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English translation of a rather- surprising book about Britain which recently appeared in Germanyt The author, Count Pueckler, a former London correspondent of the "Deu- tsche Allgemeine Zeitung,” and an intimate of Herr von Ribbentrop, of her vast possessions, she is com course, to the af addresses himself to the task of es- elled with milk to conciliate world tions, especially timating the real strength of Great opinion by a strictly ethical use of up their prosper Britain and the British Empire in her power." In any case-he con- policy of self-st In view of th all its aspects, moral, military, siders it "highly doubtful whether

the British people would be prepar- which the Cou strategic and economic. He accom-

ed to take up arms for any purely manent, he thin plishes it with a moderation, detach- ment and zeal for truth which stand egotistical national interest at the tain is destined out in shining contrast from the expense of other peoples"

From this moral check on her wealth is the pr familiar methods of Dr. Goebbels's

policy "it follows that no country in trinsic superiori system of "enlightenment."

the world has anything to fear from monopoly of ind What is chiefly surprising about her, no matter how strong she may early and middle the book is that it should be allowed be, providing its own foreign policy enabled her to to circulate in Germany at all. For is as strickly ethical as Great Bri- overseas investu it ruthlessly demolishes some of the tain's is compelled by circumstances can do now is, major falsehoods which the Nazi

to be." It was this, the Count tells tain her inher propaganda machine has been so aus, that made it impossible for hope-to increase sidously cultivating during the past Great Britain to resist by force the if lost, since t

emancipation of the Rhineland or permitted her the Austrian and Sudeten Anschluss, first instance a since in all these actions the moral To this exter case was indisputably on the side of prospects have Germany.

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There is internal evidence that the wars thanks to been trying to persuade the German book was written before Herr Hitler people that the British Empire is a grisly tyranny created and main committed the indisputably immoral act of annexing Bohemia and Móra- tained by a "bloody terror" from which its alleged victims are always via. Whether the Count himself

struggling to liberate

themselves.

BY JOHN

was scandalised by that atep we have no means of knowing. Certain- Any section of the German people ly it come within his own definition which may have been disposed to

of "aggressive aims,” which are swallow this nonsense will be, as- "aims achieved at the expense of tonished at the picture drawn by other nations," and aims, he asserts, wind."

Count Count Paeckler,

a statesman of to-day can ` pursue aggerating the After remarking that the total only "if his own nation and its allies the deterioratio strength of British troop units in are so powerful that he can defy on one factor o the overseas Empire (excluding the whatever circles may be involved.

INCREASE Dominions) is only 30 squadrons of perhaps the whole world.”

'planes and about 92,000 men, the Count goes on

This is tha NAZI PROPAGANDA EXPOSED

-capital value o "The fact that an empire with a It may be that, the Count, as a ments fallen, coloured population of over 400,000,- devout Nazi, bitterly repents his favourably sit 000.souls can be held with such weak imprudence in penning the chapter of view of mob forces is a brilliant testimony to of which the pith is contained in the poses. For w British. administrative talent.

above quotations. But one can only merly held - to Such a thing is possible because the marvel at the Nazi propaganda bur- foreign countri British Empire is not like the old eau permitting the German public States, they Roman Empire, and has not to be to read so devastating an exposure dominantly in constantly defended against the in- of its “encirclemént” propaganda the Dominíor surrections of oppressed peoples. by one of its own leading publicists, Dominions wo The existence of the British Empire and to learn that the country which Mother Count is not daily being called in ques is supposed to be the architect of tent of their tion from within. With the ex- the "encirclement" is the very one vestments hel

ception of chronic skirmishing on from which "no other country in cannot be res the North-West Frontier, the oc- the world has anything to fear" pro to the total casional religious and racial troubles vided its own foreign policy follows the Empire f in India, and the present distur- strictly ethical lines.

On the ᄋ bances in Palestine, peace reigns In his analysis of the material picture the throughout the whole vast British factors affecting Britain's warlike that Britain's Empire."

WARNING_TO_AGGRESSORS

strength, Count Pueckler notices on capacity has : the economic side certain well-known that it is inco directions in which she has suffered ganised for w From the point of view of official some recent decline. Her mercan- before, and t Nazi propaganda Count Fueckler is tile marine, her income from bank, dustrialisation disconcertingly candid on another ing services abroad, her overseas presents a gr topic, Great Britain, he says, dare investments have all shrunk, her strength. In not, under existing conditions, pur- favourable balance of payments has the value of sue an aggressive policy even if she disappeared and she is beginning to pregnable bas wished.

live on her capital. These develop struction.

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