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THE prefx #Special to the Talesrapa
indiente news which is suletly copyright
cations Ordinance, 1926, Quch news AL
WAR
CZECHOSLOVAKIA is
the very heart of the
Allied war against Hitler. It
How Will Hitler Fall ?-3
the famous Foreign Correspondent
was the first victim of the by George Slocombe policy of appeasement. It was the first prey thrown to the tiger.
It may prove to be the least digestible of his succes- sive feasts.
་
DR BENES coming.
"He saw this war He knew the danger of
Hitlerism.")
come a listening race, to the Adriatic, there must be markets, and joint collaboration
They listen in silence. But an unguarded passage, an un- for security and defence. their silence is pregnant with locked door.
This agreement is not ex- Our enemies in the last meaning. They listen, and "Germany is now living in a clusive, It is open to other States.
abide their time,
world surrounded by hate. She Hungary and Austria would be war were defeated by the
Thoy khow the history of has cheated, lied, bullied, tor- welcomed as partners in such a Czechs. The collapse of their race. They know the tured, plundered and oppressed, group. the Central Empires was history of the Germans. Hope All her neighbours hate her with And a federation or union of due in part to the revolu--
has lightened even darker an increasing hatred..
Roland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary "How could it be otherwise? and Austria, and possibly also of tion wrought within that hours than these, They have
learned to possess their souls The Czech, the Pole, the Belgian, advantage of creating a great Jugoslavia, would have the vast and formidable-
In patience.
the Norwegian, the Dutchman, incompatible races of Europe, looking facade of power But they are inactive. If open the Frenchman cannot forgive the Teuton and the Slav. and tyranny--even vaster revolt is, as yet, too dangerous and forget such injuries to his and more formidable--if the terrible massacre of the national independence, his pri- Czech studenta in Prague in vate liberty, his property, land looking than the con-
I then raised the delicate serves and cattle, down to the humblest question of the Habsburgs. The quered Empire now ruled November, 1939, still
them as a warning-they are not of his possessions. by Hitler-by.
much-mooted return of that few a
content with a mere passive "It is to these acores of mil- dynasty to the throne of Hun- resolute men.
resistance.
lions of people that we have to gary or Austria, or of both, was The story of the Czech
always the King Charles Head revolt is one of the forgotten
"We know that our broadcasts of the Danubian States after the epies of 1914-1918. Two men executions, deportations to the mark because of the infuriating
The mounting tale of arrests, night and day are reaching the lust war. led it the tall, scholarly, labour camps in Germany, at- effect they have on the Germans, between
It formed the only solid link
Czechoslovakia,
Benes Knew
appeal. Mounting Tale
Royalty?
Ru
mild and modest Thomas tests the stubbornness of the and the increasing amount of mania and Jugoslavia. And in is used by the liongkong Telegraph to Garrigue Masaryk; the Czech opposition to the invader. time and passion they devate to pre-Anschluss days a Habsburg under the provisions of the Telecommute short, indefatigable and in- A nuinber of cases of sabotage replying to them.
restoration was considered as the bears the indication "UP" is received idomitable Edward Benes. have occurred in the Czech
"Their technique is the usual certain portent of war. factorios notably the Skoda Goebbels technique insults, in- But Jan Masaryk refused to works at Pilsen-and on the ventions, lies, absurdities. The be scared by this bogy I have boon Benes for Twenty
latest story spread about me by Hitler is my friend," he said. "Anybody who is against Until a few weeks ago the the German radio is that I am "And until this war is won I years. I have seen him move SOVIET-JAPANESE TREATY statesmen at Geneva to admira- German authorities still believed a Jew and that I am not in will not engage in any contro-
tion by his astonishing perspica, notwithstanding the massacre London, but in Montevideo.
of the students and the other
versy with anyone who agrecs city.
"But the Czechs know very with me in fighting Hitler.
Hongkong on the date of publicstion by the United Press Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republications, eller wholly or in part without previous arrangement.
MR Yosuke Matsuoka, the Japanese Foreign Minister, re- turns from his pilgrimage to the Axis shrine in Europe and his homage-paying call on Joseph Stalin to show a paper promise as payment for his strenuous efforts. Japan and Russia have contracted to observe neutrality towards each other for five years no matter what war their countries may be engaged in; they will also respect each other's territory during that time.
railways.
Allies
He saw this war coming. He atrocities committed by S.S. and well that I am here, and that knew the danger of Hitlerism and S.A. men-in the possibility of Benes is here. They know that. calmly he prepared to face it. conciliating the Czechs, and in Britain will win the war, that
"The Habsburgs are the When the Munich agreement bringing them to accept their Czech soldiers and airmen are enemies of Hitler. When we was signed he knew what it position as vassals in Hitler's fighting with her, that we are have won the war, it is for the meant, Ho bado his fellow- New European Order.
contributing as much as we can people of Austria and Hungary
countrymn farewell in a moving But now that hope has proved to Britain's war effort (among to decide the kind of State they and dignified broadcast and took illusory,
other things, we are manufac- want, whether they want a again the long and hard road Baron von Neurath, the "Pro- turing Bren guns over here), and monarchy or a republic. into exile which he and the dead tector" of the province of Bohe- that our young airmen have al- "As far as my own people are Masaryk had taken a generation mia and Moravia, and a man ready died for Britain."
concerned, we have already earlier But he knew that one who, during his years-in-London,
made our choice: - Wo ̈havo”no” day he would return.
The Future wish to see the Habsburgs rul-
concealed his brutal instincts and
I have heard Benes describe native arrogance under a mask We talked of the future shape ing again over Czechoslovakia. A fairly accurate perspective of the planning of the Czech revolu- of aristocratic charm and cour of Europe. Masaryk knows "We were satisfied with our the treaty seems to be this: Tokyo tion of the last war. I have tesy, recently gave way to a something of industrial condi- republic, and I know that we had made such a point of being heard him describe the planning furious outburst of anger and tions in England and in other shall be satisfied again with it friends with the Kremlin at almost any price that a blank rejection of of the present Czech resistance, hatred against the Czecha, countries, and he believes that when it is restored.... MI Matsuoka's advances would have
Cracks His Partner
without adopting
"We have won our right to any such been offietal notice of a
hostile at-
foolish and futile slogans as one of the most ancient in independence. Our culture is titude. In giving Mr Matsuoka his His partner in this noble con- Since then the mask has been making. Europe fit for heroes, it partles to the agreement are fully spiracy is now the son of his dropped. The Czechs are to be must be made a reasonable and Prague, founded in 1348, is the crumb, Stalin has lost nothing. Both
Europe. Our University in aware that Axis diplomacy uses earlier comrade, lender and treated as pariahs.
All social safe and comfortable place for oldest in Central Europe. Be- the fellow-revolutionary, Jan Mas- intercourse between them and the people who work in the mills fore the last war we had ro- treaties only to suit ita insaryk, the Minister for Foreign the Germans is forbidden..
machinations; if I suits either Affairs in the Czecho-Slovak
and factories, on the land and duced illiteracy to less than a Axis
I asked Jan Masaryk where in the mines. party to intervene contrary to the
"realism" will undoubtedly Government,
and how, in his opinion, the col- "These are the people," he rate in the world.
half of one per cent, the lowest written words, and
Jan Masaryk has the simplicity lapse of Hitlerism would occur. insisted, "who are winning the
For twenty years we lived as
Soviet-Japanese treaty is
over
pretexts to-day range from minorities of has father, the self-taught "The cracks in the structure war for Britain and her Allies. a free republic, and in many of to fishing rights. This is no more peasant lad who became a pro- of Italian Fascism," he replied, These are the people who are our institutions were a model to cynical than is the background offessor at the University of "have already begun to appear. beating Hitler. It is foolish to other countries. It is true that the treaty.
Prague and first President of The weakness of Italy has been talk of frontiers, to discuss the we made mistakes--who has Japan's invasion of China has the Czechoslovak Republic. demonstrated in Africa and Al- political conditions of the coun- not? But democracy can cor- been frustrated largely by Russian support of the Kuomintang, This He has also the energy, hu, bania.
tries now under Hitler's heel. support, which in four years has mour and robust commonsense
rect its errors, and we can only "I know that Gorman Nazism "The social structure of the live in a democratic republic. brought Japan to
to the lowest standard of his American mother. is of a tougher fibre than world, the economic and political of living in her history, and must
"For us the Habsburgs were, Once a week he talks to his Fascism. Behind the cloak and equilibrium of Europe, have and aro, Germans. And the have cost her over a million lives, is fellow-countrymen in the occu-sword Caesarism of Mussolini received such terrible shocks Germans are the hereditary to be continued bs vigorously Moscow thinks Al. Thus Rusela op- pied territory. His rich, explo- there is always the cheap little that it is impossible to predict enemies of our nation, poses the New Order in Asis, openly sive, jesting voice brings them gangster thumbing his nose and what the future of Europe will and effectively. Το Japan's professed chief aim in Asis hope and consolation, shrewd scowling and making rude noises, be at the end of this war.
of
crown
Russla
the possiblity of revolution,
perhaps of half a dozen re- volutions in Europe, They
"We have known hard times before, and we shall know them again. But we are a free people, and shall again be free.
might tako different forms-cognise the Munich Agree-
in France it might be a Jaco- bin rising, in other countries
a social revolution.
1
is to purge It of Communism and anecdotes at the expense of "Not that Hitler is any less "For myself, I do not excludo. she was an original signatory
matory to the Goebbels, hard facts about cheap. Both Hitler and Musso- intern pact designed almost Hitler's fallure to defeat us at lini have been doing a couple of
Dgainst Soviet Russia. The proud Japanese have been com- sea or in the air, figures about Charlie Chaplins on the world pelled to
to accept a humiliating post. American arms production, Gor- for years, and we didn't sco ilon and
and to sue for terms at the behest of Hitler, who shocked Japan of the British and the Greeks "The German is a tougher nut
|man air losses, and the victories through it. ". ese foundations by his sudden treaty in the Mediterranean.
non-nggression with
to crack than the Italian. The just before the outbreak of war.
All Czechoslovakia, listens in, Northern mysticism of the Ger- It only requires a little calm nods its head in approval, winka man makes the Nazi more thinking to assess the new treaty as expressively in secret under- fanatical, more intense, more one of and for any olyan part standing with its neighbours. ruthless and efficient.
on Tokyo's Prince Konoye
And it takes good care that” probably was aware
"But the German machind of the Imminence of the treaty when the news is whispered into every will break down like the Ita did not intend to use force in hei the dead of night, is written up ho stated to the press that Japan ear, is slipped under doors in llan. Somewhere or other there is a chink in the armour, southward expa
expansion. For what they are worth the words scom intended on wälls, is spoken into the red weak link in the chain. to forestal any anxiety that might colvers of telephones, and is hint- "Our job is to search until have been caused by the democracies ed at in the written or spoken on publication of the treaty.
"One thing we do not re- ment, and the mutilation of: our country by force. First Of All
"All I know is that when Hitler is defeated the people, "Wo regard ourselves as in the who have lived in the shadow position of a man whoso house of his tyranny must have the has been broken Into, looted, and right to decide what kind of a seized during his absence on State they want, what kind of holiday, and a social and economicThe house may or may not structure."
have been too big for him, but the first thing he wants to do is to expel the intruder and we find it and then to attack be some kind of economic recon "Afterwards he may decide
There must, Masaryk believes, regain possession of it. that weak link with all our struction, some kind of economic whether he would do without strength.
regrouping one of the rooms, or be satisfied
The agreement recently sign with a smaller garden.
Surrounded
Reconstruction
Mr Matiuoka may still have a few feats of cartoonists, clowns and things in
In his litia bag: to show to comedians—the only men who his government. However, as far as may joke with more or less this part of the world is concerned, immunity In the empire of tite "war" of "nerves" has been a Hitler for the Nazi is notori- "Germany presents a tremen- Czechs, contains the garm of a the founder of the Czechoslovak ed between the Polos, and the Thus Jan Masaryk, the son of singular
flop. Democratie. defence conferences have not gone unnoted ously a humourless person and dous facade to the world. Some federation, or series In Tokyo and a continuation of the little apt to understand a sly where along that vast frontier tions, of European, sta
(edara=ropublic, CovenETAU Jull in the For East is more likely allusión.
TO MORROW from the North Cape in Norway, upon reciprocity
mu than is any now adventure in the The Czechs, then, have bo to the Pyrenees, from the Baltic change of raw mat Imperial Wayn
"Atlantid