Jugoslavia, the four countries of weeks in Moscow last year- manner on Rumania.
when the Soviet wanted a pact Russia would like
to get! the Balkan Entente.
It-is-their-Foreign Ministers with Turkey and the longer, back from Rumania the province who are gathered under the more successful struggle to put of Bessarabia, which she lost shadow of the once-glittering King Carol of Rumania and after the last war; Hungary citadel which gave Jugoslavia's King Boris of Bulgaria on would like to get back the pro- capital its name of "The White speaking terms.
vince of Transylvania. Fortress"Belgrade.
Germany would like to turn King Carol's domains into her All the visitors hope perhaps private granary, oil-field and to get a hot tip on Hitler's next timber-yard. move from their host, M. Cin-
And the row they have to hoe
is none too easy a one.
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Plump, neat, grey-moustached ear-Markovitch. For this time So much for the spirit of
General John Metaxas is proba- Inst year Jugoslavia's Foreign King Carol, conscious that Hitler. But it should be re-bly the least worried of the four, Minister-who can trip a pretty Transylvania and Bessarabia membered that Germany has considering he is Greece's dicta- peasant dance, despite his stoop contain many more Rumanians tor as well as its Foreign Minis- and ascetic looks-was his than minorities, is saying "no" long been haunted by a spirit ter.
country's envoy in Berlin.
very firmly to any territorial de- that was the curse of Europe,
But then few experiences can Diplomatic crystal-gazing is mands. On Germany's he is acem very terrible after a taste more or less what has brought trying to do a careful hedge. and it was not an embittered of Prussian Army discipline, the four statesmen together by "If that fails to satisfy Ber- and 40-odd years ago General the frozen banks of the Danube. Jin, are you behind me?" is the John was the star pupil of the They have met to guess which question worried M. Gafencu, Berlin Officers' Academy." •
way the cat is going to jump one way or the other, will be next in their corner of the world, putting his Baikan Entente col-
leagues. Grigore Gafencu, tall, fair- and to stop it jumping.
The trouble is that there are. It's a tricky question. It's a haired newspaper owner, crack air pilot, is undoubtedly the such a deuce of a lot of cats tricky business anyhow, keeping most concerned. The demands loose in the Balkans.
Bulgarian put upon a Rumanian Foreign The
It was not an embittered and humiliated Germany that at- tacked Denmark, and Austria, and France in a series of wars between 1864 and 1870, and that plunged the world into war twenty-five years ago. It was a Germany flushed with the lust for conquest; the strongest military power in the world. Those wars were planned years ahend and were deliberately provoked.
After the last war Germany may have felt embittered and humiliated. She had good ren- son to be so. The crime she had planned had miscarried, and her, disappointment was bound to be bitter. But there was nothing of the spirit of humiliation in Hitler's dream of European and then world domination. There was the love of military glory, of greed, envy, and arrogance,
ent
Bul-
pence in the Balkans.
Minister are enough to dismay garia's "give me back your an- Ronald Matthews
even one who gained Rumania's nexations" claims on Rumania
Why would
anyone
want to bomb Sylt?
A
Because it is the hub of the most strongly fortified area in the world, SYLT has been transformed since 1935 into naval and aerial sironghold where hundreds of ale- planes are kept in underground hangars. Those innocent-looking forms you can, seo from the Danish island of Roem, four miles to the north, have 18in, concrete roofs beneath. their tiles.
Out in the sea is RELIGOLAND, famous great war fortress, recently strengthened, AT TONNING, on the mainland, is a new airport; another at GELTING. SCHLES- WIG has become an Important military centre. Further down the coast the islands of NORDERNEY, WANGEROOG and BOR- KUM have been fortified. In the Baltic: the fortifications stretch as for as Nugen.
The purpose of this is to protect the great German porta of Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel
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Lubeck, Wilhelmshaven. It is unlikely they will be used as a base for alr attacks against England. Better ones exist in Westphalia and the Rhineland Sylt, they say, is a branch of the German naval air arm,Air Section 6," which has headquarters at Kiel.
Sylt is twenty-three miles long, only half a mile wide, and connected to the shore by: a railway which runs along a seven-mile Peninsula stretching towards the shore.
Sylt used to have a population of 0,000, now evacuated The islands, for all their steol and concrete strength, are slowly dis- appearing. The area of the group, of which Sylt is the biggest, used to be 1,000 square miles 700 years ago. Now it is 100. But on the sea gnawa away the coast on one side it deposits sand on the other, forming ne beaches which attract pleasure-seekers. Sylt's resort Westerstrand was chosen by Goering. for a holiday in August 1938.
ALL BECAUSE of my
AGE
By HERBERT
THE
ASHLEY
HE General was not. effusive. He did not know that 24 years ago almost to the day
I had stood in the same room and asked a simi- larly ineffusive Inter- view Board if I might join the Army... It did not seem like 24 years ago.
"The doctor has not put you in a very good class," said the Gen- eral. It occurred to me that this was not an encouraging open- ing to the impressive talk I had mapped out in my mind with the three members of the Board. Moreover, it was not accurate.
The "doctor"-t here were six-put me in Grade II. (two) in red ink. It was explained by an N.C.O. with an eye to the main chance that this meant "service abroad but not in the front line." Younger men in Grade 1. (one) in red ink offered wistful congratulations.
I was shocked. The ex- planation was that it was "because of my age."
I had not remembered my "age" until I saw that devastating Grade II. (two) in red ink. I had not realised I had "age." There had been times when I had almost fiercely pointed out greying hair about the brow to a per- son; hoping thereby to ob- tuin respect and sympathy. But their existence had always been denied. The laurel due to Ex- perience and Suffering had been withheld.
I Now
know that have "age." Time, it seems, marches
the but will General let me march with it? The medical examination, up- by the entire member- parently ship of the British Medieni Association, was extensive and intimate. Eyesight good (with glasses"), teeth good ("those you've still got"), ears: highly developed from 17 years' reporting.
your
on,
Another doctor examined my heurt. Here, there, there, there; up, down, there, there. A long time over one place, I thought. He left the area reluctantly, but returned like a criminal to the site of his crime. It fascinated him
He called another doctor; they listened together. The second obviously did not know why the first was so enthralled, and they tried to converse with each other in kind of scien- fific dumb crambo. "HO.B.V.?" asked one. Possibly," said the other, "or B.C.T.D. bilingually." Then, cheerfully, "We're not go- ing to fail you
for
that," It is, it appears, my "ago"
General was
human all. "Hitler is a queer fellow," he said. "There may not be a push until next March, but it may be to-morrow, whe knows? When it comes, shall we say for you the Infantry, In France?" He added there was more "scope" in Fran
France.
The
after
In spite of my "age," it seems
to me that the odds are in fa- vour of this country. We do not know when Hiller will strike, but he does not know that I am Great Britain's secret wea pon.
ROEM
SYLT
Gelling
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