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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 30, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

THE MODEST MARSHAL

Had it not been for the Hess episode-plus the curious case histories of the leaders of Nazi Ger- many rumours of a rift between Der Fuehrer and the many-uniformed Reich Marshal Goering could be dismissed as sheerest guesses, or what the Italians delight in calling "tendentious" re- ports. But with the fan- tastic Odyssey of Nazi No. 3 as a background, it is necessary to remain open- minded about the activi- ties of Nazis 1 and 2.

It is a fact that little has been heard of the large Marshal Goering since his congratulations to the Luftwaffe over its success in Crete. This is in contrast with other major campaigns which the Germans have under- taken. Early in the drive on Poland it., was an nounced that the Marshal was directing the German air force in the field. Just before the attack on Nor- way Goering warned of a blow in the West. Imme- diately after the opening

Italians

Hungarians

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Rumantang

BEGGARS CAN'T BÉ CHOOSERS“

Bulgariana

Black Sea Drama

of the campaign against FOUR men Russian, an Germans, the Russian dictator's terrorist anti-Soviet movement-

was

the Low Countries and

Afghan, a Caucasian, and an personality alone will not produce Ukrainska Vijskova Organisatsla

·Iranian — are playing their part the desired effect It will have they hope to enthrone Skoru France it was announced

in the Black Sea drama: -

to be something much more po-padsky by accepting-Nazi-tulelago. that he was again direct-

tent, a tangible menace, as for ex- ing operations.

arrival of German In this way, they plan to make the Much Stalin is included, 'because the ample, the

of Black Sea & German lake so that was made, in, Berlin dis-Black Sea's storm clouds are cast-troops in the ancient cities

Samarkand and Bokhara:

Nazi forces may move to the oil ing their shadows eastwards to

wells of Baku-or-carry on- their patches, of Goering's per- Afghanistan; likewise because the The activities of General Skoro-thrust toward Iraq and Iran, sonal conduct of the Russian-Caucasian dictator, being rudsky are of interest here because Battle of

In Iran, the one man of impor Britain last partly Oriental, has a name that their hordes toward Iran and be-

yond. I met him years ago in tance **until recently September, including the has a bearing upon the reaction of Parls, when he lived in rather Reza Shah Pahlevi. Soldier- report that he had pilot-th the Middle East, in addition to French capital. But poverty had rose from

those who may feel the Nazi thrust humble circumstances in the minded, and soldier-born, be

the ranks. First ed-a-bomber. over London. his being directly concerned in the not broken him, This 70-year-trooper; then captain, coloriel; Wart- The plump Hermann Russo-Nazi struggle.

old leader of the Cossacks bore Minister, Prime Minister, til, by: himself as a. Duke.

evicting the Kajar dynasty of was not much in evidence

I once saw Stalin, looking like,

soft-living Shahs of Persia, he was during the Balkana weary farmer as he sat on the Sitting in a chilly room with a elected' aq Shahanshah (the King wind lashing snow- of Kings) in 1920. Like his Tur- trunk of a fallen free, addressing November a group of Uzbek peasants. His flakes on the curtainless windows-kish counterpart, Kemal, he creat- words were being translated by a Bokharian youth who seemed in

at ease in his embroidered skull-

battles, and during the present war with Russia he has apparently dis appeared from an excit cap. The graybeards of the de- ing and portentious picingly, as they heard him repeat sert shook their heads disapprov- ture. Such modesty on Stalin's remark that Communism Marshal Goering's part is was simply their ancient faith in

a new version. distinctly unusual and lends a certain colour to the current rumours, however

the suspect sources of these rumours may be.

-By- Sirdar Ikbal

Ali Shah

ed a modern state, destroying tri- bal and feudal domination and re- organising and - re-equipping the army: He controlled the power of the clergy, placed public finance in a sound state, revived indus- try, and strove hard to make Iran a self-sufficient country. Without borrowing from foreign- ers, he financed, from national re- sources" construction of an 870- mile-long Trans-Iranian railway line which connects

Gulf with the Caspian Persian

In the evening Stalin's disciples barangued the people in the public square. The propagandist dilated fully upon Stalin's association with Lenin since 1903; how he had pro- of his apartment, he regaled me pagated the great revolutionary's with stories of long ago when, as doctrines through the columns of the Ukraine also looms large in Borba Proletoriata. This was Central Asia as the last barrier

The last important figure is His, That the stories of the true, but quite beyond the com- before the Germans may hurl Royal Highness Sirdar Mohamed confinement of the second prehension of the average Tur-a-dashing young Colonel of the Hashim Khan the Afghan Prime koman farmer. But when the Cossacks, he acted aide-camp to Minister. He is the uncle of the man in the German Reich speaker pointed out that it was the Czar and had actually be youthful Afghan, monarch, could be entertained for a Stalin who struggled hard for come ruler of the Ukraine when Mohamed Zahir Shah. Religious Central Asian Republics against the province was under German and hard-working, he began life- moment is a pointed the thraldom of the Amit of Bolt occupation during the World War as a Civil Servant during the re

gime of the ex-King Amanullah commentary on the revo-hara, the eyes of his hearers

Khan, and rose to the status of al sparkled in appreciation, for here lutionary character of the was something which they could

Governor. Thence he was trans- ferred to the army, where he rose Hitler regime, the explo-understand something which Later in exile, he organised the to the rank of general and fought

had bencfted them??

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National Cáucasús Movement hard in cooperation with his against the Soviets with Nazi brother, the Inte: Mohamed Nadir But if they are called upon to money, then went to Istanbul Shab, in the recent war of Afghan.

in the struggle against the offering to incorporate his coun- Revolution.

try into the Turkish Republic if he could be made king of the uraine once again, But Kemal Ataturk declined the offer.

Since then he has been Prime Minister at Kabul. He has organ- ised Afghan trade, education, and industry upon modern lines, with the result that the Afghanistan öf to-day-has-no national debt, and agriculture - and industralisation-

proaching self-sufficiency.

In diplomatic dealings a: nou....

sive personalities that compose it and its essential lack of stability One can be sure that in shadowed Germany such vided for them. But stories are circulated should the British Isles, under the rose, probably as A. P. Herbert, M.P.,

For 20 years Skoropadeky has with emendations and en: once said, "shake to an walted, ever planning, plotting, and keeping in close touch with largements that would unprecedented thud as his "colls, not only in the Ukraing have improved to the point of ap

but also in Poland, Czechoslova Seem incredible to better-Reich Marshal Goeringida, Yugoslavia informed peoples. So far a parachute at each cor- This in as the world outside is her settles on and per- chants soldier of fortune or this teal course is being followed concerned there is no spe- haps submerges the Isle Nazi in France Supplied with ter carries the nation with him in money and precise instructions désirlog, peace in the land and cial reason to belleve of Wight or Skye," it regarding Afth-column activities, good relations with its neigli- these rumours until more would be no matter for thousands of Skoropadsky's men bours. The young king, recently nwoit: Hitler's command to moval emphasised Afghanistan's neu- substantial bases are pro- i great surprise.

upon the Ukraine and join the trality during the present" wars.

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