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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."
Waiting for the Call-up!
BALKAN Bag-o'-tricks
Four men are looking
into it anxiously to-day
M
and Greece has been tempor- arily persuaded to play possum. That is peace-maker Sarajoglu's] work, though Bulgaria has re- served all her rights to present her plate again after the war.
Bulgaria's standstill agree-
wards realising dead Kemal Ataturk's dream of a Balkan bloc in defence of peace.
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She asks if Hitler and his regime is not the embittered spirit of a strong and deeplying the results of their discus- Europe, is quite prepared for fairsized cats left. Those of
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 uneasy Europe for generations if the of this war and its consequent peace is the same as. that of the last war,
courac
THROUGH the snowstreaked V.C. and the British M.C. in the ment has gone a long way to
passes of the Balkans, the last war. sleek blue conches of the Orient Express have brought three statesmen to meet a fourth in Shukri Sarajoglu, Turkey's Belgrade. And nearly 60,000,- Foreign Minister and peace- 000 people are anxiously await, maker-in-chief to South-Eastern
Still, there are three very
sions, which begin to-day.
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 Jugoslavin, the four countries of weeks in Moscow last year manner on Rumania. the Balkan Entente.
when the Soviet wanted a pact Russia would_like_to_get
another tough job.
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 While speaking terms.
vince of Transylvania. Fortress"-Belgrade.
Germany would like to turn And the row they have to hoc
King Carol's domains into her All the visitors hope perhaps private granary, oil-field and is none too easy a one.
to get a hot tip on Hitler's next timber-yard. move from their host, M. Cin- Plump, neat, grey-moustached car-Markovitch. For this time General John Metaxas is proba- last year Jugoslavia's Foreign So much for the spirit of bly the least worried of the four, Minister--who can trip a pretty Transylvania and Bessarabia King Carol, conscious that
Hitler. But it should be re-
considering he is Greece's dicta- pensant dance, despite his stoop contain many more Rumaniang tor as well as its Foreign Minis- and ascetic looks--was his than minorities, is saying "no" Imembered that Germany has ter.
country's envoy in Berlin.
very firmly to any territorial de- long been haunted by a spirit
But then few experiences can
Diplomatic crystal-gazing is mands, seem very terrible after a taste more or less what has brought trying to do a careful hedge.
On Germany's he is that was the curse of Europe, of Prussian Army discipline, the four statesmen together by "If that fails to satisfy Ber- 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 Balkan Entente col- Grigore Gafencu, tall, fair- and to stop it jumping.
leagues. air pilot, is undoubtedly the such a haired newspaper owner, crack The trouble is that there are It's a tricky question. It's a douce of a lot of eats tricky business anyhow, keeping most concerned. The demanda loose in the Balkans,
peace in the Balkans, Minister are enough to dismay garia's "give me back your an- put upon a Rumanian Foreign The Bulgarian cat-Bul-
even one who gained Rumania's nexations" claims on Rumania
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and humiliated Germany either. It was not an embittered and humiliated Germany that at- tacked Denmark, and Austria, and France in a scries of wars between 1864 and 1870, and that plunged the world into war twenty-five years ago. It was a Germany Blushed with the lust for conquest; the strongest military power in the world. Those wars were planned years ahead and were deliberately provoked.
After the last war Germany may have felt embittered and humiliated. She had good rea-
son to be so. The crimo ahe had planned had miscarried, and her disappointment was bound to bo
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.
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would to bomb
-Because it is the hub of the most strongly fortified area in the world, SYLT hng been transformed since 1935 into navel and nerin stronghold where hundreds of air- planes are kept in underground hangars, Those Innocent-looking farms you can from the Danish island of Roem, four miles to the north, have 18in, concrete roofs beneath their lies.
600
Out in the sea is JELIGOLAND, 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 Baltle the fortifications stretch na far as Rugen.
The purpose of this is to protect the great German ports of Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel
Ronald Matthews
anyone Sylt?
Lubeck, Wilhelmshaven.. It is unlikely they will be used as a base for air attacks against England. Better ones exist in Westphalia and the Rhineland. Sylt, they say, lo 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.
how
Sylt vand to hava a population of 8,000, evacuated, The islands, for all their sicel and concrete strength, are slowly dis- appearing. The The
aren of the group, of which Sylt in the biggest, used to be 1,000 square miles 700 years ago. Now it is 100. But as the sea gnaws away the coast on one side it deposits aand on the other, forming fine beaches which attract pleasure-seekers, Sylt's resort Westerstrand was chosen by Gooring for a holiday in August 1039.
*
ALL BECAUSE of my
AGE
By HERBERT
ASHLEY
THE 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- Inrly ineffusive Inter- view Board if I might join the Army. It did not seem like 24 years ngo.
"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" thero 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 I (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 har about the brow to a per- son, hoping thereby to ob- tale respect and sympathy. But their existence had always been denied. The laurel due to Ex- perience and Suffering had been withheld. Now I know that I have "age" Time, it seems,
on, but will the let me march with It? The medical examination, ap- parently by the entire member- ship of the British Medlent Association, was extensive and Intimate. Eyesight good ("with glasses"), teeth good ("those you've still got"), ears highly developed from 17 years' reporting.
your
He
Another doctor examined my heart, 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.
called another doctor; listened together. The second obviously did not know why the first was so enthralled, and they tried to converse with cach other in a kind of selen-- tine dumb crambo. "HO.B.V.?" asked one. "Possibly," anid the other,
"or B.C.T.D. bilingually." Then, cheerfully, "We're not go- ing to fail you for that.”
they
It is, it appears, 'my, "ago"
•imie
. The General was human after all. "Hitler is a queer fellow," he said. "There may not be a push until next March, but it may be to-morrow, who knows?. When it comes, shali we say for you-the lufantry, in France?" He added there was more
ore "scope" in France.
In spite of my age," it seems to me that the odds are in fa- vour of this country, We do not know when Hitler will strike, but he does not know that I am Great Britain's secret wea- pon.
- ROEME
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