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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1939,

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The Task Ahead

pose that

the

Before Nazis Came

BISMARCK, Germany's Iron Chan

I will of William II., the Kaiser.

Before the break between the old

Chancellor and the young Monarch.

Blumarck ruled Germany with an Iron hant.

He used every opportunity to push into operation is anti-democratic no- tions.

When a tinsmith made an at- tempt on the life of the Emperor William I, he tried to make that an excuse to introduce legislation against the Social Democrats, the party that rose to strength among the German working classes on the theories of Kari Marx.

In the end he succeeded in prohibiting their meetings and associations.

Professional agitators were liable to he banned the country; and even martial law could be proclaimed in districts where it was considered that the party were a menace to the State.

The Social Democrats had to print their newspapers in Switzerland" and Once muggle them into Germany.

by- EMRYS JONES

more it is seen that persecution gets nowhere, for the Social Democratic movement grew stronger.

Bismarck, however, introduced a cer- tain amount of legislation, including a system of insurance for the workers that served later as a model for other countries. If by that method he hoped to wean the workers from their party allegiance, then it was a failure: the movement continued to grow,

In foreign affairs Bismarck's main The object was to keep the peace. new, unified Germany needed it to strengthen her trade and solidify her internal organisation.

France was a menace. Smarting under the loss of Alsace and Lorraine, the French were rearming, strengthen-

"THAT CHAP'S

POTTY!"

HE whole thing dated from

THE the landslide

and the rather inconsiderate descent of some tons of rock the under-lying King's Highway.

by-

N. B. W.

in the fortifica- tions along the German frontier.

The Balkan pen- insula was a melt- | Ing pot; Russia was

a thorn in the Ger- man flesh.

Bul the held,

peace

Meanwhile Bis-

marek was dream-

ing of a

eolonial

empire for Ger-

DROPPING THE PILOT

"Bismarck had to go

And here is the famous "Punch" cartoon which

the event inspired.

".

was

a "robber.

erest as a welcome variant upon search of the suspected terrain-and

found nothing and saw nothing or in the divine right of Chancellors, Many warnings of German and

botany

03

•

should

COON relations between Brita

and Germany became crilical.

the

GE

gew. inten-

perhaps, will be sacrificed, and brows above the deep-sunk, ovaltakable was the impress of six locs nor consented to, there was no cail ear by the combined force of the

out

ing from the immense task: instinct forbnde any movement The Journalist, the Professor and came the first Morocco crisis.

ever.

ous scent, now

en

way

recom-

many, though his ideas in that direc- and inspiration the idea of war and its glories sank deep into the German tion were never realised.

When the old Emperor died, his mind, son Frederick III, enme to the throne Treitschke, the Influential German --but his reign lasted only 90 days, historian, taught that Britain

Then came his son, the 20-year-old the enemy, called it British were William II., the BIG section of the democra-upon

inst Kaiser. In- State," and that the A

telligent, tactless,

susceptible to not competent to govern the fifth of le world has gone to war

the Kaiser had grand the world contained in her Empire. Of course, the story was pooh-

The day was hot with September flattery,

In this way the mind of Germany to destroy Hitlerism, and all

poohed and tut-tutted, and the heat, the yellow dust swirled, when notions about monarchy, believed in

21 thorough the divine right of kings,

was prepared. believers in justice and renson details discussed with avid in-the policemen made

Fear of German ambitions It appears that Bismarck belleved are rightly convinced that there

were given in France could be no more honourable the former themes of hungry nobody of whom they could, honestly, and before long the young King and tions

entertain rauspicion. The matter was the old Chancellor were quarrelling Britain.

her Three cause for which to demand such wolf and rouming tiger.

In 1913 France passed this tremendous sacrifices as

All the same, in the gathering dusk mentally put down to the debit of Bismarck had to 10.

with a mistaken and From that time wild and bitter Years Service Act; Germany greatly

set many a furtive, anxious look was cast some idler

the Kalser speeches by

the increased her fighting forces. new holocaust is bound to ex-

towards the heights, und boys and dangerous séuse of humour-donger-

him, they resolved

world's nerves on edge. They were

Then on June 28, 1814, Francis helr to the throne of Mr. Anthony Eden made mahs shunned their once short culous to act.

they ever lay hands upon him.

the Great War, the Ferdinand, a prelude to

at Sara- overture to catastrophe.

Austria, was assassinated He position of the fighting across the bracken-covered risc.

No one heeded the servant's whis-

jevo, and that for which the German democracies perfectly clear in

prints and

eredence was given to neighbourhood continued, not

mind had been prepared came. 10 without reason, to be shunned Tension usual was credited

This time the peace did not hold. his speech on Monday, when he what

CERMANY'S General Luden- said: there can be no last-Chinese superstition until one bright until a party of Scouts, with a sense Spring morning when Asts, searching of security perhaps in the unity of

dorff, tells 15 that after ing peace until Nazism and all the hill for specimens for the incon-umbers, decided to give a practical At the ume of the Jameson Raid in

of their tracking

the Day"

came on August 8, 1918, that it stands for in oppression, veniently insatiable members of the demonstration

class, cume suddenly into abilities and, in the now soft and 1800 the German Government were

exhaustion and From that day Boers. cruelty and broken faith, is

of the peering wild-eyed, soddened earth, caune upon footprints inclined to step in on behalf of the four years of warfare their "Black tousled-headed creature, half-hid of naked feet.

cap moral breakdown increased daily. Jameson was defeated and One smart laddie noticed the oddity

German military banished from the earth.”

The Kreat the rock. beyond

immovably tured by the Boers, and since

had been thrown out of It is for this supreme pur- The low brow, the unusual width of and stood and stared,

discipline had given millions of lives, hirsute face, the bushy, rufous eye-planted upon his well-tried pole. British Government made it clear machine

Deeply imprinted and quite uninis-that the raid was neither authorised

Alles; rapidly to subordination. goat-like eyes, the powerful deep-

Back home the people trembled: incalculable material damage tanned shoulders conveyed to Asta upon either foot. The Scout scarce for the Germans to interfere.

ly believed his bulging eyes, but Then Britain became angry when the excited band, urgently called, the Kalser sent a telegram to Kruger on the edge of revolution. On Sep- suffered. But it is a purpose, an uncanny sense of the primitive.

Prince armistice and no long as it is completely ful- INDEPENDENT, not to say militant, confirmed the diagnosis in unanimity with his best wishes and hopes for u tember 28 German G.HQ.

The eager, young amateur sleuths successful defence of the Transvaal. mended filled, which will be worth the as was the girl, something almost easily followed the traces as far as

doleful This was regarded here as an in- Mox of Baden became Chancellor,

Germany offered to accept. Presi agony the world is about to unnatural in the creature's demean the shore, where, to their

made her halt in her impulse of chagrin they disappeared, washed terference with our Empire affairs.

negotin- dent Wilson's "fourteen points" as Following unsuccessful

basis of negotiation, and the bear. There will be no shrink-investigation. She would have re-away by the tide.

tions between Britain and Germany

Armistice was signed on November traced her steps, but reason or

France was busy establishing her- 11, 1018.

Meanwhile revolution broke out. even at this early stage, how-favourable to rearward action. And the mere Globe-Trotter were in Jazy

So the Kaiser in 1905 took in Germany. It began in the Navy,. ever, it is timely to warn that the path was narrow and the slopes conclave at the table in the window, self in Morocco,

precipitous.

something of golden content in tali

Mediterranean cruise, stepped off at spread to the soldiers and workmen, Own councils. the masses will never forgive Asta's unusual but, in the circums-glasses at their elbows.

understandable, Indecision "Not a bad little burg but the Tangier, and informed the Sultan who set up their

Then Prince Max off his own bat, their leaders if the pernicious tances,

of the lo happen here. What'ye pletely independent country. and terrifying system of Nazism was terminated by her massive bull-burghers a bit high-hat ch? Nothing that he regarded Morocco as a com- Civil war started.

terrier who, having lagged behind in scens

France saw in this an attempt to announced the abdicaton

fled to Holland, fol- Kaiser, who is not crushed once and for the pursuit of some to him-dellei scribbling at, John?"

bounded joyfully front "Oh, just fine about that chap get concession out of her, but the

Princes of the various States quit, the undergrowth, almost covered by fished out of the harbour-had six final result was a victory for France lowed by the Crown Prince, The

In that part of North Africs. The task lies beyond the little burrs clinging to his fine and toes."

The Professor, who had been It was a near thing, but the peace too, and republics were set up all His little, piggy but

over Germany, winning of battles and the silken telligent plaked eyes dreamily sprawling in his deep chair, held,

End of a Dynasty dethronement of Hitler and his were bright with

re-converting his sensitive lingers into Naval Race ceiving no immediate response from pyramids, and occasionally clowing satellites. In the distance one Bees the

work of enormous

into his own paws and bounded to his attitude of laissez faire and reconstruction, which will be wards thost blazing eyes above the quickly glanced up. Not at all the in Britain as the German Navy grew resigned in favour of an ex-saddler

accepted icica of an steadily bigger.

called Ebert, the Socialist leader rock in eager and hostile Investiga- commonly necessary if Nazism is never tion.

erudite scholar, with his gleaming At the Hague we tried to make a

So the revolution in Berlin at the The attendant vocal clamour was head, his keen, blue glassless eyes, naval agreement with Germany, but from Heidelberg,

sider of civilisation,

only the needs of what she

Prussian dynasty; overthrew the 20 who precipitately left the shelter of lateness, yet ane peculiarity he had,

monarchles that

made

up the ultimate which has to be kept over and incontinently fled, the always wearing a white cotton glove judged to be her safely.

Britain, in reply, began to Asta upon his left hand, explaining to the

build smaller

Empire, and became a repubile in mind. It will be the driving joyful dog in yelping pursuit, Aventuresome that he had, when faster, and the naval race was on.

Then

came a struggle between the Bethmann Hollweg, force behind

the now had a full view of the fugitive. only

Tall

and broad-shouldered beyond young man, suffered the effects of

cellor, desired a navalement majority Socialists of Ebert and the Communists led by Karl Liebknecht, Eh?

What's that, John"? be with Britain some years later, but whose nom de plume of Spartacus: gallant armies, which may be the ordinary, the limbs and sturdy nixing the wrong chemicals!

he could not destroy the opposition was taken by his party, called upon to die on the battle- torso-weathered to a tint of mahok-asked, "chap with six toes?"

any deepness--were, but for a sennty listened with keen and rising Interest

and Kalzer of the field, but of those behind the belt of

Furn entirely nsized except

matter-of-fact John vouchsafed.

Then once more, in 1011. lines whose sacrifices may be as for the and shaggy growth or to the particulars which the flippant. Tirpitz.

rufous hair.

Then gazed musingly across the Moroccan business flared up.

old d'ye Germany said that they could The whole ensemble had upon No circumstances must ever Asta a distinctly repellent effect. shining harbour. "How

ing irrelevance. again be permitted which will But she noted the gangling arms of suppose I am?" he asked, with seem-tolerate French supremacy in

disproportionate length, saying as he

"Oh, about 40 or 45, I should say" occo without some sort of compen-

Kiderich,

German "How much d'ye give me, Hiram? Bation, giving an impression of semi- provide for a rennissance of

uselessness

In spite of her

"Let's say up to sixty-never con Minister, asiced France to cede the did Nazism or its counterpart. For too long Hitlerism was regarded natural alarm she thought curiously tell with you wiry Britishers."

"Well that all four limbs appeared strange-

I'm 89." The Professor whole of the French Congo. Then he did so in an atmosphere of starvar To add to that came the news of with almost studied amusemently inadequate to the obvious strength held up a restraining hand. "No. persuaded the Kalser to send the dion as well as anarchy, ·

ran, spare me your remarks; it's true warship Panther to Agadir to pro- the Allied peace terms, of which one tect German subjects in Morocco of the leaders said, "Those who sign as an experiment "which was and power of the body As he

this treaty will sign the death sen- bound to fail". The democratic the long coarse hair Bopped and Til tell you something. "It's all due

The implied threat angered France, world has learnt its lesson. floated round the oddly-shopen head, to my having six toes, and on euch during the fighting.

reach a which appeared to

peak foot. Yes, I have! like that

Lloyd men, women, and children." The "experiment" became an

chap. D'ye suppose I could get a caused anxiety in Britain, and in tence of many millions of German towards the back.

the House of Commons Mr.

The Germans los: Eupen and Mal- look at him?”

medy, Memelland, part of Silesia, ogre. But its viciousness lies

"Not a chance, old boy-up against George made a strong speech.

Once more the peace held.

Poland was reconstructed out of not only in its militarist aggres- BEYOND a quiet, private conver-

part of her. And there was a huge siveness; its threat is to na-sation with a trusted colleague, it every time! Well, go on, tell us!"

War Glorified

bill to be paid in reparations. She tional liberty and to individual Asta sald nothing about the matter.

Tact was indicated by those In THE Professor

ERMANY moderated her de- was to be branded with the "wor freedom. The removal of such charge of some scores of young, im- comfortably, cleared his throat,

mands; France ceded a part guilt." Iit a elgarette and began: "Suppose a threat requires more than pressionable girls.

of [HE miracle battles between armies. There But, some time later, when a little you fellows have never even heard of her Congo in exchange for a free Weak Leaders

Meantime, the Kaiser was always THE

that out of that assembly- must be a new Way of Living: band of boarders returned from a of the Six-toed Nantus? I won't go hand in Morocco, this will be the final task of the ramble (venturesomely disregarding Into the technical details of anthro- democracies in the utter elmina- tutorial suggestions) breathless and pology, but it is well known to talking about the "malied fiat" and

borders the

of science that such a tribe inhabited the "shining armour," and of the came a liberal and democratie con- excited-one on

somewhat parts of Asin up to the Middle Ages, same time posing as the apostle of stitution, with free elections for the whole of the adult population, and tion of Hitlerism. This is the bysteries and related

The plain fact was that he devoted an elected President goal before us. Let us never incoherent story of having had large since when all traces of them have peace in Europe.

The story of the German Republic, to increasing the "They were feared and shimned by his life chiefly lose sight of it, even in the chunks of rock rolled down upon disappeared.

them by an unseen and unknown

PLEASE Turn To Page 5. agony and excitement of carry-agency, the time had arrived for other peoples on account of their efficiency of hir Army and buliding however is one of democratic leaders:

PLEASE Turn To Pago 5: up a strong Navy, Under his rule ing out a bloody warfare.

more than passivity.

coal.

highly

and

of

the fascinated Acta, he took matters bia abundant blond hair, abandoned MEANWHILE, suspicion

Germany's ambitions grew

RDERLY Germany gave place

ORD

to chaos.

In Berlin the noble Prince Max

again to threaten the existence

is the evidently too much for the visitor, his dapper air of sartorial Inmacu-Germany argued that she could con- cost of only 15 lives, overthrew the

great.

not

This

*

다

He

pour

himself seitled

the

Admiral

Chan-

von

The revoli was smashed, and the usual reign of terror followed. the

Meanwhile the Allied troops were Now

Occupying the area west of the.

with the not Rhine,

bridgeheads of Mor- Cologne, Koblentz, and Mainz,

In 1919, after elections had been held, the Germans met at Weimar Foreign to

their constitution. They framo

Weimar

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