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GOERING "They'li hang me anyhow, so I may as well be a hero to the German people."

HESS The British kept insisting I was just an airman not an 'ambassador."

RIBBENTROP

"I

| CARNIVAL

was profoundly sur- prised when Britain yielded at Munich.”

Nazi Gang's Secrets

hermann Goering ant cross- legged en: the steel cot in his; ech In Nuremberg Jail. I bad! Just asked him why he per- Ristently admitted hin war crimes instead of trying make an allbi.

to

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By DR. DOUGLAS M. KELLEY chiof psychiatrist at

for the war aplit our foreca Hitler was adamant that Russir would fall within two months, ant the Luftwaffe could then return to the British front.

"I became cxtremely exclted and anked Hitler if I could thin

the Nuernberg trials it over. I went out, and walker

Field-Marshal Keltel çok up the story from there.

He coldly replied: "I know. they're going to hang me.j You know they're going to hang me.

Why fool ourselves? "If I admit everything, and teil them ft was all for the

When the Germans' 1940 amesh Fatherland, that makes me a

through the Ardennes burg hero. In a few years there'll

France open like a paper bag there be sintuca of me, I'll be on

was no holding Hitler. He told little pedestals all over Ger- his generals, according to Keltel,

"I kriow more about strategy 1 never dreamed, you many would treat a Marahal of the any man in this room. From here on am going to do all the plan. Reich like a common criminal."

ning."

"Why?"

"You remember the Musso- al incident?" Gooring went on. "We had pictures of Mussolini dead in the gutter, with his mistress and hanging in the air upside down. They were Awful

than

onwards, the Chief of Staft sim- ply transmitted Hitler's plans to the staff for action. No general with an opinion of his own would have lasted a day.”

One man who dared to take matters into his own hands was the sorry figure, Rudoff Hess,

"Why did you fly to England?" asked him,

"If I explained to the British what we really planned to do, we could make peace,” he said.

"The world stili doesn't know exactly what happened when you Goering went on: "Hitler landed in Scotland. How was your This will never happen to me! went, into a frenzy, shouting: flight, anyway?" I inquired.

"I made three flights," Hess Afterwards he said he would replied. "The first two kill himself rather than be warm-ups.

warm taken alive."

May 10

took

several miles round the foot of th Fuhrer's chalet. I finally return ed to tell Hitler it couldn't b done.

"He became extremely angry, and said that we must attack Russin now, because if something were to happen to him no one would be left to direct the offen. sive,

"I did my best to prevent

on his Insistence. I finally vielded.

"We threw our Luftwaffe divi. alons into Russia. They «vere swallowed up."

at-

Keitel, too. made representa. i lens inst the Russian attack. He said that every officer have the rank of major-general templed to advise the Fuhrer against this campaign.

Hitler's yenly was, "I must ses it through before I die.”

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By Dick Turner

Ook Minnet

"I think it's wonderful the way you civilian doctors'dis ciplined the public during the war since my return not one of my patients DARES to call me after 10 pm."

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THE MAN WHO

ALWAYS

WAS

RIGHT

ja broken picture. But no ans, "Apparently Hitler didn't Keitel said: "From June, 1040,

child or adult, attempts to solve a share your belief in the easy puzzle by hurling all the pieces on! Why out." I remarked. the ground in the hope that, by Geering turned his cold eyes good luck, they will fall into a upwards and mumbled: "Ach, coherent pattern, This seems to Him. He had his own ideas The the rather optimistic technique about dying. He was morbid." for the United Nations. It also} seems to be the technique of the 21 nations now meeting in Paris. But a sensible man wishing to pu. la jigsaw puzzle together starts of hit by bit. From the joining o' two or three pieces here and there, Jahe pattern begins to emerge and.

as the joined sections grow larger,) they link up with other sections.

The world has had the bene- ! His mother wanted to make i If the puzzle is a difficult one, it

fit, for seventy-nine years, of him a draper. She didn't know were akes time and patience. Only by

Then I

the company aff on

and the friend-it. but she was supplying the starting on a small scale will it

10, 1941, early in the morn-

ly if unsparing critictama of material for a famous novel lever be solved. We must seek the

ing with a brand new Messersch-Herbert George Wells.

which was to be called "Kippa." ideal of Wendell Willkie. "One

rollt. It was very nice across the

Now he is dead--though thaL} "That hell of a life as Wells World!" must be our aim, for himself? Why not

seems hardly credible Channel and over, England.

to one called it, lasted for nearly four thing less than that will ever gerture, like leading the final "I had a wonderful time, be- who was educatel mainly by years. At eighteen he rebelled

and escaped from the counter. allow mankind to exis: in peace charge against the Russians?" cauer

all the way. Wells' ideas. "Hitler, thought ho might not

Cause Aedac-hopped

Was great fun—you know it and prosperity. The solving of the be killed," Goring replied. "He was legal in Germany! I did a world puzzle will take time at might merely be wounded and splendid job of navigation, and parience. As with jigsaw later subjected

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landed 13 feet from where I plan- puzzle, we must start off hit by treatment as Mussolini."

ned to hit the ground." bit and gradually increase our Goering was convinced that

Hess said that come country jained sections until the pattern of hither is dead. So were the

picked him up. "I had on the tolk one world begins to emerge. The rest of the 21 top Nazis I in uniforma of a captain of the Ger- Process has begun in Holland, Bel.terviewed at Nuremberg.

Iman Air Force, and asked to see for the Duke of Hamilton. I was taken gium and Luxembourg, and from found them in the mood their proposed union we

to prison, where all they did was should unburdening.

ask me military questions. draw hope and encouragement. It will be a slow process, but there is a hurry. The world certainly has twenty years, if not of peace.) at least of uneasy armistice, aliead of it. And merges of nations built slowly one by one will pros

per better than the more universal but possibly half-hearted agree- nents that may ultimately emerge from the bickerings at the Peace Conference. The greatest obstacle in the way

"But," naked, "why didn't hitler make a real hero out of a grand

to the

Pame

had not the faintest idea that Gotring sald of Munich: "We he would get anywhore near as much as we did."

For his ideas are still with though today most of them have become facts.

Only a few months ago the world, gasping at the fact of the atomic bomb and bewildered by the prospect of unlimited atomic power. was reminded that Wells gave birth to these ident in 1994.

And

Cricketer's Son

By

From that achievement Wells went on to write the outstand- ing novel of the 1911-18 war- Mr. Briting Sees It Through." He believed in the Allied cause, but caded the war as a pacifist and on internationalist,

World's Story

With no money he came to London and became a Socialist more and more. To help edu- For those, causes he worked and scientist. At the South cate the world

cut of its Kensington School of Science, Huxley and stimulating fellow duced in 1920 "The Outline of nationalistic stupid+les, he pro-

History." In its compilation ae wak greatly helped by his wife, Amy Catherine Robbing (who died in 1827).

The Outline"

the tells world's history from its dimly- sacortained beginning and in-

roduces. Mankind only. proper perspective. Wells' rough traditional his-

HUGH PILCHER

But Wells the educationist be

was neglected Teatment of came a school-master, and per- hans his pupils did better than he in their exams.

in

controversy and made a lot of torical themes has caused, eager people think harder than they would otherwise have done.

Ill-health and overwork broke novels of the post-war decade Long and manel discussed him down, and in the end re lensed

were "The World of William a nondescript school Cilacold" and "The Autobio- muster to become .writer.

first-rate

day or two, before that. he world, readjusting itself to students stoked the spluttering "I demanded my rights as er

the arrival in power of atomic furnace of Wells' mind caissary. Tie, English would then British Lubour Government, It burned so furiously that the ask me, 'Have you anything to might have been reminded of humdrum business of He said that

Democracy's would reply, 'Of course not. I am 1904.

show you are an emissary? Wells' social theories in, say. examinations willingness to lick the Nazi Lool

the Fuhrer's the gave

Germans A

At that time, in the Fabian tremendous feeling of superiori-hen they would ask, "Did the Society, along with Shaw, Ches- 3. For five years they had He knows nothing about my mis- Wells was advocating 'he prin- I would reply terton, the Webbs and others, Lold themselves they were super-Elan. So the British would say, ciples behind men. Now they began to be Then you are

the programme captured airman, which won the General Election lieve it.

a prisoner of war-tell us about of July, 1945. Ribbentrop agreed. "I was the location of your troops profoundly surprised when Bel- this idea is Soviet tais yielded," he said. "Hitler envoy. They would reply that the "I would ask to see the Swiss Russia. At the merest mention of came out of the Munich meet-Swiss envoy didn't see ordinary CASH SWEEPS There will be a Special Cash Sweep on the cooperation between two Western Ing saying: This proves my prisoners of war--and what was

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Then I would demand to be together with the usual "Through" numoers

taken to the highest representa "Why did Hitler force (310) including a chance in the Special screaming about a "Western bloc,"

his tive of the King. They would say At the same time, Russia goes

lack by ploughing into Poland?" that certainly this would be done quietly and efficiently ahead with

I asked. her absorption of Eastern Europe. Goering,

"He felt he had to." replied disposition of our U-boats?

in a few days-and what was the But the union of Eastern Euro that he might die. He felt he said I would not answer questions "He kept fearing became extremely angry, and pean countries with Sovier Russia was destined to be the savior about military is a very different story from the or Germany, und must was on a diploma diatomstle possible union of Holland, Bel- achieve a solution to his pro- should receive fall gium and Luxembourg. There is blems before his stomach got privileges." Hess continued, all the difference between, a friend- him."

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The

matters, that 1:

graphy of Mr. Parham," in Wells had to write; which Wella attacked dictator himself by far the greatest and ready;

there was nothing else for him ship wall ahead of most pro- Wells has in fact, proved to do. He had practised al

that clear.

most successful phophet of our style, sew in the period, was inevitably; but was up against

forceful Gressives in Britairli

He experimented with films, time. Aud, unlike most pro- forming phets, he helped to make his

tob prophecies come true-by con-

much obstruction here.

"The However, tinuous and ruthless propagan-

Shape of Things da, by educating people in spite

to Come" was made and wide-

Made His Name

That was in 1893,, In 1896 ly exhibited, and it' duly an-

Martinum monstars,

of the

of themselves, by being us much that short but remarkable novel, Boyet there multitutes who mic bcrub as a man may become, ost, said out, and made Welle will be as familiar and as frow

Machine," like a tubby and squeaky ato- "The Time

came hope that the things to come

How and why did Wells name. It was the first of any as the things that went happen? Heredity is left dumb fifty-years' series xf books before. and blushing. He was the son which, if they were only Indon

In the last fifteen years Wells of a professional cricketer and us books, were all heavily laden turned entirely to expounding "Then they would say. "Didn'.

lady's maid.

with ideas.

his spciological ideas and to be ly agreement among mutually res- Hitler's stomach, it seems, you bail out over Scotland in the Yet this unlikely pair, near That same year, 1895, anw waging brilliant war on the pecting countries and the economic played a fantastic role in the man Air Forcut I would any

uniform of a captain of the Ger the bottom of the Victorian the first publication ef "The natural enemies of these idons.

4. The social hierarchy and both em- Stolen Bacillus" and its accom.

Roman

Cathelle and political blackmail of weaker destinies of Europe. He had Naturally. I didn't want to beployed to minister

Church the tradi-canying short stories. neighbours. A United States of suffered since 1925 of stomach inken for a 697.

1." ha remarked, Shy

*1ཝཱ Western Europe might ultimately ins and indigestion.

tichal pleasures of an ancient British would reply,

The War of the Worlds," bete noire, and the Commualst Physical examinations

the ild Then, as far as we're concerned ruling class, produced i icono- describing

invasion comprehend Scandinaviu, the Lowcos reveal anything organically you'll be treated

of Party is my bete rouge." clastic genius.

Earth by as a captain

"Yesirs led by Law-hows, Countries, Great Britain, France. wrong.

riding They produced, in the then Hitler leaped to the in the Air Force. Come alon

Comt was his description Portugal, Spain, Italy, Switzer conclusion that he had cancer now, tell us about the disposition rural quietude

Mechanical of Bromley, next, and thrilled everybody British Army. land, western Austria and, last but if the stomach, and started of your troops."

Kent, in 1866, boy who was whose imagination war already not least, southern and

Back in Germany, according se western i numbering his

to burst out in early middle excited by the possibilities of Germany,

Thin Geering and Ribbentrop, the news life as the greatest pevelist of scientific discovery. These populations hypochondriacal feeling kept of Hess' fight was a complets his day, the foremost expositer amount roughly to 246,000, bin in a constant race against surprise.

For Wells had & way of 000.

And these are all highly. His physicians believed that he into his study half an hour after unt

Goorlog enld: "Eltler called in historian to attempt a modern plausibic by routing it

of the new, sciences, the first

irst making a fantasy completely civilized

in Luropeans. Moreover, was suffering from gastric neuro-ho had read the note Hess had universal history, and the most matter-of-fact, realistic novel- to the numbers of the Western sis. But the doctors were never left him. The Fuhrer, was sitting

And so on. At least, he kept ble might well be added another able to prove their point. Hider in a big chair. almost unable to stupidity,

traditional writing.

people thinking, even though obstruction and 20,000,000 highly civilized Euro-would never permit

"Leve and Mr. Lewisham," a lifelong Wells trainees began to a stomach speak, and feebly fluttering a nots tyranny.

semi autobiographical story, wonder whether they dared to reans inhabiting the British do- X-ray or a simple gastric analysis. at he

Remember that what intel- showed that he could write read the latest broadside, minions, plus the native popula. He drenched his mind with thu Hess did. I read the letter and ing for the last quarter-century, and The First Men

"Hitler Bald, 'Here, 200 what ligent people have been think- fiction other, thau funtastic; tions of the British, French, idea that he had stomach cancer,

At the beginning of the in the Dutch, Belgian, Spanish and Par. and threw himself into a state of tuguese colonial empires which perpetual hurry. together amount to 32,000,000 cring thought Hitler was The grand total would mount to

fool for rushing into Poland.

about 500,000,000, which would

be 30 per cent of the population

'death.

days.

of the world and this without British Note

counting India, which Britain's

Government has pledged to vacate.

it is idle to assert that the gradual To Iceland

formation of such a merger would.

alarm the Russians. They are not

fouls. They must realize that all

eloquent foe of

"Our antiquated and unser- viceable educational machine is responsible for our mental de- cadence...."

Rights Of Man,

was dumbfounded Ribbentrop. Wells began to think of back Moon" satisfied his original second world war he produced Foreign Ministry know anything Į den England of nearly three new level of vivid. imaginativi in "which was in wa

him

:

description.

ה

called in to explain whether thi

in the cast iron and caste-rid- admirers because it reached a

"Declaration of the Rights: of. about it. was appalled.

prophecy- the "Ribbentrop paced the door in quarters of a century ago. his usual helpless fashion, mut-

That was his achievement, to These two contemporaneous better to say that the Charter. lantic Charter. Or would it be tering. 'Hess did that! Hoas flow be half a century ahead of his Wellsian personalities to England! What will we dat time, in an ago of rapid and tinued with "Kipps" and "In

con la an incomplete, vague and Hildegarde Fath, Hea secre- violent change, and yet to be the Days of the Cemet." A plous precis of the Declaration ary, said that Hess told her an always right. And that is true third Welle personality, the tion for the publication of

Wells hoped tha. the Declare astrologer had named him as the both of his technological fore- powerful pamphleteer man to bring peace between: Goż-

nets and his demands for social Modern Utopia" and "New Herald-would focus the pro-

of "A

which he chose the "Daily many and Britain.

reform. When Germany sont her Panzer

Worlds for Old," was a Fabian

efforts London, Oct. 2.

of men of all légiens into Russia, it nearly

Ideas For Future RB well as an aulliór

atfor Britain has warned the Ica brako Goering's heart. Gouring It would be worth while, if He tried to "wake up" the In this he was Muuppolated. and Parlia enld: "I had a beautiful attack on you have time, to go carefully Fabian Society; it was too A more imacible and violent the Western world desires is peace landle Government and a federation, designed for the would be caused in London four divisions of my best, parn, G. Wells, to note those ideas ather Fabian, Staw, and after consequently, wary little road.

ment "that "a bad impression" Gibraltar all planned. It involved through the Collected Works of dilatory and theoretical for him. note grow in his writings, in security and prosperity of the they "unreasonably, withheld a because the British had only on

There was a clash with that such books an "Phoenix, which. troops. It would have been ours world, as a whole, not for a crip- faculties necessary for United poor air base for defensive fligits

about the future, which have pling and disastrous war. Halland States communications with her and convinced you could hav

net" yet been fulfilled, and to five years Wells resigned. After But Wolle work was done warn the world of what it has that he avoided alletmont In long before the crd: and when and Belgium have shown the way, occupation forces in We should learn from them and Foreign Ofice source dlac

in Germany, is captured it

to expect.

organised movemente: hle tem- ho struggled from had to vote disclosed MA week, before my áttack war The first thirty years of parament led him to Bght the Labour at the last election, go ahead with the idea of one yesterday,

ho to begin Hiller called me to Wolis' life wore spent in strug- battles of Reason and Progress had helped more than any other world in our minds. The unity of! Informed circles stated that the Berchtesgaden "and" asid, that he

Engilshman to create the state Western Europe must set an exam. British auto followmit Uriliod had decided to inmode Bussis the sing out of his background: as a lonely super-guerilla

Two more great- ale po the world. And peilupe evan States State Department request next day? I was hookedlid, said out of the Victorian. enste, sys-

novels,

Tone Bungay, hef mind which mate our Rusis may Item that a therger of inuenes in persuading the fee! Would the tegens strands and poor at games," is his own preceded the last war "Mr. to the Foreign Office to use it we were not ready and the "Prococious, untidy, amlable, "The History of Mr. Folly."

and tiga viatory Palanation.

tion that several countries: So be effected fandle authorities to scoopt the prepared for the Gellar att description of himselt as a lad Folly is surely unsurpassed in Paarposits, thuit Abolisher of H. G. Wells, that, Piercer of for the benefit of mankind rather dracciament with Amarion LOT LEGON LAW From the in the eventies: I would like ita superb concentration of Bunkum, had done struedy moge

TT-Koh khla would÷by caloldali than for the discomforture of the voted to maintain Idei Bulgarian ra voimed out must to read description of the lad power and brilliance, humour than one man may expect and

l'Associated. Fro

deliver a knock-out to Britain her by his mother's friends,

und pathos,

Hope to do

Soviet Union.

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