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more unjustified does it seem to people finally to set about defend- ing themselves against some new, apparently isolated, althougb really constantly recurring, op pression, especially if, taking everything together, so much more und greater misfortune has been borne silently and tolerant- ly without doing so. (Adolf Hitler in "Mein Kampf.")

The School for Bombast

The aged grows inured to the proclamations of dictators and their roaring rhetoric, but one cannot help feeling that they have not yet reached the grandi- loquence of some of their pre- decessors. Thus Chosroes, the Sassanian King of Persia, ad- dressed Heraclius, the Emperor

Hong Kong, Tuesday, April 25, 1939. of Byzantium, in A.D. 616:

A STORY OF CONCESSIONS

Chosroes, greatest of gods and master of the whole earth, to Heraclius, his vile and insensate slave. Why do you still refuse to The Czech Government, how-supmit to our rule, and call your- ever, once more gave way to the self a king? Have I not destroy- demands of the Sudeten German ed Lie Greeks? You say that you party in this matter.

trust in your God. Why has be Hen- lein and Frank presented a new not delivered out of my hand series

Caesarea, Jerusalem, and Alexan- of demands. (From the

dria? And shall I not also de- Runciman report.)

stroy Constantinople? But I will pardon your faults if you will submit to me,, and come hither Speaking of his conversation with your wife and children; and with Herr Hitler at

I will give you lands, vineyards, Berchtes- gaden after his flight there, the and olive groves, and look upon Prime Minister said Herr Hitler you with a kindly aspect. Even "made it plain that the Sudeten if you take refuge in the depths Germans must have the right of of the seas, I shall stretch out self-determination." (Associated my hand and take you, so that Press dispatch).

you shall see me, whether you will or no.

Herr Hitler has

still a long

When I Got back to Godesberg, way to go. I thought I had only to discuss. quietly with him the various pro- Perhaps, however, the quain- posals already submitted. I was test of all such "diplomatic docu- shocked when, at the beginning ments" was that of Duke Paulus, of the conversations, he said a Roman soldier who rebelled these proposals were not accept against his liege-lord Wamba, able and that there were other King of the Visigoths in Spain, proposals which I had not con- and sent him the following chal- templated at all. (Prime Minister lenge, A.D. 678:- Neville Chamberlain in an address before the House of Commons).

In the name

of God, Flavius Paulus, the mighty King of the East, greets Wamba, the King of the West. If thou hast traversed Having sanctioned the immedi- the rough, unpeopled waste of the ate German occupation of more mountains; if thou hast burst Sudeten territory than Chancel-through woods and thickets like lor Adolf Hitler demanded in his some strong lion; if thou hast famous Godesberg ultimatum, the timed the swiftnes. of the wild conference of ambassadors sitting goat and the bounding stag in Berlin to implement the "peace and the revening boar and bear; of Munich" decided to-night to if thou hast cast out the poison abandon the project of holding of snake and adder-then make plebiscites in disputed areas, thyself known to me, thou man (From's dispatch to the New of arms, lord of the woods, and York Times).

lover of the rocks. Wherefore, great King, stir up thy heart, come down to the passes of the Pyrenees, and there thou shalt

Adolf Hitler took possession of find an athlete. Bohemia and Moravia to-day [March 15], personally following

The ultimatum is not what it his ray-clad Nazi troops into was; the decline is deplorable. Prague. (Associated Press dis-Those who issue them disturb afl patch).

our breakfast tables as it is, the least they could do is to see that their style, robust in the grand

-for the shock they cause.

An intelligent victor will, when old manner, compensates a little lever possible, present