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Commencing To-morrow at the Central

Just an innocent girl, trying to get along.

RKO RADIO

PICTURE

ROMANCE

how was she to. know that he was the night watch- man who slept in bor room in the daytime and paid half the rent?

A laughter romance in gaudy Greenwich Village, where art is long, but love is brief and blind,

With

GINGER ROGERS NORMAN FOSTER GEORGE SIDNEY Robert Bonchley, Laura Hope Craws, Guina Williams Directed by William Soller from the novel by John Wolls MERIAN C. COOPER, exec. producer

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In the imagination_of_many poople the Reichswehr plays a mystical role as the ultimate arbiter of German politics-the one power, which might Intervene to over- throw Herr Hitler.

The Relchswehr Includes both the Navy and Army, but only the latter need be considered as far as poli- tical influence is concerned. The ollicin army of Germany, numbers 100,000 men, with rather more than 4,000 officers, Modern military leadership is a highly technical and specialised art, and these four thousand men represent Germany's capital of trained military leaders and staff officers.

LIONEL BARRYMORE in "One Man's Journey" is faced by an ivate labourer whose, wife has just died under the ministrations of the country doctor while becoming a mother. David Landan is the vengeful father in this RKO Radio Picture, which features May Robion, Dorothy Jordan, Joel McCran and Frances Deo with Barry- more as the star, commencing on Sunday at the King's Theatro.

ATTITUDE TO HITLERISM.

"ANTI-SHRINK” COTTON GOODS

It is comparatively ensy to build up unofficial reserves of infantry and even of cavalry, sappers, motorists and airmen if the right

This is not to say that the men are chosen for the special branches, but. exceedingly difficult Reichswehr officers are all enthusi to train staff officers and higher astic Nazls. As far as the higher ranks unless the men in question ranks are concerned, the out-an-out can devote their whole time to the Nazi is the exception. The best TWO INVENTIONS AT

SAME TIME Jub. Neither the Storm Troops nor party man la probably the Vice- the Stahlhelm therefore enn provide Minister, but the Minister himself,

Mr. H. R. Armitage, joint material from which the Reichs- General von Blomberg, is certainly wehr officers' corps can be quickly quite loyal to Herr Hitler. The managing director of the Bradford expanded. This means that the officers are nearly all drawn from Dyers Association, has announced Reichswehr officers remain what the old military families, but in the discovery of a new process that. they have always been since the the course of time the professional it is claimed. will make cotton and Reichswar was organised under oicer and the Junker landowner, linon garments unshrinkable. The the Republic-very hardworked originally identical, have become idea had been discovered by one men. It is officers with leisure first brothers and then cousins. The of their branch managers and a who make putsches and pronuncia-officers think rather as a pro- member of his staff.

mentos,

Tessional class than as members of At about the same time un Amer-

a land-owning aristocracy. They leán firm had also patented a dis- TWO POLITICAL ISSUES. are no longer wealthy and most of (covery on the same lines, and the fhem have to live off their pay. two firms had agreed to co-operate. Ever since the Reichswehr was

As private men the higher ranks It is claimed that the discovery reduced to the treaty level (that probably dislike extremely many means that waste and dissatisfac- was after the Kapp putsch), the aspects of the present regime, not tion caused by shrinkage among political interests of the Reichswehr least the hunt for Jewish grand-drapers, laundries, dyers and have been limited to the following mothers. The officers' corps has, cleaners would be removed two questions:

ineldentally, succeeded in putting itself out of bounds for this hunt, since a good many of its members

(1) That the Reichswehr Minis- try should be allowed a free hand inside the ample limits of its mysterious budget.

(2) That the Reichswehr should not be used as an instrument of power in the party game, and should be allowed to concentrate its attentions on how to deal with prospective foreign enemies,

or its members' wives have a strain ants tend to poultry, dairy and of Jewish blood. As soldiers, how-vegetable farming. As long as the ever, the officers are inevitably Junkers keep their big estates they pleased with a regime which is must constitute an important in- actively rearming and puta them influential group, just as the big in- dustrialists do. The Reichswehr, charge of the military training of therefore, acts as a brake upon the a million Storm Troopers and young tendency of the Nazi Party to Staldhelmers...

The tendency to friction and influence not only of all Republican favour the peasant and to break the jealousy between regular officers The political interests of the and party militia officers which was governing classes,

groups, but also of the pre-War Reichswehr officers, therefore, have noticeable in Italy, no doubt exists, not since the days of the Kapp but auch information as is avail of running big estates in Germany As long as there is no question putsch led them to wish to play the able points to enhanced prestige Socialistically (the Soviet solution role of kingmakers-whether of and authority of the regulars; of the game military supply pro- dynastic kings or of Oliver Crom their expert military knowledge blem), the Reichswehr will prevent wells. Negatively, their attitude came as a revelation to many young the disappearance of the Junker was of the utmost importance 80 Storm Troop leaders who had class. In internal politics this is long as there was a question of a thought they knew quite a lot the only important role that the non-Nazi Government possibly about soldiering. The younger Reichswehr is likely to play, unless wishing to use them to shoot officers, captains and lieutenante, and until Germany is threatened against Nazis. Today, they would are undoubtedly for the greater with internal chaos. only be asked to shoot against part strongly in sympathy with the mutinous Nazis and that they would

regime. certainly do. They would obey the orders which they understad had been given by the Commander-in- Chief, President and Field-Marshal von Hindenburg.

Should the present organisation of the Reichswehr be entirely sub- THE BIG ESTATES.

merged in a new militia army, the Reichswehr officers' corps, it There does not seem much likell-jahould be pointed out, will lose its hood, therefore, of the Army character as a strong professional stepping outside its professional body outside the Nazi Party, It Hitherto, Herr Hitler has been sphere to back a Nationalist- would rapidly become swamped at the greatest pains not to use the Junker fronde. On the other hand, with men who had started in the military against oven mutinous and the Army is strongly interested, for Storm Troops. It is for that disorderly Storm Troopers; he purely military reasons, in the reason that many Nazis would like would rather delay, if necessary, maintenance of big estates. It is to see a militia army in Germany, until he can mobilise loyal Storm the big estates that provide the It would be a finkl breach with the Troopers and defence squad men rycbread and the potatoes in large, pre-War. governing system than allow the Generals to share easily mobilisable quantities to favour of the new Nazi ruling

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