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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 8; 1989.

SPIRIT

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REVOLT IN GERMANY

ALL NOT WELL SAY OBSERVERS

All is not well inside Germany. Observers are daily noticing changes in the population's attitude, more significant than any recorded since Hitler came to power.

There is a triple spirit of revolt

among the German women workers, in the factories, and in the military forces.

In the munition works an illegal shop stew- ards' movement is being organised in ways which can only be paralleled by the movement towards the end of the Great War, when the appearance of similar organisations heralded the German collapse.

Army desertions are so frequent that the Nazis can no longer keep them secret.

So serious has been the revolt of German women that the Hitler re- gime has had to retreat before it and change the conditions of com- pulsory labour.

The man in the street is no longer fatalistic. To-day he says, "We must take our fate in our own hands. He has given up asking for a leader, and wants to get rid of

-one.

"NOT READY FOR WAR” Since Hitler marched into Prague the whole internal situation of Ger- many has changed. Hitler is faced with an opposition that is now be- ginning to organise itself, and num- bers millions.

In a quiet suburban house in Lon- don, I talked to one of the political figures of pre-Hitler Germany.

"You' must explain to the British people,” he said, "that Hitler is not ready for war. He is not ready because of his material position. He is not ready because of the mood

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of the German people.

"For the German opposition you must say this to the British people: 'Give them hopel' By resisting Hit- ler, you, too, help the German op- position.

"The National Council of La- bour's appeal to the German people, mild though it was, was a good thing. There is need of democratic solidarity."

SHOP STEWARDS' MOVE Most important sign of the new opposition is the shop stewards' movement. In Berlin.. recently there were a secret meeting of shop stewards from A:E.G., Siemens, Borsig, Schwartzkopf, and Knorr- bremse und Lowe A. G.

They agreed on a policy, and have issued an illegal manifesto to German metal-workers which tabulates their demands. The do- cument will be published to-day in Paris in the "Deutsche Volkszei- tung."-They ask-for:-

Increased pay for increased work, Restoration of the eight-hour day, (Continued at foot of Next Col.)

By ED O REED.

EWO BEER

Miss Peggy Williamson, a member of the Ipswich Civil Air. Guard,

is the youngest pilot in East Anglia to get her licence. She is only 18, yet is a confident pilot.

Girl Shoots Herself

After Flirtations

In A Nature Camp

New York, July 20.

While Noel swam and fished, his Flirtation in a nudists' camp to wife was having a gay time with day resulted in nineteen-year-old two men and another girl they met Dawn Hope Noel, one of the pret- at the camp on Monday She left tiest blondes in Hollywood, taking the camp for four hours, took them exactly the same exit from the to her home, and gave them drinks. Then she returned to the camp to world's stage as her mother, Adele Blood famed twenty years

join her husband. ago as the American stage's most beautiful blonde-took in Septem- ber 1936.

Noel telephoned one of the men "T who had flirted with his wife. just did not like the things that here told the police to-day "I could went on there," he explained.

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For three days Dawn and band-leader husband, Jimmy Noel, had been drinking at the Rancho hear Dawn crying. Then I heard a Glassey nudist camp in the noise like a toy pistol. I rushed in-

to her room; behind Hollywood.

; and found her dead.” His wife's life had been shadow- ed, he added; by her mother's death. She had found her mother

shot in West- the head in the grounds of the chester Country Club, New York.

"During most of our married life she brooded about that death and seemed despondent, said Noel. "She remonstrated with me for bawling out this moan and for talking to him did.......... But I refused to 1688. I should have, stop-

An end of war production tempo, no more stop-watches and ser- geant-major methods.

The document ends with an ap- peal" "for peace, freedom and de- mocracy for our. German people, as well as for the Czech, Slovak and Austrian

It demands that ens should be stopped

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