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MEMEL, Europe's

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by EMRYS JONES

T

URN your eyes to that strip of terri tory called Memel- land that adjoins East coast is Prussia, whose washed by the Baltic Sea, whose people were, until this week, in Lithuania, and whose heart is in Germany. Note the clean, red-brick cobble-stoned town of Memel it- and ace what a fine jump-

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THE IMPLICATIONS behind the German occupation of Memelland are much wider than they appear on the surface. The Memel district,

Before we

MEMELLAND

TO RIGA

LATVIA

LITHUANIA

EAST PRUSSIA

(Germany)

Kaunas

POLAND

BERLIN

WARSAW

Flanked by Nazi Germany's East Prussia 172 the West, Memel, German in spirit, snakes a Jumping off ground for a drive up the Baltic Sea.

by another Really this decision was to the

VILNA

Miles

TO

MOSCOW

I Asked Hitler Questions

Fifth Day In The Series of Questions and Answers from an unexpurgated Edi tion of "Mein Kampf".

Why did

Quastika?

VOIL

choose the

A. The new flag had to be just

03

₤1 much

symbol of our Own struggle 03 of great

advertising effectiveness. Anybody who has much to do with the masseH tees great importance in these up- parent trivialitics; "An' effective

badge can in hundreds of thousands of cases awake the first interest in movement." (p. 553.) ·

National-Socialists

"A

we sce

our programme in our flop. In the rod we ser the social idea of the nationalistieg in the swastika the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man." (p. 557.)

What is your view of Free-

masonry?

A "To strengthen his political

position the Jew tries to tour down racial and political barrier. which at Brst still hamper his steps. For this purpose he fights for religious tolerance with all the toughness peculiar to him, and has found an excellent instrument for the cham- plonship of his cause in Freemasonry,

What

the fundamental

highly valuable as pawn in the larger smashing and grabbing that salve the consciences of the Neumann on the stump in Memelland, afference between Názlem and

in

Communium?

Then the world saw for the first which has completely fallen prey to time that other nations must take him. Turn your eyes to Memel, be-

care how they treat people of the "Governing circles and the higher it's like a troublesome Cause

German race. Hitler protested vi- grades of the political and business tooth-you never know when

gorously against the death sentences bourgeoisie fall into his are through and it looked lite the aching tooth masonic strings, without their realis- it's going to start aching.

was about to be drawn.

ing it. (p. 345.) Hitler and Chamberlain had

The Lithuanians, however, elimbed

The work which Freemasonry some words about it when the

so-called intellectual In gave or down, commuted the death sentences, begins British Prime Minister met the Memel Statute, which

further the men they sentenced circles 10 One

the pacifistic drive for national Fuehrer in Germany during the promised to give Memelland was Ernst Neumann, now known in faming of the

Lithuania as the Henlein of Memel- self-preservation is passed on to the some sort of-autonomy. crisis last year.

Great Britain, France, Italy, land. They sent him to prison for broad masses by the activity of the investigate that, a strip of 853 square miles without consider the story of Memel and Japan guaranteed the in- twelve years of Slaulen, but after great Press to-day always Jewish."

and released. which Lithuania scarcely can live is, consider it, because Memel was tegrity of Lithuania and auto- doing four years he was pardoned 351.)

Last week, you could have seen Ernst although so small that it is virtually the result of a smash-and-grab nomy for Memelland.

surgeon ex-veterinary valueless to Germany economically, raid, following

dark blue sull, top boots, Hame Germany is now playing in brought it back to Germany yes. Allies, who had permitted the wearing

Poles under Pilsudski to grab with the elk-ontier badge of his party

his button-hole, Lerday. Eastern Europe.

Ranged on the other side against

"By Its categorical rejection of Memelland was German until the Lithuanian capital of Vilna, Just as the German occupation of

Neumann was the thin, high-check-

personality and thus of the Czecho-Slovakia and all it implies it was taken away from them by

boned, bushy moustached President nation and its racial content Marxism of Lithuania, Antanas Smetona. destroys the elementary basls of all makes Peland's southern flank highly the peacemakers in Paris, and it Name Changed

human culture which is dependent vulnerable, so does Lithuania, with was some time before the Allies

HE Lithuanians began by Like Poland's Pilsudski and Czecho ΤΗΣ

was just on these factors. This is the whom Poland established diplomalle decided what to do with it.

assaulting the feelings of Slovakia's Benes, Smetona

country was real inner kernel of Marxist philo- the Memetlunders, who were German, Nationalist when his

With the destruction of relations only last year through an ultimatum presented at the point of Too Late

by changing the name of the German under foreign rule, in his case Russophy"

personally and race falls the im- town from Memel to Klaipeda on the sian rule..

stations the gun, le heavily on her northern

destroying und

He was expelled from his school portant obstacle to the domination IN 1928 it was decided railway flank. And although Lithuania is

for them. In the be- monuments that reminded the Memel- for saying prayers in Lithuanian in- of the inferior type-and this is the small, her strategle value is tremen-

landers of their German background. stead of Russian, then became a con-Jew..

"So arises a pure workers' move- especially since

However, there was no big cry spirator in the cause of Lithonalan Poland's ginning of that year armed dous, western trant is exposed at Danzly. Lithuanians (who until the end then to return to the arms of Ger- independence while he was a studentment under Jewish leadership, “pre- Thus you see in German re-occu- of the war had been Russia) be- many, for that was back in 1923, in the University of St. Petersburg tending to better the condition of the enslavement and destruction of all pation of Memel a lever with which gan to be heard, began to give when a minor agitator called Adolf Who wasn't a conspirator in Czarist worker, but in reality alming at the

Hitler was just beginning to raise the Russia? Lithuania can be jousted into almost the 200 French soldiers there, storm in far-away Munich.

Smetona has no chance in Memel-non-Jewish peoples." (p. 351.)

(Nazl) movement must Soon after the agitator had be- land, for in the local Diet the German "The any position. The first fruits, have who were keeping order on be- already become manifest the half of the Allies, a lot of trou- come master of Germany in 1933, party held 24 out of the 20 seats, promote respect of the person with It must never forget that the German Memellonder turned party followers give the Nazi salute,all means. Lithuanian-German Non-Aggression ble.

their eyes to the Third Reich, Pru use the word "Hell," and organise in individual worth lies the worth of Germany

everything human, that every iden Pact, signed yesterday.

To the Allies came urgent re- paganda and racial feeling started storm troopers.

and every achievement is the result now has Lithuania's only seaport and

of the creative power of a man," (p. Lithuania may, as a result of the quests for help from the French the tooth oching, and from time to

Commissioner. To Lithuania me the twinges were felt all over Many

387.) dependence she must now place on

The movement for incorporation Germany, and that her freedom is went a protest, and the British not much more than that enjoyed by cruiser Caledon sailed for the in the Third Reich began to gather

In

the Bohemians, the Moravians or the Slovaks.

You will probably see, as a result

Europe.

Clashes

and

THE troublesome tooth of

"The nationalist point of view ... Memelland was kept ner does not only envisage the different Baltic.

momentum, fill in 1834 Lithuanian troops swarmed into Memeliand, vous by frequent clashes between worth of races, but also the different

Germans and

Lithuanians. Last worth of individual men." (p. 421.) Too late. Thousands of

arrested leaders and a hundred other June Nazis and Lithuanians fought "The fundamental difference be attacked the prominent German citizens.

for two hours in the streets because tween nationalist philosophy Lithuanians

gave way. So The Lithuanians held a trial in the Germans had welcomed a Nazi Marxism is that nationalist philosophy

annexed by Kaunes, accused them of plotting to

ruce but also the Importance of the and cries of "Heil!"

and makes him Adolf Hitler. They sentenced four the following restore Memelland to the realm of ship in the port with the Hitler salute does not recognise only the value of

recognised men to death, sent nearly a hundred

The casualties were the death of individual, a 16-years-old son of a Germon foundation of its whole structure." signed the to lang terms of imprisonment..

policeman and 50 Injured. Once (p. 501.) more it looked as if Europe was in for a first-class crisis.

was

Lithuania

of this Memel re-occupation, another French, who spate of diplomatic activity in central Memel Europe, with Warsaw as the axis. Lithuania, and in Poland, almost surrounded now by year the grab Germany, must either resign herself when

the Pan- to the knowledge that Ukrainian movement Herr Hitler is espousing involves dismemberment of Poland as well as Soviet Russla, or new and must cast around for powerful allies,

In return for facilities in Memel, and especially access to Memel' Har- bour, Lithuania will almost certainly be forced, in the very near future if not now, to become a vassal of Greater Germany,

Events on the Baltic coast must have a salutary effect on the other Hitle Baltic states, whom Germany

would also like to bring within her

orbit. They will watch post-Memel DIEZAS developments in Lithuania with the greatest anxiety as a leken of what might be in store for them,

Memel is typical of German colo- nisation territory. Even after 700 years of German rule it contained, according to the German 1910 census, 71,781 Inhabitants of German mother tongue, and 67,124 of Lithuanian mother tongue, while in the Lithu arian census of 1925 43.81 per cent of Memel's Inhabitants characterised themselves as of German nationality, 27.50 per cent of Lithuanian na- tionality and: 25.18 per cent Memelanders,

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Thus Memel becomes a second precedent for German territorial claims no longer based on the Na- Honal Socialist principle one, but rather on politicul prefererke, how- over obtained. And since all the Baltic States contain Jarge German

额! minorities, an example of what

determined German minority with the backing of Great Germany can do provides them food for thought,

GRIN AND BEAR IT

Base, 1879 kg Valled Foniere Benitonta, Ina,

By Lichty

"Your neck is too long for the new coiffure, but I think our Mr. Emilo con tx that!"

The storm passed-on the surface. Mentelland disappeared from the

crisis scene until a British M.P. asked

J

the

Manj BOU you Arx taking gambler's risks in Europe.

in the House of Commons what was Do you believe in taking riska? going to happen there. That was

after Mr. Chamberlain's visit to Ger- A. "Lack of will. hinders every decision connected with risk. many in September.

In reply, it was said that Hiller as if the magnitude of a deed did not had told Chamberlain that he'd be consist in its riskiness. glad to leave Memelland as it was, os long as the Memel Statute was obe served by the Lithuanian Govern- ment.

"He who first demands from fate of success, thereby the guarantee renounces the very importance of an heroic deed. For an heroic deed lles In the fact that although convinced Please note: "As long as the of the danger of a altuation, you take Memel Statute was observed by the the step which will perhaps lead to success. A man sick with cancer ... does not want to reckon on fifty-

Lithunninn Government."

It would not be difficult to find an

excuse for saying that the Statute one per cent. certainty before risking was not being observed, and, any- an operation." (p. 483.).

way, the Memellanders were reckon-

ed among the dissatisfied minorities

that afflict the European scene.

"A Scandal"

Do you think it would be a

Q. better world if Germany ran

Affiller gave it out that he

| LĽ this happened when it entirely?

hud no moro territorial ambitions,

but la Berlín a few days later it was semi-officially stated (and

"If the German people throughout its historical deve- that's topment had possessed the herd-like pretty official in Germany) that this unity which helped other peoples, the did not mean the Fuehrer was not German Relcii to-day would be inls- deeply interested in his fellow-tress of the world,

Germans beyond the frontiers of World history would then have Nuzi Germany.

taken another course, and no man In the same October that was fol- is in a position to decide whether lowed up in Berlin by the comment the very thing that so many dazzled that suppression In Lithuania "has pacifists are to-day hoping to beg by become an untenablo.scándal.”

whining and whimpering, peace, More to the point, was the formal would not have come about in this. decoration made to newspapermen way,

leader of Memel's Nazis.

in Memel by Herr Bertuleit, deputy- A peace supported not on the hand-wringing of icurful pacifistic Said he "Memel Was separated walling women, but by the victoribus against its will from the German sword of a master people which tairen fatherland. Now it desires reunion the world into the service of a timer.

(Continued on Page 5.)

culture." (p. 430).