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TRIESTE

The United States, in another surprise move. Its proposed joint- ly with France and Britain that the free territory of Trieste be acturned to Italy. They thereby put both the Italian Communists and their Yugoslav and Russian | backers on the spot.

By Lois P.

Lochner

The Goebbels Diaries, from which representative sections'. have been selected for · this

Goebbel Diary

book, covor thic following motion-picture industry were to periods:

January 21 to May 23, 1942, with the entries for March 22 to March 26 and April 10 misa- laz.

flow into private hands.

I saw the new American pro- vaganda movie. "Foreign Cor respondent." It is a first-class production. A most exciting erime study. which no doubt December 7, 1012, to Decem- will make a certain impressión ber 20, 1942.

upon the broad masses of the people. in enemy countries. Siznificantly enough this film. with its absolutely anti-German, tendency, was allowed to for months in Sweden.

March 1 to March 20, 1943. April 9 to May 28, 1943, with entries for May 2 to May 6 missing.

September 8.to September 30, 1943.

November 1 to November 30. 1943, with the entries for November 5 and November 23 misaing.

December 4 to December 9.

10.43.

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The Swedes and the Swing are playing with fire. Let us hope they, will burn their fin- gers before this war is over, like a miracle that he succeeded in

January 23: Rommel's hold-almon surrounding # part ly conceived attack in North British forces. Afrlen is extremely gratifying. That shows what the initiative, The English are again trying courage, and imagination of a rent to excuse themselves with wen-oldier can do, even under the most

unfavourable circumstances. ther difficulties.

In Rommel's favour is, of course. In the course of the day, how the fact that he is still very young

they must nevertheless and can stand punishment. ever.

The Australians Are extremely admit being pushed back quite

The propinal would require a drastic revision of the six months' old Italian peace treaty. That No doubt some of the miss treaty set up the 430 square mile ing pages went up in flames, area between Italy and Yugo for there is a smell of burned

the whole collec- a distance. Rommel is prais-angry because English aid for Au slavia as

paper about an independent state

tion, and some pages are singed highly by the English Press.tralia is so long in coming; at pre- under the United Nations.

He is altogether one of our sent not even the initial stages of ed.

are discernible anywhere. most popular generals.

We could well use a few more such big shots.

Trieste, long a storm centre, bas been coveted by the Italiaus, who formerly held it, and also by the Yugoslavs under their Suviet. backed Marshal Tito.

Diplomatic authorities feel that the proposal is among the shrewd est moves yet made to try to help the anti-Communist forces in Italy win the April 18 national election. It is not the first such move and officials say it will not be the last.

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It is also likely that large sections of the diaries, indeed whole. volumes, were destroyed in ignorance of their content and importance.

At the same time, the proposal is interpreted as the second action within 24 huhrs to bring Ameri-on van diplumaey into line with the "stop Russin" programune which now dominates Washington's for eign policy.

reaction.

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Can you stata the fundamental Goth, what a lot of bidding.. Yer features of the standard” situadom

January 24: Rommel's intest success is wonderful. The If this be English Press calls him a true, the world has lost docu- rascal who has once again puti menta of inestimable value. jed a rabbit out of the hat. The probe this open wound and la

Each day Joseph Goebbels propaganda which the Engilahti

I have received confidential dictated at great length an ncare carrying on for Rommel is formation concerning the probable

and produced other contracts count of what transpired the exceedingly nearsighted from successor to the Archbishop of Can

either shir Where this kind previous day.

bidding was done, however, there their point of view.

terbury. He will be Bishop Temple.

was a terrific contrast in play. They are making him one of who is much more dangerous than

Some declarers spend their trumps

At each 5-Spade_table,

West led like the proverbia) drunken sailors xpecially heavy water-marked the most popular generals in the old Canterbury gentleman.

Temple is close to the paper and large German-Gothic the world. That's perfectly nil

Lalur of the old whaling days who came the diamond A, which South ruled, formerly a moderate here"

and, the second trick was a lead to with several months

difference. seript of a sort one seldom finds right with us. fur Rommel de Pacy, was

friend of Germany, and is now A

fed In their pockets, In the early the club K. Then came the typewriters,

wasserres it, and he is such an ex-real German hater. He stands part of the play, they seem to gune South got off on the wrong foot

and out- per cent. behind Churchill, is deverlee it their duty to have string

by leading

the spade to the third triple spacing between the lines, emplary character

which the K either

won. The dia- every

tejck, and the margins were wide. No standing soldier that propagan at dialectics and, because of that fact,

possible on his behalf can do

6 to the Kwa ruffed by the no extremely dangerous. oulinary mortal in those days da

Chrought ruffing or via trump leads, could have commanded such pa- harm.

That means we may expect a num-cif en, toward the end of the action, spade 19, the heart 3 ruffet hy the pade 6, the diamond by the spade per or permitted himself the For once propaganda is beer of severe attacks from the Engey find themselves wide open to at

aut American officials have given luxury of such large type and ing done for the right person.ish clergy. But for the moment sack by the defenders, whereas souail and A, leaving South

huhanding of their trumps would trumps. The heart 5 was ruffed by club up hape of operating Trieste as

generous spicing.

The Americans are so help po special danger in this fact.

Our adversaries lament the factave brought their contract safei) should now have been led-the din

the spade and--though a truly independent

The Goebbels Diaries are by less that they must fall back that they have no compelling pear into port. area under

mond was offered. East rolled with the protection of the UN and are no means merely a vain public again and again upon boasting slogan. Quite whviously they woul-i official'a reflections on his own about their arms production. like to use it to deceive the German anxious now to settle this issue.

the spade 7, then took out the last trump on the declarer's aide with bin The Trieste mare is compared importance and his

Their loud mouths produce n people.

I won't permit this theme to be

*pade J. The heart K, 10, A and by Washington officials to the thoritative interpretations of thousand aeroplanes and tanks

almost daily, but when they am convinced that so delicate a pro- I. A J 10

discussed by our writers becauses. K

gor the remaining tricks, setting it Eve. dramatic abandonment by the contemporaneous events.

day-by-day need them in Eastern Asia they blem had best be put on ice and kill. the United States of its support for

record of occurrences in Ger- haven't got them and are there-led by silence. the partition of Palestine. The

Several

reports indicate that anti contention on partition was that many and the world. written by fore taking one beating after

one of the three top men in the another.

German sentiment in certain Bol- it did not afford a peaceful and Nazi hierarchy, who in the In London Big look none too garian Government circles is slight. workable solution for one of the early days of the regime were good.

ly on the increase great problems in which both often called "the Nazi trinity." Even though, in my opinion, the Especially Czar Boris is said t

The | America and Russia are primarily

playing a somewhat double- January 21, 1942: We are recurring rumours of a Government be concerned.

receiving reports about the ex- crisis are grossly exaggerated, never-faced game. He la a sly, crafty fel The move of the Western na-traordinarily low morale of the theless one cannot overlook the fact low, who, obviously Impressed by nerasie).

tha! the English people are, very the severity of the defensive baitles North tions over Trieste presents the Bolshevik troops along the borreative and apprehensive, and that on the Eastern Front, is looking for Russians with very little choice of der of Manchukuo. But I pre Churchill must work very hard to some back door by which be might

of such in- dispel this unrest and worry. eventually escape. If they support the vent publication

formation because It might But I suppose he will succeed once The Febrer sent word to me that 4 S Western powers, they will in awaken too great hopes in the Lagain, all-the-more-so-since England be does not desire the circulation of D effect be turning their backs on German people.

Thas nobody to put in his place,

the Stuermer Streicher's pornograp 39 all their previous arguments for n

From Upper Silesia I received in hic anti-Jewish paper) reduced Yugoslav Trieste and thereby be the hard facts of war and must formation to the effect that wounded that it should cease publication alt almost that identical sequence ap-| in which a player should "cover an

soldiers are still being transported in gether. kicking their Yugoslav satellite in not nurture empty hopes.

unheated goods vans, and that the I am very happy about this decl. plied to one other tournament table, honour with honour" and those the face.

I have ordered my men to soldiers are lying, some with frozen sign. The Fuehrer stands by his all though some went quite differently in which he should not? But if the Rumians side with proceed rigorously against Bermby, in these

fighter- without Party members and fellow trains, Yugoslavia that will be a slap in lin defeatism and if necessary blanketo, neglected and unfed for 70 and won't let occasional trouble and

differences affect him.

are very weak and are being bles I have forbidden the German news the face for the Italian Commun- even to box the cara of somer 10 hours. I am raling Cain.

Because he is so loyal to his co white, Morale among the people in an-no.

services even to mention these some ists. Possession of Trieste is a grumblers, thereby teaching all

There i still a lot of talk about the workers, they, in turn, are equally He believes the Soviet Union will what ticklish, and delicate problems,

him, great political issue in Italy. The potential defeatlata lesson-dismissal of Brauchitsch. (The Field- faithful

collapse in the spring, provided we at I am convinced we can't win any Italian Communists themselves

living In extremely Marshal who was C.-in-C. of I, too, believe that our propagands are in a position to deliver a few laurela bere. tough times, and tough mea- German Army when the war began.) on the Jewish question must continue decisive blows.

As a matter of fact our position are put on the spot of waiting to

sures are necessary,

People haven't quite made up their undiminished.

Even though I am not able as yet with Japan and the problems of see anxiously what the Kremlin

January 22: The debate in minds whether he left because be How much still remains to be done to share this optimism, I sever- Eastern Ania le rather precarious, will do.

about this can be seen from the foltheless believe there is something in since we are uncompromising in our England still revolves around wanted to or not. If the Russians and the West the argument that a

with I have the impression that foreign lowrings in connection

the what he says. ̧ victory

Tacial views. it may well be that the times It is best to overcome this dif-. broadcasts are again being listened to evacuation of a prominent Berlin ern -powers are unable to agree must be won at least in

one

mare extensively.

Jew, an examination of his personal through which we now are passing ficulty by silence. on Trieste, the practical, solution theatre of war, and that this The Reich Food Ministry is in papers and effects revealed that ax will later be regarded as the most Sepp Dietrich (commander of one probably will be an indefinite theatre le Libya. Churchill has sistent that the price of potatoes beste as the middle of 1941 the Ger- advantageous in the entire history of the 5.5. divisions and great partitioning of the territory be- now become a collector of de raised. I am against that.

man Crown Prince wrote this Jety of this war: possibly it is actually figure in the Nazi heirarchy) a # cordial lettere and - presented true that the Bolsheviks are now real comrade and makes ans think of tween the Anglo-American troops serts. That is an activity into While it is true that the farmers very

their last

resources and a Napoleonic general. and the Yugoslav forces now which England only a few years must get better prices as an Incen him with photographs with exceed using up

break down under will

A sevete tive for increasing the crop acreage, ingly friendly inscriptions,

If we had 20 men like that as jointly occupying it. That would ugo tried to force Mussolini.

on the other hand one cannot overs The House of Hohenzollern of to- blaw,

divisional commanders we wouldn't The anxiety of the Gorman took the fact that an increase in the day isn't worth a tinker's dama. a potentially dangerous

But let us not cling too much to have to worry at all about the Easi- situation which Washington of people about the Eastern Front price of potatoes chiefly affects the The problem of sexual activities of such hopes. Our preparations for the ern Front.

is increasing.

the the numerous foreign workern now coming spring and summer must be masses for in the budget of

The Incidents he related to me cials would be happy to end.

Deaths owing to freezing are common man the price of potatoes on German suid is a difficult one. made just as though the Bolsheviks about the Restian people in the oc

This altuation In some cases an especially important factor plays quite a different role from It

Is selif had, very great reserves. cupied areas are simply hairenliing, in this connection. The num- part in the expenditure of the absolutely grotesque. I suppose the That will make us immune to They are not a people, but a^^con-

final solution lies in liberal policy surprises and we won't have moral glomeration of animals. ber of cases of freezing reveal wealthier classes. ed by transports from the therefore favour policy of pre-of establishing-houses-of-ill-femererbacks-like-those-of-last--summer-

The greatest danger threatening us - But that is a father delicate man and autumn.

fa' the East Is the stolid duliness of Eastern Front back home Is go mism financed by the State.

The more dificult we imagine war this mass: That applies both ta-the At noon the state funeral of, Field-ter which must be dealt with care- enormous that it is causing Marshal General von Reichenau was fully:

to be the easier it will prove In the civiliso

the population and to great Indignation here

and held.

In my opinion only such persons as end.

soldiers. there.

Roosevelt has nothing' unbelievably receive permission from the Fuehrer

positive ceremony

The soldiers, won't surrender, an. Is Unrest is, however, not auff-bad, paychologically clumsy, and the to listen to foreign broadcasts should report in the way of victories. His the fashion is Western Europe, when also receive the Seehaus Service. loud-mouthed speeches before, the completely surrounded; but continue ciently great to constituta a music absolutely amateurish.

arranged that in future the state Their number is very limited and 1 var are still remembered by every to fight until they are beaten to Nanking, Mar. 20, threat

ceremonies

ba of the Wehrmacht see no real danger there,

tody

desth. A three-point land-reform pro- Soldiers letters, too, have turned over to our Ministry, since The Seehaus Service was a The discrepancy between what he Dolabeviam han merely accentuated gramme was adopted at the final devastating effect. Words can- we'. slons- can guarantee that they monitoring pervice of foreign broad-prophesied and what has actually this racial propensity of the Ruwian Bession of the Central China not describe what our soldiers will be performed "" In 24 mannex cast Pacification Headquarters today!

The officials of the Propaganda get out of this dangerous scrips In other

facing an as part of the new Nationalist are writing home from the worthy of the State.

front.

(Field. - 'Marshal Walter

von Ministry, especially the editors of anty by Hles and rumors,

adversary about whom we must be strategy for the successful pro

Churchill, on the other hand, con careful. The human mind cannot secution of the war

This is partly because every Reichenau was reported to have died the foreign language broadcasts, against the Communists.

Individual wants to appear im- from an infection suffered in the must of course for the most part tinues merally to prevaricat. He possibly imagine what it would mean

campaign against Russia. There were recolve the Seehaus Service, must, for opposition against him, and if this opponent were to

•pour inte Under the bow programme, portant. The passion for show other rumours that ke met violent but that nothing to dry especially aromas co-workers, ls Writem, Europe, in Red Co Iand cwners in the pacification ing off plays considerable death) areas are allowed to retain only role. Completary 15 We have Jused and there is no pouflibility of theft

about, since I Indoctrinate them daily constal breakdown such an we | aloder for occupied Norway), Intend Verboven (one time Reish Commi five mow per person, there when the soldier writes and special communique to the effect becoming gradually infected, - experienced In November 1918 can to deliver a faulo address bitterly, at mainder to be requisitioned by the Government without com exaggerates he doesn't stop to that German submarings bave sac Oficials are now to work 58 hours be brought about ins England only tucking the afskop of Norw leed notoriety beck pensation,

think that he may be causing ceeded in sinking 125,000 tane Tenant farmers will all be his family and his relatives ajeneray shipping: off the Amerlein Per week insteall of 46. The Miäis~| with great difficulty,dif at alle 206 baiacquired)"

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