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THE CHINAS MALLY, DECEMBER 28, 1988

FOR FRANCE... THE

THE BRUTAL FIST

Annihilation When Severed from Britain

SAYS

Germany,

AYS HITLER in Mein Kampf: lists fought for, this is what they proclaimed they were fighting for. "One has to realise this plain Tiger Clemenceau, implacable enemy fact very clearly: THE INEXOR- of

declared: "France ABLE ARCH-ENEMY OF THE must break her to pieces." GERMAN NATION IS FRANCE. In doing this the French were, It does not matter who rules of course selling their own people France or who has ruled 01 quillas mercenaries of the international could rule France, whether Bourbons, or world Jew. For the Jews Jacobins, Bonapartists 01* Demo- never achieve their dream of world crats, clerical Republicans 01' red domination while Germany remain- Bolshevists: the final aim of her ed united and strong. France was foreign policy will always be the the chosen instrument of the Cho- Ger- attempt to occupy the Rhine fron- sen People for smashing up tier and the securing of this river many. for France by dissolving and smash- ing Germany.” The passage is omitted from the English version.

Hitler lashes the Social Demo- cratic leaders of post-war Germany who courted France's favours. They thought that the Frenchmen, had changed their minds and now re- garded Germany with friendly eye. These German politicians must have realised the truth pretty soon but still the fools proceeded with their policy of grovel instead making more useful alliances.

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"BREAK GER...

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PIECES" these

were the words of

the Indomitable,

the implacable

enemy of Ger.

inany,

"TIGER”,

CLEMENCEAU,

France's war-time

Premier.

If the great battles of the war had been fought on German soil, and not on French or Polish, if the struggle had raged along the banks of the Elbe, the Ruhr, or the Main instead of on the Somme the the insolent remark of Lloyd George, had got wise to the French game. under- It was by no means to the interest of Flanders rivers-then France would that "the Germans do not have reached her goal.

stand how to choose men of brains England to see Germany's backbone in order to es- This was the tremendous service and spirit as their leaders and re- finally shattered that the German

Alas! not even a tablish for ever the economic as well rendered, presentatives."

got anywhere as the military ascendancy of that it forced the enemy to fight genius could have on the field of his own territory. then in the face of the decisive power But for this the French would have of the enemy and the terrible

army

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France Wanted Payment overrun the Reich, and every kind- fencelessness of our people.

For Spilled Blood

Surely by the winter of 1922-3, when the French marched into the Ruhr, it was obvious what they were up to! Could anybody. believe any longer that France had staked all her blood for four years in the most decisive struggle of her his- tory just to get reparations for the damages endured?

of disintegrating force would have

been released. There would have Hatred Burned been no Reich at all, but only a group But Never Flamed of "independent" (and 'impotent) German States.

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France. in fact, deprived England of all the industrial advantages she had gained at such fearful cost by the

war.

Italy, too, was, finally estranged from France. Indeed, from the very moment that the war ended that

Now it turned

As it was, the German politicians friendship had ceased to be exactly to positive France sought to make good the failed to snatch even the negative rosy. omission. After the war she did advantages of the penal peace of hatred. The hour was at hand when all within her power to paralyse Versailles and its damnable Treaty the allies of yesterday might have Germany. Clemenceau was frank Versailles, each point of which might become the foes of to-morrow, That about it; France was

still "car- have been burned into the brain and this did not happen was due to the rying on the war." (Clemenceau's heart of the nation until finally the fact that instead of Germany having an Enver Pasha at her head she had historic phrase in rallying France common shame and the common the wretched Chancellor Cuno. Not even the recovery of Alsace- in 1917 was "Je fais la guerre." hatred would have become 'a sea of "What could you expect! Of Lorraine could explain the furious Editor.) Clemenceau rsgarded the flaming fire in the minds of sixty energy of the French war leaders seizure of the Ruhr by France as a millions of men and women, until course, it was incredible folly to ex- in prosecuting the struggle-unless natural sequel to the offensive of out of the glowing mass a will of pect traitors to become suddenly steel would have emerged and a cry A Marxist is as likely to turn from fighters. for Germany's liberation. it is realised that this was only a 1918. part of a larger plan. What was At Versailles Germany had almost "We will be armed as others are that plan? The dissolution of Ger- deserved the torments she received. armed!" But no, nothing was done: treason as a hyena will turn from many into a number of small states! Her negotiators were such contemp- who can wonder that the German This is what the French imperia- tible stuff. They almost justifield nation is not what it ought to be

GIVE

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and might be?

carrion!"

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Let us reconsider now, says Hit- France herself of course, broke ler, what could and snould be done. the Treaty of Versailles

over and

France's military power presses over again. · In the matter of the upon England. Once Germany's Ruhr invasion, for example, she colonial and commercial challenge to placed herself against the other England had been broken that coun- Guarantee Powers England and try's need for close association with Italy.

France' was over.

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Well, here was fate once more of- Italy, too, has no reason to love- fering Germany the chance of asser- or even tolerate the French any ting herself. England by this time (Continued on Page 3)

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Tearing up the Versailles" Treaty, Hitler shocks the French

by re-occupation of the Rhineland in 1938. German troops enter

· Freiburg-im- Breisgau.