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HITLER ADDRESSING THE REICHSTAG

How Hitler

writes

his speeches

muny, even if he was still taken finger on the pulse of every

as

Dai Dau

-by- N. B. W.

EXICUS wallowed in the sensuous luxury of a warm and scented bath,

sloughing off the humours of the long humid and enervating day.

He mused, idly watching

the play of his twitching toes taut against the gleam of nile-green marble.

T 7 o'clock '(H.K.T.) to-night Hitler speaks.

a joke, except by his fol- town. He knows what German But the world

lowers. He had taken part in the opinion will stand; and what it no unsuccessful Munich" "putsch" hopes for. The Game Is Up

longer gives him the sombre when the Nazis tried to seize

He wished, somewhat wist- satisfaction of contemplat power in Bavaria,

Goering and Keitel say how fully, that he might slip into THE European news of the lusting its unashamed anxiety

So I was anxious to see him strong the armed forces are. fresh, cool silken pyjamas and three days has demonstrated as it awaits his utterances, again. When he appeared, what Funk, the economic dictator, have an evening snack on the

impressed me most was the fact and Ley, chief of the Labour verandah." not be permitted to conclude a pesce That is a thing of the past. that he still looked shabby and Front, send him information if Instead, he had been booked

Let me try to tell you all

ho asks for it. down-at-heel,

by Mrs. Lexicus for a formal about the way he speaks, how He came on to the platform in thot the conflict will continue until he started, how he prepares his his famous raincont. We had away-sometimes for days. He though clothed during the day Then Hitler retires quietly dinner engagement and she. the Nazi monster is forced by sheer exigencies to capitulate.

In "Mein Kampf," he says little in the newspaper pictures As he does so, he jots down yet was a stickling purist when come to know that raincoat a studies all these memoranda, in the semblance of a ratcatcher, Signor Mussolini's refusat to about his first appearance on a

in Central Europe.

evening fell. And Lexicus groan- handle Hiller's peace proposals In-public platform:""What I had dicates that their terms bear na e- always presumed without know-

led. He listens to no one when he lation to the British Government's ing it occurred now-I. COULD Yet Hitler took off his raincoat is planning his speech. Often thankfully recuperated the phy-..

This bathroom in which he so

conditions, and this studied rebuff SPEAK."

and stood there shivering. He he decides to introduce matters

treaty with the Allies on any terms save his surrender, which means

speeches,

*

notes.

It was a bitterly cold evening.

from his chile ally must be giving Years have passed. To-day looked frozen,

that his underlings have never sical and mental vigours 80. the Fuehrer considerable pouse for Hitler will speak before his own

Then he began to speak. I mentioned. Often he leaves out abundantly dissipated during the thought. Neither is there any in-hand-picked Reichstag,

sur- was surprised at his ungramma- matters that they have atressed. day, was the ne plus ultra of the dication that Russia is willing to rounded by uniformed suppor- tical German. He seemed to be Then he takes a sheet of paper neighbourhood, indeed it might associate herself withi

the Nazi ters, with five or six microphones using long words without know- and begins to write the main be said of the Colony. Gleaming peace plons, and Hitler's danger u

Dew dotted round him and a "radio ing their meaning. He sounded headings of his speech. He chromium; pale-green marble; so-called encirclement hook-up," which will include the like a very good orator talking puts them down symmetrically glistening rails; resplendent. seems to be of passive disassociation United States,

in a foreign language.

one after the other. He under- bright-hued, scrubbiest of to- by his reputed friends.

But twenty years ago, in the Russia still holds the key to the words of one of his friends, "he impressed. Hitler seemed to me

I left the meeting very un- lines the most important points. wels; voluminous bathsheets; Towards the bottom of the lines of shining crystal bottles; present situation, and until her real fused to speak in lightless court in no way to stand out from the sheet "he generally makes the alcoved shower with curtain........ intentions are known, she is capable yards, small public-houses, dull hundreds of other petty agita favourite "doodles." He draws ed privacy. of dangling all the belligerents on a offices and clusty party-rooms."

tors who swarmed in Germany three little compartments. In did not consider himself blessed be- All this comfort was his, and he piece of string.

at that time.,

one he writes "Yes." In an-yond other men,

The hint that she may attempt to barak the German blockade in the Battle is not so chimerical as might normally be imagined in view of;

►

Since then he has made hun- other he writes "No." In the Oddly, his hobbles turned to the dreds of speeches. I have heard middle one he puts two angry domestic side of affairs; in the fitting THE earliest mention of Hit. some of them. So, perhaps, little scratches to show that "P of kitchens and bathrooms of their little house he had played a Russo German agreements. ler as a speaker that I can dis, have you.

there is no halfway house be-most prominent and, to the mind of Primarily, those agreements favour Cover comes in the "Muenchner Russia at the expense of the Reich, Beobachter" of November 15, and the fact that M. Molotoff at the 1919. It was then 11 semi- same thne concluded R mutual-Fascist paper, and it said:

tween Yes and No.

Mrs. L.. superabundant, role,

The lady herself, by the way, spent A handwriting expert tells

a large portion of her time super- me: "This doodle is characteris- intending the toilet and the cuisine EVERY Onc of Hitler's tie of a man who pretends thereof her two graceful Australians, or assistance pact with Estonia, and "The German Workers' Party speeches, if you examine them, is no compromise, no middle skimming the country upon their simultaneously hold conferences (Munich Group) held a meeting falls into one of two groups. way. In his subconscious mind well-sprung backs. with the Turkish and Lithuanian on November 11, at 7 pm. Either they point to some com- he knows that there may be the ability to throw off completely Lexicus had the priceless gift of Foreign Ministers, clearly indicates Among the speakers were ing event and make threats; or middle way. But he refuses to in his all too scanty leisure hours that Russia is prepared to act Adolf Hitler:-subject-Treaties else they explain some recent recognise it." independently of her pactner in of Brest-Litovsk and Ver- happening and make apologies Poland, I she 50 desires. The sailles." position must be ellous in the ex- treme to Hitler and his satellites, who for so long employed the saine tactics and enjoyed a similar posi- tion of strategical ascendancy.

Neither can Russia's new spheres of influence in the Bultle give any pleasure to the Nazis, who realise that sooner or later the Soviets will

can

of one sort or another.

All his speechou can be split into five sections. Like

WHEN he has finished his page of notes he calls in his 1. History (of Germany, of favourite typist, a buxom lady

At this meeting was founded the National Socialist German up Workers' Party, and its German this:- opponents soon derisively nick- The name stuck. named its members "Nazis." of foundation Hitler only played On that night

a small part.

I can remember the Hitler of

use their new seaboard for increased those early days. commerce with the world, not ex- cepting the Allies. Germany

When I was a 15-year-old look forward to

high school student in Vienna, nasty dilemma; either she has got lo

the very interested in política, I Binic Russian trade ships as she is doing came home one October evening the Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and from night-classes. It was in Dutch, or she must permit right of 1920. way, which would largely defeat her blockade plans.

peace

the cares of office; and doubtless to this faculty was due his enormous capacity for grinding, unpalatable, monotonous work in un enervating, allon climate-with no apparent ef- fects detrimental either to physique or mentality.

alone and unconsidered; nothing

her enemies, of the Nazi of forty-two, and dictates to her DAU had shuffled over the border party).

while she types. 2. Nazi philosophy (Hitler's When the speech is typed frame, and thirty Chinese cents.

code of morala which puts few of his big men, Goering,

3. Boasting and prophesy. 4. Demands.

he carried and nothing he possessed

beyond the rags upon his row-bened

With matted, uncleanly, unsiorn

the State above every- Goebbels, Ribbentrop, and so on, hair, his sunken eyes, his shambling thing).

are allowed to look it through,galt he appeared a mere trovesly of

[any "imoge of God.?? Generally they want things

ife looked, as indeed he was, half- altered. Almost always Hitler witted, but in his native haunts it had, by means none too gentle, been drilled into him that Authority in Uniform must be most obsequiously treated--and other tio foibles of a

ever

Dal Dau had, of necessity, been ac-

5. Offers and promises, (Cou- refuses to alter a word.

pled with threats).

Then comes the day of the

Do you How does Hitler prepare one speech itself. As I passed the Gschwander of his big speeches? I can tell listen in to Hitler on the wire-considerable portion of the represen beer-garden in the suburb of you a good deal about that be- less? Do you hear the hoarse, tatives of authority hnd somehow Hitler's avid desire for peace, now Hernals, I was attracted by a cause I was once given a vivid rhythmic "Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil, une fodclibly in his alm, disabled

brain. He knew that when in trou that he has grabbed most of what great deal of noise and found a description in a conversation Steg Hell" ("Hall Victory") of ble worse might be avoided if de he wanted, can be readily under political meeting in full eruption. with Captain Wiedemann, Hit. his hearers? How is it done? were but possessed of the where- stood, but the very fact that in A big blonde man, was ex- ler's former A‚D.C..

I will tell you. Goebbels alts withal. Having no home--if he had obtaining such l-gotten gains, he pounding the 25 points of the has had to compromise himself with Nazi creed. His name was Dr. gins, he told me, with diplomatic he hears a point he likes, he customed, unrebuked, to satisfy the

Tho preparation generally be or stands near Hitler. Whenever such as he would be no belter off the hated Communists, serves only Dingfelder. After he had sat activity. (This time, for in- starts clapping. That is the inexorable demands of nature as did to strengthen the Afiles position. Any contemplation of

The at down the chairman announced stance, Hitler has been con- signal.

atormleaders his fellows. Nor could any notion of Hitter's bidding would than dishonourable; it would be dis- Hitler, from Munich."

more the next. speaker-"Herr Adolf ferring with Count Ciano, Mus. throughout the audience start decency or la lock have plumped the depths of this animal existence. astrous to the democracles' cause.

solini's son-in-law).

their Sieg-Heils. The rest of But now he found himself angrily Hitler now has reached the cross- Hitler came to the front of

handled by someone in a yellowish roads, and he knows not which way! the platform. He looked such a of how things stand, he demands

Then when he has some idea the audience chimes in.

After the speech is over Hit-uniform, harangued in language of

which he understood but lite. on the West Indexible foes dull, shabby little man that I did typed memoranda from all his ler manages to keep up his

the Western Front, u

This much, however, ho gathered sleeping partner on

restless not even wait to hear what he chiefs, Ribbentrop senda in a spirits till the evening. Then that by some means he had erred; or the Eastern had to say. I went home. Front, a suspicious and possibly

maasive document on the posi- late at night, he becomes quite was it that the law needed something disgruntled ally in the south, and the certainty of internal disintegra-

tion abroad, the strength of exhausted. He goes to bed and of him? Even him? tion if the wor continues for on

feeling against Hitler in Eng-, aloks into a sleep so still that land and France, whether Roose those who have seen him in it Indefinite period.

declare that ho might almost be NEXT time I saw him was in velt means business or not... Munich in 1925. This time I and so on.

dead. travelled from Vienna to hear Shifty-eyed Himmler, the Ges- him. He had travelled, tooon tapo chief, sends in a detailed his road to fame and power, account of the feelings of the He was known all over Gor- German people. He has his

Hitler. would save himself akt of bother, and his country consider ablo suffering and misery, he realised that at long last the game is up, and that he and his satellites should retire as gracefully as possl- ble from the scene.

Willi

Frischauer

..t

obsequlously endeavouring in stum

Hat he had none, but bow he did, bling words to appease the growing anger; to understand the nature of his offence, if any..

No result other than the Ughtening of the hairy hand.

Tremblingly, as a last resource, the

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