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The.Menace

THE POWER of Hitler is best exemplified by the sickening suspense that grips the world just prior to one of his periodic speeches.

HE IS KEY MAN OF

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NE day recently, in a sheltered corner on Devon the North coast, I heard two young holiday-makers discussing the state of affairs in Europe.

It is almost an axiom in Fleet Street that British citizens on holiday talk only of the triviali- ties of the moment and read only. detective stories and the weather forecasts in the newspapers.

That this is not now true, if it ever was entirely true, of Dri- tish holiday-makers is probably due to the fact that few of us, whether at work or at play, can escape altogether from the im- pact of public affairs. They touch us too closely; and they continue to be more dangerously exciting than the most thrilling detective story ever written.

Now another speech, his ad- dress to the Reichstag, has come and gone. The world! breathes more freely at his as- surances that there will be a long period of peace, until it is remembered that Hitler has followed previous ussuranceA with actions that have ended peacefully only because de mocracy has retreated before the menace of the mailed fist.

THE last war caught us

unawares. The next one may come suddenly, in the night. But not one of us will be able to say next time that he has been caught unawares. Nobody will dare to say it. The writing is on the wall; in the very skies, for all to see.

Those two young men on the beach at Woolacombe were fully alive to the fact that they were living in an exceedingly perilous world which might at any mo- ment plunge them into personal disaster. What one of them could not understand was why it should be so.

"I don't see that there is any-

thing to fight about," said he. "Anyway, what country wants to attack England?"

"Germany," said the other.

EUROPE

Says A.J. Cummings

"But Hitler is showing us almost every day how anxious he is for our friendship and good tion at our command, and Berlin present himself with a hopeless will."

atill remains the real storm- vacuum and probably sign his "Eyewash. He means to luli centre, the main anxiety of own death warrant as a ruler, us to sleep and then at a favour statesmen and their military ad- able opportunity go for our visers. colonies."

If Germany were to renounce

Covenant, with the backing of 50 nations, against Italy; thereby destroying wantonly the, one

upon effective check

inter national gangsterism and letting loose the Hitlers and Mus-- solinis to wreak their vengeance upon law abiding neighbours and create turmoil in Europe.

1

I

THE British diplomacy, if such it can be called,

is to buy from Hitler, if it can,

a temporary peace in the West and let the East of Europe go to the devil, in the vaguo hope that the devil will keep his bargain.

At

This is a half-hearted-version... of the policy of "splendid isola- tion," the simple slogan with which Lord Beaverbrook hay been trying so insistently to seduce a not so simple public. Lord Beaverbrook's theory is that if he were dropped quietly into the Bons' enclosure Whipanado, and the lions were fighting madly among them- selves, he would merely have to declaim the magic formula, "Me for splendid isolation," at the samo time showing his teeth,. and the lions would turn away in respectful awe and go on tear- ing each other to pieces,

Britain would have about us good a chance of keeping 'out of any major war started any- where in Europe as Lord Beaver- brook would have of escaping from the Whipsnade lioria.

Already the European lions are lashing their tails. Already Hitler is organising a movement. to divide Europe into two hostile camps. Already Mussolini is re- ported to be working harmoni- ously with his fellow-dictator to unite Italy with Germany, Hungry, Poland and the Little Entente in a holy war against Bolshevism. That means that dozen European at least nations will be lined up for zero hour, which is not a bad begin- ning for a "localised" war.

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WHAT 16

Britain's

answer to be to the,

HE has set the machine of war in motion. He That is an exact transcript of to-morrow her claims to "expan- cannot stop the war machine an interesting scrap of conversion" in Eastern Europe, the in- because he has nothing to put in German war bloc? sation which reflects much of the surance rates on war risks which its place, and nothing but the We know that the British confused apprehension among have been rocketing skywards laborious construction of this Government wants to limit its decent, peace-loving people to would slump immediately to sub- gigantic machine to offer mil- "risks" under the Covenant in day.

normal. But Hitler's Germany lions of German unemployed. dealing with treaty-breakers; The man who said "Germany" is determined, in her "national He makes so many insolent and we know that it is rearming. The sword was not neces-was both right and wrong. Ger- interest," to re-make parts of and provocative gestures at the nation with more energy sary." in the year that has pass-many does not want to attack the map of Europe; and Hitler Russia that even his own than it has shown in any other ed, Hitler says, because Britain us; and I do not believe that knows that in a world in which generals are alarmed lest the field of statesmanlike endeavour. and France saw eye to eye with Germany would pick a quarrel collective authority has sagged anti-Russia war which he en- But naked rearmament, Germany's claims. "We did with us about her lost colonies. almost to vanishing point the visages should come before their though it may help us not to not threaten anyone," he con- Some time ago a leading-Nazi first requisite for re-making the armies are ready to take the lose the next-war on the field of tinues apropos the September journalist said to me: "English map is a vast military do- field.

battle, will certainly not keep crisis. "We only defended our-politicians are mistaken in think- minance.

Hitler has Russia on the brain., war even at arm's length. selves against an attempt by aing that the crucial question for third party to interfere." Germany is a colonial one or that Many of the photographs of A cool-headed foreign observer, Then, significantly: "I need it could be an insuperable Hitler unposed reveal the melan- long resident in Germany, told not assure you that in the obstacle to Anglo-German friend- choly, careworn features of future, too, we shall not tolerate ship. We intend as a great man not invincibly sure of him

He is any attempt by Western Powers Power to establish as a recogni- self and his mission. to interfere with affairs which sed principle our right to the Mussolini to look at, solely concern us, for the pur- colonies of which we were de-

(as he hopes) of his own choos-AN ambulance drew up outside the Middlesex Hospital in London pose of preventing natural and prived, but we do not intend to Yet, even though his dreams ing.

recently and from It was lifted a The British Government stretcher bearing П white-faced, reasonable solutions."

fight for them because they are might be disturbed by doubts

He was carried. Is the inclusion of Memel in not a prime economic necessity. about the final outcome of his appears to be acting-or, rather, middle-aged man.

the swiftly through the casually en- the greater Reich to be "a Our aim is not colonial expan- present policy, could he renounce remaining passive - on trance,

that this conflict

Behind the arrival lay a dramatic natural and reasonable solution" sion, but expansion in Europe." that policy now without personal assumption

two doctors to of the difficulty there? Will

disaster? To abandon now the when it comes, can be localised. story of a fight by For a number of reasons I-

practical philosophy of "Mein Mr. Baldwin, in the supreme keep a man alive by transfusing on the Polish corridor provide the think the Nazi journalist was Kampf," screamed forth from a crisis of his political life, shrank drop of blood into his arm every one next territory necessitating a telling the relative truth. His thousand platforms, would be to from applying

and a half minutes during a 70 miles "solution"? Will the territorial explanation

the League journey over frozen roads. was sufficiently integrity of Rumunia be violated alarming to justify the young

The patient, William Halcrow, A 58-year-old printer, had been lying ill in Kettering District General Hospital for nearly six months,

A cevere haemorrhage made his condition critical, and it was decided to transfer him to the Middlesex.

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E GRIN AND BEAR IT ous province of Ruthenia, be forced to submit to German "de-

GERMANY is the im- fence against attempts by third

medinte cause of world parties to interfere" with the rearmament. There is not a establishment of a Ukrainian re-country in Europe-not even public 7

Poland, Hitler's uncomfortable Herr Hitler does not say. In eastern ally--which is not sus- ranting of the injustice of picious and fearful of Germany's Germany being called upon to policy of European "expansion," "pay immense tributes in re-backed by military forces grow- parations and at the same time ing day by day to undreamed-of being deprived of her Colonics**

proportions. as an outcome of the Great War, he is discreetly silent on the If by the waving of a wand subject of Germany's treatment one could eliminate Germany of Rumania and Servin when as a potential cause of war on they were forced to capitulate the grand scale there would be to the Central Powers, of the nothing or little for civilisation stupendous claims which Russia to fear in the coming years. was forced to agree to when she Will any person of unbiased was beaten and sued for peace. intelligence deny it? Let us not Fino words Hitler la discreet, also, regard- deceive ourselves. ing his claims for former Ger- butter no parsnips. All the flat- man colonies possessed by Italy teries lavished on officially con- and Japan. He makes no maen ducted tourists-from English tion of the unfortunate Germana public schoolboys to Ministers of who are now a minority in Italy, the Crown-all the raptures of For Italy and Japan are his returning visitors over German allion. In the East, the Japan- kindness, the wonder of Ger eso nation, which in the last many's new roads and the two years has set so many punctuality of her trains; all are examples of glorious heroism, is placed in their proper setting by undoubtedly fighting in the one speech by Hitler. service of civilisation."-

Which, wo think, aums on the Nazi conception of "civilisation

Bostow on the German, people and their leader all the good will, and the friendly considera-

"I don't, think it's a very good car-hire. Jones has one

week when she smashed it up!"

Dr. L. C. Liddell, house physician at the Kettering Hospital, sought the advice of the medicat officer Middlesex,

at the

DOCTORS FROM LONDON It could be done, it was decided, but Halcrow would have to receive constant blood transfusions during the Journey. That, too, was possible. Four Kettering blood donors gave their services, and two young Mid- diesex Hospital doctors went by train to Kettering to accom- pany the man on the journey and keep him alive, by transfusing 40 drops of blood into his body every hour, until London was reached.

FOUR HOURS' JOURNEY Because of the treacherous state of the roads the ambulance, had to travel at less than 20 m.p.h, and the Journey took four hours,

Sergeant-Major John Miller, of the Keltering Division of the St John Ambulance Brigado, sald that Uroughout the journey, there heavy snow-storms.

wore

The worst part was trom tushden to Bedford," he said, "but ́Driver" Bull kept the ambulance woll on the rond, despite frequent skids caused

by ice patches.

The apparatus

atus fox transfuskiy the blood was brought up to Kettering by the two Middlesex doctors: IL WAS

a simple arrangement at Plazy olsetter and rubber tubing, but it was me portant; that the rute of the "tranke futons abould be regulated," kat

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