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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 3,: 1854. THE NEW POWERS surging up in Germany, prompt an investigation by a man who knows the Germans well...and raise a disturbing question

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How dead is Hitler?

RAD GODESBERG.

GENERAL

Wa B the first to make the "request. "Please don't

mention my name, he said to me, “If you do I shall be on the boycott list.

"Industrial firms will re- fuse to have anything to do with me if my views become Government known. agencies will give me no orders. My bushesa wil be ruined."

That does not sound very courageous agree-par- ticularly from a holder of the Knight's Cross and one of the most distinguished younger officers of Ïliter's General Staff.

But it is a sentiment that to hear with frequency from

1 have had

amazing

Germans,

Portents

SEFTON DELMER

has returned, nine years after the war, on a special mission to a reviving Germany. Nine years after The Other War- in 1927-he was in Berlin too. THEN, he reported the symptoms before Hitler took power. TODAY, he assesses the

parallel portents.

Anything goes, removal. from inefficiency to alleged membership of the Com- munist underground."

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Also due for removal in this

men with new purge ure genuine record of anti-Hitler resistance during the July 24 bomb conaphucy of (044 men whe gave unfavourable evidence against German Whe criminals at their frlois.

Chornour

clandestine

WII's

me remarkably Be a revamping of the old NUR! Stormtroops,

even to the jackboots, breeches, and shirts its anembers wear at political rallies,

new

and

the guided by Adenauer "War Ministry" ot Herr Theodor Blank,

our

Many of their propaganda loca urc reminiscent 01 Goebbels, "In ́ ́Stalingrad troops defended not only Gor- inany but Europe," they preach. Tho restoration of the great

Germony of the liller en is demanded by them.

They claim that Germany is entitled to the · leadership of Europe, and prombe that she will obtain it with her armies.

Nazi Views

DUT then, what is surprising B Din such language from nows

As their president they have papers when the Cabinot itself Field-Marshal Kesselring, par- contains men like Communica- doned war criminal, who pub- tions Minister Herr Serbohm, liely proclaims

stil recently in London?

has preservew his full loyalty to publicly proclaimed such

müitarist views as- Hitler and Goering.

that he

now

ut

work

He

Nazi

1. The German East Kraselring in trying to have "war sport train- the Oder, but also Bohernia and not only Includos the Elbe and ing" orgnaleed for the younger all territories in which Germans and more milliant age groups once were settled." among his Steelhalmets.

2. "In 1945 only the German Ostensible reason, of course,

the German for permitting the reappearance Army, but not of these ex-Servicemen's a550- people, capitulated." clations is the help that they buck

in con Live

recruiting and power to the same militarists' collecting members for the new and Industrialists' clan that was German armed forces at such behind the disastrous

of time na they are to be set up. aggression of Bismarck, the

At sipilfeant almost as there Kaiser, and Hiller,

new military and ex-soldlers' their associations is the flood of mill- which has burst over Western of try newspapers and periodicals

Germany.

These newspapers and periodi-masters, I will tell you in my. OF THAT, and its clandestine

and

TITO'S BLUENOSES KILL THE FUN

By JOHN WREN

ITO'S bluenones are almost always T"

In action-killing fun, The Yugo- slave are great ones for fun. Take four Yugoslava, two, bottles. of wine, one accordion and you have a party which will finish up two dozen strong over a breakfast of eggs, raw garlic and plum brandy!

the

The Yugoslav Communist Party, however, inevitably disapproves of such "bourgeol merry-making." A good Communist should be at home-reading up on Karl Marx.

- Belgrade's only roul night spol, "Borm" for instance shut down because the club "threatened peace and order and morale." I can speak about the Club "Hocm" from personal experience. The "Boem" was a well-conducted clubs used by foreign diplomats, businessmen and nows- papermen. It was shut because many Yugoslavs, fed up to the teeth with Tito's Communism, used also to flock to the "Boem" —to relax and forgot,

their

After a couple of drinks, with the of- chestra playing loud enough to prevent caves dropping, they would tell foreigners true feelings about the Tito regime.

I myself have been accused of obtaining information--which varied from the Party's official propaganda—from "cafes and bars.”

the top Communist bosses do not have fun. Tilo has taken over the whole of beautiful Adriatic island, Brioni, as a champagne-and- caviare holiday camp for his Communiat aldes.

Do not think from this, however, that

Before the war, Brioni was a millionaires' playground, smarter than Capri or the Coto

NOW, you

are most likely asking what I was that German general told me,

d'Azur. HE gave me details about thei

main fundamental of this Ger- secret organisation which is the

man military revival.

-(London Expram Service)

THESE MEN. despite

mouth protestations "Europeanisin and develion to the Western ideals of democracy, are out for themselves their clique only.

Thoy mean to oust from theft culs, of which there are more

even than in the time of Hitler. urticle on Monday, Former Germen officials dine position of importance every-

suspect might are many of them subsidised are afraid of the missed or imprisoned by Hitler une whom they

for unti-Nazl activities pre by

But be

implicitly obedient to new clandestine discipline law entitled to

their orders, rehabilitation, that the German militarist compensation, and reinstate- machine is once more begin- ning to impose, evon before its revival has been officially authorised by the Allies.

THEY

ment.

THEY REGRET nothing uf the past but their defeat and mistakes in strategy and leadership which caused it.

of the

But every possible trick ometal red tape is being used to decision delay indefinitely the (1) an musay such claims fur Yes, here 1 am. Imrely reinstateness as possible,

Hitlera nine

years after suicide and militarist Ger- many's catastrophic collapse. And am finding many of the same disturbing symp- toms and portents I hel to report before Hitler took

power.

Under the mantle of in- nocent Chancellor Adenauer, Many of the mute tenden- cies appear to be develop. ing which, in the prewar days of

the

equally imo- rent Foreign Minister Stresemon

later, Chancellor Bruening, fore- shadowed the

coming u f

Hitler.

Look at the

patriotic huo

and ery launched

How

throw out the "traitors and collaborators't from the Civil Service, from the newspapers and

new agencies and radio.

Who are these traitors and collabora- tors? Oppor- tunists who fawned on Ilit- ler in the days of his power and helped him to reduce Ger many and half Europe

to ruins? No.

On the con- trary. They are the anti-

Nazis.

Dossier

have part of the confidential

doder concerning a former

There can be no more sensu. tional mark of the power of the rising militarists than the open defiance of the Potsdam Pact which the Allier stoned in 1945) by the public appearance of ex-Servicemen's associations in Western Germany,

These ex-soldjor associations were rightly forbidden by

the

Prussian police officer who was imprisoned by Hitler, and then, Allles under this pnet because after his release, wont abroad of the Iminense share the asso- as an instructor for the Chinese dations had In the rise of Hitler Army.

and the growth of militarism.

And

"By helping the Chinese to

here they are again fight the Japanese," says the flagranity in power. They meet

confidential report of a German in vast public assemblies, arc

·ADENAUER

Cummings

Дегу

Yachts of princes, tycoons, movie stars sailed to this three-mille long dream Island! of luxury hotels, polo Belds, tennis courts and golf courses, hunting estates and May-to- November bathing.

Today Tito, his young wife Yolanda, his regime's elite, and a few favoured "under-

standing foreigners have the island all to

themselves.

Adriatic's famous huge lobsters. Champagne The crearn of the Tito regime feed on the corks pop, orchestras play, as the Communist high-ups dance with their shapely, dark-

haired "secretaries."

IN the Balkans street names are changed

more often than the French Government,

In Belgrade nil streets named after Marshal Tito and top Communists have been ronamed.

Before the war, many streets were named after the popular Yugoslav royal family and democrat leaders. Came the Nazis and

the street names were changed. Adolf, Gooring, and the rest of the boys had their names of the street corners.

Came Tito and the streets took a Russian Unge. Joe Stalin ousted Adolf. After the break with Stalin, the streets were named after Tito's own ruling Commutalais.

Today further changes. Why? The rug- god Serbs, who use a colourful, Elizabethan language, bad way of showing their disapproval of the Communist bosses through street names.

"Where do

Rankovic Street,

*

ve?" "On that beastly "Where are you going?" "Down that unspeakable Djilas Avenue."

Rankovic and Dilna are two of the most hated Communist leaders.

HUNDREDS of Yugoslava

are divorcing

their wives--thon continuing to live with them. How come? To encourage embittered Yugoslav farmers to produce more, Inw allows a farmer to regain 25 acres of pro- viously owned land which the Communiatu coolscated in 1945.

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If you divorce your wife she can have her fand ratlon, making a worktable form of 60 acres. The Yugoslav Communist Party is out to stop this "racket."

Divorce in Titoland, Incidentally, is merely a maller of a few minutes' form- filling ond paying several shillings for a government stamp.

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IRRESISTIBLE?

THE CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUMN | reports:

The same secret decides how you feel about these

PEKE audibuscurve.

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HY does it make you feel good to look at a baby? Why does Ja picture like the one on the right irresistibly tug at your heartstrings?

It's not just sentiment- not the baby's age or its helplessness.

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Take rabbits. Why is there such a fuss because a plague threatens to wipe out Britain's wild rabbits? It would save the country millions of pounds. But because baby "bunnies" have the same sort of appeal as human baby, ar expensive effort is made to save them.

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A robin sees red...

SIMILAR "releasers" of automatic behaviour are well known in the animal world. The sight of the red breast of a robin or oven a handful of red feathers will make another robin attack hunched silhouette of any hawk sight. The immediately makes ground birds cower.

on

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manufacturers have sell a found that the way to doll is to enlarge ali baby features.

● THE SUCCESS of Walt "Bamb!" Disney cartoons like

to

or "Dumbo" is largely due the babyish look of animals, Disney's genius for exaggerating

A team of scientists not sug- gests that this warm, human responso is nothing more than Now, a point of support for

Lorenz on instinctive reaction to

from my own experi- combination of three things: (1) once I have noticed that few Chubby checks; (2) Aub

baby-faced men stay bachelors, Maybe the man with the up- An abruptly rising forehead

curving forehead, the mub nose, and rounded features rouses the, maternal instinets of women more than most of us.

noso;

When that particular pattern of facial features strikes the eye it ncts as a "releaser." auto- matically triggering off "how cuddlesome!" feeling.

that

I must admit, though, that my lengthy nose, canted fore- head, and thin features have afforded 710 protection

The Scientists' Case matrimony.

Cynical? Over- simplified? Maybe

but the scientists led by Austria's Dr Konrad Lorenz put forward a Iot of evidence in favour of their theory:-

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One man-power

from

PEOPLE who do their

hobnailed ciency of only six percent. .** hiking in blg

Surveys have produced по that the boots make their pleasure need- WHEN a, bricklayer's labourer convincing evidence lessly tiring. An extra pound climbs a ladder. his body la patient with a. peptic ulcer ◆ ANIMALS with

eficiency similar of weight on your feet fatigues working at an

et tenda to bo over-ambitious, pattern of features release the you more than 10lb. on your about 19 percent.

over-conscientious, of same sort of protective feeling back, German Profemor Krich

sensitive.

who

from human beings.

The snub-nose out cheeks of

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studies

CAM be

Not 'special'·

MORE than 1,500,000 Britons

Out in space

over-

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD BOY put his head inside a plastic

• The sort of scene nobody dan realit What is the power. of such a picture--the power of ANY young child -- to make the world seem a better'

· Disco? · Today the scientists give a provocative answer,

gas, is a new American gadget for getting children into the operating theatre without four. So tiresome

Muller has found. and puffed- The professor, the Pekingese how the human body make thousands of women want made to work more efficiently. have peptic ulcer-the joint to cuddle it. They may admire has been lecturing to. British name for duodenal and stomach First and foremost among general who sits on the rein- addressed by Ministers of the the long, aristocratie muzzle of scentists and doctors Sample ulcers or Have had one, accord- space helmet, believing he wOH them are the emigres-Ger- statement committee, "this man Adenauer Government in

the Borzel, but few want to quotess

ing to Dr F. Avery Jones, of going on a magic fournicy, to the - mans who had

it. kept the Japanese: from attack- speeches contabing all the dan-e all warm towards a robin, cannot work at much more than escaped

THE strongest human body Middlesex Hospital London, W. moon. When he woke up he abroad before or during the ng Soviet Russia and helping

It is three times commoner in found that a surgeon had taken QUOTE FROM MY the German Army

gerous chauvinistic ingredients or to any other perky bird with one-tenth of one horse power... mon than in women.

out his tourile,

FAVOURITE G.P. "By the struggle. As a soldier I deplore beloved of military propagandists a little book. But nobody feels WHEN the averago man is Professional people are

time you are rich enough to his conduct of contributing to hare from the Kaiser's day to such affection for a long-nosed using a spade in the garden bis more prone to duodenale, as la The helmet, which is linked sleep late you are so old you

country's disaster."

Hitler.

bird like a crow or starling. body is working with an effl- commonly believed, he finds. with a cylinder of anesthetic always wake up early.” Don't tell me that these cases, of which I could give so many The army has its special ex- more examen

examples aro

merely a Servicemen's regimental associa¬ healthy

war.

Pretexts

the

symptom

of reviving

HESE. men joined in the germany's national self-confid Hons; so have the air force and| fight against Hitler durence, essential it this great the navy. Even the S.S.'has its

ing the war and won the con- coldfer-nation is to help the own associations. fidence of the Allies. When West put up an effective barrier

VE Day came we.

brought to

installed them as key mon

Soviet Imperialism.

They are openly allowed to them back to Germany and I say they are a sign that bear Nari names like "Para- THE RUSH to rearm Gor- ohuilat Army Corps Hormona many, prompted by the war Goering," "Destroyer: Squadron Korea, has already given Horst Wessel," "Fuehrer Grana

dför Division," and oven "Tuchrer Bodyguard Division."

in the new democratic in machine that was being built up.

ALLKORD membership' of. an, Our intention was that cuffed toy More astounding still is that

and Communist organisation they should be a guarantee chiar being trumped up for the Chancellor Adenauer, who against the revival of Hitmoval from the

German vedle of a controller atms to have repudiated Hitler Jorism and militarism, Now ProfCHOT Adolf Crime, and "and", militarlarn complataly all kinds of protexts are Alagander Moust-Both of these men formation of the so-called Steal- nie Junding memelaisi. should have permitted the being put forward for their auspices, aphointed and sundar

were

North-Westjy

JOHNNY HAZARD

WICKED-LOOKING, GADGET... A FELLA CAN GET HIMSELF HURT,

PLAYING ROUGH WITH THESE

THINGS

WELE,LAINGIT AS WELL GRY RO OF THE RIFFRAME/ T'LL JUHIT HOOK TALOTSAM” HERE. „TOBITHER WITH "JEYSAMA..

not

By Frank Robbing

WELL... THIS IS ONE WAY

TO CLEAN UP THE DOCKS!

this

calls for

San Miguel