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Waren day's

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not be permitted to conclude a peace

sive his surrender, which

and Hitler's

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HITLER ADDRESSING THE REICHSTAG

How Hitler

writes

his speeches

Dai Dau

-by-

N. B. W.

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bath,

EXICUS wallowed in the sensuous luxury of a warm and scented sloughing off the humours of the long humid and enervating day.

He mused, idly watching

T7 o'clock (H.K.T.) many, oven if he was still taken finger on the pulse of every the play of his twitching to-night Hitler speaks, as a joke, except by his fol- town. He knows what German toes taut against the gleam But the world no unsuccessful Munich "putsch" hopes for.

lowers. He had taken part in the opinion will stand; and what it The Game Is Up

longer gives him the sombre when the Nazis tried to seize

fof nile-green marble. satisfaction of contemplat- power, in Bavaria,

Gouring and Keitel say how | THE European news of the lasting its unashamed anxiety

He wished, somewhat wist- strong the armed forces are. fully, that he might slip into So I was anxious to see him Funk, the economic dictater, fresh, cool silken pyjamas and at least one thing that Hitler will That is a thing of the past. that he still looked shabby and he asks for it.

as it awaits his utterances. again. When he appeared, what and Ley, chief of the Labour tave an evening snack on the

impressed me most was the fact Front, send him information ifverandah, treaty with the Allies on any terms Let me try to tell you all

Instead, he had been booked down-at-heel. that the conflict will continue until he started, how he prepares his his famous Paincoat. We had studies all these memoranda, though clothed during the day.

means about the way he speaks, how

Then Hitler retires quietly by Mrs. Lexicus for a formal He came on to the platform in away-sometimes for days. He dinner engagement and she, the Nazi monster is forced by sherr speeches. exigencies to capitulate

In "Mein Kampf." he says come to know that raincoat a As he does so, he jots down in the semblance of a ratcatcher, Signor Mussolini's refusal to about his drst appearance on a little in the newspaper pictures notes. bundle Hitler's perce proposals in public platform: "What I had in Central Europe.

yet was a stickling purist when He listens to no one when he evening fell. And Lexicus groan- dicates that their terms bear no re-always presumed without know-

It was a bitterly cold evening. is planning his speech, Iation to the British Government's ing it occurred now-I COULD Yet Hiller took off his raincoat he decides to introduce matters

Often jed. conditions, and this studiest rebuff SPEAK."

This bathroom in which he so from his chief ally must be giving

and stood there shivering. He that his underlings have never thankfully recuperated the phy- the Fuehrer considerable pause for Hitler will speak before his own

Years have passed. To-day looked frozen.

mentioned. Often he leaves out (sical and mental vigours so thought. Neither is there any in-hand-picked

Then he began to speak. I matters that they have stressed. abundantly dissipated during the WWdication that Russia is willing to rounded by uniformed suppor- tical German. He seemed to be and begins to write the main neighbourhood, indeed it might Reichstag, sur. was surprised at his ungramma- Then he takes a sheet of paper day, was the ne plus ultra of the associate herself with the peace plans,

Nazi ters, with five or six microphones using long words without know headings of his speech. He be said of the Colony. Gleaming danger seems to be of passive disassociation United States,

of so-called encirclement hook-up," which will include the like a very good orator talking one after the other. He under glistening rails;

new dotted round him and a "radio ing their meaning. He sounded puts them down symmetrically chromium; pale-green marble; by his reputed friends.

resplendent. in a foreign language. But twenty years ago, in the

lines the most important points, bright-hued, scrubbiest of to- Russia still holds the key to the words of one of his friends, "he impressed. Hitler seemed to me sheet he generally makes his lines of shining crystal bottles; I left the meeting very un- Towards the bottom of the wels; voluminous bathsheets; present situation, and until her real used to speak in lightless court- in no way to stand out from the favourite "doodles." He draws the alcoved shower with curtain- of dangling all the belligerents on a offices and dusty party-rooms tors who swarmed in Germany one he writes "Yes." In all did not consider himself blessed be-

yards, small public-houses, dull hundreds of other petty agita-three little compartments. In ed-privacy,---- The hint that she may attempt to

at that time, break the German blockade in the

other he writes "No." in the Baltic is not so chimerical as might

Since then he has made hun middle one he puts two angry yond other men. dreds of speeches. I have heard little scratches to show that domestic side of affairs; in the atting normally be imagined In view of

Russo-German

THE earliest mention of Hit- some of them. So, perhaps, there is no halfway house be-up of kitchens and bathrooms of Primarily, those agreements favour cover comos in the "Muenchner

ugreements. ler as a speaker that I can dis- have you,

tween Yes and No.

their little house he had played a most prominent and, to the mind of Russia at the expense of the Reich, Beobachter" of November 16,

A handwriting expert tells Mrs. L., superabundant, role. and the fact that M. Molotoff at the 1919. It

me: "This doodle is characteris- The lady hersett, by the way, spent time

then concluded

n semi-

tie of a man who pretends there intending the toilet and the cuisine a large portion of her time super- assistance pact with Estonia, and

mulual-Fascist paper, and it said:

EVERY une of simultaneously

"The German Workers' Party speeches, if you examine them, way. In his subconscious mind skimming the country

Hitler's is no compromise, no middle of her two graceful Australians, or beld with the Turkish and Lithuanian on November 11, at 7 pm. Either they point to some com- middle way. But he refuses to the ability to throw off completely

conferences (Munich Group) held a meeting falls into one of two groups. he knows that there may be a

upon their well-sprung backs. Foreign Ministers, clearly indicates Among the speakers were

Lexicus had the priceless gift of ibat Russia is prepared to

ing event and make threats; or recognise it." independently of

act Adolf Hitler:-subject-Treaties else they explain some recent her partner in of Poland, if she

Brest-Litovsk and so desires. The sailles." position must be odious In the ex-j treme to Hitler and his tellites, the National Socialist German up

At this meeting was founded who for so long employed the same Workers' Party, and its German this:- tactics and enjoyed a similar posi- opponents soon derisively nick tion of strategical ascendancy.

Nelther can Rusala's new spheres The name stuck.

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Ver- happening and make apologies

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of influence in the Baltic give any of foundation Hitler only played On that night pleasure to the Nazis, who realise

a small part, ·

that sooner or later the Soviets wil

I can remember the Hitler of

thing)..

All this comfort was his, and he

Oddly, his hobbies turned to the

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in his all too scanty leisure hours the cares of office; and doubtless to this faculty was due his enormous capacity for grinding, unpalatable, All his speeches can be split

monotonous work in an enervating, WHEN he has finished his allen climate-with no apparent ef- into five sections. Like page of notes he calls in his fects detrimental either to physique

favourite typist, a buxom lady or mentality. 1. History (of Germany, of of forty-two, and dietates to her DAU had shuffled over the border

her enemies, of the Nazi while she types. party).

alone and unconsidered; nothing This last week his plans for he carried and nothing he possessed use their new seaboard for increased those early days.

2. Nazi philosophy (Hitler's preparing his speech have been beyond the rags upon his raw-boned code of morals which puts thrown out of gear by the fact, and thirty Chinese cents. comineree with the world, not ex-

the State above

With matted, uncleanly, unshorn every. that right up to the last the hair, his sunken eyes, his shambling cepting the Allies. Germany con

When I was a 15-year-old Jook forward to a nasty dilemuna; high school student in Vienna,

European situation has been gait he appeared a mera travesty of changing. Russin and Italy are any "image of God."" got to sink the very interested in politice, I Russian trade ships as she is doing came home one October evening

by no means as steadfast as he wilted, but in his native haunts it He looked, as indeed he was, haif- the Nowegian, Danish, Finnish and from night-classes.

5. Offers and promises. (Cou, would like them to be.

had, by means none too gentle, been Dutch, or she must permit right of 1920.-

It was in

pled with threats),

So Hitler has not been able to drilled into him that Authority in way, which would largely defent her

How does Hitler prepare one get his speech cut and dried treated and other little foibles of a Unkorm must be most obsequiously blockade plons.

As I passed the Gschwander of his big speeches? I can tell some days ahead. Hernals, I was attracted by a cause I was once given a vivid few of his big men, Goering brain. He knew that when in trou- beer-garden in the suburb of you a good deal about that be-

considerable portion of the represen- When the speech is typed a tatives of authority had somehow great deal of noise and found a description in a conversation Goebbels, Ribbentrop, and so on, ble worse might be avoided if he sunk Indelibly in his dim, disabled political meeting in full eruption. with Captain Wiedemann, Hit- are allowed to look it through. were but possessed of the where pounding the 25 points of the

A big blonde man, was ex- ler's former A.D.C.

Generally they want things withol. Having no home if he had altored. Almost always Hitler such as he would be no better off- Dal Dou had, of necessity, been ac- customed, unrebuked, to satisfy the Then comes the day of the inexorable demands of nature as did apcech itself. Do you

his fellows. Nor could any notion of over

either stie has

3. Boasting and prophesy. 4. Demands.

Hitler's avid desire for peace, now that he has grabbed most of what he wanted, can stood, but the

be readily under very fact that in obtaining such ill-gotten gains, he has had to compromise himself with Nazi creed. His name was Dr. gins, he told me, with diplomatic refuses to alter a word: the hated Communists, serves only Dingfelder. After he had sat, activity. (This time, for in- The preparation generally be to strengthen the Alles position. down the chairman announced stance, Hitler has been con listen in to Hitler on the wire. decency or its lack have plumped Any contemplation of Hitler's bidding would be

peace ot

more the next speaker"Herr Adolf ferring with Count Ciano, Mus- less? Do you hear the hoarse, than dishonourable; it would be dis- Hitler, from Munich."'** astrous to the democracies' cause. Hitler came to the front of onds, and he knows not where the platform. He looked such a of how things stand, he demands Sieg Hell" ("Hail Victory") of Then when he has some idea rhythmic "Sieg Hell, Sleg Heil, to tum. He fares inflexibla focs dull, shabby little man that I did typed memoranda from all his his hearers? How is it done? on the Western Front, a resticas not even wait to hear what ho chiofs. Ribbentrop sends in a sleeping partner on

Front,

which way

tho Eastern

disgruntled ally in the south, and

a suspicious and possibly had to say. I went home.

the certainty of internal disintegra-

tlon ff the war continues for an indefinite period.

solini's son-in-law).

the depths of this animal existence." uniform, harangued in language of handled by someone in a yellowish But now he found himself angrily

which he understood but 11ue,

This much, however, he gathered.....

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Hat he had none, hut bow he did, bling words to appease the growing obsequiously endeavouring inatum of anger; to understand the nature of

his offence, if any. '

I will tell you. Goebbels sita that by some means he had erred; or massive document on the posi- or stands near Hitler. Whenever was it that the law needed something tion abroad, the strength of he hears a point he likes, he of him? Even him? feeling against Hitler in Eng-, staris clapping. That Is the land and France, whether Roose signal. The stormlenders throughout the audience start their Sieg-Hells. The rest

After the speech la over Hit account of the feelings of the ler manages to keep up his He was known all over Ger. German. people. He has his PLEASE Turn To Page 3.

Hitler would save himself a lot NEXT time I saw him was in velt means business or not of bother, and his country consider Munich in 1925. This time I and so on. able suffering and misery, if a travelled from Vienna to hear realised that at long last the game him. He had travelled, too-on tapo chief, sends in a detailed is up, and that he and his satellites his road to fame and power, should retire as gracefully as possi

Shifty-eyed Himmler, the Ges- the audience chimes in.

blo from tho ̈scone.

of the hairy hand,

ENG No result other than the tightening Tremblingly, ne a last resource, the

PLEASE Turn To Pago 8.