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"MEIN KAMPE?? IN THE LIGHT OF EVENTS

«MEIN KAMPF" in now at long "ME

Inst made available to the Bel- What the new

tish public in an authentic" und un- expurgated English translation. The

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BUT

of such a translation has generally

Unabridged English

been supposed to have been the veto Version Reveals

of Herr Hitler himself.

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was obviously actuated by the desire of preventing the people of Great Britain from comparing the ex-- travagant bellicosities of his book. With the pacifle protestations of his speeches as

as Fuehrer and Reich Chan- cellor.

by

J. C. Johnstone

This explanation is confirmed by the character of the "abridged" Eng- lish version which has been mas- querading on our bookstalls for the that he can call his own. Never for- Your dealer or garage man recom- past six years as the real "Mein get that the most sacred of all rights mends B

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Patriotism

WE MAKE no excuse for choosing

Kampf" shorn only of its uneasentials, in the world in man's right to the Actually, it was not so much an earth he wishes to cultivate for him- "abridgment" as a paraphrase which self and that the holiest of all sacri- dealt with all the most offensive pas- flees is that of the blood poured out sukes either by omitting them alto- for it. gelber or by so watering thêm down 250,000,000 GERMANS

in translation as to leave a compara- tively innocuous impression on the mind of the unsuspecting reader,

LAST WAR WELCOMED

The order, of magnitude of his ex-i pansionist ambitions may be mea- sured by his estimate that, a century hence, there will be 250,000,000 Ger-

coolics," but have

As a single example out of a thou- mans in Europe, who must not be sand that could be clied, it may suffice

to instance total exclusion of a pas- o

like

soil they can call their

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

·

I think we'll do better on this éruisé—it's the same one where Ágnes not her husband!”

53go which declared that the ultima- own. To ensure the provision of th"HELLO, DEAR FRIENDS AND

tum of the Vienna Government to space-presumably thrice the existing Serbia in July, 1014, was "in the eyes aren of Greater Germany-ia the of the great masses too moderate and business of a properly conducted Ger- certainly not excessive or brutal"; man foreign policy.

that "the War of 1914 was certainly In general terms the Eust is mark- not forced on the masses: it was even ed out as the direction of this colonis desired by the whole people," and ing activity: "When we speak of new thut "I am not ashamed to acknow- territory in Europe to-day we must ledge to-day that I was carried away think of Russia and the border States by the enthusiasm of the moment and subject to her, Destiny Itself seems that I sank down upon my knees and to wish to point out the way for us thanked Heaven out of the fulness of here." Bohemia and Moravia, though my heart for the favour of having not mentioned in this connection in been permitted to live in such a Ume." "Mein Kampf," ore clearly designated What is to be said of a so-called as the first frogmentary instalment is "abridgment" which ignores eo palp- the process of conquest there out- able a clue to the mind and temper lined. of the author?

The role assigned to England is

LISTENERS.” THIS IS-

Zeesen Calling

-by-

L. MARSLAND GANDER

the declaration, attributed to the Fuehrer: "We wish to safeguard the eternal foundations of our existence, of our nationality, and the strength and virtues with which IL is endowed."

me chorus is turn-

HOW NEWS IS COMPILED the eulogistic references in

The full version now before us is that of friend and ally whose benc London newspapers to the projected printed pages. A great deal of it programme is to be assured by Ger-

Any Hongkong latener may hear a formidable tome of 560 closely- volent neutrality towards the Eastern

for himself the evidence of Germany's intention of the Malayan Government consists of tedious and indigestible man abstention from rivalry in the

immense broadensting effort. For to contribute

example, a £1,000,000 to the verbosity which may well try the Colonial sphere. Engined is also to

at 10 p.m.. daily, half a dozen transmitters at Zeesen begin Imperial Government for Defence as patience of the long-suffering reader leak on while the destruction of an opportunity to once more refer beyond endurance before he is half- France removes the Inst possibic AR friends and listeners over broadcasts to Southern and Eastern seos," says an effusively friend- Asia, Australia and New Zealand. to the grossly unfair levy imposed ters worse there are no page head- domination of the Continent.

way through with it. To make mat- source of challenge to the German ly voice through the loud-speaker. At midnight the same chorus is upon this Colony for military con- Ings; the frequent italics which read!-

There a hardly need for it to add,

ed on the Americas. It rather looks as if the Anglo-In that faintly guttural English, What, then, is Germany telling the ly catch the eye in the original Ger- German Naval Treaty was an at-This is Germany calling"

with such characteristic En passant, we do not intend to a

mann are unaccountably omitted; and tempt to steer England into voluntary

thoroughness, and what is its effect. By night and day, with scarcely a world ludicrously perfunctory index is conformity with this neat Hitlerist break throughout the 24 hours, the on the scattered audience? To find join in the pacans of praise with compressed into four and a half vision of the future Europe.

German short-wave station at Zecsen the answer to these questions I have- which the Malayan announcement { Pages.

As commentary on Herr Hitler's said to have cost £1,000,000-s been listening regularly to the Zeesen has been greeted in London.

It may therefore be helpful for the propagandist exploitation of anti-pumping out programmes to the transmissions in Engilah for some reader to know that the best "meat" Bolshevism it may be remarked that world, with announcements

and news

news time. We would prefer, rather, to draw is contained in chapters IV., V., VI. he roundly cast got having adopted a tuguese, and, of course, German castigates his Imperial in English, Dutch, Spanish, Por

The favourite method of the com- attention to the fact that, either on and X., in the first part, and chapters course before the war against | The cent of its ceaseless activity ja pers of the Zeeson bulletins is to

tributions.

XIII. to XV. In the second..

SCORN OF THE MASSES

predecessors

similar.

be

referred to, not altogether apocry-on ltistorical document which bears seen, was almost generosity itself by Lo-day

It is pertinent to reent), as

a

of $0.

the

be

Lo

Throntries speak to was to strengthen Britain's gop on

BOMO isolated

The per capita or percentage or revenue basis, Malaya can well afford

comb the newspapers of the world Tsarist Russia. Tenriem or Bolshevism matched only by Daventry, the B.B.C. and to quote carefully selected ex- its occasional sops of £1,000,000 In an introduction the translator makes no difference, except, that in Empire station, with the difference tracts. For instance, one day quoin- when compared with Hongkong, suggests several answers to the ques- vism happens to provide a convenient man, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, paper to the effect that the object of the circumstances of to-day Bolshe- that the B.B.C. uses English, Ger- tions were read from an Arab news- which has more than once beention why Herr Hiller does not revise vism

Italian and French, "Mela Kampf." They are that "it is paganda handle.

the Palestine Conference in London Versailles

can Treaty, it phally, as one of the highest taxed the imprint of its own

hatiny

broadcasting the Orient and the Arab States. and con- the side of the fate held out in "Mein Italy, for instance, uses 20 different "Britain," the article went on, "In- countries for military purposes, in not therefore be revised without Kampf" for those nations unfortunate languages-but Britain and Germany tends to show the world that she 15 the world.

being taken out of its "historical con- enough to find themselves within the have superior facilities and reach the text;

will astor in the Orlent and plans to by Herr Hitler's own ac area scheduled as that

audience. Daventry "German living widest count, "his acts and public state an

throw the apple of discord among the space." But when a fraction of what

what shortly have five high-power trans representatives of the Arab States in contemporary did some time ago, that ments constitute a partial revision would inflict on otherwit he calls on regular schedules and two in re- from the Palestine issue, are to be is inflicted mitters in operation; Zecsen has six Landon, Various questions, apart. It the proportion of defence expenditure and are to be taken as such" (c....

becomes To general

the abandonment of the Germans in "sadist revenue even in the South Tyrol and of Alsace-Lorraine); oppressi

and "Indescribable serve.

raised In order to set off one party United Kingdom was,

such that "they should

There is no more ironical com- against another." until the and that what he wrote before at- send up to heaven the glowing prayer: ment on the world to-day than the was true. colossal re-armament expenditure taining official responsibility does not Almighty God, bless our arms when growing Babel on the short-wave commenced, substantially lower than implicate him an Chancellor of the the hour comes. Be jus!, as Thou band. It is true that broadcasts by

QUOTING FROM AMERICA The report in a London newspaper in Hongkong. It is also pertinent Reich.

hast always been just. Judge now one country in the language of an- that the Jews in Palestine threatened to point out that, as compared with book was completed within

All this is absurd. Admittedly the if we deserve our freedom, Lord, other are not in themselves hostile on armed revolt if the conference the average of 17 per cent. of gross years of the Ruhr Invasion, which

three bless our struggle."

acts. Language is, after all, the only failed was mentioned one day.As 'n revenue contributed by Hongkong might plausibly account for

"MIGHT IS RIGHT"

path to understanding among men departure from this method, another for defence purposes, the contribution statement contained in it that France indignation over the alleged "la-

Herr Hitler's flaming moral and nailons. But it is also the path

contained bulletin misunderstanding, and in 1930 sentences to, the effect that on the of Australia was until last year only is an implacable enemy who must justices" of Versailles would be mate motives and materint need careful secusion of a religious festival at eight per cent, of Federal revenue, be annihilated. But the book also easily intelligible if his pages did

did scrutiny.

unfortunate invalid Arab was hanged. whilst in Canada, South Africa and

refers ma

many times to the "ecbienesa”

CLUES TO IDENTITY ncas not make it abundantly plain that,

He was condemned to death because New Zealand the percentage was How, then, can

understanding of the of the

masses in

this

view, justice consists in the

Day after day on the bewildering an old rifle was found in his posser- it be even less.

supposed that

sa-exercise of the power of the short-wave band the listener finds an sion." the masses, being of "feeble under ruthless ~1

der- stronger, and that it only becomes English station talking German, Reports from French dewanne We are somewhat envious of the criminating between the "historical ing exercised by Germany. In a Italian station talking Arable, or a have been freely quoted, and I have

would be capable of dis- injustice when this power is not be- German station talking English, an of Anarchist atrocities in standing." fact that the Malayan Government context" of 16 yours ago and the curiously revealing passage he re- Russian station talking French. As heard lengthy extracts read from has an annual defence tax of only immediate alms of palley to-dny?

1s marks:

n hair's breadth on the dial separates criticisms of B.B.C. news bulletins $2.48 per head of population, as not the retention of the passage I shall never believe that France one transmitter from another, the published in a London newspaper. compared with the Hongkong per direct incitement to the masses to towards us, because, in the last finitely tantalising, calling for

about the annihilation of France a will of herself alter her intentions task of Identification becomes In- recent Zeesen bulletin began capita contribution

the with a report of a broadcast by it believe that this annihilation is an analysis, they are only the expression stolzal patience of the angler. "the well-known American publisher..

cast given is interesting to realise that, in indispensable necessity of Garman of the French instinct of han lleved to establish a recognisable cot announcer, a sharp attack on the

The short-wave latener is quite re- Randolph Hearst," It the United Kingdom, defence costs existence?

was, sald the servation. Were. I a Frenchman per capita were only $32 in 1935-gument in, becomes of the ore and were the greatness of France so

What,

tact-to come across such a phrase Roosevelt ndministration: Mr. Hearst Just 5 times the per capita con-

that, as Chancellor, Herr dear to me as thai of Germany as "We are wishing you perfect re it was said, took particular exception Hitler is not implicated by the pro- actually is, in the final reckoning I ception," which stamps the pro to the statement that it was the duty tributions of this Colony, more than gramme of "Afein Kampf" when we could not and would not act other ramme as made in Germany, or to of the United States to defend de- two-thirds of whose population eles see every single item of that pro- wise than a Chemenceau.

hear that equally distinctive marit of mocracy and treaty loyalty all over out a miserable living on a pittance gramme being fulfilled before our Nature red in tooth and einw.io_o

announcer.

ther Mr. Roosevelt intended to con- infant mortallly rate, unreasonably

tinacity? There is only one solitary out the book. In the world of Germany was early in the field with vert Soviet Russia to Christianity or increased to

Hem which, as Chancellor, bo has everlasting struggle, where one foreign language broadcasts, begin- how he recancelled his humanitarian one in every three hitherto repudiated in act and not crenture feeds on the other, and ning in 1934, and the B.B.C. followed arguments with the brutal oppression children born because of poverty and

merely in worthless pledges.

That where the death of the weaker im- suit only in January last year. When of 300,000,000 Indians and the slaugh- consequent malnutrition, is amongst item to the significant one of Colonial plies the life of the stronger," inter- the short-wave transmissions from ter of many innocent inhabitants of the highest in the world..

activity, which in "Mein Kampf he national selidarity is just an idle Zeesen were launched. It was stated that country. Similar sentiments... donounced, but which he has now dream. He declares

fi ometar German quarters that they continued: the announcer, had been We do not feel disposed to join in taken up with vigour and menaco. will one day be the scene of dread- origin throughout the world. Theodore Roosevelt.

Nobody can doubt that this world were intended for people of German expressed by Senator Walsh und Col. the London

the Is it not the Inescapable conclusión

that

ful struggles for existence on the part One need look no farther than the whatever in "Mein Kampf" re-

DENUNCIATION OF JEWS patilotism of the Malayan Govern-mains as yet uanchleved is only of mankind. In the end the' insting; much-quoted "Melo Kamp for More direct methods are used lo ment when we remember that our

turnt

self-preservation nione will enforced patriotism, which,

awaiting Its in-

Until last month there had been a triumph. Before its consuming fire cidentally, passes unnoticed, han coat tendency to assume that Herr Hitler connotes only a mixture of fatuous a this so-called humanitarianism, which as almost twenty per cent, of our would stop at territorial expansion timidity and conceit, will melt away he reached the limits of the like snow under the March sunshine. century, as compared with the

That Illusion is now utterly struggle. In perpetual peace be wil

to the Malayon average of just over ten per exploded, but. If the world was de- go to destruction. ceived it was not

BELIEF IN DRUTALITY

masses are being compulsorily fodds of innocent; Aryans As to, Herr Hitler's, conception of such the religion which it is the holy Hongkong enjoyed as substantial a urca into Juss proportion with the Socialliam, it may suffled to quote the without queallon as his credo, and Recently Zecaen had, turned. Its

the character and role of National-duty of every Germans to accept Irequently, measure, of relief from the defence number of our population is one following single passagab burden as Singapore or, indeed, any of the most persistently

such the innermost conviction or relterated

verbal guns on to Washington, which the announcer chose to describe as themes in the whole book, and is de The conviction of the right to founder of that religion himmelf. Too long have we imagined scribed as the "supreme objective of employ even the most brutal wea-

or the centre of a world-war agitation. every foreign policy. What he calls pons is always associated with tiled to drive ourselves that it was these pttacks on the

authorlinrlan nover meant to be taken quite literal States," he continued, "are intended man nation ends with the following tion of libworld. A movement longer that the most brutal wen- fent in Spalt, The announcer then

new and revolutionary

de-

Nevar consider the

the Reich

which does not fight for such" high | pons will be unhesitatingly, employ went on to denounce

Pitt- secure nims and ideals will never have re-ed against whoever opposes that man's absurd assertions in l infants who have died on the altar position to give every descendant of Such to the mental pabulum on tion" which Herr Hitler fonatiently criticlem unual with quotations

unless, for centuries to come, it is in course to extreme means.

"now and revolutionary, transforma- recenthigpeech and supported his of poverty, disease and malnutrition, our race a piece of ground and soil which the feeble-minded" German Belfeves, to be his 'ihleston?.

PLEASE Turn To Pago

that barely, keeps them alive; whose yes with the most astonishing per- constantly recurring theme through- B.Bcation, the voice of a typical the world. Mr. Hearst asked whe-

references to

of

Rodní revenue for cesty seat of the inhabited"by the German' Man has become great in perpetual all printed programmes distributed of the "Jewish"};+ 351--

centr

We would rather recall that, had necessity of bw want of war.

of the British colonies, there would have been suficient funds available every child born. In this Colony

ing in "Melna

For

our territorial

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for a

moves that work, Herr Hitler castigate the Jews and the Spanish makes plain his deep-rooted beller "Reds," though lately there has been ledges the superiority of the Allied heard a talk one morning on Spain: propaganda, and freely acknow, a lull in the attacks on the Jews. I methods during the war. To-day on devoted largely to an

an account of the Press of the world by the

Torquemada, who, the German short-wave stations appears

sald, had caused the death

of the Jews for anti- conspiracies" has occurred

of

To assure a primary education, for the "Political Testament of the Ge" fanatlest faith In this necesna | ¡y.'. Can anyone; doubt for a moment to counter-balanen the Bolshevik sa

ir to establish enough cllnles to save the lives of thousands of mothers and

exhortation;

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