1951-07-21 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1951.

IS A NEW HITLER

L

IIE

"Please

long,

RISING?

This is the party badge which thousands of ox-Nazis are today wearing in the lapel where under Hitler they used to wear the Swastika.. And this is the first full story of The Man Behind the Badge and bis meaning to Europe today. by SEFTON DELMER

closely

Veteran foreign correspondent, who, more than any other English writer, knew the leading Nazis from their early days to the full peak of their power.

angular I thought back to that when 1 young man fixed his June day in 1932 grey eyes on mine, had accompanied Hitler on

und amiled

stand me,

But... is

said: an

electioneering tour don't misunder- through this very same dis- Danish Herr Delmer. trict, hard on the

of border. And I wondered:

this

Car

yours a German car? Has is all this fuss about Remer

it got a German number? really justified?

It would not do for me to'

be seen in a British car."

1 was able to reassure

Was

A comeback?

DOES his success in Lower

Saxony really

mean

him. The ear, I told him, a pure-bred German Opel. I had hired it in Dus- that the Nazis are making a seldorf. Not only did it have comeback in Germany, that ап unmistakably German de-Nazification imposed by number for all to see, but n the Allies is now giving way driver who had told nie with to re-Naziftention imposed German pride how he had been a by an incurable member of the Nazi Party, public?

had suffered for it, and was I could see no trace of extremely anxious to meet the wild Nazi enthusiasm of 1932. Not that I expected the young man.

That dispelled all further them to line the streets for qualms. The car was sum- this young ex-general in his suit. Or tn moned. We got in and drove shabby grey off.

send brass bands and blond

Thus it came about that I spent a sunny and instruc- tive summer

children out to meet him.

But they did not even re- week-end cognise him when he arrived. ferrying from one political at the beer hall in Meldorf meeting to another the most where he was to hok his controversial figure I first meeting that day. Europe today, Otto

Ernst There

were 130 flugs.

Remer. 39-year-old ex no reception committee- major-general of the Ger- nothing. Just a primitive man Army, ex-commander hand-made placard annòune- of Hitler's

was

"Remer

visit:

filled

And the in with

military body ing

his the highly speaks at..' guard, today -active prophet of a fourth time

Nazi Reich.

chalk.

Nor was the attendance at the meeting itself very impressive.

The parallel

REMER has startled the Most of the 250 there

world by starting from scratch and, in his first try, were elderly, Every time I for his talked with any of the winning 16 seats neo-Nazi "Socialist Reich crowd I found he or she Party" in the parliamentary was a refugee from East elections for the little West Prussia or Poland.

German State of Lower The alibis

Saxony,

10

(ummings

Too big? Ah! But I'm growing boy....

a

tho to minutes

carry

He has caused almost as DEMER had some alibis.

did It reparations and its replacement only

their duty until ve ultra-modern equipment and "but much of a seasation, by was

right, Saturday

It with

Marshall aid, is pro- ter the end." inking it the fourth largest was dangerous for people to be under

This mukes him ducing a now prosperity and a

ideallatic conviction when he party in this little State, as seen at his meetings,

State employees were liable new self-confidence. Ilitler did in 1930 when his

instant dismissal if they

against present "slaye" Above all, the appeals of the rails

Eust and West party became the second-

showed signs of sympathisinit Western Allies do, West Ger- regimes

and calls on the Jorgest in the Reichstag with his movement, business man help with arms and troops, Germany

to join him in re- ucdience Soctel former stood in against their and farmers elections.

Germany in a Reich of having their bank ally have completely dissipated uniting

only It was

incorporate the parallel be danger

born of bombs which will the humility credits withdrawn,

what. "was best in National tween his career and that of Now in the face of all there and defeat,

traditions of service 1 might have Hitler which fascinated and alibis

been No longer do Germans dis- Socialist

the German people's com- to dismiss -this tempted alarmed the world.

men

Hitler was a house-painter Remerism as something whose

been

importunee has

had turned bricklayer. Both some

side

had then become Radical- respect. Nationalist politicians ap- But four things make me pealing to returned soldiers warn you to pay attention to to clean up the "traitor this man and his party. profiteers downfall."

of

Germany's

claim that they were members

are

Russians 'ready'

A

the

ότι

of the Nozi Party. Instead inunity," cx- they boast of the number of who had turned soldier. aggerated and in doing so I months

they spent in Allied have had on my who would Remer was a soldier

prisons. on experts

Germany Gone

the days when

THE DANGER of Remer's whose opinion.I have come to

other high-up German 4 isolationist

to every

programme claimed to have been the collective security of the 1 met

with the 1944 plot Western world. He and the against Hüter (July 20). connected

of his party other prophets behind-scenes The spate of

doctrine, highly preach this attractive to Germans, MY RECOLLECTION of the memoirs from German gencrals in which they 1

The Russians, they say, are the and diplomats early beginnings of

Zoo ready to necept Hitler's rise to power had Hitler movement under even try to prove how bravely they orly.

were all conspiring against united Germany, free from all Hitler havo

#lea produced begun in the small States of dess impressive conditions.

to either the Atlantic or Bavaria

the Communist bloc. and Thuringia. MY CONVICTION that predictable reaction.

this

free They have convinced a large

would For Remer appears

be be West Germany is becoming to

to Russians concentrate ginning his in the small fertile ground once more for a number of Germans that Hitler

revival was stubbed in the back-just their main preoccupation-the Nationalist Radical

and Ludendorff will be exploited by like

the insolidation of their gains in

Ask and tho leader of the some

Remer Kaiser in 1918-by traitors.

protection a their Remer

oilfielda oroinst invariably reaps If it is not type, even

Remer

when in super-ovation bimecif.

his menace of American attack." rolers to the reconstruction, speech, ho

Rearmament and remilitarise- of the ten of Germany on the other for his unsuccessful helped by the dismantling of surviving Traitors

old and

for 20th of July," and announces: hand. they say, will provoke outworn plant d'etat

1923. of

attack, "One day it will be our job to Itussia to immediate coup

finial these passing

put

an and doom Germany after Remer,

gentry before tribunal and have destruction. through

objective 17 different

them sentenced."

"Wherefore," they say, "let us 'Allied prisons since the

Germans lead Europe in shak- war, was recently sentenced to four months' imprison- ment for libelling the Ger- man Government. (He is appealing against the sen- tence.)

State of Lower Saxony. which

In 17 prisons

HITLER was imprisoned Industrial

He had repeated at one of his meetings a Hearst Press report published with impunity by German news- papers that Chancellor Adonquer and his colleagues had prepared evacuation headquarters in London for the event of Soviet invasion of West Germany.

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

to

ok

tho

Reverse of 'Bossing off the Atlantic yoke before

3

its too late, and forma THE IMMENSE appeal neutral third force bound to which,

after watching him either."

It is wishful thinking at its during public meetings and wishfullest. But not too wishful private conferences, I am cer-

tain

have

Remer's personality must to enchant the Germans,

for vart numbers present-day

of

Germans-porticu- A living force

larly for the 20 to 40 age

group.

These have hitherto remained. aloot from politics because of

WHETHER Remer ever

succeeds in inking power" or not, I am convinced that

their resentment of the parties this programme of his is going "Ilcensed by the Allied occu- to become aliving force in

German politics), (:,

piers.or

Remer, towering over the And, mak: no mistake, Remer Audience from his platform, is a natural at putting it over. grey-faced and ascetic in tis He is the only political apeaker passion is so obviously the today whom Germans will pay reverse of the fat Nazi boga! to hear, orators despised, by German SyrieLondon Express Service,)

OMMONDAY: Kispites, himself the front waniem kila lihat gifilters who, he asys, noi #Bemer In Action

Can you

• Was ista, Liestr Hot sce that I am desporaicly trying to pubitch my GOOGLEN E of Row I led the undergro opposition to the test Fuehrer

·Dejora it's time to start helling

As we drove through the towns and villages and the fat green countryside of Schleswig discovered Jay star next Compet own parallel?,

Beverley Baxter

WHEN THE PRINCESS GOES

ON TOUR

LONDON. RINCESS ELIZA

BETH and the Duke of Edinburgh will see Canada at its best In October. The seasons there do not melt into ench other but arrive with a sense of pageantry and drama,

It needs no imaginative ef- fart of mine to feel the blazing Canadian summer page as I write, nor see the dust rising from the parched Innes of the country-side.

Then there will come the

the harvest and the

In conversation he is impatient hut in painting he outrivals Job. die will keep on and on until he gets what he wants. 'PRAISE THAT

WENT TOO FAR

I

BY comparison with the Royal Academy reception the dinner 10 General Eisen- hower was goodwill and genial courtesy all round. But surely Mr Attlee carried flattery too far General when he said that sun on this Eisenhower was

was the man who won the war."

THERE is no such person as the me

STIRIL

who won the war, not even r Churchill, who harvest moon....colder winds played such a gigantic part in it. and shortening days...the Certainly General Eisenhower brief reprieve of Indian summer deserves the highest tributes that ending in a sudden trost which gratitude cun accord, but if we plunger file h knife into the must choose one man what about earth and sends the leaves blood the merchant seaman ploughing red....

th, death-infested sen, or funter pilot giving his immer- tality in the battle of the skies, the soldier wresting victory in the cruel, ageless desert?

PARADOXICALLY It might be argued that one man, Adolf Hitler, lost the

war, but ven he had the assistance Goering.

A SEASON OF FULSING BEAUTY

IT is the season of such glory and pulsing beauty that one wants to piced like the port: "O be less beautiful or be less brief!" But there comes the slow death falling leaves until winter covers them with snow Ilke a shroud....and then the Inng, long alco

sleep.

ALREADY there are tactful suggestions from London that Elizabeth and Philip should not be burdened with too many off clat engagements.

I doubt if this much have

will

effect.

Each of the cities strung across the 3,000

that miles divide the Atlantic and the Pacifle will want to demon- demons strate the affection in which the Royal Family is held. Nor are those words mere formality. The Canadians feci a personal affection which 15 almost stronger than loyal-

13.

THEY have not forgotten the Canadian tour

ir

WHEN LESSER BREEDS ARISE

the

of

THE Americans at Wimble- don should be Aattered at the enthusiasm of the crowd when two Australians, one South

BEVERLY BAKER

There's always Sadler's Wells

African, and an ex-; Czech eliminated the USA. from 402 men's doubl25.

American tenni? supremacy has been so firmly establish- ed that we are delighted when the lesser breeds rise occarionally

and topple the

Olym-

plans.

IT เฟอร afterncon

an

many divertisse

ments.

On one occasion

a pizcon just miss- ed

smashing

a

ง

drive at the ne!. Miss Brough served

ball

the Into of the King and

crowd on her right,] Queen, which she afterwards

her er Sturgess hit his described to friends as their second corona- Drobny, on the back

lightning service.

tion p

partner,

with a

Saviti,

Even the French Canadione, And, of course, there was that who have a playful habit of supreme moment when every now and then pulling having played the shot that him champlon. hurled his

down Welle's statue in Quebec theet in the air with an ecsta-

(and then putting it up again), feel a special warmth towards le cry: "YES!" the Royal Family, because the Queen spoke to them In their Gwr language. WARLIKE ARTISTS

WHAT is there about paint Ing which makes artists 50 belligerent?

So

have Columbus must shouted when he saw land ap- pear after weary weeks. So must the tired, hungry prospec- tor utter such a cry when he comes upon gold.

These moments are rare and do not come to all men, bul when they do, life is a glorious and satisfying thing.

HOWEVER, our entertain- ment on the Centre Court was not confined to men,

We had a delightful bit of ballet from Miss Beverly Baker, who looks like something out of "A, Midsummer Night's Dream."

A couple of years ago Sir Alfred Munnings startled the town with his frankness, and Kelly has hit out now Sir Gerald in all directions.

As president of the Royal Academy he gave a reception to 2,000 guests--and that is all he gave them. No drink, not even lea.

I like the way she jumps up No food, and not even

cigaretic,

and down at the net, and there In fact, just to add to the is a reckless galety about the general hilarity, smoking was ambidexterity with which she banned.

plays with her left hand or right.

THE verdiet of a fellow Acadernician was: "This is damn silly." Kelly's defence "We are poor. Only the cads are rich." AS THE ONLY OLD ETONIAN

was:

I DON'T think that Beverly will ever be in a position to shout "Yes" at Wimbledon, but there's always Sadler's Wells. NOT A TORY M.P. IN VIEW

State

are

IT is pleasing to note that SIR GERALD neither looks.

masters our political like an artist nor talks like

lovers of tennis. one. He is Irish with a family

In the V.I.P. section of the the there were business background of Kelly's Directories,

but he likes to be grandstand thought of. as the only Old Prime Minister, the Secretary of for Commonwealth Re- Elonian to

to become £1 Royal ations, the Lord Chancellor, the Academician

First Lord of the Admiralty, the SIR GERALD is a terrifying Colonial Under-Secretary, the guest at a dinner party be Secretary of State for Air, ond cause he admits that he knows the Minister of Fuel and Power. all about wines. His wife is his Nut a single Tory M.P. was in favourite model but he does not

view like women to wear make-up, and Lady Kelly is dutiful.

--¡London Express Service:)

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