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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 doen not, therefore, necessarily reflect the true picture of Germany's present-day chances in a war. It is, however, having a profound effect on Hungarian opinion.
The author is Dr. Ivan Lajos, a Hungarian professor in the
Hongkong Telegraph. Hungarian University of Pers.
Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 September 4, 1939
WAR
MORE THAN two-thirds of the peoples of the world are to-day
at war on two continents,
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 its heart, in wide goose-stepping man who
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He is not a Jew, influenced by the anti-Semitic tendency that operate in all the spheres of Axis influence, but a 100 per cent. Aryan.
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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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ALTHOUGH the pam-
phlet sells at a high price in impoverished Hungary, nearly 30,000 copies were sold in
THAT BANNED
NÉMETORSZÁG HÁBORÚS ESÉLYEI.
A NÉMET SZAKIRODALOM
TÜKRÉBEN
DR. LAJOS IVÁN:
BUZIYFIÁN KIADÁS
›PĒCS, 1939
la one week nearly thirty thousand Hungarians have bought this little grey book (Germany's Chances in War: as mirrored in German official literatura). 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?
ay
Pre-Nazi Germany had 42 generals, 600 staff officers for its seven infantry and three cavalry corps. The existing army, on this basis, would require à six- fold increase in these numbers, but only in respect of generals have they been able to reach the required minimum.
According to tho German military system n mobilised army consisting of 100 corps should possess at least 5,000 generals and staff officers. On their own figures they hayo only 3.850 available. And even of these the vast majority have 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.
been
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 proves too grent a burden to sustain. Trains ran from eight to ten hours late-even expresi- ses and accidents increased from 400 in 1932 to more than 1,000 in 1937.
Under war conditions, with the industries centralised in interior to avoid air attack, the length of journeys would be doubled and a double strain put on the railways.
Bays
the "Militar
This article-complete with the first extracts from the book
to be published in Hongkong-will tell you.
EVEN in man- power, 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.
a Hungarian, of better off in coal and Iron ore front needs eight men on the from hand to hand; it is read hope from
The honic front; but Stephen Pos- ****{ Hitler monster is crushed,
Germany, "Herr successses achieved by Germany sony in 1938 restated this figure by high and low alike; editions. Benno Graf, recognised as the in the early days of the war at 12. Thus Germany would 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 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
States available. The same ́au- peace-loving nations of the world, civilisation must be the sufferer.
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us: not we, Hungary. In the Colonel von Bulow, of the thority calculated that to sustain Although the pamphlet im- long run Hungary's policy is German General Staff, atated: An Austriau-barn fanatic, whose penches the policy of Hungary, decided by Germany, and now "Only Russia could indefinitely the presumed army of 3,000,000 and exposes the weakness of by Nazi Germans. Miserable, supply aeroplanes for a protract. men there would be needed 64,- Vision is a Germanic-Aryan world in Germany's claim to Invincibility, paltry, Balkan Hungary, with its ed war." which tone,
mere 8,000,000 hateful people nol his own copies have found their way to has no right to demand an oath Ministry in Berlin, estimates the General Scheffel, of the Air fellow-countrymen, will be safe the desk from persecution, has for five years
official No one knows whence subjects"," nude war on this civilisation which they come or how they reached
their destination. our forefathers have, so painfully built up.
of every Hungarian of allegiance from its German Russian air strength immediate. the officially published "Krieg-
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.
Colonel Thomas, writing för
wirtschaftliche Jahresberichte 1936," edited by Major Hesse, and supplied to the German War Office, said: "Once before false assumptions of a BuCCC88- So much for the Eastern ful lightning war landed us in What is happening to-day has
front. Now for the utter disaster: that is why in months now, been inevitable. It
these days of aerial and tank Having shown what would was foreseeable but not preventable. | news or gossip columns, ali Cen-
Hungary after a happen to
Herr warfare we should not be misled Humanity's sole expedient has been tral Europe is talking of it, and German victory, Dr. Lajos Muhiner to witness from his by such dreams again."
it has become a best-seller which turns his attention to her book "War and the State" the Oil, gold, food-supplies, the the Hungarian Censor made no chances of of winning it.
crying need for trained officers armament industry, even pres-
for
to pile up more and more armaments
in a bid to meet the threat from al nation which, only twenty years ago,
effort to suppress.
Western,
summons Dr. Lajos
He quotes Colonel Ferdinand and N.C.O.s in the German lige-and perhaps more import-
No one knows why. Such! Fridensburg, of the German Army. was crushed and beaten. Why is pamphlets have always been sup
this so?
the
Because, for many months, pressed before.
who has declared for i nggression has been stone deaf to the voice of reason: because the
only answer to appeasement has been force.
The tragedy is that the sufferers
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It will be the millions of German, Polish, French and English people, who want only peace.
The extravagance of Goebbellian propaganda, upon which the Germans have been exclusively fed for years, has made nossible the acquiescence of many German people
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- pose in writing this expose of Germany's fundamental weak- nesses, as admitted by her own leaders, that Hungary backed the wrong horse in 1914 under a belief in the same myth of in- vincibility; that Germany's pre- vious tactic lay in the idea of a "lightning war"-a stroke of lightning that sheared away in what has happened. More so Germany's plan to-day is also half Hungary's territory; that than this propaganda, howevor, has 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 Hitler's police of sil opposition.
Here are some extracts from the book whose title can be translated 18 "Germany's No system founded on force,
Chances in War," with the signi- happily, can crush a people for ever. ficant sub-heading "As been in Hitler will find that out, to his the Mirror, of German Official
Literature."
Borrow.
GRIN AND BEAR IT.
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
"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 ?
Himmler, explaining in 1987 to the General Staff itself what steps he would take in a war, said: "We should have to fight Jon 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 elementa would have to be confined in a concentration camp."
As Greator 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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