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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1941-

SHADOW - LAND

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

NAZI THEORY

Hermann Rauschning, earlier example of a Hit- ler enthusiast who found the could not go on, has expressed a theory that Hitler does not really want to destroy the Bri- tish Empire. For this he gives two reasons. Hitler is not ready to take over the world inheritance of

Great Britain. Too sud- den collapse might actually bring the greater, immediate profit to cer- tain rivals of the Nazi Reich, who have their -homelands outside

Europe.

In the second place, Hiller does not want to: embark on the destruc- tion of the British Em- pire because that obvious- ly cannot be accomplish- ed without some very

• heavy fighting; and in the course of such a strug- gle it may very well be -that decadent and de- generate Britain may find her soul and her strength again. Better let the Bri-

HITLER: 7

Mates

WARN YOU, THIS MUST NOT AGAIN OCCUR, HERR HIMMLER. HIMMLER: MY PERSON AL OBSERVATION ASSURES ME THAT ALREADY, MY DEAR FUEHRER, ALL PRECAUTIONS TAKEN HAVE BEEN.

Morale In London

By the Right Hon. J. C. Wedgwood, M P.

Last war, when Jerry dropped a know there Inay be

for not

no Jerry which have played their part as and the odds never before--free, determined,

tish Empire succumb to tew bombs on the East End, men within fifty miles the inevitable process of bolted blindly. women hid their against their being hit are demon- eloquent, but critical of every

to one. decay which now has it in faces, and children ran screaming, strably millions

Many abuse of power. They have shown its grip than risk a Bri- All cursed Government

may be inwardly terror-stricken: |hat there is something to fight

against. tain rejuvenated through protecting them and the rich for but see how hard they try not to for, as well as

escaping, and smashed the shops look nervously up into the sky. war. Such is the Rausch-or German Jews. They felt that Drivers may "step on the gas" a ❤ning theory.

the sky cracks down, all may

was expected of them, of all bit, because it doesn't show. The civilians. Danger and courage girls in uniform consciously walk But if this was the ori-

were then the exclusive perquisite on chatting, and other girls "doti't

There 15 yet something else, ginal strategy with re-

of the armed forces.

like to do different." All do want largely unnoticed, which has spect to Great Britain, it

This war, when

is expected of them, show nothing; steeled our nerves. I come back must surely be evident!

and death hurtles

follow, or set, the approved ex-to the truism with which I start- that now it is too late.

be just as afraid, but they don't ample. That is as well, for feared. People will behave as they The harm has been done.show it and try to joke about it.is horribly infectious. To any one reading the it is "bad form" to show fear. bulletins these last eight Public opinion is much stronger 'months from the skies than any law.

• Over London, from the

If that miserable siren starts

Why this change from twenty-

are expected fo. Praise a man' for the qualities and he will seek to deserve that praise.

The British and British courage have been praised as never before in my lifethne, probably as never before in history; not by ourselves, This: This is a very united peo-which would be easy and value- ple. They know there is no way less, but by those afar who have out. With all Europe behind had much to criticise in our past. Dutch welcoming him, Herr Hitler's "peace" could I think of the

River Plate, from Coven-moaning when you are our shop- try, from Glasgow, from ping in the morning, everybody | Ave years ago? Plymouth, from Libya, in the open is gripped in some from East Africa, from degree by fear, Greece,

from Taranto,

from Liverpool, from Bri-.

although they

emotion the press

praying for the

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Few can have read without deep extracts and ginal idea to kill the Bri- the patient only half as appreciation and

America about our admiration, if letters from

land and our Londoners. Few tish Empire with kind- ness, the opportunity dis-young or strong as he not love, for the most remarkable here have ever heard of Dall THESE FACTS MAKE

there in Texas, a used to be, he is very well Prime Minister, who will promise yet far away appeared after Dunkirk.

pleased.

nothing save toil and tears, blood leading newspaper has this poem, quoted for us by the "Dally Nazt philosophers gave

and sweat" who invents only im- Express": the British Empire just In the present case it is

mortal phrases which shape our one more generation be obvious that Hitler's cal- new lives. fore it succumbed to fatty culations started out with degay of the heart. But the British Empire, and he the ruins

other generation of ends up facing the British new aspect.

"We will fight on the landing British decline at the rate Empire plus the United

will Hitler's advisers grounds; we fight in the States. since Dunkirk might easi-

streets," and straightway a million "Ty find the British invalid were afraid that a full- and a half men spring up, unpaid, playing a good game of sized war would tone up to defend their homes.

the system of a com tennis on the Rhine.

petitor embracing, say,

Do ye ken John Bull; with his clothes so red?

"Grim and gay," says he, and

around us take on # Do ye ken John Bull, with his

up-flung head?

"Never in the history of human confilet was so much owed by so many to go few," and the thought "Hitler's gloom over the 80,000,000 English-speak of our boys in the air makes rebirth of Great Britain ing folk. Hitler's war has courage easy and fear shameful

Do ye ken John Bull; with no sign of dread,

As he faces his fight in the morning?..

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Iallons who can appreciate it and ver. That does not usual like such a result in the inspired us. But close behind never have cause to change their Hitler has united us. Churchill us. We will see to it, that they ly happen in the re- annals of rejuvenation. comes a Pross and Parliament, vision;