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tracts from speeches made by German officers and high Nazi ofcials and quotations from Nazi documents revealing Ger- man weaknesses during recent years,

It must, however, be pointed out that the book does not pur- port to give the latest informu- tion upon all subjects and does not, therefore, necessarily reflect the true picture of Germany's present-day chances in a war. It in, however, having a profound effect on Hungarian opinion.

The author is Dr. Ivan Lajos, a Hungarian professor in the Hungarian University of Pocs,

Wyndham St., HongkongHe is not a Jew, influenced by

'Phone 26615 September 4, 1939

WAR

MORE THAN two-thirds of the peoples of the world are to-day at war on two cantinents.

Europe faces the greatest crisis In its history, 1914-18 not excepted. The doctrine of Nazlism, of racial persecution, intolerance, hatred and aggrandisement is sprending from

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the anti-Semitic tendency that operate in all the spheres of Axin influence, but a 100 per cent. Aryan.

Although he holds an official position-roughly that of an Oxford don-and although Hun- gary is a State where such people can be removed from office with "no questions asked,” no attempt has been made to unseat him.

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Pro-Nazi Germany had 42 generals, 600 staff officers for ite acven infantry and three cavalry corps. The existing army, on this basis, would require a six- fold increase in theso numbers, but only in respect of generals have they been able to reach the required minimum.

According to the German military system a mobilised army consisting of 100 corpe should possess at least 5,000 generals and staff officers. On their own figures they have only 3.850 available. And even of these the vast majority have been promoted with ultra- rapidity. On August 1, 1936, there were 16 full generals of whom only one was of that rank on January 1, 1933,

And the lower in the military hierarchy one goes the more fantastic are the promotions and the greater the gaps between service and rank.

So much for the men: what of the transport ?

Germany is spending only 10 per cent. of what her railway officials say they require for new rolling stock. The normal rate of peace-time) maintenance provés too great a burden to sustain. Trains ran from eight to ten hours late-even expres ses-and accidents Increased from 400 in 1932 to more than 1,000 in 1937.

Under war conditions, with industries centralised in the interior to avoid air attack, the length of journeys would be doubled and a double strain put on the railways.

on the

In one week nearly thirty thousand Hungarians have bought this little grey book (Germany's Chances in War: as mirrored in German official literature}, This is the first copy to arrive in England. The Hungarian Censor -for reasons nobody knows-did not ban it.

The man who wrote it did not lose his job. Nobody knows why. What is this book that is now sweeping through Hungary? LTHOUGH the pam-

Why is edition after edition called for? phlet sells at a high

This article-complete with the first extracts from the book its heart, in wide goose-stepping price in impoverished Hungary,

to be published in Hongkang-will tell you.

EVEN in man- power. suya tho "Militar that BO man who nearly 30,000 copies were sold in FIRST, Dr. Lajos speaks, General Staff: "Only Rusala is Wochenblatt," every man at the

as a Hungarian, of better off in coal and iron ore front needs eight men cherishes liberty is safe until this less than a week. It is passed

from hand to hand; it is read what his own country has to than she was in 1914. The home front; but Stephen Pos- Hitler monster is crushed.

by high and low alike; editions Benno Graf, recognised as the in the early days of the war at 12.

hope from Germany,

successses achieved by Germany sony in 1938 restated this figure Whatever the outcome of this pour from the press and still German authority on Germany's were due to the fact that she require the co-operation of other Thus Germany would fantastic struggle which has been the demand grows. Sometimes rights for more living-room in had no difficulty in supplying States to support her armles in forced upon the democracies and the bookstalls are swept clean the East, stated in a speech in these vital materials."

the field-and there are no such Munich in 1933: 'Hungary needs peace-loving nations of the world, for hours.

us: not we, Hungary. In the Colonel von Bulow, of the States available. The same au- civilisation must be the sufferer. Although the pamphlet im long run Hungary's policy, is German General Staff stated: thority calculated that to sustain peaches the policy of Hungary, decided by Germany, and now "Only Russia could indefinitely the presumed army of 3,000,000 and exposes the weakmess of by Nazi Germans.

Miserable, supply neroplanes for a protract. men there would be needed 64,- 000,000,000 workers behind the Germany's claim to invincibility, paltry, Balkan Hungary, with its ed war."

·lines! which none, not even his own copies have found their way to mere 8,000,000 hateful people General Scheffel, of the Air fellow-countrymen, will be safe the desk

of every Hungarian has no right to demand an oath

Ministry in Berlin, estimates the from persecution, has for five years official. No one knows whence of allegiance from its German Russian air strength immediate

subjects"."

ly available at 20,000 planes. made war on this civilisation which they come or how they reached

their destination..

Maps are already in circula- our forefathers have so painfully

tion in both Germany and built up.

Hungary showing the frontier drawn at the River Raba and Lake Balaton in the centre of

An Austrian-born fanatic, whose

vision is a Germanic-Aryan world in

What is happening to-day has, for months now, been inevitable. It

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Althuogh not one single re- view has appeared in the news papers, and the pamphlet has not been mentioned even in the Hungary:

was foreseeable but not preventable. news or gossip columns, all Cen- Having shown what would

Humanity's sole expedient has been tral Europe is talking of it, and to pile up more and more armaments it has become a best-seller which in a bid to meet the threat from a the Hungarian Censor made no

effort to suppress. nation which, only twenty years ago, was crushed and benten. Why is

No one knows why. Such pamphlets have always been sup- this so? Because, for many months, pressed before. the man who has declared for

aggression has been stone dent to

the voice of reason: because the

only answer to appeasement has

been force.

The tragedy is that the sufferera

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IN the introduction Dr. Lajos writes the signi- ficant words: "Everybody is rcsponsible." Responsible for the fawning upon Germany, the adulation of Germany, the false belief in German invincibility.

Dr. Lajos declares as his pur- It will be the millions of German, pose in writing this exposo of Polish, French and English people, nesses, as admitted by her own Germany's fundamental weak-

who want only peace.

leaders, that Hungary backed The extravagance of Goebbelllan the wrong horse in 1914 under propaganda,

which проп

a belief in the same myth of in- Germans have been exclusively fed vious tactic lay in the idea of a vincibility; that Germany's pro-

for years, has made nossible the "Hightning war" stroke of acquiescence of many German people lightning that sheared away in what has happened. More so half Hungary's territory; that than this propaganda, however, has! Germany's plan to-day is also based on the possibility of a been the dreaded Gestapo, the victorious lightning war"; and horrifying tortures of the concentra- | that it would neither be a quick tion camps into which hundreds of war nor could she win it if she thousands of Germans have been dared to fight.

flung, the ruthless crushing by

translated

Here are some extracts' from Hitler's police of all opposition; the book whose title can be

No system founded on force, happily, can crush a people for ever, Hitler will find that out, to his

sorrow.

na. "Germany's Chances In War," with the signi- ficant sub-heading "As seen in the Mirror of German Official Literature."

Colonel Thomus, writing for

wirtschaftliche Jahresberichte 1936," edited by Major Hesse, and supplied to the German War Office, said: "Once before false assumptions of a success- So much for the Eastern ful lightning war landed us in front. Now for the utter disaster: that is why in these days of aerial and tank

the officially published "Krieg-

Western.

happen to Hungary after 21 Dr. Lajos Bummons Herr warfare we should not be misled German victory, Dr. Lajos Muhlner to witness from his by such dreams again." turns his attention to her book "War and the State" the chances of of winning it. crying need for trained officers armament industry, even pres Oil, gold, food-supplies, the Ife quotes Colonel Ferdinand and N.C.O.s in the German tige-and perhaps more import-

of the German Army. Fridensburg.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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ant than all these, the certainty

·¡of America's attitude-Dr. Lajos reviews them all as seen by

By Lichty German eyes. There is not a

IZBA

""This time the Administration has gone TOO far!”

word of comment: readers can draw their own conclusions.

IN the last resort a war is fought by men. "You can drive men to the slaughter," said Pintschovius, the German military writer on the General Staff, “but you can- not drive them to fight"

What of the men in the German State 7

Himmler, explaining in 1937 to the General Staff itself what steps he would take in a war, said: "We should have to fight on an internal front as well as the army, navy and air-force fronta. Any neglect would result in the loss of the war. There fore, any unreliable elements would have to be confined in s concentration camp.”

As Greater Germany contains

| millions of “unreliable” Czechs and Austrians not to mention some millions of Germans op- posed both to war and the Nazi regime, Herr Himmler looks | like having his concentration

camps reasonably full.

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