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Indeed, the Japanese invasion of China at first aroused profound nisgivings in Germany, just as fer- many's growing mennen tunci the Part of Non-Aggression with Ruasini have apparently swung Italy into neutrality and Japan into hostility.

That Germany intended to throw down the gauntlet regarding Danzig and the Polish Corridor, with or without the Russian guarantee of non-interference, now seems obvious, į Hitler's scheme of expansion allow ed for no undue delay. The very large and heavily equipped forces which were instantly deployed into Poland from four directions afford alicient evidence of the premedita- tion of the stroke; and the ruthless- ness of the methods employed to cow the resistance of the Poles make the shows the intention to campaign swiftly triumphant.

Much has been made of the fact that in less than three weeks the Nazi forces live succeeded in put- ling the Poles to flight. But what actually is the position? There is ** authority for belleving that the Germana ung seventy divisions (approximately 750,000 front line troops) ncross the frontiers. This forco has been covered by an over- whelmingly superior German air force and German mechanised units. Poland. in deference to world opinion, was not even fully mobilis- ed when the invasion commenced. Her encirclement has been really] complete with the Russian invasion along her entire eastern frontier.

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Under these circumstances, the marvel has been that 32,000,000 Poles have been able to keep them- selves stected for the show-down with 80,000,000 Germans. Austria! and Czecho-Slovakia were countries equally determined to resist aggres- sion both fell without firing a shot. The defeat of Poland which (despite resistance which will un- doubtedly continue until Germany and Russia can garrison the entire country) must be regarded as prac-. tically accomplished, has not been dishonourable to the conquered forces led by Marshal Smigly-Rydz. In many respects there is a simi larity to the resistance led by King Albert of the Belgians to German aggression. In 1014- resistance doomed from the beginning. Po- land, like Belgium, will spend long and anguished months under the heel of blustering conquerors, but

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Q:

A B C TO POLAND

HOW large is Poland?

A: The sixth largest State

In Europe, with an area of 151,000 square miles. It is almost half as farge ogala na England.

Q: Who are its neighbours?

A: It iles between Germany a Renata, and is 550 miles wide. On the north are the Baltic States and the sen. On the south Hun- Kary, Slovakin, and Rumania. It is the cro.-roads of Europe.

Q: Is it mountainous or flat? A: Except for the Carpathian Mountains in the south, the country is a great plain, with broat farm- Innds, huge forests and

many Inkers.

Q: What is the population?

A: Some 35,000,000, of which 70 per cent. are Poles, 10 per cent are Jews, and 750,000 are German: (about 2 per cent.),

Q: What sort of people are the Poles?

A: Ideallum, tolerance, and in- dividuality Hre marked Polish characteristics. They have a strong! rense of dignity.

Mentally, the Pole is alert, but given to theorising. In trade he is not much interested. Poles have made most commercial progress #4 bridge-builders and railway en- Kinvers.

Socially, they are hospitable but reserved. Like the Scuts.

Q: Name me Polea who have become fainous.

A: Copernicus," the astronomer, and Marie Curie in science; Chopin and Paderewski in mashe King Jan Sobieski, Kosciuszko, and P- sudski un soldiers; Matejko, the painter, Sienkiewicz, the novelist, and "Modjesko, the actress.

Q: How many Pales are there outside Polond?

A: About 1,500,000 ill Ger- many, 4,500,000 in Ameriza, 1,005,- 000 in Russia, 500,000 in France. and 200.000 in Lithuania.

Q2: Has Poland a congline? A:

Yes, that's the real enuse of all the trouble. The Poles cal. fhla eighty-live miles of rockbei const their Window on the World. Q: What do the Germans ray

To this?

A: That the statesmen of Ver- sailles gave Poland a constline by carving a slice out of German territory. Corridor."

coustline?

This 13 the "Polin

WHAT use did The Poles make of their

A: They built the largest port on the Baltic, Gdynia, with a tun- over exceeding that of Danzig, Copenhagen, Stockholtn, and even Bremen. It cleared 9,000,000 tons of freight in 1933.

Q: As the Poles already have a port, why did they object to Germany having Danzig?

A: Because from Danzig you

"Our steady progress is so clent to every man that it hardly needs. comment," One of the statements quoted in "Nazi Nuggets,""

which was thought worthy of illustration.

Well,

they

said it themselves

Ti

RED feet are part of the Nazi

saga of sucrifice.-Adolf Hitler.

E following extracts are Half u League taken from a book just published called "Nazi Nuggets," edited by Clara Leiser (Gollancz, Bs. Gd.).

Mama, tut man's here again.

They are verbatim, from speeches and articles by Nazi leaders, ALL parties that want to join the Reich must join now. Im- sources are quoted. Comument is un-mediately.-Adolf Hitler, September necessary, but in certain instances the 26, 1938. subtitles added by the book's compiler | lend additional point to conscious humour of the authorities Danger-Brains at work quoted.

》NTELLECTUAL activity is a dune ger to the building of character,----- Dr. Goebbels, in his novel "Michael,"

Ask us another

the

un-

FOR upon whom did we inflict a single injury la there four years, or from whom have we taken his possessions?-Adolf Hitler, Nurem- berg, September 8, 1938.

will CAPITAL punishment be henceforth inflicted by hanging or shooting, and in Prussia by the axe, which is as a matter of fact the sureni} kind of execution, as it has never given rise to any kind of complaints whatever. Frankfurter Zeitung, August 4, 1933.

Tsk! Tsk!

could shell Gdynia out of existence NA

overnight.

Q: What is Poland's military strength?

A: The standing army of 400,- 090, was expanded to 1,000,000 on the outbreak of war. There 1 - 4! 3,000,000 trained reserves and n possible total force of 0,000,000. The army is modern and mechin- cd.

Q: What was Poland's streng a in the air?

A: Estimated at 3,000 aircraft, mostly hters.

Q: What sort of soldiers do the Poles 'make?

A: Very good. During the war they distinguished themselves by their courage. And they are fiercely patriotic,

DID Britain do much Irade with Poland? A: We bought £9,500,000 o! goods from them, mostly baton, eggs, butter and saft wood. They took £5,400,000 of goods from us, mostly machinery, berrings, colten yarn, and airplanes.

Q: What were their chief n- dustries?

A: Poland is mostly agricul- tural, but was building up metal, chemical and textile industries. She has rich deposits of coal, sil, iron, zinc and lead.

Q: Who is the President? A: Moscicki.

Q: Who is Colonel Berk?

A: Foreign Minister.

Q: Who Is Marshal Smugly- Rydz?

A: Chief of the Army.

Q: Outline Polish history. A: Poland emerged as a Euro- 1000 A.D. penn Power about Reached her peak of prosperity in the sixteenth century.

FOR

a hundred years be- fore and after Eliza- bethan England Poland was the largest country in Europe, taking in Lithuania and large tracts of

Russia.

But It collapsed. The victories of King Jun Sobieski did not slave off anarchy.

Poland became the battleground of Europe.

Between 1772 and 1705 the coun- Ary was divided up between Rus- slo, Prussia and Austria, nad ceased to exist.

If was Pilsudski who made ino- dern Poland. He started to Iny his plans in 1008.

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During the great war Germany seized Poland. On November 11. 1918, under Pilsudski's leadership, Poland 'regained her independen...

TESUS was Aryan on both parents' sides.--Pamphlet. Die Herkunft

Jur

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WHEN I hear the word "Kultur"

slip back the surely-catch of my revolver.-Ilans Johst,

uk idea of the National Socialism an accomplishment that ranks with...the Ninth Symphony of Beet- hoven-Dr. Rosenberg.

[ATIONAL Socialism welcomes

everything that tends to main-CHRIST cannot possibly have been a Jew, I don't have to prove tain the race (131 ahenithy Aryan standard, It is quite immaterial that scientifically. It is a fact.-Dr.

Goebbles. whether children arc legitimate or Illegitimate.--Deutsche Textil! Arbeiter (Trade journal)..

But the Kaiser had a much better

moustache

HE Fuchter belongs to those who ruin the will of God and realise the life of Christ in this life in an

My friends.

TRUST that no mother will ever have cause to weep in consequence of any action of minc.-Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg, September 8, 1938.

MAT National Socialist-Slogan

extraordinary degree-Dr. D. Cafus Eued by the Nazi Health Bureau,

Fabricus, German theologian, in a book called "Positive Christianity in May, 1936. the Third Reich."

We Heard You the First Time

MONDAY: Mashed potato and

M fried onions. This makes a very

good meal if prepared with a spot of

TF, after a period in a concentration nilk and fat, and much love and care. camp, anyone falls to appreciate The two latter condiments are free of the privileges of citizenship in the charge and can be made to enter Third Reich, he had better leave the every dish. Moreover everyone in country Julius Streicher, December, imagination can conjure a nice joint In addition. Tuesday: milk soup with 21, 1935.

bacon and a marvellous imaginary Thus half a week is amply sausage. provided for. For the other days a IF higher interests demand the dis- clever housewife will manage equally appearance of the Wiener Schnitzel well. A beaming child's face a few then what I say is let the Wiener flowers or a pine branch are beautiful Schnitzel go to the devil.--Nazi Com- table decorations.-NS Frauenwart, missioner Josef Buerckel (Time, owețai women's paper, August, 1934. November, 7, 1938).

Pretty Heartless

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GOD has manifested Himself not in HT

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Mistaken idea.

God. TITLER is lonely. So is

Hitler is like God-Dr. Franke, Jesus Christ, but in Adolf Hitler. Retch Minister for Justice, --Dr. Engelke, "German Christian" "Manchester Guardian," July 15, 1938).

Okay by us, Buddy We don't want We

HIT

TITLER is a new, a greater, and a more powerful Jesus Christ.- Alois Spaniel, Nazi leader in the Saar,

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to let National Socialism trickle into other ADOLF is the real Holy Ghost.--

A Church Minister Kerri. nations like poison. Nor do we want to force it on to other nations. We selfishly want to keep it for our- selves. Rudolph Hers, August 30, 1937.

To the manna bern.

No European motion has done more for peace than Germany. No nation has made greater sacrifice. Hitler Nuremberg, September · 12, 1938..

KNOW that manna does not drop AR is the simple affirmation of from heaven. In fact, I believe W

life. Suppress war and it would this is a typical Bolshevist Jewlab be like trying to suppress the opera- trick-Dr. Robert Ley, at Stuttgart, tions of nature. These are also ter- August 30, 1938.

rible. Every living thing is terrible,

Ibid

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HISTORY's greatest physician is THE "Aryanism" of a one hundred

uehrer, August 10, 1937,

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Streicher,

per cent. "Aryan" will not be affected by blood transfusion from Jewish donors. Transfusions from a Jow do not destroy racial purity- There's nothing like a broad educa- Prof Locsser, of the Nazi Race Dept, tion.

October 21, 1935,

CONCENTRATION camps are

WE know where we began, but disgrace. On the contrary they Wy God kaniows where we will

Here

are an orament. tp Kultur, neglected individuals are educated to one day end-Dr. Goebbles, Im

Spiegel von Freund und Feind. real life with the firmest kindness.

COMRADE

· HITLER (and friends) said this of Russia..

"MAY the world's great slates- men never forget that Germany prevented the spread of. Bolshevism."--General Goering, clection speech in Danzig, April 4, 1935.

"Germany is the bulwark of the West against Bolshevism, und, in combating it, will meet terror with terror and violence with violence."--Hitler, Nov. 27, 1935.

Soviet The

Government- "hysterical and criminal political mantues."--Gochbela, Dec. 1935.

"So far as ever this Bolshevisan draws Germany into Its clutches, we are the deadliest and most fanatical envinies."-Hitler, May 21, 1933.

"We will align non-atgrezsion puets with all the world, provided only that we are treated fairly. We will not sign a mulli-Interal pact of mutual usalstance in the enst, for

no circunstances would Germans fight for Bojshe- vists.

In such a fight our nation simply would not match. Rather than sign such a pact I should hang myself.”—Hitler, May 1935.

1 remble at the thought ol what our aver-populated Con- tinent would be bound to become should the chaos of a Bolshevist revolution succeed in imposing on us a destructive Asintle conception of life. I shall prevent Germany from entering this path to ruin." -Miller, March 8, 1936, in speech beginning: "We have no territorial claims in Europe”

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"Soviet Russla wants no peace. It indeed the Power which is hostile to peace."-Hitler, Berlin, March 1936.

"Nothing binds us closer 10 National Socjalism than the mere realisation we are in the midst of a world which is kept in a state of decomposition and spiritual up- roar by Jewish Bolsheviks in Moscow."-Hitler, Sept. 13, 1937.

With one single country alone we have detested to enter any relationship. That State Is Soviet Russinler, Feb 20, 1938.

is the "Germany

next great It objective of Dolshevism.

is Tally to be too Intimate with a Power whose ideal might become the deadly enemy of our future."

Hitler, "Mein Kampf."

FUEHRER STALIN

(and friends) said this of Germany

"It is quite possible, of course,

in Ger that there are madmen many who dream of annexing the that is the Soviet elephant; Ukraine, to the gnat, namely, the Ro-called Carpathian Ukraine. If there really are such lunatics la Germany rest assured that we shall find enough strait-Jackets for them in our country."---Stalin, March 10, 1939.

Comintern talks of increasing the Red Army as the surest in- strument for checking Germany, "for we know that Hitler means war, and Hitler's overthrow by proletarian revolution will destroy, for ever Germany's imperial war- rued to nest." Instructions Comintern foreign sections, April 1935.

"The Soviet Government re- jolces that she is able to organise together in Moscow those countries which have an interest in work- ins

ugains! Germany."Radio announcer, Moscow, March 19, 1935.

of

oggressor Germany "the to-morrow, who already menaces the peace of Europe." Journal de Moscou, Oct. 12, 1935.

"The main aim of the Com- munist party is to bring about the union of all opposition forces and to overthrow the barbarous Nazi Communist, regime." German

Comintern Congress, Florin, at Aug. 1935.

"Clearly Germany is the enemy and security. Herr of peace

of Hitler's is not a programme peace, but of war, war both in the west and the east of Europe.--- Article, in all Soviet newspapers, May 23, 1035.

ress

I have permitted myself to speak with complete frank- because the manner in which Herr Hitler allows himself to speak in public of the State

me of the represent relleves necessity of resorting to circumlo- cution. I have all the more right to do so because the whole sense of Herr Hitler's statements and ргорова... amounts to a cam- paign against the peoples of the State represent.Litvinov, League Council meeting, St. James's Palace, March 17, 1930..

"There is no crime against the world and civilisation which the Fascist swastika is incapable of preparing."-Prävda, after trial of Radek, Feb. 2:1937