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LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS

Book Review

RELIGION IN THE REICH

PUBLIC AUCTION. By Michael Power, Longmans.

THE

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Each successive act of pollti cal aggression on the part of Nazi Germany has helped to HE Undersigned have received reveal to the world the real na-

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ture of that unscrupulous mega- tomania which, for want of any other word to describe it, we call Hitlerism. Yet our understand ing of it would be very incom- plete if we saw it chily from the side of political aggression, It has to be understood as a system

to sell by

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Friday, the 17th May, 190

commencing at 2:30 p.m.

BOLDER

LORD HARDWICKE

ASSAULTED

GENERAL

FRONT IN THE AIR:

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ROME May 15 (Reuter)---Lord:

BE DELIVERED

Hardwicks, a friend of Brund ON THE TAILS OF HERMANN GOERING'S AIR FORCE WAS NO THE "PINCH OF SYLT" WHICH BRITISH PILOTS DROPPED Mussolini, had his face slapped on Tuesday night at a cabaret MERE TIT-FOR-TAT FOR THE ABORTIVE RAID ON SCAPA

show because he threw an 'anti-

British poster off his table.

He was then detained for a couple of hours in a police station on the ground that his papers were not in order.

MARCH TO PALACE

FLOW.

Recently the man who planned the hombing was awarded the post of Inspector-General of the RAF-6 sure Indication - that sharper cracks will in future be delivered against Germany.

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As Inspector-General, Air Chief Field-Marshal Goering will un-i Marshal Sir Edgar, Rainey Lad-doubtedly attempt. low-Hewitt succeeded. Marshal of Irispired hints were dropped last Anti-Allied student. demon- the FF., Sir Edward Ellington. week that when large-scale at- that enslaves its own people ag/strations were also held in various a meticulous executive who plays tacks do begin, bombers will get |

other nations provincial towns, including Milan pridre in his spare time, but bids through and will do damage. well as those of

where the Prefect appeared on conservatively. and is as ruthless in regard to

the balcony of the refecture äna those who oppose to it

CLEÈGYMAN'S SON ...” acknowledged the cheers of the demonstrators, std at Naples A clergyman's son, Ludlow- where thousands of students with Hewitt switched from the Royal Italian and German flags and Irish Rides to the Royal Flying pictures" of the King and Duke Corps in the Great War. Won marched to the Palace" of the the D.S.O. and M.C.. and was de- Crown Prince cheering the House scribed in dispatches as "one of of Savoy and Duce.

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those who offer it armed resia- tance. The story of its attack on religion is a history of against freedom of

conscience and it is as revealing as the story of Nazi britality against the tree- 'dom of other nations.

In "Religion in the Reich," Longmans, Bs. net) Mr. Michael Power has told this story, simply and dispassionately, and allowed the terrible facts to speak for themselves. He does not fall to point out points of weakness and mistakes in tactics in the case of the Christian churches bot every page of his story there ap- pears fresh evidence of the cens tral fact that Hitleris 15 the

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The demonstrators later sans have." patriotic songs outside the offices of the Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy..

He devised the arst effective scheme for co-operation between air and artillery units, had the RAF. command in Iraq and In- dia, and, became Commandant of German the RAF, Star College.

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No great believer in the pro- bability of mass air raids on civí- lans.in the present war is French

Emilio General

Herrera. In Aerophile he lately produced his reasons:

(1). A determined nation's will be resist cannot be de- stroyed as quickly as Generał Giulio Borbet, originator of the mass bombing theory, pro- claimed. The experiences of the world" war, the Spanish war, and the admirable be- haviour of civilians during the present war, have shown that people react differently to aerial bombardment than 23- sumed by adherents of total}- tarian warfare.

(2) The strengthening of anti-aircraft defence forces.

(3) The vulnerability of the

might nation which

start aerial warfare.

VITAL FACTORS

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General

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the fight against the Catholica, a compact body The new Inspector-General is twenty-one millions out of a no textbook airman, despite a population of sixty-five mlions, studious appearance and a As a renegade Catholic, Hitlersion for botany. Bold and enter- knew the opposition which he rising. he has à réputation for in the had to face and he moved skil-firmness "summarised fully. He made ↑ Concordat phrase, I've said it and that's Naz teaching asserts the In with the Holy See which

he that"

As Air Officer Commanding-in- the herent supremacy of

Ger- broke in the same way that he

he chief Bomber Command, a post man race and its right to assert broke every other treaty; that domination over everything closed Catholic schools, dissolved which he held from 1937 until his

Catholic youth

charitable new appointment, he controlled vulnerability. and

Herrera else and by every means. As such a theory is absolutely immoral, organisations, muzzled the Ca- the striking force of the air feet. takes into account these factors. He planned "the Kiel, Wilhelm- vulnerability from the air, strength and then after Christianity could never assent tholic press. to it. When the leaders of the barrage of propaganda

Institut-shaven and Hornum raids, also of the enemy's air force, popula- |

to the repeated reconnaissances of tion of each town, shortest dis- Christian Churches took their ed a series of trials to try stand on the basic principles of make Catholic leaders appear as Germany, Austria. Czecho-Slová-tance for air raids. Christianity, the Nazis reply was

"smugglers and perverts." The kid and Poland;

Catholic that Christianity must change, it result was to drive the

HIS SUCCESSOR

overwhelming numbers of Ger-each, from the enemy's frontier. Possessor of a fiercely beaked must become German. It would Church into the catacombs

and Bir Edgar's successor, in the man machines and the vulner-On a map he marked with circles nose and a pair of remarkably crush it as an active force. It is Bomber Command is an equally ability of Polish territory were the the situation of towns with a bushy red eyebrows, ・ "Ginger" On View from Thursday, the 18th only be allowed to exist if it

transformed itself into a "force | noteworthy. however, that Hit-enterprising aviator. Aged 47. Air decisive factors which led the population of more than 150.000 Bowhill is Chief of the R.AF. subservient to the idea of a

doler's aim of making it a-sub- Vice-Marshal Charles Frederick German to start totalitarian war-inhabitants.

Coastal Command. His duty is to minating German Reich.

servient instrument was not at Algernon Portal has more than fare from the beginning.

Assuming that the longest protect ports and shipping and tained,

1,000 hours of wartime flying to During the Spanish war the air practical range for air raids to attack the enemy in, under and The tactics were different his credit:

forces of the intervening foreign amounts to 1,000 km, from the over the sea by loosing Merce against the Protestant churches A Winchester and Oxford, pro-powers embarked on air bombard- enemy's frontler, he discovered falcons from Britain's headlands. which, in three big divisions, duct, he began the last war as a ments without fear of reprisal af- that France is the least vulner-

His men have own more than included in ail forty million Sapper, then served with the tacks on" their capitals from the able of the warring powers, Great six million miles iftice war began. members. ler, believed, wrong-RFC. and was later Commander Spanish Government.

Britain is neatly twice as vulner-They call him the Vicar of ly, that he could persuade the of British Forces at Aden, 1934-5.

able as France. But. Germany's Western Europe, and he calls great body of Protestants to from 1937-8-hè was Director of unite and form a kind of German Organisation at the Air Ministry.

Quite different is the present Vinerability is 18 per cent, more his domain my parish It ex- would make

Minot" War. The air forces and aerat than that of France and Eritam | tends from 1,000 miles west in the When the "Laurence

Atlantic to Heligoland Bight and German patriotism Its highest Bombing Trophy was presented to defences of the belligerente may

This is what makes Germany Sylt, also from Gibraltar to the virtue. The intrigues that follow-the RAF in 1927, Wing-Comman-be assumed to be equal. The only ed make up a pitiable story since der Portal's squadron was the first question remaining is the vulner- hesitate, in the General's opinion. Arctic.

・. COAST DEFENDER they represent ад attempt to

So exacting is Chief Bowhill to get it. He occupied the bomb-ability of civil populations in ratio induce two-thirds of

of enemy ana almer's position, and in the fol- to the striking power,

Should Germany ever be goaded about evidence from his pilots of tion to adopt a faith which would lowing year again released the bombers.

to largescale attacks on Britain, their exploits that one of them be a mockery of all that it pre- tombs which enabled his squadron

To provide himself with statis- however, the raiders will and Air recently chuckled, "Fretty soon tended to be. The attempt fail to retain the trophy.

tics on this point. General Her-Marshal Sir Frederick William | Ginger'll want us to reach out and ed after it had won the support

rera divided the territories of the † ("Ginger"")" Bowhill more than bring back the perishing periscope only of those who would be a

before he believes us." belligerents into zones of 100 gm ready for them. to credit and an asset ligion, and its most remarkable result was to bring to the front

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BROKE EVERY TREATY Mr. Power tells the story of the Naz attempt to achieve its end in face of the resistance of all that was genuine in German Christianity. First he tells

of

EUROPE'S DISILLUSIONED Christianity which

WARRIOR

RETURNING ALONE AND TIRED TO HIS VILLA TOR- LONIA HOME ONE EVENING SOME YEARS AGO. Benito Mussolini decided on the spur of the moment to go into a cinema. He entered and took a seat, unrecognized. Presently, his own limber face flashed, on the screen. Everyone present stood and applauded, except Il Duce. His secret enjoyment of the demon- stration was interrupted by a man behind him who leaned over and whispered; "Better stand up and 'elxp, pal. They'll ar- rest you if you don't."

reverence.

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who

SPECIAL BATTALIONS.

Revolutionary was his proposal

that special battalions of diyweight.

Infantry should be used in co- operation with the RAF. Fortal

ended his last sermon by taking suggested that the units should his stand beside the apostles who be formed of men who fell below were "glad to be counted worthy average height and weight re- to suffer shame for Jesus' name."

quirements. They would travel by LEARNED RUTHLESSNESS air and be used largely for in- The last section of the book ternal security.

in

This incident, which is supposed "He told them time and again that to have happened early in the days supine neutrality is a cowardice at of Il Duce's power, might easily only for decadènt democracies. have taken place again recently.

He gave Italy an Empire, won in Once more the Dictator was alone blood, albeit from some poor. and tired. Italian, still salaamed coloured people and a handful of to his face on screens, his name Adriatic hillbilles. He made, tells of the anti-religious blitz- To replace him as Air Member on walls, but there were certain countrymen Icel that Spain's new mental reservations in their victory was Italy's. He held out the Axis to his people as a double bladed fasces which would cut a big place in the sun for italy;

DISILLUSIONED By, last week Benito Mussolint WSA a thoroughly disillusioned warrior The Arst step in the process of his disappointment wäs the frenzied joy with Italians greeted him back from Munich-a far more spontaneous ovation than any military triumph had ever earned him.

PEACE & LIBERTY

Foreign journalists in Rome re- ceived anonymous letters: "The Italians desire the end of the dictatorship which renders impos- sible prosperity and peace. Viva Italia: Viva la Uberta!"

Each morning last week, in his monstrous office, 1 Duce's heart was not cheered by the reports, on the country's state of mind given him by Chief of Italian Police Arturo Bocchini.

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kreig in Austria. The Nazis had for Personnel on the Air Council, learned from their previons ex- Air Marshal Ernest Leslie Gossage, perience. They had learned to D.S.O., M.C., was last week sp- be ruthless. They no longer he pointed. After service

the sitated to adopt methods of open Great War he was Air Attache in persecution - though even this pre-Hitler days, and later became was only a prelude to their vio- Senior Air Staff Officer in Iraq."

Air Marshal, Gossage once ex- lent treatment of religion in Po- land.

pressed the opinion that air war- The whole story is depressing fare might limit the period of a

the reading, for it shows which

ma-war, "It may produce a relatively chinery of a great state turned quick result," he said. If it does against something not because not, it may destroy civilisation of anything that is evil in it, or altogether.

On the Piazza Venezia balcony that day he made no martial Italy's Himmler-an emelent, speech, but said only: "You wanted courageous, unpublicized bustler peace. I have brought you peace," who hangs a sign over his desk then turned gloomily and went which says: "Please

it indoors. Next came the German

Russian Pact, which he was not told about until the last minute and which at one slap put down any extravagant hopes Il Duce may have reposed in his partnership with Adolf Hitler,

snappy daily reported the find- ings of his intricate wire-tapping eavesdropping machide, and the sum of the findings was not to Duce's taste: Italians want peace.

Since the Year One Cof Fascism--1922) Benito Mas- solini had given his people "a martial slogan: "Belleye; Ober: Fight:" He hurried from daval reviews-to mánócuvers at sea, from military exercises to grandiose mock campaigns on Isad

WON IN BLOOD

He learned to salute like Caesar, "scowl like Napoleon, wear uniforms

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