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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 16, 1940

WE SHALL ONE DAY LOOK FOR HITLER- AND FIND HIM GONE

the

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VERY day I took to see whether Euchrer is still there in Berlin, in his vulture's eyrie at Berchtesgaden; at Head- quarters with his Generals, or wherever the feverish impulse of the moment may carry-him:

No Dictator, I suppose, was ever better guarded. The turns of his garden paths at hia Bavarlan home are commanded by machine-gung. By the calendar he should be in manhood's prime. Yet, if report speaks true, whatever other blessings the

•gods have given him; the one best" worth praying for, mens sana in corpore sano, has never been his,

Tyrannies, however, are, as Aristotle said, usually short-lved, Catastrophic things have often happened to supermen, and may happen again.

A faulty ceiling, a sharper attack of "the old complaint," a flying splinter, a severer brainstorm, a vicious bug-and the Reich might lose its Fuchrer and the world its Great Abnormal,

What put a full stop to the career of the Madman of Macedon? A carousal too deep and prolonged and a fit of black remorse. A bow was once drawn at a venture and a king toppled from his charlot. A sure-footed. horse stumbled over a mole-hill in Kensing- ton Gardens and Louis XIV. was rid of his most implacable foe. The chapter of nccl- dents is always springing new surprises.

The right attitude is to expect nothing and to be astonished at nothing.

EVEN BEFORE FIGHTING STARTS Even before the great pause in the West is brokeń, we may look one day and find that the Fuehrer is not there.. A military coup: a fit of frenzy: one of those Voices of the weird Sisterhood which he hears in Bolitude calling in a way that will not be denied; a sudden glimpse of the precipice on the edge of which he has perilously poised the Reich and some "strong-bearded comet" may stare at his mild, or wild, departure.

Such an event must have its comet. When Gian Galeazzo, Duke of Milan, a man after Hitler's own heart, lay dying, they whisper- ed to him that a comet had been seen in the skies. "Good," said the Despot, "God could not but signallse the end of so supreme a ruler."

"He had loved to laugh from his youth and had been so compassionate that he often melted into tears. The change in him, therefore, could not but cast a blem- ish upon Power. On his account it was believed that high honour and fortunes will not suffer men to re.nain, in their original simplicity, but that it begets in them insolence, arrogance and inhumanity, "Whether Power does really produce such a change of disposition, or whether it only displays the native 'badness of the heart, belongs, however, to another depart- ment of letters to inquire.”

INSTRUCTIONS FROM "VOICES" Evidently, Plutarch was puzzled and wise- ly withheld his own solution of the riddle, if he had one. The allenists and psycholo- gists of to-day might insist on stating the problem in another way. What is certain is that this terrible thing, Power, in its highest ranges almost always draws out the bad qualities of the Despot rather than the good.

from Another short passage

the gamè "Life" is also particularly relevant:

"It gave Sulla pleasure to hear his suc-

By

J. B. FIRTH

cras imputed to Fortune and he encourag- ed the opinion, thinking that it added an air of greatness and divinity to his actions. Whether he did this out of vanity or from a real persuasion of its truth we cannot say. However, he writes in his 'Commen- taries, that his instantaneous resolutions manner and enterprises, executed in a different from what he had intended, al- ways succeeded better than those on which he bestowed most time and forethought. · Add that in the 'Commentaries' inscribed to Lucullus, he advises him to depend up- on nothing more than upon that which Heaven directed to him in the visions of We have to do with a mind diseased. the night."

to the Madness is of many kinds. Hitler'a is the Sulla, therefore, must be added sort that attacks the megalomaniac who remarkable list of great men of action who has sold his soul-and Germany's-forhave heard "Voices," seen visions and re- that they Power.

ceived supernatural assurances No human being can stand the racking are the favourites of Heaven. Yet it is a outside strain of absolute power, least of all if his sound working rule - especially eyes are fixed on a grandiose ideal which purely religious experience to regard with free men who value liberty more than pre- deep distrust those who pass through ecstatic

attain. sent peace dare not let him

The periods and claim to receive special instruc- strain destroys that mental balance which tions,, from the unseen world. The Voices is the infallible test of sanity.

heard by Joan of Arc and Oliver Cromwell ́ ́and' contrasted two absolutely different temperaments are beyond my philosophy. But when Hitler speaks of the Voices he has heard, the world is more than sceptical, In that respect Augustus stands almost especially since they have persuaded him alone. Diocletian retired in time and grew that it is his duty to lle, to murder, to per- cabbages. Charles V., worn out in vain secute the Churches, to pillage and torture. attempts to harmonise the discordances of one race and to exterminate, as far as pos- a scattered Empire, withdrew to Estrama-sible, another. dura and tried to synchronise his palace

How few men since Dictatorships began have climbed to world power and remained cool-headed enough to see the point where they must stop.

THE CATALOGUE OF CRIMES

crime In

clocks. Napolcon, greatest of all despots, Hitler has never shrunk from admitted at St. Helena that he had "stretch-fear of ghostly punishments. If the State ed the bow too tight."

benefited no other justification was requir-

need ed; to the State alone

he render. account. He is not half so religious as was another miscreant on the grand scale, Peter the Great, who counselled deeds at which humanity shuddered yet was penetrated with the serene conviction that he was "an in- strument for good in the hands of God."

THERE WILL BE NO-DOORN That is just what the Fuehrer.has done. He has stretched the bow too tight and the time for its relaxation has gone by. "Hell hath no fury like a Fuehrer scorned." There will be no Doorn for a second All-Highest. Something must "give."

some

have ghid Hitler is reported to

When Hitler, in his own phrase, took upon months ago, "When I have done with these himself to be "the Supreme Court of the Poles, I will seek to earn my living as an

German People" for the space of 24 hours, artist." As an artist! Did he forget, or he sanctioned, a political massacre on the aid he never know, the last words of the Neronian scale. Roehm, "his friend and Imperial lute-player. "What an artist ver- fellow-fighter," was shot like a dog, not for

ishes in me!"

The truth is that unlimited power, linked his vices, which Hitler had known and to- as it commonly is, in those whose havelerated for years, but because Hitler feared waded through slaughter to a throne, with him. If Hitler now sees hideous shapes and an unlimited ambition, itself the product of

qualifes an abnormal mind, usually possessor if not for the madhouse, at any rate for the "retreat."-

Its

Centuries ago Plutarch made some per- tinent observations on this subject in his brief "Life" of Suila, the Right-wing Dicta- tor of the Roman Republic, then hastening to decay. Sulla was famous, or infamous, for the ruthlessness of his proscriptions on a scale unparalleled till he set his contem- poraries the baleful example:

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gory locks" in his dreams, what wonder? If his night, thoughts, work like madness in the brain, is it surprising? At least it shows that something of conscience is left, for without conscience there is no remorso,·

Ivan the Terrible, another imperial, mad- man of divided brain, sought to explate the crimes of half his. reign-the earlier half- was most exemplary-by spending his few last days on earth in a priestly habit as the "Monk Jonah.”

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By George McManus

THANK YYOU- PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT-

IF MAGGIE COULD ONLY SEE ME NOW- WOW-

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