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WAR

MORE THAN two-thirds of the peoples of the world are to-day

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

The author is Dr. Ivan Lajos, a Hungarian professor in the Hungarian University of Pecs. He is not a Jew, influenced by the anti-Semitic tendency that operate in all the apheres of Axis influence, but a 100 per cent. Aryan

Although he holds an official

Oxford don--and although Hun- possition-roughly that of un

gary is a State where such people can be removed from office with "no questions asked," no attempt has been made to unseat him.

ALTHOUGH the pam-

September 4, 1939.

BOOK THAT NOT BANNED

HÉMETORSZÁG HÁBORÚS ESÉLYEL,

A MÉMET SZAKIRODALOM TÜKRÉBEN

DR. LAJOS IVÁN.

HUSTYIZAK KIADÁM

29 podky)

·PECS. 1939

TRENI KOEKINgt shertkranDO. JA KYOMON, IL, INIQIPON

In one week nearly thirty thousand Hungarians have bought this little groy book (Germany's Chances in War: as mirrored in German official fiteratura), This is the first copy to arrive in England. The Hungarian Consor -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?

Why is edition after edition called for? This articlo complete with the first extracts from the book

to be published in Hongkong-will tell you.

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

According to the German military system a mobilised army consisting of 100 corps should possess at least 5,000 generals and staff officers. O their own figures they have only 3.850 available. And oven 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 any they require for new rolling stock. The normal rate of peace-time) maintenance proves 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

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

phlet sells at a high it heart. in wide goose-stepping price in impoverished Hungary,

EVEN in man- power, says the "Militar no man who nearly 30,000 copies were sold in

FIRST, Dr. Lajos speaks, General Staff: "Only Russia is Wochenblatt," every man at the cherishes liberty is safe until this less than a week. It is passed what his own country has to than she was in 1914.

25 a Hungarian, of better off in coal and iron ore front needs eight men Hitler monster is crushed.

from hand to hand; it is read hope from

The home front; but Stephen Pos- by high and low alike; editions Benno Graf, recognised as the in the early days of the war at 12.

Germany, "Herr 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 armies 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 peace-loving nations of the world,

Munich in 1933: 'Hungary needs

States available. The same nu. us: not we, Hungary, In the Colonel von Bulow, of tho 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 Russin could indefinitely men there would be needed 64- An Austrian-born fanatic, whose:

the presumed army of 3,000,000 and exposes the weakness of by Nazi Germans. Miserable, supply aeroplanes for a protract 000,000,000 workers behind the Germany's claim to invincibility, paltry, Balkan Hungary, with its cd war."... copies have found their way to has no right to demand an oath

mere 8,000,000 hateful people General Scheffel, of the Air Colonel Thomas, writing for fellow-countrymen, will be safe the desk of every Hungarian of allegiance from its German Russian air strength immediate the officially published "Krieg-

| vision is a Germanic-Aryan world in

which none, not

hist even

own

from versceution, has for five years made war on this civilisation which our forefathers have so painfully built up.

What is happening to-day has, for months now, been inevitable. It was foresceable but not preventable. Humanity's sole expedient has been

to pile up more and more armaments

for hours.

official. No one knows whence subjects'." they come or how they reached their destination.

Ministry in Berlin, estimates the

lines!

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 Western.

these days of aerial and tank. Dr. Lajos summons Herr warfare we should not be misled

`ly available at 20,000 planes. Maps are already in circula- tion in both Germany and Althuogh not one single re- Hungary showing the frontier view has appeared in the news- drawn at the River Raba and papers, and the pamphlet has Lake Balaton in the centre of not been mentioned even in the Hungary. news or gossip columns, all Cen-

Having shown what would

tral Europe is talking of it, and happen, to Hungary after a

German victory, Dr. Lajos Muhlner to witness from his by such dreams again."

the Hungarian Censor made no chances of of winning it. it has become a best-seller which turns his attention to her book "War and the State" the

effort to suppress.

in a bid to meet the threat from a nation which, only twenty years ago,

No one knows why. Such was crushed and beaten. Why is pamphlets have always been sup- this so? Because, for many months, pressed before.

the man who has declared for aggression has been stone deaf to the volce of reason: beenuse the only answer to appeasement has been force.

The tragedy is that the sufferers

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IN the introduction Dr.

Lajos writes the signi- ficant words: "Everybody is the fawning upon Germany, the Responsible for responsible." 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 expose of Germany's fundamental weak- Polish, French and English people. nesses, as admitted by her own who want only peace.

leaders, that Hungary backed The extravagance of Goebbellion the wrong horse in 1914 under a belief in the same myth of in- propaganda, upon which the vincibility; that Germany's pre- Gormans have been exclusively fedvious tactic lay in the idea of a for years, has made nossible the "Hghtning 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 based on the possibility of a Germany's plan to-day is also been the dreaded Gostapo, 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 Hitler's police of all opposition.

No system founded on force,

happily, can crush a people for ever. Hitlor will find that out, to his

SOTTOW.

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Here are some extracts from the book whose title can bet translated дв "Germany's Chances in War," with the sigul- ficant sub-heading "As seen in the Mirror of German Official Literature."

crying need for trained officers armament industry, even pres- Oil, gold, food-supplies, the He quotes Colonel Ferdinand and N.C.O.s in the German tige-and perhaps more import- Fridensburg, of the German Army.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

ant than all these, the certainty ļof America'a attitude-Dr. Lajos reviews them all as seen by

By Lichty German eyes. There is not a

ZER

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

word of comment: renders 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 fronts. Any neglect would result in the loss of the war. There- fore, any unreliable elements would have to be confined in a concentration camp.”......

As Greater Germany contains millions of "mrellable”. Czechs and Austrians not to mention somó - millions of Germans op- posed both to war and the Nazi regime, Herr Himmler looke like having his, concentration [camps redeemably fall