1939-12-21 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 21, 1939.

"HITLER SPEAKS"

I

(Continued from Page 10)

watches the passing prayers. He clouds, listens to the moisture dripping from the pines. He hears voices. have met him when in this mood. recognises nobody then: he wants, to be alone. There are times when he flees from human society.

Morbid Energy

Ho

All the more astonishing are the ex- plosions of his "determined will," his

sudden activity. Then he neither tires

nor hungers; he lives with a morbid

HITLER MAY MEET IL DUCE

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Rome, To-day.

Preparation for a personal talk between Hitler and Mus- solini is said to be the main [object of the arrival here yes- terday of Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Nazi secret police.

Himmler's arrival in Rome has interest among aroused the keenest political circles.

energy that enables him to do almost miraculous things. Everything is done then, in his own words, "with deter-

It is recalled that during his last mination," "without tolerating" (what- ever obstacle may be in question), visit to Italy, Himmler raised several "fanatically". But everything abou pending questions between Italy and of Germany, namely, the transfer him is jerky and abrupt. He is

Germans from the High Adige (for- tirely without balance. And in

also the question respect he shows not the slightest immerly Tyrol) and

desertions of Austrians provement as he grows older. He has of numerous no natural greatness, even in the vast- est of his new and vast rooms.

en- this

he is

Germany's Fuehrer is not only vain and as sensitive as a mimosa: brutal and vindictive. He is entirely lives in a without generosity. He

and world of insincerity, deceiving

like self-deceiving. But hatred is

One wine to him, it intoxicates him. must have heard his tirades of de- nunciation to realise how he can re- vel in hate.

to Italy.

Havas.

ATTEMPT TO ATTACH THE ARAUCA

MIAMI, TO-DAY,

COM- THE IMPERIAL SUGAR PANY OF GALVESTON HAS FILED SUIT FOR ATTACHMENT AGAINST THE GERMAN FREIGHTER

FLORIDA, ON AFTER BEING PUR-

Brutal and vindictive, he is also He sentimental-a familiar mixture. loved his canaries, and could cry ARAUCA, WHICH PUT INTO PORT when one of them sickened and died. | EVERGLADES, But he would have men against whom | TUESDAY, he had a grudge tortured to death in SUED BY A BRITISH WARSHIP. the most horrible way. Ile eats in

it had many The company claims credible quantities of sweetmeats and tons of sugar on board three Ham- whipped cream; and he has the inburg-Amerika Line freighters which stinct of the sadist, finding sexual ex-put into neutral ports at the beginning citement in inflicting torture on of war without delivering the cargoes.

The suit involves the others.

$38,500. Reuter.

Foul Atmosphere

Most loathsome of all is the recking miasma of furtive, unnatural sexual- ity that fills and fouls the whole at- mosphere round him,

like an evil emanation. Nothing in this environ-

XMAS IN

sum

of

LONDON FOR

ment is straightforward. Surreptitious PRINCESSES

relationships, substitutes and symbols, false sentiments and secret lusts - nothing in this man's surroundings is natural and genuine, nothing has the openness of a natural instinct.

-

"Oh!" said Forster once to me "Forster Boy," one of Hitler's closest

London, To-day.

Princess Princess Elizabeth and

Christmas Margaret are to spend with Their Majesties the King and Queen.

down to night.

London

ever travelled during Tuesday

They have been in Scotland intimates, the enfant terrible among since before the war and the Gauleiter-“Oh, if Hitler only knew how it does one good to have a fresh, natural girl!" Forster had just begun "courting." "Poor Hitler!" he said. I did not pursue the subject.

Hitler has a room with obscene nudes on the wall, concealing nothing, Such pictures have no artístic inten- tion or appeal. He revels in this style of painting. Is he merely aping Fre- derick "the Great" and his cynicism? Was that his intention, too, when he was paying court to dancers-was he trying to dupe the world by pretend- ing to be involved in amorous adven- tures while his troops were preparing to march on Prague, in imitation of Frederick's invasion of Saxony?

They have not seen the King since the middle of August or the Queen for two months.-Reuter.

BRITISH

WAR ORDERS

London, To-day. The Minister of Supply, In a speech yesterday, said that between Sept. 3 the Ministry of and December 12 Supply had placed orders amounting to £225,000,000.

This worked out at £2,250,000 per day.

The amount included £70,000,000

This man, so convinced of his own godlike stature, is grateful for every bit of praise and for the crudest flat-on raw materials, textile and leather small on guns, £50,000,000 tery. He lives on praise and recogni- | goods, tion. He needs constant reassurance arms and ammunition, £45,000,000 on £12,000,000 on by expressions of enthusiastic appro- transport vehicles,

machine tools, £12,000,000 on optical (To Be Continued)

and scientific instruments, £10,000,- (World copyright 1939 by "China 000 on general stores and £21,000,000 | Mail" and co-operation. Reproduction on assisted schemes of production, in whole or part strictly forbidden). 'including plant.

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