GERMANY BEING LED TO WAR
An American View of Nazi Policy
HITLER'S TWO VOICES
Is Germany re-arming physically ur morally?
FAMILY SLAIN BY FREED LUNATIC
JUDGE'S STRONG
COMMENTS
It was revealed at Birmingham Assizes on Dec. 7. that Joseph Millard, aged 28, a hotel porter, of Dormington-rond, Kingstanding, Birmingham, was discharged from a mental institution on the applica- tion of his wife, and that Boon afterwards he murdered-kier—and their three young children.
He was charged with murder and ordered to be detained during the King's pleasure.
That she is re-arming in both sensca in strongly afirmed by Mr. Leland Stowe in a book entitled "Nazi Germany Means War, which is published to-day (Faber The Assize Commissioner (Sir and Faber, 24.-0d.), Mr. Stowe, Ellis lume-Williams) asked who in American journalist, basos his decided that he should be dis conclusions on a two montha' visit charged? What was his condition of investigation which he under-when in the hospital? took in September and October.
Dr. Beresford T. Richards (on "I wont to Germany," he says, the stuff of Erdington House) Bald "with one desire uppermost in'my | that Millard was violent for the nind to try to reserve judgment first 24 hours and then quientened. as long as possible and to try to be He was in a padded cell for 24 fair. I have never found theue hours. two objectives as heartranding as they are in Germany to-day,
The Commissioner-Ho was a dangerous lunatka?-For the time
"Here were a people, cofirte- | being. ous and friendly, simple and Dr. Richard stated that Millard's kind in so many of the common|wife applied for his discharge the things of life.
Often I would next day. This was not granted, look about me, in a restaurant, but he was discharged three days or on the street, and always, at later, such times, the thought would!
Were you responsible for his come: 'Do these people realise release?-Partly.
that they are being led straight | Who else? The chief medical. towards another war? Do these oficer.
qulet and orderly people want Dr. Hugh Kirkland, #enjor war? Is it not all a crime, a mediept officer, said that Dr. terrible crime against the Ger-Richards recommended Millard's man_people themselves?'".
. Mr. Stowe was very much struck with the contrast between Herr Hitler's two volcca-the voice of peace and the voice of "Mein Kampf."
From all he saw and heard, he is convinced that the second voice is the authentic one, and that the first is only spoken for foreign
#ara.
discharge.
The Commissioner-Had you no say?--Yes,
In It usual, if you have a man in such a state of dementia that ho. has to be put in a padded coll, to re- lease him on the mere application of his wife?It is not usual,
The Commissioner-God help us if these are the facts
Dr. Kirkland added that a man
"UNFORTUNate".
· Everywhere he finds evidence of might be mad for two days and im the mobilisation of the war spirit mediately recover and be in his
In the Storm Troops, in the La-normal mind. bour Corps, in the "Wehrsport"
The Commissioner-Do you tell (defence sport) movement, in the schoals, in the streets, in the in-me that a man may be a raving tellectual leadership of the countor in charge to go back to his
maniac and be allowed by the doc try, and he quotes many pictures home on the mere application of his que facts to confirm his impres-wife with the result as you know- sion.
Notorious Book.
He draws particular attention to Professor Bange's notorious book, "Wehrwissenschaft" ("The Selence of Military Defence"), which was recently banned owing to its un- favourable effect оп foreign opinion. Its dubious repudiatlon, he says, was preceded by months of high acclaim in the Nazi Press.
"If the book is under a partial cloud," he continues, "his doctrine of Wehrwissenschaft in by means in disrepute.
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"What Banse has urged and taught with brutal frankness
does that not strike you as rather unfortunate, but in this case, after curious and unfortunate? It is six days, how could we have do tained him? We have not power. He was not under an order.
Replying to counsel, Dr. Kirkland said that he had been told that Millard attacked a doctor in another hospital.
the jury, said. "It has surprised and The Commissioner, addressing
shocked mo to discover that it is possible for a lunatic, who has to
shut up in a padded room in a within a week from that time at public institution, to be released (eg. War is not only a factor of the request of his wife. extermination, but a principle "I should have thought it possible
of regeneration. It alone enthat the authorities might have] ables-the-human-soul to reveal applied for an emergency order, or all its riches and all its force') some steps might have been taken is beag preached by scores of to guard the man from being other military leaders of the public danger until he could be sent Third Reich..
to a proper lunatic asylum."
Mr. Stowe recalls the words of If it was the law that the a foreign diplomat in Berlin, who authorities had no power to refuse said, "The tragic thing about Ger-Lan application, he said, the sooner many to-day is that her demand it was altered the botter. for equal rights is morally Justi Mr. D. L. Finnemore, represent hed,, but to grant these moraling the city authorities, said that a rights to the Hitler regime meatf full inquiry would be held. The the creation of an exceedingly man was not admitted to the in-: grave menace to Europeon peace." stitution on an order under the
These words, the author aug-Lunacy Act. gests, cut to the very heart of the world problem posed by National Socialism.
CAR OWNERS. ON
THE "DOLE” ` "COMING TO A
PRETTY PASS"
The Commissioner said he hoped that the result of the inquiry would be to obvinle "the "horrible and stariling consequences that have happened In this case following the undoubtedly premature release of a raving lunatic."
of 770 panding for the County of Middlesex, were heard against motorists for unpaid excise licènces. It was coming to a pretty past "In one case a man drove up to when tax-payers hud to keep motor the Labour Exchange in his motor-owners, he unid.
car to draw his 'dole," said Mr.j Fines of 208., with 109. costs and Gosse, prosecuting at Brentford, the amount of the unpaid duty, when 60 summonses, out of a total were imposel,
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says MAE WEST, “I wrote the story of I'M NO ANGEL myself, It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it. Come up and ace it sometime...
MAE
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I'm no angel
with
CARY GRANT
A-Paramount Sprout
Bennett naked that screen tests be made of her in all the outfits sho wears in "Arizona to Broadway" and Film comedy to be seen at the King's in all the climactle scenes of this Fox Theatre on Wednesday. James Duan and Herbert Mundin nro the featured ninle players Arizona to Broad way", directed by James Tinling from- the original story by William Consel man and Henry Johnson, Sammy Cohen also has an important rolo,
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"Penthouse"
Jackson Durant, society lawyer. ADVes Tony Gazotti, New York's Public Enemy No. Ong, from the gallows. Because he defended tho
gangster, Durant is discharged from
la law firm and loses the
girl ho hoped to marry, Sue Leonard, because ho
refuses to give up criminal enses. Sue promises Tom Siddall, I close friend of Durant's, that she will marry him and Tom breaks off his association with Mimi Moningue, the darling of Broadway, Mimi seeks to return to Jim Crelliman, a racketeer and I enemy of Gazotti, with whom sho formerly was in love. At a gny party
Crelliman's 14
penthouse, Siddall appears and Mimi is murdered while Siddall is talking to
her. Siddall is arrested for the crime. Durante belleves he is innocent, that he has been framed. Othor lawyers aro employed as defence counsel and Durant begins an investigation of his own to prove his friend's innocence. Through Gazotti,
Waxted, She knows" meets Gertie
lot
about Crelliman. She convinces
Durant that either Crelliman or one of his henchmen killed Mimi and framed Siddall, Durant learns from Gertie that Mimi's apartment was in building adjoining the murder scene, that the ballding is owned by Crelli- man and lo tenanted by life mob. Durant harbours Gertie in his own penthouse. Its interest in the girl increases. He leaves her there and goca to investigate Crelliman's build- ing. Ho discovers that the room of Murdoch, one of Crelliman's killes overlooks the roof garden where Mimi was murdered. He is almost trapped in the building by Crelliman's gang and narrowly escapex. proves to the police that Murdoch killed Mimi, but before the police enn elene in on Crelliman's gang. Gazott! kille the killer and is iniself slain, And the friendship of Durant and Gertie develops into love.
"Rafter Romance"
to
CHAMPS ELYSEES ...THREATENED` ·
A CENTRE OF NIGHT LIFE
POLICE CHIEF'S
PROMISE
Paris, Dec. 6..
M. Plorro Chiappe won applause" from the Paris-Municipal Council "yesterday by nasuring them that ho would as soon put a frock-coat on the Winged Victory of Samothrace, or a bowler on the Venus of Milo, na allow the Avenue des Champs Elysees to be turned into a new centre of night life on the model of Montmartre and Montparnasso.
This famous street, prolonging the noble perspective from the heart of the Louvre through the Tulleries Gardens to the -obelisk of the Place de la Concorde, up the hill to the Arc de Triomphe, has changed in character considerably since the War.
On the one hand, its representa- tive significance for the nation has been enhanced now that It lends to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe. The floodlighting of the top of the 'arch and of the obelisk, the illumination of the fountains with the glass doves at the Rond Point, have added to its beauty at night.
On the other hand, it has become one of the principal shopping cen- tres of Paris. Newspaper offices and premises of motor-car manu- facturers, with unbroken glass fronts three storeys,high, alternato with cafos, restauranta, bars, cinemas, and the like, where hotels particuliers once succeeded each other in discreet dignity.
SLENDER AND DIGNITY..
The skyline has been radically changed. Strange modern archi- tectural fantasies, including an "accordion facade," have alarmed lovers of tradition. Brilliantly coloured electrical advertisements compete for attention with muni- cipal noodlighting.
M. Renard, Prefect of the Seine, promised that the advertisements, and especially the illuminations, would be subjected to a severe aesthetic censorship. The worst architectural proposals have.already been rejected. 1
The Prefect of Police promised that no now, licences would be issued for bars. or enfes in the Avenue, Street walkers and frau- dulent beggars would be energeti- cally removed, whereas genuine beggars would be treated with more
A delightful comedy with rib- tickling situations guaranteed evoke every laugh in your system was presented at the Central Theatre yesterday in "Rafter Romance" which is enneted by an ablo cast well verged In the finesse of eliciting roars and chuckles headed by the pert, vivacious and peppy Ginger Rogers, co-featured with Norman Foster and George Sidney. The theme of "Rafter Ro-consideration. Tanco" is entertainingly refreshing in itself with its apicy intrigue. Mary Carroll and Jack Bacon are obliged to share a Greenwich Village attic room together but with the
with the entire Jack, propriety.
a struggling artist, is night
to
12tchman from 3.
8
which Mary has the
The street, he said, offered, the world. At one end the gardens most magnificent prospect in the
were sacred to children. At the other was the Tomb of the Un- khown Soldier. He would see to it
dignity'.
other is an ice-box enlesgirl the that it retained both splendour and
TOOM
of the day when Jack
They
occupies the rochi. know nor rec each other, intenso despise each other, an animosity born of nasty notes, annoying pranks and Caustic cpinions paased through the landlord. Jack and Mary meet out- side their garret abode, however, un- aware of their attic enmity.
While [antipathy rages indoors, a love affair progresses outside. Both situations come to climax simultaneously when they learn each other's real identity. Alas Rogers and Foster are genial porformers, well acquainted with the art of cinema acting, Their ner formances are splendid, and these rates beautifully sult their engaging personalitics. Robert Henchley, Laura Hope Crew, George Sidney, Forike Baros, Guln Williams and Sidney Miller, add capable performances.
"One Man's Journey".
All too selden. n, picture of arent benaty and power, with a theme which strikes a resnonaive chord in the heart of every beholder, comes to the screen. Such a mix-now spen in "One Man's Journey", RKO-Radio Picture at the King's Theatre. Lionel Barrymore is starred in this intensely human and Imoving production, and in characteriz-
ing the typical country doctor he rises to the greatest heights of his long and Lrilliant career, An excentionally. trong cast aids admirably. Such players are Dorothy Jordan, Joel McCren, Frances Dee and May Robson contribute impressive performances. while juvenile interest is added by the fine work of several splendid child playera.
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