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Hitler First Shook Germany Ten Years Ago
VAUXHALL A MID such a "furnace-
14 SIX
May we furnish: particulars?
A Backward Look at His Early Threats and Promises
the
an
burden in order that sho might resuma ber esreer of aggression. On the bails of the argument summarised by Mr Mowrer, we are to supposa that when she has been beaten again and has "disowned" Hiller-as she had disowned the Kaiser and Com- pany-ke will have acquired a clean
About
hissing of events" as that in which our common [lot has been cast during these latter years it is easy Manufacturing schedules were to lose all reckoning of time. Broscribing enough of their political have attributed it to the sense of sheet from all the crimes she has trebled to catch up with the Imay, perhaps, be permitted parliamentary majority which ap- nation was alleged to be languishing feel entitled to be aggrieved if she opponents to assure themselves the "despair" under which the German committed as his accomplice and will demand for this livelier, bigger, to recall the grim and fate- veured otherwise Improbable. more luxurious Vauxhall 14, 30ful anniversary that fell a his electoral success in September, satisfied with their policy of the pre- Germany is to exprt a "Herrenvelle's" Nevertheless, Pulsch or no Putach, best of reasons for being eminently every quarter of a century, or so
The truth, on the contrary, is thats not allowed to go scot free. at that moment the Germans had the What it all comes to is this, m.p.g. at 30 m.p.h. independent few weeks ago; for until 1030, cnused
on immediate and coding six years, the Stresemann right to chance her arm at conquering. universal springing, all synchromesh gears, that self-same mid-Septem- which has Uneasiness abread, polley of so-called "Fullment,"
never ceased to grow
Europe and to slakte her bloodlus! hydraulic brakes, etc):
ber week in 1930, not one as September
from that day to this. As early As the first-fruits of this policy on any of her neighbours who refuse 19, only five days they had secured, under the Young meeldly to submit to enslavement. It person in a million outside aller
election, the Berlin Pian, a reduction of the outstanding she succeeds she is to retain all the Germany could remember correspondent of "The Dally Tele- cnplial Hability on account of repara- 20 of green; if she loses she
was already writing that tions Hitler's movement must be regarded alleviation of the annual payments he deafened
£1,850,000,000 and
is to suffer none of the penalties, or, ever having heard so much as portending "a serious menace to due under the Dawes Plan. Above
it pennatics are exucted, we are to the tranquility of as the name of the man who for of Bury of Germany, and there- all in consideration of their under whine about monstrous
an everianting Injustices to-day imposes his barbaric
taiding to carry out the Young Plan, intolerable diktats and all the rest of In the light of what we know now the Rhineland by the French on July that in ruthlessly trampling down one they had obtained the evacuation of it, and to he enjoled with the plen dominion over four-fifths of and have learned from the wisdom 1, 1930, four and a half years before ly believed she was fighting a war
that comes after the event, that may the Treaty dale,
neighbour alter another, she "honest- reud to-day like an ironic under statement, but
of "liberation" and "self-delenco." it affords sotne Yol at the September elections, measure of the apprehension fruspired less than three months after the Well, Britain and her Allies are even at that remote hour in the minds Rhineland evacuation, the mood of of acute political observers.
going to put an end to this sort of the German peuple was already thing once and for all. One of the "Thank you for nothing.", About 10 days after the elections success of Hitler was a formal notis asserts that we aim to "exterminate"
The more fatuous Hitler gave a comprehensive account served on the world that, with the the German people.
of Goebbels's lies of his aims in the course of evidence Rhineland now fren of French troops, nothing of the kind. But we are We latend certainly going to hold the German people responsible for all the crimes Hit.er has committed on their bobalt and with their, willing and indeed exulting connivance,
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Thongkong Telegraph. the headlines for a few brief at u trial in Leipzig of three young she was preparing to cheat hier way
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the United Press Associations, who re-
very near to
days in November, 1923; but like. Kapp and many other nameless ndventurera of that turbulent period, the little Austrian painter had soon relapsed into a total oblivion.
Icans,"
to-day.
By J. C. JOHNSTONE
subalterns who were attempting to subvert the army in the resume the pursul of world dominus accused of bacit into a position where she could interests of the Nazi party. These tion which had been frustrated by Mir Included inculcating the the defeat of 1018, The event which suddenly "protecting Germany and "setting Mowrer has well represented the sort "martial Idea" in the German people, hurled him like a flashing meteor her free" and abolishing the peace of thing Germans were saying to In the following passage Mr Edga: into the world's ken was the posed to abolish the treaties, he themselves: "Why should they be trenties. When asked how he pro- general election of September 14, replied, "By diplomatic means, and punished for whatever faults the dis ENGLAND'S HOMES
1930. Competent observers of the complete evasion of these treaties committea?
- state this categorically hereby owned Imperial rulers might have
The German MANY people are concerned some increase in the "Fascist"
the campaign had predicted by legas, and if necessary by illegal, fought the war in the honest benef people about the peace terms the world vote-Fascist being 'at that time
that it was defending itself against Such were the alms for which What justification could there be for Western envy and Russian barbarism. will have after the war. They the generic term for all people september, 1930, and many more ending reparations?"
Hitler attracted 0,400,000 votes in these monstrous and apparently un- might also give some heed to of Hitler's kidney-but no one
titions of votes in subsequent years another matter of very great had been prepared for anything Importance and one that comos like the eight-fold multiplication the lives of of the vote from the 810,000 the people. That is the build-recorded two years previously to ing and rebuilding of England's 6,400,000, which raised the Hitlerist representation in the It has happened in the past Reichstag from a mere 12 to 107 that for one reason or another in a House of 575. building operations have been unduly hurried and conducted for the most part in a haphazard way. At one time it was the had leapt up from a contemptible.
At a single bound Hitlerism" the German people? urgent demands of the period of obscurity to second among the Industrial expansion all over the swarm of parties which com country. The ugly and insanl-pated for the control of the tary product has been the shamo Weimar Republic. A notable and regret of subsequent absentee from the embattled generations. The next period ranks of his party in the new of wholesale building was after Reichstag was Hitler himself, the last war, when some of the who, as an alien, was disqualified mistakes of the previous period from were repeated.
membership of that
homes.
The Alien
assembly,
with
well and truly protected for ever that we and the rest of Europe are We are going to see to # in Ane,
more. against megalomania which has
pust. made Germany a pest to all and sundry for close on half a century
Accused Of Shooting Sweetheart
Relch-aims the logical and literal Germany had borrowed from abroad till he was complete master of the Actually, in the six years to 1830 follment of which is before our eyes sutta reparations, so that durant at Oxford recently of shooting An Army private was accused cut in that The treaties have been evaded by burden at all.
perlod she had suffered no realhis sweetheart dead after he had perjuries, the "martlul idea" has been the whole of her reparation debt but a spectacular series of tricks and sue has since repudiated not only her dressing-table.MWEN
Seeing, moreover, found letters from a corporal off gained in the minds of the whole practically the whole of her borrow- even the history of Frederick II.'s been living very comfortably at some letters written to her by a nation to degree for which history ns as well, it is clear that she has at her lodging in Oxford he found "While he was waiting for the girl Prussia-affords DO what, according to Hitler, is the it be recalled that in each of several Robey, prosecuting.
parallel, and other people's expense. Finally, let Corporal, Fuller," said Mr. E. G.. destruction of Poland, Denmark, years preceding the present war she Norway, Holland and the rest but a squandered
Private Edward George Beesley matter of "protecting" and "liberate than the whole capital
on rearmament more (20), of the RA.BC, was committed
Pian,
of Irene Sherry (31), a dementie Service rifle. servant, byahooling her with
reparations under the Youty for for trial, charged with the murder
WOS
why millions of Germans should have of her aggression r part of the The question-has-often been put in short, to reimburse the victims arms of Hitler in the autumn of 1930. monstrous," but she begun to throw themselves into the damage. ane and dupes of German propaganda enough to shoulder a much heavler
had Initiated
was ready
Women in
New
the
World
By Annie S. Swan
Now another such building expansion may be in the near the methods and mentality of It is a curious commentary on future, and it is all-important the Weimar Republic that he that the country should proflt by had never been expelled from experience and do something the country as an undesirable OST of us remember the right to stand beside our men know-
worthy of Britain. It is not too
further the purposes of the newly appointed Minister of Works and Buildings.
alien after his arrogant pro-
poct's tribute to women; I nor, please God, will we
Ing that we have not falled them
ever fall
FUNNY SIDE UP
soon to think and plan, and to Jamation of himself as "Prest. learned it in my youth without them in days to come.
dent of the Reich" at the time comprehending the meaning. of his abortive Munich rebellion. O woman in 'our hours of case, To this end the President of the talk of the world. News-
Hitler now became overnight Uncertain company and hard to the Royal Institute of British papers everywhere hastened to when pain and anguish ring the brow
picose; Architects pleads for the early deyote long articles to his record, ministering angel thoul and complete recognition of the attainments and intentions, and. All right, but I am sure the function of the trained designer speculation both inside and out-majority of us do not unto the and planner in this reconstruc aide Germay was rife as
angels, nor perhaps could pass tion, so that new dwellings may whether Germany might not be on We are just ordinary women to necessary test for that high distinc be made that shall give the full-on the ove of another and more required. est possibilities of healthy lives formidable Hitler Futach. The for our people. Unless there is street brawling tactics of his vision and trained skill in planstorm troopers and the high-up to them better than men. They
ning from the outset there will
the
be the same dreary fallures as during the campaign had cer flying pretensions of his rhetoric in the past: Even for smallest houses there should be tainly lent some colour to such a the highest available architec-
possibility. turni skill.
"A Serious Menace":
ready to step into the breach
life. I have noticed that women stand
In the big sorrows and crises of
nem to have Inexhaustible reserves
fare in times of stress. of courage and even cheerfulness which come surprisingly to the sur
As now, for instance. Where should we be without these reserves showing up so splendidly· in hours of darkness and danger? Certainly without them we should. ties for beauty and ullilly in designly resolved not to let himself be happening and what may yet hap- Hitler, however, was by now frin-be less woll-equipped for what la
There will be unlimited opportuni-
and construction. From the ashes of
the cities' slums should arise wisely-ture revolt. He contented himself planned garden townships where the with an open avowal of his ultimate.
bowled out a 'second time by prema-pen.
aun can and its way into the homes intention to overthrow the parliamen- great and urgent demand for the of the poorer classes.
In the new Ume coming there will
would employ only parliamentary wife mother ce sister or friend, ary regime, but declared that he right kind of homes. Whether as means in encompassing his end.
every woman will have to make her. contribution to I.
All this was said twenty-five years ago, and what came of it? The situation was summed up in the President's few words the nation undertaking he has ever made, he This undertaking, like every other tinined its architects and then de eventually broke, but not clined to use them. It will be un February, 1983, when he and his gang. until forgivable if this accusation set fire to the Reichslog bulking in allowed to hold good at the end of the present war.
A call, a challenge has beezi main to the womanhood of this country, and the response has bran magnifomi,
ז, ...
order to manufacture an excuse for struggle is over we may have avery. Let us keep it up so that when the
11-28
"And of course Waldo,
Shot Through Heart Mr. Robey said that the girl was shot through the heart at close range. He alleged that Beesley raid in a statement to the police: When sho came in I produced the letters I had found on her
tried to grab them, "-table and she
"I said, 'You hav
not
been trus
to me while I was in the Army. It's time you made up your mind after going with me for reven years. 1 don't intend you having another man to fost like you havo me.'
Gave Himself Up "She said she would please herself and laughed and treated it as a joke, picked up my rifle and pointed it at her as she sat in the chair.
"Next thing I heard way a shot. I thought I had missed and I left the house. I wandered about, but in the end I gave myself up." -.
By Abner Dean