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WHAT
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GOERING NOW?
By W. N. EWER
The Mere Man
since this timo inst
Hope Much has happened Never year, and the inter-
have zoen He liked good food and good ready, Goering would open the Greater vening twelve months Vast swift changes in our so-called civiilsed wine. He was good company. He way for them with a
society. These changes, for the most WONDER what Hit- liked sports, gave his guests hammer blow,
part, have been brought about, either good shooting.
He went to the French coast directly or indirectly, by the Euro- He was-damme, siran to watch the coming victory. pean war, the prosecution of which.
has been accompanied by a succes officer and very nearly a gen-
It did not happen. Goering'ssion of shattering events whose stock was in danger of slump of the earth,
effects have been felt-in every corner---
ing..
ler is thinking these days about Goering?
ment.
15
The Reichsmarschall tleman. is beginnig to be a very HIS RECORD
Tragedy. suffering, hunger and, But he had a second string to other forms of distress are rampant big figure in the Reich.
So they fell for him-and his bow. Let the Fuehrer say over wide areas, and their early He has far out-distanced when he told them he was all the word, and
be Goering, would abatement cannot reasonably
Yet, in taking stock of the Goebbels and Hess and for peace and reason, they be annihilate London, and so end foreseen.
general situation to-day, there cause for gratification, not only be- Himmler and all the lived him. They forgot his the war at one blow.
record.
cause millions more fortunato are Hitler, That record showed him, al-
as 80 often when till spared the rest of them. He is cer-
worst, but also int tainly the second man in ways and at every turn, for Goering wants a decision, was that the flicker of hope burning in
force and for brutality.
worked into a fury about the mony hearts for a better and saner Germany.
Hitler always had a yearning bombing of Berlin munition world, which came perilously close to extinguishment, Homes more for getting his ends for hitting works-rather as, seven years brightly. Nor does he depend en- somebody on the head as the before, he had been worked into
Although the time has not arrived tirely as the others do-on most effective form of argu- an esctasy of rage by the sight
for complete assurance, there 15, of the blazing Reichstag.
nevertheless, suficient ground, for Stubbs Rd. Hitler's personal favour.
That was why he staged the
He gave the order to erase believing that the forces of evil will be: destroyed. The consternation, London. The Fuehrer, if he chose Reichstag fire.
Hitler had intrigued his way
uncertainty and general gloom that to, could have Goebbels or to the Chancellorship of the But again the decisive blow followed the collapse of France and
the retreat of the
British
Ugh forces even Himmler himself shot Reich. Goering knew what he just did not happen. Night the Continent, have, since the dis- wanted-n ruthless dictator after night, Goering's planes ruption of Hitler's invasion plans and to-morrow, and not a dog ship, a savage terror that would have been hammering London; whint may be called the defeat of the smash down all opposition. but without the least sign of Nazi air horror, and more recently the success of the Greeks and the Hitler was hesitating, as he al- anything like a decisive blow.
British penetration Into Lybin, given But to dismiss or disci- ways tends to hesitate in crises.
cheerful state of Goering fired the Reichstag, The Marshal's friends and place to a more
mind, more confidence and greater pline Goering would be a risky business. The Mar- knowing the effect that dranu publicity agents now hint that faith in the future.
would have on the unstable his real plan is to batter and
Men of the fighting services of the is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to shal is popular. His jovial mind of his leader. He judged batter us night after night un-British Empire and its allies de- til we just get tired of the whole serve all our thanks and our every encouragement. Let us remember Hitler gazed at the fire and affair,
then at this season and let us also
the was persuaded. He declared it
ANOTHER PATH bot forget the civilians, admirable people. "sign from Heaven."
who atown such courage throughout these unhappy But that is not the crushing months. their example, let us forbearance, the
fight and overcome darkness and dis-
The
Hongkong Telegraph would bark in protest.
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THE STRONG MAN
*from
He has carefully and steadily ALWAYS GOERING blow, the swift ending of the dots, from the
same resolution, the same will to
It was Goering who planned people about it. He still holds Debits And And what of
think-
built up that popularity. He The terror was loosed. It war, that he had promised.
He may fool the German aster, has publicised himself. He is was Goering's terror. YOUNG VALIANTS
still doing so.
the "blood bath" of 1934, per- that great popularity. But I
Hongkong in Credits That flight over London was suaded Hitler by false informa- doubt if he has fooled Hitler. MANY have been. bearing'
twelve these months? We have accomplished # witness to the astonishing quali-In superb bit of personal propa- tion, that it was necessary for
his own safety.
Hitler is off on another path, great deal in some directions, but a ties that are being revealed by ganda.
It was Goering who carried more to his own liking. He lot of things that required to be done. Britain's young men in this the
And he is the only party mut that "purge" in Prussia dreams of going East, of going have not been tackled. I am greatest ordeal of the nation's leader that the army respects. with fourfold ruthlessness.
round, of forming new combina-ing, above all, of the sorry state of
our social services. The war has ·
urgent att
attention-and 16 long history. It is indeed a
Always, and right through, tions, of striking at the British claimed
somewhere All this gives him a status of
the part of the Empire we have only cause for constant wonderment his own, a certain security, a the disciple of the smashing flank.
he has been the same. Always Empire
done right in considering what and thankfulness.
sacrifice we can make for the com- certain independence.
blow as the one solution for That is the characteristic mon cause--but the war should not Those elderly Jeremiahs who
Alone of the Nazi chiefs, he every problem.
Hitler technique-and it is a be taken as an excuse to cover up When the wretched Hacha of dangerous one.
our failure to meet our responsibili~ in the years of troubled pence can talk to Hitler as
iles to our own citizens. As a result used to discourse with malign man. He
pit his will Czechoslovakia went to Berch-
of indifference and inaction, we And We have to guard ourselves to-day in our midst the same, if not eloquence on the degeneracy of against the Fuehrer's; and his tesgaden in March last year, it
was Goering who clinched the against being Maginot-minded, greater, misery and distress. our youth, their lack of interest more robust vehemence often argument by announcing that against thinking that if we can in the things that matter. their wins. evasion of responsibility, their
CAD
man to
00
Reading of every-report-issueri-by-
he had 800 bombers waiting, all hold this "island fortress" all
our charitable institutions leads to blow Prague to is well.
the same view. And the total in- pursuit of pleasure, their undue j Hitler must wonder at times ready to
adequacy of measures to rumedy, the smithereens unless the Czech
We need, with Hitler as op- situation is frankly admitted by the the dotted devotion to sport-do not these whether his Relchmarschall is Premier signed on
ponent, always to look to our Government. Poverty and other illa line.·'
flanks. critics now hide their heads in not becoming too powerful.
have only grown with the steady shame? At any rate, their lle must wonder what would It was Gooring, too, who as- That however is another mat-rise in the east of living, the rate of which has seen ofcially estimated tongues have been stilled, and happen if, one day, the two of sured his leader that the mo- ter. Goering. I think, is not to be 45 per cent, since the outbreak. their consciences, it is hoped, are them should come really to log- ment he gave the word the Nazi high in the Fuehrer's favour at of the European war.
too Air Fleet would smash right the moment. But he is troubling them.
gerheads.
through the RAF and all our strong to be removed or
very skilfully And what of Britain's totali- Always, since the beginning defences and clear the way for tacked-unless
and warily by very tortuous and tarian critics, who many months of the Nazl Movement, Goering an invading army.
roundabout ways.
tuld the world that the British has, in his relations with Hitler, IT WENT WRONG
at-
It might come. Note that the Reichsmarschall was not at Keitel the Brenner meeting, though and ships Von Keitel was.
race was enfeebled, would not played the role of the strong accept sacrifices, and had only to man. Always his advice has I Brauschitz and be attacked to collapse like a been in favour of force, or ruth would castle of sand? It is not to be lessness, of violence.
expected that shame is now felt
in those quarters. But there
has been a great awakening.
NOT QUITE
Never was there a greater!
The Nazi and Fascist brag fallacy than that pathetic be- garts, if they ever believed that the British lion had gone into decrepitude, had lost its teeth and claws, are wiser now,
have shown courage, resource and sacrifice unsurpassed in the
lief of British diplomacy--and] not only of diplomacy-in the years before the war that Goer- ing was a moderating force in
Britain's young men, taken the Nazi councils. many of them from the most The diplomatists "fell for"; ordinary, prosale elvil callings, Goering. He was difficult, tem- peramental; either moody and Elizabethan or any other glori. unapproachable, or impossibly
voluble. ous epoch of our island story. The nation that still breeds Ribbentrop was clammy and such men has no need to unpleasant: Goebbels was just fear the tyrants' · regimented a nasty little rat: Himmler was millions..
evil and sadistic. And so on.
The young women, too, have But Goering, if you forget his. shown themselves worthy of record, was just a bluff, cheery their brothers and their alres; personality. His jests might and it cannot bo doubted that be coarse. But they werd jests, the stoical, indomitable resis. and that was a relief in Nazi tance shown by the civil popu- Germany.
lace in general, to all the de] -
vilries of Nazi frightfulness is ward with due, not only to the determina-fidence.
unshakable
con-
The foundations of
tion not to bow the knee to the nation are as sound as they Hitler, but also to the constant
Inspiration of young Britain's ever were. It is the human daily roll of noble deeds in many material that counts most of all places of danger.
--and the human material is all The whole empire goes for-right.
men
have
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
በው
-"Philbart's very strict with the children, mother whenever they're naughty, he just ups and foavan?”
Sir Geoffry Northcote promised shortly before he departed on leave that a comprehensive scheme for dealing with the problem would be devised.
That was the last we heard It Is not too much to ask the vernment
to hurry up; and we should feel we had started the New Year aright if we were given some Indication that the problem being actively tackled.
Was.
A Strange This Christmas Christmas going to be like
is, for many, not-
any they have ever known. There may be local citizens who have lost, sons,
daughters, relatives ·or friends, well as in in front-line action as
bombings, sinkings and other disus- ters of war. But wives and children evacuated to a far country that is in sad, now experience of war, and Christmas, the children's festival, the season for family reunion, em- phasises it.
But, thinking twice, there was a Christmas Jong ago which had its parallel with this;-
"When they (the wise men) de- parted, behold the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, 'Arise, and take the young Child and His mother, and. fee into Egypl; and be thou there until I bring thee word, for Herod will seek the young Child to des- troy Him."
Perhaps those who are here alone, and can only spend Christmas in thought with their dear ones in Aus tralia and other places, may find some little comfort in the knowledga that He who gave us Christmas was Himself once on evacuated child.
We live in and times, and there is greater sadness than being tempor- arily parted from one's family. So make the best of 1 and stick It. through. There are others whose. Christmas is also a lonely- bne--and perhaps not only 'Just this year!
Whatever your lot, I give you the good, old wish, A Merry Christmas and may the New Year dawn hap- pily!
Claudius