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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 9, 1941

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

ACCORDING TO PLAN!

One of the few things that one can say with certainty about this

war

is that almost no aspect of it has gone according to plan.

To begin with, Hitler thought Britain would carry appeasement to the point of accepting his in- vasion of Poland-in fact he thought Britain would not fight. He was sadly disillusioned.

it

In the next place, was assumed that war, if' it came, would necessar- ily take the form of a pro-i longed mutual siege along the Maginot and Sieg-| fried Lines. Everyone! knows how futile those masses of steel and con- crete and inertia turned ,out to be.

The French collapse

was a shocking surprise to Britain as it was to most of the French people.

But what very few people realise is that it was also a surprise to the| Germans. They believed that they could conquer France. They belleved that they could do it by means of a relative "Blitz- krieg"; but they did not for a moment think that they would conquer France so rapidly as they did.

U.S.A.

GREENLAND

ICELAND

THE BRIDGE PROGRESSES

ENGLAND

Work Is Harder In Germany

Early in March, just before two small children, is ordered to schar leader speaks himself, or leaving Berlin, I was in the office do munitions work and must introduces a speaker on subjects| of a big Berlin publishing firm leave home at 6 am. The N.S.V. such as the Balkan situation, the when two important-looking welfare worker comes just before right way to interpret Roosevelt's civilians, accompanied by a uni-six and takes the children, bring- last speech, or the Nazi role in formed army officer, came in. Ing them home after Frau Braun the New Europe.

I knew well enough who they returns at night,

Labour Bureau Commissions, who,

In the main armament works employees are allowed one Sun- day a month free. In the second-

But Germans ale not made

feel flattered, and} they love the new uniforms, the flags, and the parades. Hitler knows the Germans.

And here was demon- strated-in what will be come a classic in history

I dare say that British workers, were and what they wanted. The organisation involves a if given half an hour off at the -the inability of the Ger- They were one of a hundred

huge army of welfare workers, factory's expense, would probably || mans to adapt their plan under the direction of a university sands of creches.

nurses and doctors. and thou improvise a game of football.

They are all to events where events do fellow student of mine, Dr. Fried-managed from a great building at the way. They like these talks.

of the N.S.V. headquarters, Maybach The workers not fall out according to rich Sytup, control the use

labour throughout the Greater Ufer, in Berlin, which is under plan. They might have German Reich.

the control of Reichsleiter Hil- ended the war there and "Murder Commissions" is what genfeld.

they are called popularly in the then had they improvis- workshops and offices. ed an invasion of Britain.¦

From all these events it will be seen that this has not been a war in which things went according to plan-that is to say, ac- furnish 200, 300, or 400 workers. cording to immediate according to army needs.

to be done. plan.

Dr. Sytup's commissions work But how have the long- methodically and scientifically on term plans of the belliger-right man in the right job; the main principles: the first is, the ents fared? ·

Labour control is more efficient than in the last war, when I was

in charge of labour questions at the

Rheinmetal Steelworks at Dusseldorf-Derendorf, controlling

45,000 metal workers.

Then the army staff officer came in and abruptly required me to

It had

second, no idle machines.

All German citizens (men and between fourteen and

Workers. In. Britain's war factories work * six-day week. Under the. Nazis.they would have only one Sunday off a month, an eighty- hour week... keep only £16 a month out of a £50 salary. Here is a ploture of work under the Nazis from Dr. Rudolf Jonas, German- Jewish economic export, who has escaped to New York.

You wonder why the factory proprietor does not kick against

which these "Werkschars,”

hell has to equip, and whose "appells" cause considerable loss of time.

Remember, his employees work a sixty-hour week for normal pay, and he only pays a small extra amount for overtime. Also he does not have to pay fire watch- ers. The "Werkschar" takes care of that.

Well, the German plan women) of the war may be sum-sixty are liable for national ser-

vice. The Sytup Commissionary war industries they are allow-once one is outside Germany the med up in the one word

enters an office and decides that ed alternate Sundays off. "Blitzkrieg", which means "lightning war.”

office.

The Werkschar draws

up a roll of fire-watchers, and workers must do turns without, pay. “

Another function of the Werk- schar's organisation is improve- ment courses for skilled workers.

It is hard to. express clearly.

terrific iron pressuré exerted on a fifteen-year-old typist could be A worker often does seventy or the masses. It is a relentless better employed in a Government eighty hours a week--and all this propaganda. Individualism has on 4lb. bread, 1lb. wurst or meat, gone. Mass, thought, mass action, It is perfectly clear that A bookkeeper can be replaced lb, butter, 2oz, margarine, and prevails. Only a superman or a born rebel could resist this pro- this plan has failed: Hit by a disabled man, and goes off 20z, cheese weekly.

to join the staff of some new

paganda entirely, Some workers in the heavy in- ler has achieved a number works beginning to operate industries get extra, rations, but when they eat their skimpy meals People grumble. They grumble of lightning victories, but Poland.

practically this does not amount and pay their giant taxes. For in- Naturally, one of Dr. Sylup's to much. And the butter is not stance, suppose you are in a com he has completely failed head-aches is the problem of really butter it does not taste fortable position in a Berlin office to make the war as a married, women labour,

like anything. The bread, and. This is taken care of 'In the

wurst are both below the usual "lightning war,” Reich by the: N.S.Vthe Nation- and even lightning vicol. Socialist People's Welfare Or

ganisation. tory tactics have had suppose Frau Braun, who has rough handling in Russia.

whole a

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quality.

and earn £60 monthly. It sound fine.

But off come £17 108 for in- Why do not the people revolt? come tax. Then £7 10s. extra in order to avoid this Nazi Ger for war income tax. Then come many is swinging further over the citizens tax, the Church tax: towards Socialism every day and the unemployment tax, which

It is a nation in untform. In account for another £10.!

What of the British men of goodwill have built plan of the war? Many up throughout the cen- every works employing more than Out of £50 you finally get £15. fifty men there is a National And you cannot get into arreary; people do not understand turies. Whatever goes Socialist Werkschar (works for. It is all withdrawn by the what is the British plan. wrong or right with im- group), to which all men work office cashier before your salary

ers belong. They wear a smart is paid.

the Then they come to your home At any hour in the day in the on the obligatory one-dish day.

It is in reality not mere- mediate plans, the Bri- blue uniform-paid for by to collect the difference; you save ly a plan for the war, but tish Commonwealth of factory owner. a plan on a much greater Nations and its allies will factory there may be an "uppel". Despite this there is a big do scale-a plan that goes continue this war, and (call). Then every one, from ficit, some people putting the Fritz in the stokehold to Dr. floating debt, at about £10,000 on for ever. In fact the win this war, in such a Schmidt, the works qhemist, million (reckoning at the rate of plan is merely to main way that this supreme parades in the yard or biggest twenty Reichsmarks to the £).

No, lito is-not fu hall in the factory, while the tain the civilisation which plan will be achieved. smartly uniformed district Werk- Reich.

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