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MILE
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ports that Italy intends enter the war "to pull Hitler's chestnuts out of the fire." Prevailing opinion in these circles is that Signor Mussolini is far too shrewd to play the part of a cat's-
paw.
I can speak with some personal knowledge of naval conditions in the Mediter- ranean because, shortly" before the Abyssinian. crisis, I was an official guest first of the French, and then of the Italian, navy.
In the course of my Italian trip I had private interviews with Signor
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Was treated warships and throughout, with courtesy,
ሲባ stated, my Interview with, Mussolini was private, but as he has declared publicly, before and since, that "freedom of the sea" is essential to Italy's existence, it is no breach of confidence to say now that he im- pressed this point or me during our talk at the Palazzo Venezia.
By Hector Bywater
Here are some algnifican! Agures:: from North America she takes an-. nually 3,000,000 tons of cereals,. cotton, copper, zine,oil and its derivo-
Clano and Admiral Cavagnarf: But attack. Even Rome Itself ties-with- tives; from South America 2,000,000 the facts speak for themselves too in reach of long-range naval guns, tons of cereais, coffee, sugar, wool. loudly to tempt me to break my vow Thirdly, Italy could be completely and frozen meat, and from Northern. of allence to these three gentlemen, blockaded in her inland sea, the Europe 12,000,000 tons of iron and all of whom, I must repeat, were Mediterranean, by the closing of the coal. All but a fraction of these im- Gibraltar Siraits in the west and the ports come via the Gibraltar Siraits.. extremely courteous.
Gulf of Suez in the cast, both com- paratively simple equipment Fourth-
n
'Here are some of the facts that will probably make Italy's leaders pause
new empire in Ethiopia. Fifthly, and ere they plunge their lovely land, she would be cut off from her into war with Britain and France, most important of all, she would be Wheat and oil in millions of tens First, the combined naval forces
means that they must pass through. Italy, he said in effect, was strategi- which these two Powers are able to deprived of most of the 20 million reach her from the Black Sea, which under the provisions of the falecemmuni- cally an island, with an extraordin- deploy in the Mediterranean would tons of goods she Imports every year. the Dardanelles that Turkey could close at any moment. From Indio, Australia and the Far East she imports Dear the Indication UI is received in arly long and vulnerable coastline. be superior to those of italy, and Hongkong on the Gate of publication by She cannot live without sen-borne though I heard disparaging (but quite
1,300,000 tons of cereals, fals, jute, the United Press Associations, who imports, and it is primarily to safe- undeserved) comments on French servo all rights and forbid republication,
These Imports, of which 80 per colton, wool and tin, which can reach either wholly or in part without previous guard these that we are building a naval prowess while I was in Rome,
sea, are absolutely her only through the Suez Canal. a very wholesome respect for the cent. come by powerful navy." What he then pro- arrangement
essential to her even in Ume of ceeded to tell me is still confidential, British fleet was expressed.
No rhetoric can obscare these in- _prace. In war they would have to be Secondly, no part of the Talian enormously increased, and if the sea exorable-facts-for-long They con--
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The same thesis was politely but firmly hammered into me by Count
UNSOLVED
MYSTERY HITLER'S PAST
OTTO STRASSER'S
no Her name
REVELATIONS ABOUT
and an
percentage were eliminated stitute as in all human probability it would against Italy's going to war with the be, her power of holding out would Allied Powers. be limited not to years but to months.
It is not unnecessary to tabulate the
OF Despite her nine fleet and her naval combined strength of the Angle-
STRASSER AND GELY
in.
comile strangulation, and does any help her at all except, perhaps, by.
sane
to which, right or not, at any rate fita fact that I gave her Christian burial,
in with known facts.
you will be able to draw the precise. conclusions which I am forbidden to communicate to you direct,"
hases in the Dodecanese, Libya and French Navies available for imme Pantellerio, she could not possibly dlate service in the Mediterrancan retain even partial control of her and compare them with the Italian Empire Day will be observed
Mediterraneah life-line. She might Navy. Suffice it to say that she throughout the far-flung British
or might not take Malta, but even if would be heavily outnumbered commonwealth of nations with no
she did it would nyail her nothing. battleships, cruisers and destroyers, and matched in submarine tonnage. 4710 less fervent expressions of
might Only by destroying or immobilis- In aircraft she
possess an By loyalty to the King than hereto-
Ing Anglo-French sea power in the initial advantage, but that would Mediterraneon could Ehc estope soon disappear, Germany could not fore. Empire Day and all that it
DEATH OF FUEHRER'S GREAT-NIECE J.B. Firth stands for means more to 13,
Ralian belleve this to be dispatching submarines in sections especially in Hongkong, than_per-COME--day-and-that- before the fina at. of mad fury, and brings for possible?
· overland or through the dangerous Gibraltar deale. haps ever before.
Great Assize-there may well be ward circumstantial evidence of a
Another tore handleap is that the. The greatent bulwark of demo-another inquiry into the death of a startling character.
standard of living amongst the bulk I write in no unfriendly spirit. But Italy's frugal, hard-working the best service that British writers freedom and civilisation young Austrian girl who was found cracy,
If this person, who is and has been of faces the ruthless threat of a dead in mysterious circumstances in
for years a declared and implacable populace is already so modest that who know and admire Italy con per
In other words, Italy cannot tighten ing dangers sho will incur if she maniacal demagogue, whose lust the house of her great-uncle al enemy of Hitler, had not been a man could scarcely be lowered further. form is to remind her of the appall for power, 8 Mr. Duff Cooper Munich in 1031.
of standing and repute, his
war. rightly pointed out, knows
ment of Hitler's, megalomania. was Angela Naubul. would go for little. But Otto Stras-er belt to meet the exigencies of allows herself to become an Instru
secret following in Germany. He bounds. Therefore, Empire Day They called her Gely. Austrian by ser, though living in exile, has a large this year implies much more than birth, she was pretty, attractive and was a Hitlerite for some years but a holiday and the opportunity to gay, and possessed her full share of always with deep misgivings as pay tribute to the memory of the the charm and vivacity of her coun- the megalomania of his leader.
trywomen. Such at least were her
Hitler sent him to Berlin to rally He says that when he was living greatest Queen of all time. It is outstanding qualities when she went
after the Munich in Munich in 1920 be paid the attrac
If this astonishing story is true, for occasion
re-dedicating to live, about 1928, with her Uncle the party there
Putsch and he met with great success. tive Gely a good deal of attention ourselves to the tremendous and Adolf.
He was an intellectual, a
trust. Readers fervent ("Je lui faisals la cour; elle n'etalt niction once more limps lamely be grave task of crushing, once and
Adolf Hitler--not then, of course, National-Socialist
ardent prude ni begucle") and took her out hind fact. But is
Judge for themselves. Strasser, must maske balls. One! for all, the scourge of Nazism the Fuehrer of the Relch, scarcely enthusiast for the Socialist side of to dances and
He has ຕ murdered brother to which aims to overthrow, not only even Thane of Cawdor was already the programme which Hitler progres-day as he was dressing for a dance admittedly, la Hitler's mortal foc.
his brother Gregor burst into its ave
avenge und wishes him dead and. Europe's hard-won democracy, but fully conscious of his coming destiny,sively abandoned.
room, saying, "Adolf does not want damned. On the other hand he is a the entire civilisation of the and already furiously impatient of
you to go out with Gely." As he men of character and repute, who world, and notably of the British all who crossed his path or withstood
clean, weapons. his slightest wish,
Ho often engaged in lively alter-spoke, the telephone bell rang and he fought with Empire.
The Empire to-day is facing a Gely was found one day shot dead. callons with Hitler on the latter's tier shouted into the instrument: against foul.
"I hear that you have an appointment
But is the charge itself credible critical hour, but as in 1918, the The finding of the court was suicide, for power and his brother with that little hussy Gely. I won't
Gregor Strasser, whose intimacy Empiro stande rock-liko in its but to many it did not seem al- with Hitler was much closer than his have her going out with a married against Hitler apart from the credi- I won't stand your filthy Ber- bility of the person who makes it? determination to overcome the together satisfactory, Young women
So there was! As to that, any charge is credible seeking death rarely, if ever, shoot own, frequently intervened to restore man.
against a paranoiac. Nothing can be forces of evil. Yesterday We
men had opportunities to show Hitler no party and dance that night,
ruled out as incredible or impossible. heard the now of yet another themselves. Nor do they play with peace between them. But if any two in ways in Munich."
Joaded Brearms,
0* unloaded. Ins he really was from 1923 to 1931 Next day Gely came to see Siran- He admits no moral code. To contingent of Canadian troops Attractive young women who are
ser, her eyes red with tears and hor- to no one else in the wide world, arriving in the Motherland. Aus found shot are usually the victims was the two Strassers.
nihil vetitum. He is like the Roman tralla is still pouring more and not of accident but of crime, due to Gregor was murdered, ahot in an self almost in a state of collapse.
Emperor who, as a boy, said to his the theatres of Jealowy, rage or passion.
underground cellar during the party more men into
"He had locked me up," she cried. mother, Remember that all things. "purge" of June 30, 1934. Otto was "He locks me up every time I say aro allowed to me against all men” war on behalf of the Empire.
persistently shadowed and hunted by "No." New Zealand is making a wonder- ful effort with inen, materials and Was this girl's death suicide_or-it the gangsters of the Gestapo on Aus- There was no need to ask her
People trian and even on French soll and
A man who could ruthlemly blot. money, and Jndia is forgetting is an ugly word-murder?
civil strife in this great in Munich wondered and passed on. had many escapes which he describes many questions.
It was decidedly dangerous, even in fin an astonishing book, "Hitler et
"With anger, disgust, horror, the out some of his oldest friends in a puroxysm of terror lest they should. moment when her sympathetic 1931, to gossip in Munich to the Mol," published recently by the Paris told me of the strange proposals be plotting his overthrow might. assistance is most needed.
Besides, house of Bernard Gasset,
with which her uncle pursued her," easily in a at of thwarted fury shoot prejudice of Adolf Hitler, The Empire is more united than had he not seemed broken-hearted
down a woman who denied his evit Otto Strasser, in fact, is the leader the story continues. fact which gives. this that such an accident should have ever, a
"I was quite aware of the impos-will. A parapolac may feel even.. Empire Day a now and more happened to a close relative living in of the anti-Hitler National-Spelailats,
meaning it, significant meaning. It is also a his house under his protection? True, and if Hitler and his gang disappear- bilities of Adolf. I had heard of the acute remorse for three days and warning-a-warning-to-Hitler and he has the faculty at will to start the to-morrow he would aspire to outrageous demands to which Mile nights and talk, without his masses of fanatical adherents tears coursing down his face, but if Power-In-opposition-to-Goering, the an earlier flame of Hitler's) had of suicide, and then put it firmly
ever there was an occasions for militarists, the Junkers and the big submitted. I had no! credited them from his mind-for-ever
industrialists.
I thought Mile-was hysterical and It may be objected that Hitler has that the British commonwealth of genuine sorrow it was here.
lled at random. But Gely, who was never had any amorist adventures or nations will never
other concedo to
It is no obscure and irresponsible completely ignorant of this them the right and love for demo- Stl, there was ugly talk, and the person, therefore, who now declares i adventure of her uncle's confirmed/affairs, and that, as Professor. Ro-
berts wrote in "The House cratic liberty. To-day there is a Procurator-General actually entered that Hitler shot his great-niece Gely point by point what the imagination Hitler Built," "he is too immersed unlon in arms and spirit-as for heard, because the Bavarian Minister on, what another brother, Paul, told
a charge against itter. It was not in 1931. He adduces, in corrobora-of, a sane man can hardly beliqve." in himself to be anything but aloof. future purposes of peace-of all of Justice, one Guertner, quashed it him at their last Interview in the the Empire.
spring of 1935, ner who had pressed for tho release
her
A.R. PHITNESS
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ONE FORM OF ECOTISM.
that
is the womon. His sexlessness Such is Strasser's story. His break to
egotiar, with Hitler followed soon after, measure of his own colossal When he heard of Gely's tragie and he positively enjoys strengthen- death in 1981 his mind naturallying the myth of his difference from of Hitler before he land coropleted Paul, who is a Benedictine monk, travelled back to the earlier and un- other men by his disregard for his sentence for his share in the revealed to him that his brother
women." Putsch of 1032, and the same Guert-Gregor had confided to him, under forgettable incident. It was not till ner who had saved him from sentence pledge of secrecy, that after Gely's Paul's story. It was not ill last might well stand, da true, But the DANCES
ly's four years after that that he heard If he were not a paranoinic that of expulsion from Bavaria, which death ho had spent three days and Hitler atender even more than im-nights with Adolf Hitler dissuading November, after he had revealed part story told by Strasser obviously ro
"adventure." A.R.P. workers. of Richmond, prisonment. Perhaps it is not so him from turning against himself of the story in a French newspaper intes to no ordinary ∙Surrey, are to be taught folk dancing `cyciowa Ihat Gueriner, was afterwards the revolver with which he had com- that he, režeived the following mesThe background in binck, with ab
to-koepithenry certipstoer for their
normality-jala-the-polluted-compete. dutiendo promoted Minister of Justice of the mited the deed, Gregor dol
of which some men will not; seek to **** There is no question of compul
him nothing of the circumstances of exile: slon sald Councillor E`W Wilton, Who in it who now rocalls these crime, and nothing of its cause."It is who burled Angela. Naubal, penetrate. But credible of:i
or more credible, Neither the little Gely of whom Otto Strasser ale? Only the bare fact, ... who is now in charge of ARP.wel bygonos, it may ho aakédi It: im one lang
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who lived je sloso asociation with but it so happens that Otto was med ulice Pod never have died other molatrous acts of 111Lig “But I am hoping that both the Hitler at that. Ime, 20. openly himacit abierto supply of his own permitted the interment of a suicide monstrous cafear of egolm and lust mon and the woman will join la.” ⠀ charges him with having shot Gely prisonal knowledge an explanation inconsecrated ground. From the for personal domination and power,
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