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MONDAY, Septembra 26, 1938.

SLEEP EASILY,

HONGKONG

The rise of Konrad

Henlein

The pence is signed.

The treaties of

1919 Versailles and of Trianon have transformed the map

of Europe. And Sergeant Konrad Henlein is no longer an Austrian hut a Czecho-Slovakian, citizen of a new country. In September, 1919, he is at Reichenau. There, in a local newspaper, he sees the following advertisement:

"Young man having participated in the war wanted for beginner's post in a large bank. Apply to-morrow morning,—— Kreditanstalt."

The Kreditanstalt was, and still is to-day, the largest bank of Central Europe. Henlein, after eight months of hell in an internment camp on Asinara Island, was looking for a job.

At that time hundreds of thousands of young men in Central Europe had the war behind them and a future without prospects. When Henlein arrived before the Kreditanstalt the following morning, a crowd of veterans was already massed on the sidewalk, About nine o'clock the director arrived and, like a general, passed in review the crowd of candidates.

The director had not yet utter- ed a single word when, stopping before a young man whose ap- pearance differed in no purti-

cular from that of his comrades -"What is your name?” he ask- ed suddenly,

"Konrad Henlein.”

by Jerome

Carsac

Henlein became so versatile

די

"His outward appearance

in that of an average man

-ucither small nor large; his face betrays neither intelligence nor stupidity.”

"You are hired, Herr Henlein." tion of the big gymnastic federa- tion of Germans in Czecho- Nineteen years have passed Slovakin, whose statues, long be- since this scene.

"I have a proposition to make And when, fore Hitler and National So- and 17 seats in the Prague Par- few days ago, we questioned the cialism, carried an Aryan para- about 20

liament, which corresponded to you, Mr. Henlein," began the director of the Kreditanstalt at graph.

per cent. German stranger. "Would you be dis- Reichenau on the reasons for his

suffrage. A set-back.

posed to retire from political life choice, he answered:

in several months, after having and so proficient a gymnast that SEVERAL weeks after taken all useful measures to "Before me there was a crowd at the end of the first year, at

the election Henlein calm the effervescence of the for young men, and I sought a the annual fete of the club, he received a visit from two men, Sudetens?

face that would fill me with con- won the first prize...

Messrs. Krebs and Jung, chief of "If you accept, a sum of The pendulum swings be-tidence.

And when, two years later, the National Socialist Movement, money will be deposited in your tween Fear and Hope so rapidly

another bril- the twin of the National German name in an American bank. A "Well, on that of Konrad Hen- Henlein captured in Europe that prognostication lein, who was 20 years old at liant victory, the club directors Party of Czecho-Slovakin. very high sum." is futile. It Would be in that time, I saw from the first made him monitor.

(To-day, by the will of Adolf And the stranger indicated a consistent with the facts glance an indefinable something The salary being superior to Hitler, these two men represent very high figure. A fantastic disclosed in messages from re-that told me that this man was that which he got at the Kredi- the Sudeten Germans in the sum! linble news agencies not to absolutely incapable of lying." tanstalt, Henlein accepted. Berlin Reichstag.)

All who know the Sudeten know that before admit that Europe, including

The object of Messrs. Krebs Fuchrer THE monitor in clubs of and Jung was to win the 100,000 answering the question, Henlein meagre salary by a

this type directs the to war in the past week than at bank in a little provincial town training

members of the Gymnastic strode the 'ngth and width of of beginners. And Federation for a single party. the room, reflecting. any time since 1918; on the

Several everyone has left, the Henlein accepted. as a modest beginner, to lean when

seconda

in other hand, there is evidence every day for years over the monitor sweeps the room, covers

Then the stranger The big German capitalists of silence. that wise counsels will ultimate-same scribbled papers, go over the floor with clean sawdust and the Sudeten region willingly takes a cigarette from his case. ly prevail, and that the dam immense columna of figures- prepares' everything for the fol- gave financial aid. Henlein was And Ilenlein, always polite, holding back the flood-waters of always the same and always dif- lowing day.

received with open arms.

takes a lighter from his pocket. Konrad Henlein perhaps owes By 1929 Henlein was the head He did not feel entirely at war will be patched up suf- fercnt-is without doubt ciently to avert, for the time more monotonous and madden- of the Gymnastic Federation, in ease in the role of chief of a his life to this gesture of

ing than prison life.

which are grouped all the Ger- political movement that had politeness. being at least, the torrents that,

He leans toward the seated What did he do in the evening man clubs of Czecho-Slovakia, been imposed on him. He was seemingly, must one day engulf

after work? Gymnastics! and which includes 100,000 men prudent, almost timid, but luck man to give him a light, and the world.

Henlein joined the Deutsches speaking the same language, dis- favoured him, and his hesita- then he reads on the cigarette, a Whatever

Turnverein, the local organisaturated with a

ciplined, organised in clubs, tions were taken for signs of "gold-tipped," the inscription, Europe,

nationalistic profound political sagacity, "Muratti, Berlin." German ideology, clubs not ad- Four years pass, and, in the

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Konrad Henlein understands. small section of the community Chater Road. in Hongkong that this Colony Italian

at mitting Jews to their member- election of 1933, the new move- His answer is ready:- squadron based

"Doubtless I ought to ask you 1,250,000 votes, would be one of the first parts Shanghai

dismissed ship..

By 1929 Henlein is a married that is 60 per cent. of the Ger- to get out immediately. But I of the Empire to be engulfed lightly in view of the prepon-

on giving you a still a petty bour- man suffrage, claiming 44 of the insist derance of British and French man, "settled," are not only fantastic, but in warships in the China Seas, and geois.

72 seats won by the German clearer answer; understand, and view of the panic such fears so Italy, lacking naval bases, can- He is at the head of a formid- minority throughout Czecho- tell your superior, that nothing, neither promises, threats, nor casily creates, also subject for not reinforce her small overseas able mass organisation, but he Slovakia. rebuke. There are

many units.

ignores the power the position Beginning with that moment prison can make me betray the confidence of the millions of op- confers on him. He does not Konrad Henlcin is named "buts" and "fs" connected

Therefore, to admit even the know that the formidable mass Fuchrer of the Germans of pressed Sudetens." with the possibility of a direct possibility of an extension of organisation which he directs is Czecho-Slovakia.

FTER the departure of threat to Hongkong, or, for that military or naval activities to about to become something very At this time a mysterious visi-

his visitor the Pacific, it must be pre- different from a simple sports tor one day calls on him,, ob- pushed open the door of the ad- Henlein matter,

extension an European war to any part of supposed that a Pacific Power federation.

stinately refuses to reveal the joining room, where the manag the Pacific, that the whole sub-will come to the assistance of

In 1929 there were two Ger- object of his visit to the secre- ing director of his paper waited. Germany. That Germany has ject could be dismissed as fun-a treaty ally in Japan is ad- the National Socialist Party and on seeing the Fuchrer alone.

man parties in Czecho-Slovakia, tary who receives him, insists "I hope that I teach you tastic and unworthy of comment mitted. But is there any rea the National German Party. At

And here is the interview nothing new in revealing the were it not for the genuine son for assuming that Japan's the elections that year the two which took place between Hen- identity of the man who just perturbation felt by at least a obligations to Germany or Italy.

left," the journalist remarked. 393,000 votes lein and his visitor.

"I saw that fellow in Berlin two section of the Colony's popula- in the anti-Comintern Pact call parties received tion.

years ago. He is the right hand man of Himmler, one of the best

And Henlein answered with a whimsical smile:

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attempted invasion of any part many's or Italy's enemies? The GRIN AND BEAR IT of the British Empire would, anti-Comintern Agreement is of course, be that Great Britain aimed at Soviet Russia, and at should be involved in war, Soviet Russia alone. Even the involvement of Germany in war a by no means certain tingency

even if the pot docs with Soviet Russia would quite boll over in central Europe. conceivably bring forth only Secondly, Britain must become moral support from Japan which, involved in war with an extra- at this stage in her disastrous European Power before the campaign in China, cannot want contingency of an expansion of a Russian enemy at her door- warfare to the Pacific can be step in Siberin or on Saghalien. admitted. In the case of involve. In this connection it is interest- ment in war with Germanying to note that in the Great alone, the latter country's 'com- War of 1914-18 Japan, although parative lack of naval power at Britain's ally, declared war only once renders it impossible for on Germany, and was at peace the conflict to burst beyond the with Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria confines of Europe. Even in and Turkey, throughout those 1914, when Germany had four years of strife. comparatively powerful Asiatic It is extremely unlikely, even squadron stationed at Tsingtao, in the very remote possibility Hongkong was at all times im-of Japan lending more than mune to danger.

moral support to Germany in a Since we are dealing in possi-war over Czecho-Slovakia, that bilities and not probabilities, the Pacific nation would seek to the contingency of Italian aid extend the quarrel with Britain.

for being forthcoming

her Great Britain and Japan have Rome-Berlin axis ally cannot be always been friendly nations overlooked. But what is the and, despite the strain and im position? Italy's navy 18 pairmont occasioned to their re- powerful, but Italy's real seallations by Japan's activities in power lies in her submarines China, thoro seems no reason to and mosquito craft which, obvi- believe that either will ever be ously, will be most effective in come involved in war with the the Mediterranean. The small other,

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By Lichty agents of the Gestapo."

"I'm thinking of changing laundries-our laundry man 'doem't seem to knoto a thing about anybody in the neighbourhood.”

"I know it well."

Was

an

That interview examination. The Gestapo want- ed to know whether Henlein was a true Fuehrer.

Henloin had quickly given proof of this. A little while after he was invited for the first time to the home of Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden.

The former monitor returned to Czecho-Slovakia in a sumptu- ous German motor-car, the gift of his "grent friend.".

After the Czecho-Slovakian elections of 1988, the tone of Konrad Henlein's speeches changes little by little.

He talks of Volksgemeinschaft of the necessity of uniting Germans beyond the political frontiers.

tho

Flattering phrases on Nuremberg laws succeed vague democratic banalitics.

MORE and more often Henloin talks of the problem of the German race.. And, the final evolution, after the Anschluss at the time of the Sudeten Congress at Karlovy- (Continued on Part 9)