Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
DONALD DUCK
DOGGONE
THE TANGLE THEY LEAVE THIS HOSE IN!
WELL, ITLL STAY. TANGLED TILL THEY.
GET HOME! ITLL CARRY WATER AS IS!
THOSE KIDS!
GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty
ROOKS
21942, Chirage Tanks, Tra
7.7
Jalotay
"You hurt the agent's feelings, Otis, referring to it as the basement-ask him again, in a nice way, to let us see the game room,"
Crossword Puzzle
Acnoss
1-Commenced
G-Vim (col)
P-Bong-writere
organization labur.)
-Dig
iB-New Ital
Agency (abbr)
10- rock
ng una
continent
20-tale 21--or to bed
23-—While l
25- Ned
20-hors Jetter -Very dry. 20-Pretz: down
Kind of free -Taxes ole of -Most rapid- 24-Kind of brides
leaving
3-Pron kespers
44
48-Collar worn la',
15th century
49 Regulations So-Bun cod
52-tard art of body
33-le who makes
Itse of
St-Birret cabbr.
30-sderstanding
between vernments
50 - Altaclied by
18 hass
do-Wicked
1-41
33
137
HB
So 11
56
ST
(43
By LARS MORNIS
ANSWER TO PRESIOCS PUZZLE
83--Devices for krepina
papere to DEGRE ta-Before
07-Pokitive pole CR-Blok velilclea Co-Coming
15-Bull Blend
DOWN
1-Aanouner lovely 2-Made comfortabló
14
15
3-nough
hard
particles 4-in contact with
-tiron
B-Not absent 7-Ever (poriler 6-Theatrical spectacle
inatanes
11-Metal plecs ured
Kamintey
12–Put up bei in poker 1-1', coliveirely
14-Measures
10-letake
27-Large cord
24-mail errature
2-Woman MP.
31-Arresta
-Thick mint
3-Conatrilution.
the lar
35-Yalsehood
34-14 times notic
42-ves
-More Inclined 44-led upon 45-Trick
46: brews 47-indly lituania
A-Klas
BELA mih's
Implement
4-Rbp
5-trine
17-Roßng material
40-Religious iunge
62-kaw etaž
wusstes a delfy.
65-enhagy.
67-Three-turd with
19
10
13
(2
13
1b
98
19
20
344
28
35
Swan, Culbertson & Fritz
Investment dankers and Brokers
Members of New York Cotton Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Manila Stock Exchange
Winniper Gral Exchange ·
Commodity Exchange, Inc., New York Canadian Commodity. Exchange, Inc., Montreal New York Coffee and Bugar Exchange. Ifongkong Sharebrokers. Association. Shanghai Stock Exchange
SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, MANILA and BUENOS AIRES
Cable Address: SWANSTOCK
HERE'S ONE END!
AND HERE'S THE OTHER!
August 23, 1941.
By Walt Disney
IS NAZISM A DISEASE?
Hitler is a Neurotic
By Major Emmanuel Miller
This is the text of the third of a series of talks, "Inside the Nazi Mind, broadcast in the B.B.C.'s Overseas Service. The speakers- eminent psychologists and others- analyse the mental make-up of Germany's present leaders. The articles will appear fortnightly in the "Telegraph.'
I have no doubt many of you have niet people who are so im- pressed with the apparent sincerity of Hitler and with his energetic pirsult of his aims that they gloss over the deeper contradications in his doctrine and demands. These people fall to realise that Hitler's consistent method is to append to these forces in human nature that encourage elonilon at the expense of reason and objectivity. This is a dangerous attitude.
We must realise that the mening employed by Nazism are as signif- cant as the results they achieve. From the psychologist's point of view these are even more signif- cant. We must get clear the sinis- ter attractiveness of Nazism which has drawn for its banner the inost dangerous people; men who are a Теледи
unto themselves-men who disregard the signposts by which normal people are guided to social and moral destinations,
To understand these dangers, we ̄must-know ̄what goes on in the
minds of those who
sulle the destinies of Germany. Are they normal or abnormal ininds? It they are abnormal, why are they abnormal, and why are their methods so attractive to some or- dinary people.
One Track Mind
Exverience of modern psycho- that behindt logy has taught us mental abnormalities there is ni- wava sanne deep-lying emotional disturbance. Does this discovery hold true of the chief personalities n the Nazi Platform? Let us take the case of kler himself.
Now, it we study the behaviour as well as the writings of Hiller, we find that he is a person with o lier psychological, make-up. True, he shows a large measure of rent consistoney in his one track mind, but we notice that as in all neurotics the goal he adver tises
constantly varles. At one time is merely a desire for recurity: yot at others nothing short of universal domination will satisfy him.
Looking into the records of his life as far back as they go, we find he was a restless, dissatisfed and
unstable temperamentally
man, dogged by n sense and insecurity. To him the seemed peopled with dangerou persons and evil forces. many people whose inner minds are full of painful conflicts, Hitler was incapable of building up stable life for himself. Hence a reasonably stable external world aroused in him a deep fealousy sharpened by discontent.
Escape From Self
To escape the realisation of his own disordered state, he was com- pelled to regard the external world as full of disorder. In this respect. he reneta like any ordinary neuro- tle. I should explain, as a doctor, that a neurotle is a man who be rause of his main emotional con- flicts has developed certain mental and physical symptoms, not to be ranked as insane.
of
You And such people in mental hospitals. Sometimes they are in- cipfent cases-just bad casen 'nerves, na ono might say. Some- times they are extreme. They think the world Is all against them.. You find them in ordinary homes., They will even try to engineer quarrola to turn the rest against him
•
This is the behaviour of neuro-
ties. But, most unfortunately, Jitter is able to bring about in the world, conditions and events which correspond to the condition of his own neurotic mind. He prates , about order—n New Order-in the world, but he reduces the world to almost complete disorder jusi n the neurotle upsets his family. Seeing all nations as his enemies, he ends in making them his
enemles.
ot
His feelings of self-contamina- tion drive hằn to look for n source of this self-contamination outsido himself. He expresses his fear of sex-entanglement through the restrictions he impresses on olliers, He imagines Immorality in the must ruriocent
Но writes of his
fear people,
of venereal ditense and calls, under the guise of science, for universal sterilisa- tion of those whom he hater, He has no words bad enough for Freemasons, Jews and Commu- nists. In them he finds the sink. of corruption and the foundation of disease: and so he sets out to exterminate them.
Nose For Decay
It is interesting that he should huve such a sensitive nose for smell and decay: from cover in cover of "Mein Kampf runs the same wearisome theme of other Only Hitler people's corruption.
But ond bis comrades re pure.
the
most should he sense Intimate of these comrndes some
a threat to his polles, he immediate-
their impurity: wit discovers ness, the bland purge of June 1934. when friends and fees alike are struck down. To such an unstable mind, there can be no friends who
are
nat pote! ilally betrayers. Death alone can.sent a friendship.
Listen to his speeches. A hoarse survey of Germany's sufferings, a catalogue of enemies, a
rising volco screeching to a crescendo of rage and hate that has all the qualities of hyteria. And
And again. think of the long days of retire- ment when In his retreat in the mountains, away from friends and
nilkke, away from the real world, he searches his own soul and finds conviction of evils existing without. Is this the meditation of a Mohomet, » Buddha or a Moses, or is it the tortured man who searches into his own dark mind for justification for new methods of attacks?
110
Each retirement has been an occasion for turning his mind Inside-out; each re-emergence; -an occasion for fresh-messures ngainst the corruptions with which ne Imagines the world is beset. Every is familiar with these haracteristics
which
may present in the dusiman as well as in the dictator. Our clinics pre full of
feel people who persecuted, yet are at same time accusers, And how readily and. ingeniously do they produce plausible explana~- tions and criticism of the external world to structure in support of their duubts, fears and accusations.
h
Hysterical Type
But although Hitler has many of the traits of the patient suffering respects
from persecution mania,
his
character is in many other that of a hysterical type. There
are hall-marks-play.ro
of display-making of
demands tantrums. He is like n third-rate actor and loves display around him, not in himself, for his ascetiation denies him the right to bo, gay with himself; his inflated
cgolism calls for external display. He must give the impression of overwhelming power and must create an atmosphere of force in order to disguise from his Im- poverished soul a fear of his own Initure.
This hysteria shows itself in un- ending demands and ceaseless com- plaints that his rights are being denied him by his wicked oppon- ents. He is like the hysterical child who goes into a tantrum and
wat he will tear the house
If He doesn't get what he wants. But like the hysteric he is never satisfied. Romember the famillar cry, "This is my inst territorial claim."
There is also something wonian- Esh In Hitler's plaints and com- plaints, Like the hysteric, he wants to be loved; when he is thwarted, we learn of suspicious attacks of laryngitis or that travell- Ing bir is fearful to him. He moves from the heavy mood of Wagner, self-pitying,, morose and heroic, to the artificial, adolescent gaiety of "The Merry Widow" and the pretty dancing girls whom he sees again and again.
Reality Sense
But here you will want to ask a question. Is Hiller just a per- secution maniac? Is he only an unstable hysterical man? Here is my answer it isn't so easy as all that. Nothing could be more dangerous than to reduce the problem of Hitler to this simplieky.
Or
For Hitler, as we psychologists say, has a strong reality sense. as you might say, is a realist. In the experience of the psychologist, it is no new thing to find patholo- gical tendencies and tough realism legether.
and
Not only has he the knowledge of the art of a showman and the - technique of the
single-track Intriguer, but has insight into minds and he knows how to play upon them.
The ordinary hysteric persecution manine seldom shows this capacity for realistic and effective action. This is
what makes Hitler so dangerous. Hkler knows how to exploit weakness, fear and suspicion because he has first hand knowledge of them all
He says with the Psalmist. “AR. men are liars," and his technique makes use of this knowledge. He knows how men act in the mass, He knows that reason in the mass is no match against the forces of emotion: that in
a crowd the gentler emotions of sympathy and love can be swept away by egoism and Jealousy. But he also realises that' unless ho plays upon sympathy, love and social feeling. he can do little with those to whom love, sympathy and gorint feeling are a necessary part of life..
Nazi Party
And so he creates the Nazi' Party -a fellowship which under the squise of mutual help, love and esteem, can achieve deeper, more passionate and more brutal nims, Having once chosen the band of brothers, he then makes his own Inwa. Low is my will, the Fuehrer's will.
Herein lies the secret and sinister attractiveness of the Nazi psychology; under the cloak of nationalism, it sanctifies the delinquents' moral standard, the law of private impulse.,
This is clearly not law as the democracles know it. However Inllible our laws may be, they' uttempt to make justlee Impersonat without regard to the political ex- pediency of the party in temporary power, Nazi Justice Is the gangsters' vendetta, and Nazi punishment, the morbid pleasure in destroying those who are hated.
Dangerous
For here the pathological comes to the surface again. Indeed, in. the Nazi mind, it is never far below the surface. It is the reality senso and the pathological condition to- gether, I repent, which bave made Hitler and Hitlerism" so terribly dangerous. It is thanks to unth that we have the return to the hendsman's axe, to the concentra
tion cump, tortent with-
out trial, to the
and the regime of so-called re-education... To the
of youth on the sacrifice altar of the State and the revival of an old doctrine, now expressed in the
"Only the best can for
But do not let us run away with any idea that the pathological or abnormal so much overshadows the reality sense as to rollove Hitler of
of responsibility. If Hitler were proved guilty as an indivi dual, say, of the crime of murder, he wouldn't be let off on grounds of insanity. He has too good a reallly sense for that. He knows the psychology of the average man. (Continued on Page 5.)
(UILT
DISNEY
ANCHOR
BUTTER
THE WORLD'S BEST/ Obtainable from All Leading Stores
Sate Agents: LANE, CRAWFORD LTD.
quality
Sells
STAPPOINIMUMI
Sanderson's
LUXURY BLEND SCOTCH WHISKY .
VAT 69
LEITH
Distilled and bettled in Scotland by Wm. Sanderson
& Son Ltd
LEITH
ESTABLISHED (86)
Ask for it when ordering whisky
Imported by
W. B. LOXLEY & Co, (China) Ltd, York Building. Hong Kong.
Special Offer:
WHITE
ONE WEEK ONLY
August 25th to
30th
HEAVY DISCOUNTS OFF
ALL
SUMMER SHOES
WHITE/BROWN
SCM)
WHITE/BLUE, ETC.
STROLLERS - KEDETTES
AND
PLAY SHOES
GORDON'S LTD.
GROSSE & BLACK WELS
Concer
ENGLISH SOUPS
Are the fines
SCOTCH BROTH
AT ALL STORES:
FILING SUPPLIES
FOLDERS
INDEX GUIDES
PRESSBOARD GUIDES
EXPANDING folders
METAL TAB INDEX GUIDES
CLIP FOLDERS
·OUT GUIDES ETC.; ETC.
Your letters can be located quicker,' casior with
·efficient· FILING SYSTEM..
an
THE OFFICE APPLIANCE co
LIMITED
Speetaliate in Oftes Equipment
11. Chator Road, York' Bldg., Hong Kong.