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WHAT
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GOERING
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Much has since this Ligno Jast year, and the inter-
luppened
He liked good food and good ready, Goering would open the Greater ver
vening twelve months have scon vast wine. He was good company. He way for them with a swift changes in our so-called
civilised society. These changes, for the most SUITABLE FOR 10-12 CWT, VAN I WONDER what Hit- liked sports, gave his guests hammer blow.
part, haye been brought about, either directly or Indirectly, by the Euro- pean war, the prosecution of which has been accompanied by a BUCCES- sion of shattering events whose effects have been telt in every corner of the earth.
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ler is thinking these good shooting. |days about Goering?
He went to the French coast Ilo was-damme, siran to watch the coming victory. officer and very nearly a gen-
HIS RECORD-
record.
It did not happen. Goering's stock was in danger of slump ing.
and
Tragedy, suffering, other forms of distress are rampant
hunger over
be
abatement cannot reasonably
wide arcas, and their early foreseen. Yet, in taking stock of the
The Reichsmarschall tleman. is beginnig to be a very
But he had a second string to big figure in the Reich.
So they fell for him-and his bow. Let the Fuchror say He has far out-distanced when he told them he was all the word, and Goering would ¡Goebbels and Hess and for peace and reason, they be annihilate London, and so end
general situation to-day, there s Himmler and all the lived him. They forgot his the war at one blow.
cause for gratification, not only be rest of them. He is cer-
Hitler, That record showed him, al-
more fortunate pre 40 often when cause millions
till spared the worst, but also in 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 many hearts for a better and saner Germany.
Hitler always had a yearning bombing of Berlin munition world, which came nerllously close'
extinguishment, fumes for getting his ends for hitting works-rather as, seven years Nor does he depend en- somebody on the head as the before, he had been worked into
brightly. tirely-as the others do-on most effective form of argu- an esetasy of rage by the sight
of the blazing Reichstag. Hitler's personal favour.
That was why he staged the
He gave the order to orase London. The Fuehrer, if he chose Reichstag fire.
Hitler had intrigued his way to, could have Goebbels or to the Chancellorship of the But again the decisive blow followed the collapse of France and even Himmler himself shot Reich. Goering knew what he just did not happen. Night the retreat of the British forces from the Continent, have, since the dis- dictator- after night, Goering's planes ruption of Hiler's invasion plans and to-morrow, and not a dog ship, a savage terror that would have been hammering London; what may be called the defeat of the Hongkong Telegraph. would bark in protest. smash down all opposition. but without the least sign of Nazi air horror, and more recently
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Although the time has not arrived for complete assurance, there is, for nevertheless, suficient ground believing that the forces of evil will consternation. destroyed. The uncertainty and general gloom that
be
the success of the Greeks and the British penetration into Lybin, given to a more cheerful state of mind, more confidence and greater
Men of the fighting services of the
Hitler was hesitating, as he al- anything like a decisive blow. But to dismiss or disci- ways tends to hesitate in crises.
The Marshal's friends and place Goering fired the Reichstag, pline Goering would be a risky business. The Mar- knowing the effect that drama publicity agents now hint that faith in the cure.
would have on the unstable his real plan is to batter and 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 Hitler gazed at the fire and affair.
under the provisions of the Telecommunt brutality is of a type that rightly. cations urdinance, 1036. Such news as the average German likes.
bears the indication "up" is received la Hoogkong on the date of publication 'by
the Valted Press Associations, who so- THE STRONG MAN
servo all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.
YOUNG VALIANTS
Those elderly Jeremiahs who
was persuaded. He declared it ANOTHER PATH
a "sign from Heaven."
But that is not the crushing
serve all our thanks and our every
not forget the civilians, the people.
He has carefully and steadily ALWAYS GOERING blow, the swift ending of the derive
wins.
what of Hongkong in
encouragement. Let us remember them at this season-and let us also
who have shown such admirable months. From their example, let us courage throughout these
unhappy
the same forbearance, the built up that popularity. He The terror was loosed. It war, that he had promised. same resolution, the same will to fight and overcome darkness and dis- has publicised himself. He is was Goering's terror.
He may fool the Gorman aster." It was Goering who planned people about it. He still holds still doing so.
the "blood bath" of 1934, per- that great popularity. But I Debits And And MANY have been bearing That flight over London was suaded Hitler by false informa- doubt if he has fooled Hitler. Credits these twelve witress to the astonishing quali-a superb bit of personal propa- tion, that it was necessary for
his own safety.
Hitler is off on another path, months? We have accomplished n 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 out that "purge" in Prussin dreams of going East, of going have not been tackled. I am think 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 long history. It is indeed a
All this gives him a status of Always, and right through, tions; of striking at the British our social services. The war has claimed urgent attention--and as komewhere he has been the same. Always Empire
on the cause for constant wonderment
of part the Empire we have only his own, a certain security, a the disciple of the smashing flank.
done right iri
what and thankfulness.
considering 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 Alone of the Nazi chiefs, he every problem.
Hitler technique-and it is nbe taken as an excuse to cover up in the years of troubled peace can talk to Hitler as man tó When the wretched Hacha of dangerous one.
our failure to meet our responsibili- tles to our own citizens. As a result used to discourse with malign:
man. He can pit his will Czechoslovakia went to Berch-
of indifference and Inaction, we find We have to guard ourselves eloquence on the degeneracy of against the Fuehrer's; and his tesgaden in March last year, it
greater, mlacry and distress. our youth, their lack of interest more robust vehemence often was Gooring who clinched the against being Maginot-minded, to-day in our midst the same, if not
argument by announcing that against thinking that if we can in the things that matter, their
Reading of every report lasued by he had 800 bombers waiting, all hold this "island fortress" all
our charitable institutions leads to Levasion of responsibility, their
the same view. - And-the-total---In~~~ pursuit of pleasure, their undue
Hitler must wonder at times ready to blow Prague to is well...
smithereens unless the Czech devotion to sport-do not these whether his Reichmarschall 18 Premier signed on the dotted ponent, always to look to our Government. Poverty and other ills We need, with Hitler as op situation is frankly admitted by the adequacy of measures to remedy the
critics now hide their heads in not becoming too powerful.
have only grown with the steady shame? At any rate, their He must wonder what would It was Goering, too, who aB- That however is another mat-rise in the cost of living, the rate of tongues have been stilled, and huppen if, one day, the two of sured his leader that the mo- ter. Goering. I think, is not which has been officially estimated to be 45 per cent, since the outbreake their consciences, it is hoped, are them should come really to log- ment he gave the word the Nazi high in the Fuchrer's favour at of the European war. troubling them.
Air Fleet would smash right the moment. But he is too gerheads,
through the RAF and all our strong to be removed
Sir Geoffry Northcote promised shortly before he departed on leave And what of Britain's fotnli-
Always, since the beginning defences and clear the way for tacked-unless very skilfully that a comprehensive scheme for tarian critics, who many months of the Nazi Movement, Goering an invading army.
and warily by very tortuous and dealing with the problem would be roundabout ways.
devised. That was the last we heard told the world that the British hus, in his relations with Hitler, IT WENT WRONG It might come.
Note that of it. It is not too much to sak the race was enfeebled, would not played the role of the strong
the Reichsmarschall was not at should feel we had started the New Government to hurry up; and we accept sacrifices, and had only to man. Always his advice has If Brauschitz
Keitel the Brenner meeting, though Year aright If we were given some be attacked to collapse like a been in favour of force, or ruth- would have men and ships Von Keitel was.
Indication that the problem was. castle of sund? It is not to be lessness, of violence.
being actively tackled.
expected that shame is now felt In those quarters. But there has been a great awakening. The Nazi and Fascist brag. gurts, if they ever believed that fallacy than that pathetic be! the British lion had gone into lief of British diplomacy-and decrepitude, had lost its teeth not only of diplomacy-in the and claws, are wiser now.
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 ordinary, prosaic civil callings, have shown courage.
resousce
NOT QUITE
Never was there n greater
The diplomatists "fell for": Goering. He was difficult, tem- and sacrifice unsurpassed in the peramental: either moody and Elizabethan or any other glori unapproachable, or impossibly
voluble.
ous epoch of our Island story,. The nation that still broeda Ribbentrop was clammy and such men hus 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 aires; personality. His jcsts might and it cannot be doubted that be coarse. But they were jests, the stoical, indomitable resia-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 unshakable .con- of
due, not only to the determina-dence. The foundations tion not to bow the knee to the nation are na 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 fa all The whole empire goes for right
ilne.
and
Banks.
or at-
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
11-26
"Philbert's very strict with the children, mother—whenever
they're naughty, ha just ups and leav
A Strange This Christmas* Christmas
is, for many, not going to be like any they have ever known. There may be local eltizens who have lost, sons, daughters, relatives or friends, in front-line action as weit in bombings, sinkings and other disns- ters of war. But wives and children evacuated to a far country-that is a sad, now experience of war, and Christmas, the children's festival, the season for family reunion, em- phnulses it.
But, thinking twice, there was n Christmas long ago which had t parallel with this:--
"When they (the wise men) de- parted, behold the angel of the Lord appenreth to Joseph In o dream, saying, 'Arise, and take the young Child and His. mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word, for Herod will seak 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 knowledge that He who gave us Christmas was Himself once an evacuated child. ·
We live in and times, and there is greater sadness than being · Lempor- arily parted from one's family. So make the best of it, and stick it are, others whose through. There Christmas is also a lonely one-and perhaps not only just this year!
Whatever your fot, I give you the good, old wish, A.Merry Christmas and may the New Your dawni hap- pilyl
Claudius
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