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Hitler Infallible

"WE Nazis know woll that everything the Fuehrer does is right," said Herr von Ribbentrop La

a Nazi demonstration. Of course

he does not belle e that. No mor-

tal can say that of another. It

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HITLER: "Now don't forget! You go as I direct you!"

War Cabinet

comes to life

HE conclave of our new War Cabinet assembled at No. 10 Downing

was said only to tickle the ears of Street yesterday afternoon.

the people, who appear to be ton ready to accept the legend of Hit The public infallibility. v2ller's

memory is short, else Germans might is a thoughtful moment ask themselves those questions:-

Was Hiller right when he wrote that "those who are in power in Russia to-day have no idea of form- ing no honourable alliance or of remaining true to it if they did"

Was Hitler right when he wrote, "It must never be forgotten that the present rulers of Russian arc blood-stained criminals, that here we have the dregs of humanity which, favoured by the circum- stances of a tragic moment, over- ran & great State, degraded and extirpated millions of educated people out of sheer blood-lust, and that now for nearly ten years they have ruled with such

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tyranny as was never known be fore"?

Was Hitler right when he wrote: "The Russia of to-lay, deprived of its Germanie ruling class, is not a possible ally in the struggle for German liberty. From the purely military viewpoint a Basso-Ger- man coalition waging war against Western Europe, and probably against the whole world on that account, would be catastrophic for us."

Was Hitler right when he wrote: Bismarck's "political sagacity would never allow him to ally him- self with a Stato that is doomed to disappear"

Was Hitler right when ho wrote: "This colossal Empire in the East is ripe for dissolution. And the end of the Jewish domination in Russia, will also be the end Russia as a State. We are chosen by Destiny to bo the witnesses of

of

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of

the

a catastrophe which will afford the strongest confirmation nationalist theory of race"?

These questions might be multi- plied many times, every one of them going to, prove either that Hitler was wrong then or that ha has wholly abandoned one of his most fanatical convictions.

Two of its members, only- Winston Churchill and Sir John Simon-could look back to war- time discussions under Asquith and Ll G. in that same elegant, historic room.

In those days our Chancellor had not filled out into nearly such a power in the land as he has since become.

>Only the very wicked ones in the City worried a brass farthing about him, for in 1914 he was Simple Sir John, Attorney-General. with a seat in the Cabinet. He might prosecute the wrong 'uns. but honest bankera had no interest in him.

Next year he got a leg up to be- come Home Becretary; but his conscience did not allow him to keep the job very lang. He re- signed on the issue of conscription. I am pretty certain that he be- Heved a couple-If not more-of his colleagues would resien with him. But they came to the con- clusion which Sir John's con- science itself has reached in 1939

that conscription is not a re- signing matter.

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So he went out a ewe lamb, and passed the

the rest of the war in the most unlikely way, a Major serv- Ing with the RAF. In France,

Now, though the Conservatives still don't like him, he is firmly established at the Treasury. IIC succeeds better with figures than with human belhgs, because his

zeal and acumen are immensur- Ably greater than his power of handling nien.

He will try to make his extrac- lons from our pockets as painless

às possible. He will never lose that smooth smile which masks his shy- ness, however, badly things may

go.

When Bir John sat under Asquith in the Cabinet, his present chief was doing his bit as an Alderman on the Birmingham City Council, wearing a very hand- some gown with fur on it.

About the time when Bir-John commences Home Secretary, Mr., Chamberlain was sworn in as Lord Mayor of his native city, and wonderfully well to satisfied the Tory burgesses,

They said that they never had such an excellent chief magis- He was diligent, ho was trato. punctual, he was tactful and ho was ' seemingly never bored by public dinners.

Birmingham had always classed him as the fool of the family-a different breed from Joe and Auntta.

rovised thefr opinion when he had worn their lovely chain of office for six

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months. They began to mutter that old slogan, “He will go far.". A xoan latur, noon aftor Major

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Sir Jolin Simon joined his squadron in France, the Lord Mayor went as far as London. He became Director-General of National Service.

"Mirely a job for Austen's brother," said the London world, which had never met him. His department found him a cold fish. but a very efficient ish.

Civil servants liked him because he knew his job, because ho treated them as intelligent col- laborators, because he was not n "politician." Nevertheless, he completed his war service without making an noticeable impact the tritona. His reputation among was won among the minnows.

Ho

things off by getting rounded elected to the Commons in Decem- ber, 1918, acepted Lloyd George's coupon as bis ticket of admission. 'Now, isn't that nice!” said non- timental MPa. “Another Cham- berlain! I never heard of him before." And, for some years, they never heard of him again, until his talents earned him the place of Postmaster-General in 1922.

Kitchener became Secretary of State for War under Mr. Asquith, displacing peace-time Haldane. the victim of a disg

disgraceful intrl-

Buc.

Mr. Chamberlain has stuck to peace-time Lesile Hore-Belisha, who was an ornament of the R.A.8.C., and a major by Novem- ber, 1918. Then he resumed his Interrupted education at Oxford.

Immediate post-war under- graduates, a tough lot, took to him. They elected him President of the Union in 1819, since when he has never looked backward.

I can remember him, more heavily mannered in those days, very obviously hitching his wagon to the star of Benjamin Disraeli, but a most accomplished fellow. We haped great things for him then at Oxford. He is still one of our brightest young men.

Sir Kingsley Wood was · busy during the inst war-but not nearly so busy na ho will be during this one an Air Minister. He was a soundly conservative member of an L.C.O. which still lived in Spring

Gardens.

In 1017.he promoted the memorial to the food controller that all bread should be sold by weight. A soundly common-scrise suggestion. Like the Premier, he entered Parliament in 1018 on L.O.'s coupon. Next year he was knighted. Perhaps someone re- membered that bread business.

Since then Bls Kingsley has been vary much up and doing. Whether you agree with hiŊ vlows or not,

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you must admire his zest, his drive, his smile-wreathed energy.

He is always in the picture, and The ho is eminently sensible, RAF. entered the war yesterday magnificent in morale and equip- ment, Thank 8 Kingsley for that.

Lord Hallfax

just Mr. Edward Wood last time we fought the Germans. Ho becamo a

Yorkshire the colonel in

Dragoons, but his withered arm mad

made his

military career the local formality

of the son of an ancient and noble

house, He had launched his political career as MP. for Ripon in 1010, but he first found a place for himself 18 Parliamentary Under-Becretary for the Colonies in 1921.

Men like Lord Baldwin thought worlds of him from the first, I remember that shrewd old artist Sir William Rothenstein saying of him, "Edward Wood will Prime Minister, has the most com- plete integrity. That counts most In the end."

Br Bamuel Hoaro waged the most adventurous last war of them all. He had been in the Commons since 1910. In August, 1914, he joined his regiment, the Norfolk Yeomanry, but was In- valided out with rheumatic fever. While i ho learned Russian, and Kitchener, making light of the fever, sent him to Russin to organise British military intelli- gence there.

After the Polshevik regime was established they sent him to Italy as chief of our military intelli- gence there, He talked Italian, too, you see.

After the war he was one of the principals among the Tory MP3 who torpedoed L.-G.'s Coalition administration, and so secured himself a right to a seat on the Inner Tory councils.

Ho somehow reminds me of a

intelligent most

and liberal- minded maidon-aunt, for all his career of adventure and athletics, You would nover imagine that he came from a solid beat

cot and 'banking background. Mixed with these delightfully conservative atrains, however, runs a tincture of Quaker blood, Bir Samuel is proud that Elizabeth Fry, the collateral prison reformer, is a ancestor. Porhaps that is where

ho gets it from,

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Admiralty, 80 wonderfully do- scribed in his book, "The World Crisis," was the centre and soul of his ille.

Now he has come back to con- trol the service where his heart iles. And the nation generally feels that the right man. is in the right place.

There remains one more name, I was wrong carlier when I sald only two of the new Cabinet cat in the war Cabinet during the 1914-1918 struggle. i forgot an Invisible, man, Maurice Hankey. made n рест when ho retired aftre so many years as Cabinet Secretary.

He was there all the time who- ever may have missed a meeting. He said very little and only when asked to speak. He itstened always. He remembered. He never forgot a fact, a figure, a situation.

Now, with rare wisdom, they have called him out of retirement, He returns as a Minister, where ho sat as secretary. Other people might call it a triumph.

Lord Hankey would regard you with cold dislike and go on with his work, if you dared to mention quite such a distasteful word to him,

Food For All If War Comes

THERE will be adequate food supplies for the population of Britain in the event of war.

The Government is satisfled with the position; there is no possibility of the country being [starved.

this

A Government official gave assurance recently.

The publle ore asked not to buy more than normal week's supply of food. Divisional Food Odlcers make the suggestion that, in addition, housewives should provide an "iron ration," which would also cover a week's supply.

Private

is not cvacuation Indvised by the Government,

Private car owners are asked to volunteer to help in the evacuation of hospital patients.. Their cars would be needed for only 24 hours. Over- 500 are needed in London alone,

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A.R.P. Swindler Tricks Women

yet

MAN who pretends to be an A.R.P. gas mask inspector has been victimising housewives in the Balham; Streatham and Brixton districts of South Lon--

And finally, Winston Spencer Churchill, What a day It was fordon. him yesterday! Once again ko sat at the Admiralty, in supreme charge of the British Navy, as he had sat on the night of August 4. 1914.

Some careera áte touched by the anger of fate, and Winston'a is one of them. His tenure of the

After examining gas-miaka in the house, he produces an "official first- ald quifit" and says there is 28. Od. to pay. If his victim objects ho brings out a notebook and threatens to "report" it.

The "outh contains lodine and two bandages worth about Gd: