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Saturday, May 11, 1940.
Hang Hitlerl
IN the black, early hours of yesterday morning Hitler chalked up another black outrage against hananity, when he ordered his Hus legions to swoop down peaceful Belgium, Holland
and Luxembourg.
Seven peaceful countries. If you exclude
Austria, have now been ruthlessly invaded by this arch- chemy of mankind and civilisation. Czecho-Slovakia, Poland and Den- mark know to-day the horrors of ranquest and rule by the Gestapo. Norway, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg fight fiercely for their liberty.
The sequence of events is almost ferrying in its barbarity. No conqueror in modern history hus so violated the liberiy ut peoples. as has this man, who, simultaneously with each of his adventures, has announced to the world that his actions have been motivated only by the desire to "protect" the peoples whose lands and homes he viclates.
We prattle of war aims, of peace aims. Let our major alm be the extermination of this murderer and his gang, Exile or the honour due from conqueror to conquered must not be his fate. Hitler deserves only the gallows,
News Agency's 'Feat
THE "Telegraph" loses no time In giving credit to "United Press" for one of the major scoops of the _war__At 11.10-a.m.-yesterday-we- received an urgent cable from San Francisco, stating that mysterious planes were over Amsterdam and that Dutch anti-aircraft guns went into action, this despite the fact that Holland had clamped down a strict censorship.
At 2 p.m., the whole story of the German Invasion was to hand, and the Final Edition of the "Tele graph" was on the streets at 2.30 p.m. with the complete report.
The elapsed time between events In the lowlands and publication In Hongkong was less than an hour, and the "United Press" story was the only complete one received in Hongkong last night.
Through the co-operation of this American News Agency, whose reports ure published exclusively in The "Telegraph" in the afternoon, this newspaper was able to report the invasion of Holland in all Editions yesterday, No reports
from any other source were re- ceived before 4.10 p.m.-exactly five hours after the first report was received from "United Press,"
LORD GORT:
BRITAIN and France to-day stand more firm-
ly united in a common cause and a common determination than ever before in their his- tory.
Ever since King Edward VII's historical visit to France there had been a complete change in the feelings existing be tween that country and Great Britain, and thero had gradual- ly grown up a feeling of confidence in each other which materialised when they entered the war in 1914 as Allies.
Comradeship in arms still further strengthened the bonds between the two, and I om certain at the present moment no.two nations have ever stood closer together and with more confidence the une in the other than France and Great Britain.
The more we consider the position of the two countries in 1914 and -to-day-the-more-shaif-we realise-lisia-truth.-
First of all politically: In this country in 1914 there was a very decided division of opinion us to whether we should enter into the War and to the last moment it remained in doubt.
happened to be passing through Paris the week before War was declared. I met Sir Francis Bertle, then our Ambassador in Paris, on the Thursday. I asked him what he thought Britain was going to do.
ile said: "I can't tell you in the least. All I know is that one day next week we shall either have a crowd in the Embassy. Yard cheering for Britain; or the same crowd, there demanding my blood."
If he was uncertain, how much more right had the people of France. to be uncertain as to whether to have confidence in us or not.
HOW different in 1939! The whole country absolutely united; no necessity for recruiting meetings; to necessity to prepare the ground for conscription,
It was brought in reluctantly in 1915. It came about whole-heartedly in preparation for the present war. That is clearly recognised in France, und is un additional cause for confidence,
Nubody can doubt the sincerity of both countries and their determina- tion to stand by each other and to fight to a finish for what they consider right.
Then let us take the fighting forces. Our Navy now, as in 1914, Is supreme, and nobody realises better than the French nation that their safety les, as does ours, in our maintaining our mastery of the sens. I have no fear of our lusing that mastery,
Our Air Force in the last war was only, so to speak, in its infancy. Now it is probably the best equipped and best trained force in the world.
Saturday, MAY 11, 1940.
By LORD
DERBY
And our Army: let us compare the Army of to-day and the Ariny at 1014.
The "contemptible" Ittle_Army of 1914, though very small, was thoroughly offelent and showed to the French Army what Britials soldiers were Ilke, and #cecoding reinforcements from the Territorial troops only intensified their admiration for them.
The spirit of all ranks is the same now as in 1914, and after four years of fighting the pollu of the French Army got to know the worth of the British soldier, and the British soldier cannot look back on the late war and remember the herole defence of Verdun without profound respect for his French colleague-in-armı,
The French Army, I know, is to-day preater and better even than in the last war. I can pay it no hipher tribute than that.
AFTER two and a half years residence in France as Am- bassador, during which time I came into contact with all sorts and conditions of men. I feel I know something of France, and with that knowledge has grown my great and evor-Increns- ing admiration for the French nation.
WHY WE SHALL Win
We must recognise that the mentally. of the two nations is quite different. It 1 no use thinking that you can make an Englishmon of a Frenchman, or a Frenchman of an Englishunan.
But does that matter? Person- ally I do not think it is a disad- vantage that the mentality is different.
On the contrary 1 consider it n advantage, because a quality that may be missing in the one is found in the other, and as long as the two countries have the same ob- Jeet in view what does it matter in what way they achieve the result?
I am not sure that the best simile cannot be found In Paris itself at the Arc de Triomphe.
You stand there, and you see the roads leading in every direction. They come from different places. but they all meet at the one central rallying spot, and that is what I think is happen. Ing at the present moment.
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The roads are leading from Britain, France, Canada, Australlu, South Africa and all His Majesty's Dominions.
Along them come troops, speaking different languages, but the words they use represent the same desire. The desire to win freedom and security-that freedom and security which we had hoped we had gained in 1918, but which we are certain to regain now at the end of this war.
They give Hitler the air
BY PATRICK CAIRNS
NE of the most peculiar
Oings about this very
peculiar war is that we are almost on speaking terms with our enemy. Certainly we are on listening terms.
There is no Defence Regu- lation that suggests for moment that we are doing wrong if we tune in to Nazi broadcasts with the enthusi- asm and
regularity with which we listen to "Band Waggon."
Our nightly laughs from Ham- burg and Zeesen have already be come an old British institution. And I wouldn't put it beyond the British mentally to send a pro- test to Berlin if ever our favourite, German announcers were taken off the air for good.
But the French are not content to let the radlo war be a one-sided
ffair.
"Right," they say, "if the Nazis think abusing Churchill and Daladier is good propaganda- 'hen two can play at that game."!
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And instead of reasoning with the Nazis, they would with their own people, the French answer back every night in the only language the Nazis understand: the language of abuse, of sarcasm
and cruelty.
And the Nazla don't like it. They jam the stations us often as they can.
In between whiles the French hand over the microphone 10 exlied Austrians, Poles and Czechs,"
WHAT AMERICANS ARE THINKING
ARE THINKING ABOUT THE WAR
SOME of America's highest-paid
Journalists and writers were asked by the London Sunday Dispatch to answer the question: "How do you explain America's peace-time clamour 'Stop the Dles tators' with her present attitude of isolationism?”
Here ore soinc of their an- swers!--
DOROTHY THOMPSON, wife of Sinclair Lewis the novelist, politi- cal writer to the New York Herald- Tribune syndicate:-
I doubt whether England-if England were in the position of the United States and the United States In the position of England -would be rushing to our defence. I rather guess that the attitude of England would be the same as ours now. You must not nsk Us Ameri- eans to be wiser or cleverer than
you were,
I deplore the blindness on the part of some of the American public to the gigantle lasues that are at stake in the world. But apparently nations cannot learn from experiences of other nations.
The U.S. has not yet come up against facts in the same way as
Britain and France have done, Therefore we are in the same platonie conditions of displeasure, uneasiness, but at the same time general optimism for ourselves, as you were only 18 months ago,
To indulge in sympathy with- out taking risk is the habit of Democracy.
H. L. MENCKEN, famous author, director of the Baltimore. Sun--ati isolationist, opposed to President Roosevelt:
The notion that the American people are implacably, opposed to entering the war is.. probably groundless
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To be sure, entering the war by simple executive order would probably go down badly, but such great moral enterprises are not undertaken in that crude way. Firat there must be a stealy flow of alarms and a steady farning of imagination. Mr. Roosevelt has beon engaged on thia double hended enterprise ever since the war began. The White House and the State Department are busy agencies of British propaganda,
It would only take half a dozen fireside chats to finish the job.
RAYMOND CLAPPER, political commentator to the 20 Scripps Howard newspapers, which have 18,000,000 eirculation:-
In the heart of Texas a few weeks ago a group of representa- tive citizens told me that if it were apparent that the Allies were in danger of defeat, American senti- ment would. In their judgment, support some kind of naval assist-
ance.
RAYMOND GRAM SWING, News Commentator on Foreign Affairs to the Mutual Broadcasting System of America and B.B.C. commentator on American affairs since 1935:-
In America we are going through a phase of not thinking things out thoroughly, and the nature of this war gives us time for it. We'nro · not being forced to 'face facts so we don't facă them,
That is not predleting that the United States will enter the war once the facts have been faced. That depends on whether Ameri- cans become convinced that they have to fight for their own sakes. Which, in turn, will depend on the course of the war.
JESSE F. ESSARY. hend of the Baltimore Sun's Washington of-
It is no secret that in its deeper heart the United States Govern- ment wants to see Germany de- feated, otherwise the ridiculous embargo on Implements of war would never have been repealed, but
it Insluts that its rights be re- cognised, even though there may bo altuations in which it is un- desirable that they should be Ilterally enforced.
ERNEST K. LINDLEY, author of Roosevelt's offelal biography and close personal friend of the Pre- sident:-
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Nothing Great Britain has done, or can do, Is kely to alter the basic American antipathy Nazism. But this in no way pre-- cludes a growth of coolness, or even of antagonism, to Great Bel- tuln. So far the American reaction to British interference with our
malls and such of our trade as we have not already voluntarily re- Inquished has been annoyance rather than deep or widespread Indignation. There
feeling that Great Britain is taking advan- tage of our friendship.
each of whom has a "Freedom" stalion on French sail.
This is the sort of thing the Nozis hear from the Austrian an- houncer:
"So Hitler's talking about cul- ture again! What does the little Mr. Relchscarparal know about culture, may we nik? He wan such a bad painter when he was in Austria that he couldn't pass any of his exams, so he went to Germany where--of course--he managed to impress them."
"We hear that Hitler is 'discuss- ing things with his generals, What they mean is that he's taking chief of the 10th army corps.”.
-course-of-instruction-with-the-
"There
arc
also reports that Hitler is learning Russian. They are entirely untrue. The Fuchrer hns no talent for languages-not even German."
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Goebbels is the particular target of this Freedom Station, and he is addressed personally every night in varying terms. The most polite of these referred to him as that "great, tall, blond Acyan-Ger- many's greatest advertisement for Strength Through Joy,"
The little Doctor's recent appeal for "optimistic music" and his proud claim that all the theatres in Germany are open, drew forth
ab
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Circus with the "Bread and sold the anhotincer, "the Emperor gave the people bread and circuses to keep their minds off politics. The only dif- ference is that there's no bread in Germany But circuses-1
Why, Germany's just one big circus, with Hitler as chief clown.”
of ancient Rome. Rome,"
The German broadcasts put out by the French have the same spice to them as those transmitted by the Freedom Stations.
There is a healthy streak of cruelty-to-be-kind about these French broadcasts, too. Especially when attention can be drawn to
German's stomach,
they went on a
Les Halles this hopping tour of morning," said a Frenchman, describing his day in war-time Paris. "How you poor Germans would envy us! Five hundred different kinds of cheeses, atacks of fruit, whole trucks of meat, and all the butter anybody could want. And all, of course, without ration cards.".
* * Certainly this is cruel, but it is
tu effective when addressed t nation which is forbidden butter and coffee in peace-time.
Any after dny, three times a day these French and exile stations Inugh and mock nt the Nazi rudio, picking on every German argu- ment and throwing it back In Hitler's face.
Finally there is the Austrlan Freedom Stallon's own War Alm. It is to make Dr, Goebbels listen to his own speeches and read his own articles till he dies. "This," adds the announcer, "would surely be a fate worse than death."