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INFLATED LAND

VALUES

Assessment

Of Singapore

Goebbels

Diary

February 2, 1942: One really wonders on what grounds the English had the Insolenco to declare war on the Axiat Powera.

If things went my WAS, I Elther they did not know our would inflict the heaviest auperiority and their inferiority punishment on these parsons or else and this seems more and would possibly even con- plausible they intended from

the very beginning to have dema them to death for doing other countries and peoples do such damage to the Reich. their fighting for them.

At any rate, that's where. I attack the English vigorously in the German Press and also in our foreign language broad- casta.

But of course, such a ques- tion cannot be handled by itself but must be viewed as part of a larger picture, and it is for the Fuehror to decide whether or not he considers such a trial desirable at this moment.

The radio programmes have deteriorated very much.

During the hours set aside tenable chiefly because there for entertainment almost noth isn't sufficient fighter-plane

Singapore

But the English won't lot themselves be disturbed in the complacency of their argu: ments. They are a very pecu-i liar people with whom it is dimcult to have an argument.

They are obdurate to a de-ing but symphonic music is of protection. gree that gets on one's nerves fered. That's what we get for. in the long run. But possibly appointing a musical director- Possibly at some time or other that is a national advantage general to be responsible for

the entertainment programme. 1 am convinced that no mat-] sumebody will reap the whirlwind. rather than a disadvantage.

People of this type usually ter how nonchalantly they may In the meantime, Hong Kong's:

sit in an Ivory tower and don't act about Singapore, its loss inflated land values are bringing

know what the common man will be a real shock to the Eng- in fat returns to the Treasury and

and what he needs ish people, Churchill is al-. A number of wanta' there is rather

February 8: more indication

ready having a hard timo calm- that this is being treated as developments that, acording to most.... matter for clation than that it is being, more appropriately, treated

We Shall. See !

Most (British) newspapers

the maps, seem unfavourable to Experts are always handicap-ing public opinion. us have led the Bolsheviks once ped in their relation to the com again to utter cries of triumph. mon people. They lack the think Churchill hasn't gone as a sublect of concem.

They now declare that Kharkov necessary instinct for realis- nearly far enough in reshuf. There is, in fact, small causes in immediate dangor and

People thought a number of for official complacency in the sale that this enables them to striking what the people are think-fling his Cabinet.

ing, at auction on Monday of a parcel at the very heart of our troops.

February 4: Quleling gave a strong men would be included; of 13,200 square feet of land at Well, we shall neel

long Interview about his poli-instead, Churchill got stuck

with Beaverbrook. All Shanshuipo ur $250,000.

clen.

Benverbrook feoma to have that is being developed by the

He makes the somewhat gro-

pretty far-reaching land boom is a vicious circle, of

tesque claim that in his hands obtained

But no man with serious potentialities, threatening

as Premier is concentrated all powers. to create the conditions for per

the power formerly held by the imagination, or a strong char King, the Parliament, and the acter, can maintain his position manent stabilisation of house and

long beside Churchill. Prime Minister. flat rentals at their present ex-

Churchill delivered very aggerated level. The tendency is,

The Bolsheviks don't seem to have confidence in their own strength any more. Even their loudest reports of victory in diente that they have their secret doubts.

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By SHEPARD BARCLAY "THE `AUTHORITY OF AUTHORITIES"

DIFFERENCE IS IMMENSE

West opened the A of his part Der's spades and then, led the not the 4. When East won that with the ́ 10, he counted West as now being Chand you would say that the blank of the sult, since the 3 was difference between a four-spot and a lower than any card not in sight, and to hence was the last which West held. three-spot is so insignificant as be of no real Importance whatever, lie therefore returned the spade K to when you held bath of those cards, the third trick, confident West could

and the difference can be terrific, bow-trump it. But Souls. ruffed

if your order in, playing them West played the 4

East was fit to be. tied, but he in short, in direct contradiction noяes that one can hardly doubt) thick, for after all there is a thin and pretty confused speech deceives your partner, it can prevent

Reich commissioner standing in the House, explaining the defeat of a beatable contract. Just | could do nothing about It South ake one instance-your lead of play, knocked out the hears A with a trump In the second trick of the suit. If it, lead,

diamonds to discard clubs from

of the policy expressed in, the Ordin- Landlords and Tenants

|pace.

The Japanese are so cocksure and positive about their prog-

their successes.

On the other hand of course one must not fail to observe

That'a laying it on a bit

healde him!

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reconstruction of his Cabinet,

Ile dwelt especially an the

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Nevertheless we release this that the Japanese now and then version, since naturally we are difficultice the British Empiro is later than any your partner and Won the return club Q and then exaggerate grossly and that highly interested in letting the faces in its relations with Aunor se, he is impelled to treat it as his hand. tralia. their propaganda is very juve Norwegian Government appear

as big and independent as pos-Land more nie.

sible.

I therefore gave orders that grossly exaggerated Japanese news items must not be pub- lished in the German Press.

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Casualty Lists February 5: Figures aro available concerning casualties due to freezing.

We must differentiate be twaan first, second, and third degree injuries.

now counter-offensive (in North

Africa).

That is something, however, that the English always do when things are in bad shape. First-degree frostbite com- Anyway, their news policy prises the light enses. General- is something that we could ly speaking, the soldier remains never afford to imitate. Appear with his unit and is treated catly the English people don't there.

Up to January 20 there were make their Government reapon- sible tomorrow for what it said 4,000 third-degree frostbite today.

cases. in other words, serious caseA.

These 4.000' cases Include 1,856 necessitating major a putations.

Easy To Lead

It is extremely easy to lead the English people. The Ger- man people are much more sen- Ritive about these matters.

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Besides then 4,000 third- degree cases, 45,000 cases were recorded of first and second

degree, that is, injuries of a

the last you bold in the sult. If, how Australia is becoming more ever, a lower card is aut of sight to obstinate and the ham, he knows his partner may have English world empire faces the var of the suit left, that lower one. danger that, if the crisis with- in, the Commonwealth should develop, Australia may day incline more towards United States.

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In the evening I took a look H752 at the Italian Gigli motion plc-D 8 6 3 ture "The Tragedy of Love," CK 10 7 * the artistic level of which is so far below the normal that it really ought to be prohibited.

The Italiana are not only do

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If West had played the 4 ou the second, spade trick, East-not seeing on his the 3ould have counted. partner to hold that card. He then would have returned' his club Q In- stead of a third spade. That would have removed South's A. When the. declarer later lost to the heart A, a second club lead would have set

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One might almost say that Fascism has reacted upon the creative life of the Italian peo-onger pair bidding them, freely against werk opponents. Thş etti. ple rather like sterilisation.

mate of their opposition's ineptness proved correct, as they made a de- featable contract through bad team. work of the defence on the simplest kind of matter.

Secret Message February 7: We got hold of a secret message the (Bri- tish) Foreign Office to its em- bassies and legations. *.

what we have lost in him.

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After North opens with i-Diamond and East doubles, what would you do In the South?

The English succeeded in con

1. feel numb over this loss (quering one-sixth of the earth

lighter or medium nature.

Churchill's preparations for

It is a warning not to be There are so many poople in public by their methods, But that was the East Asia conflict are be ing revealed more and more as optimistic about the situation in life who are as superflucus as during an epoch when the great amateurish. Parliament would the East; the German Army was 're, Death does not dare touch national States

ready, undoubtedly have sent him fly-by no means defeated; its power them.

But when there is someone the weather improves, it must be

Now, however, that Germany ing long ago if there were an to resist was unbroken; and, ay

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has

adequate successor.

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not yet

In fact, were the revenues from this source more satisfac torily dealt with, the inclination might be to suggest that Govern ment go in and make a killing Here, while the going is good. of course, we come back to an old argument: that income from land sales should not be absorbed automatically into the general re venues of the Colony, but placed in a special account, to be drawn In upon for special purposes.

Even today utterances of certain circumstances, it might be held back as a provision for lean leading men of the Reich dat ing back to September and years, but more general approval October 1989 are still thrown would be commanded were Te

up at us if things have not enues from this-source to be ear-] come off as prophesied. marked for the development of Quisling's appointment

Norway) public amenities those things for Premier (of which the Government, for some created a sensation in the coun- reason or other, never feels that tries at war with us and has

But look as you will far and expected to start new offenalves, among them who has the ability is ready, Italy is trying hard to A number of minor bomb to help make history, a senseless Rot ready, and Japan is just on it has suficient funds.

drawn in its wake great waves wide. there is none to be dis-explosions are reported as having and cruel fate tears him from our the point of being ready. England of angry commentary.

occurred in the baggage roms of ranks and he leaves a vold that will have to reckon with these

three new world Powers. Quisling is hated violently in covered.

stations, The fact that the Fuehrer Berlin railway

among simply cannot be filled.

Feb. 10: Of course there are

It's a fight for the highost the entire onemy world and is

a few English voices stupid enough stakes." No matter how long it the

for viie himself has taken over active them the Anhalter and Stettiner target

seo it command of the Army is hay stations.

Ino doubt the cfficial version of lasts, we shall havs to danger I sense a certain calumny.

through. this. Any ruffian can hand. in the cause of Todt's death. Ho has actually succeeded in ing a wonderful effect.

Recent Germon successes in his suitcase with a time bomb al That's the way, English gentle.

For if we don't succeed in becoming a symbol, although the East are credited to him, the cloakroom counter and two ur fare: they are nonchalanteri he doesn't really deserve it.

overything is shattering English domination In rightly so. He has ac three hours later a part of the polite na long as But the more he is attacked and

well with them, but they cast oft the world, all sacrificles of World anved the Enstern railway station is blown up. abrond, the more

it becomes tually

I am having an inquiry made na hier monks and reveal theinselves War I and World War It will Front.

oppressors tho have been la vain, N

(To Be Continued). our duty to support him.

The Jewish question, is again to whether luggage can't be con- brutal world

moment one trespasses on their trolled more effectively. I therefore gave the German

a headache: this

But here, as everywhere else, preserves or a man appearson Press instructions to give his Kiving, us appointment a good build-up time, however, not because we we lack manpower necessary for the scene with whom they must

reckon.

Beginning on April, tcód ra- Partition Of Germany and to see to it that with us, have gone too far, but because work like this pr

At noon I received the represen Apart from Marshal Soko- at least, he receives favourable we are not going far enough.

Among large sections of the tatives of the Auslands Organisations must be reduced, There can of German,j.be no doubt, that: the rationin lovsky's theatrical walk-out from publicity, the Allied Control Council meet- On the other hand I forbid German people the iden le gain-tion (Federation

comprehensive survey of the mill be sufficient to guarantee health ing, new evidence that the Soviet wing the word "Fuehrer" in ing headway that the Jewish Living Abroad) and gave them a force after April 6 will no longer Government expects the partition the German Press when applied solved until all Jows have left in ons best form. Lam mure they of human labour power, bu

to Quisling. of Germany to last may be found

I don't consider it right for the Reich. in the administrative reorganisa- the term Fuchrer to be applied tion just completed in Eastern to any other person than the Germany

Like the British and American

The various pros and cons of the argument on this treatment of land sale revenues have been ex- haustively dealt with

for years no repetition is neces. past and sary. All that might be suggest ed now is that the Government and its advisers discuss the issue once again, and see whether it cannot discover a change of heart, and a sounder, moral approach.

DOW

Fuehrer himself,.

authorities, the Russians have now Clergy On Trial

Newspaper Praised By

question cannot be regarded as tary and political situation, I was and the maintenance of reserver Mr. Attlee

No Petrol

February 6: One of the armies (in the East) hus re- ported that marching orders

1917 Again

London, Mar. 23,

·Prime Minister Glement Attlee préfsød the Daily Herald last night a newspa- per which has given supporters

We must therefore expect a will return spiritually, elated;"

February 8: Anglo-American number of developments which collaboration the principal we have hitherto been in a post-

tion to avoid. theme of the Anglo-Saxon Presa:

There soom to be all sorts of dificulties about it. That is, be cause in the much-advertired democracies nobody knows who is

Undoubtedly, too, the personal upon conditions that in some facte vanities and rivalries between ways resemble those of World

He spoke at a concert colo Churchill and Roosevelt play an War during its third year

**It is quite obvirus that a war brating the 20,000 tikus" of important.role.

created a Central Economic Com I received word from the can't be carried out because to give orders and who is to obey We are now gradually enteringl of the Labour Government the

Western part of the Relch that there is no petrol.

Bision to supervise the whole of their zone in which central

11 clergymen who are under in- Moscow is exceedingly dis- @gencies were already at work..

dictment for listening to Eng-satisfied with the British con- The reorganisation is likely to lah broadcasts are soon to be tribution in other theatres of We may consider ourselves lucky which extends over so long the publication which the

organ of the Trades (Unlo speed up the rate of social and tried.

Todor wire The Bolsheviks are, gra- not to be opposed by a front that period of me, and encompasses uch tremendous spaces of venythi economic change and deepen the Informed the Fuehrer, dually: beginning to understand la united ideologically

i bound to encroach on the pegs Congress, Dr. Todt Killed fole's food economy and since this trial will undoubtedly what a pall-and chain they died

It is satisfying and comfuruf We needed a payar that will Western Germany.

Inevitably, the form of the new character. AANGE

selves with the British Empire. the day a shattering place of news however, to know if that walbillar tell the people white administration reflects the Sevict sugest

They admit that our troope reached me. Dr. Todt (Minister & n'ions obtain in England lao, happatid kokkr view on constitutional matter their ones. The Russians, by offer great, resistance and that Munitions. crashed and was so that our difficulties are not so paper that tell of

have not hes to ime it is dimcult to attain objectives los on leaving the airport, fol much due to the blockade, das

lowing a visit at was to the long duration of the War C085 wwwhen facing them,

Condillon in certain parts of Held, poses.upon the

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