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Hitler Infallible

"WE Nazla know, well that everything the Fuehrer does in right," said Herr von Ribbentrop to

a Nazi demonstration. Of course he does not believe that. No mor- ful can say that of another. It

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BLIVION

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 too Two of its members, only ready to accept the legend of Hit-Winston Churchill and Sir John Simon-could look back to war ler's infallibility. The public time discussions under Asquith memory is short, else Germans and Li G. in that same elegant,

historic room. might in a thoughtful moment ask themselves these questions:-

Was Hitler right when he wrote that "those who are in power in Rusala to-day have no idea of form- ing an honourable alliance or of remaining true to it. If they__did"?

Was Hitler right when he wrote, "I must never be forgotten that the present rulers of Russia are -blood-stained criminals, that here we have the dregs of humanity which, favoured by the circum- alances of a tragic moment, over- ran a great State, degraded and extirpated millions of eduented people out of sheer blood-lust, and that now for nearly ten years they have ruled with such 11 savage tyranny as was never known be- fore"?

In those days our Chancellor and not alled 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 bankers 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 He re- keep the job very long. signed on the Issue of conscription.

am pretty certale that he be- lleved a couple-if not more-of his colleagues would resign with. m. But they came to the con clusion which Sir John's con- science itself has reached in 1938 that conscription is not a re- signing matter.

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So he went out a ewe lamb, and passed the rest of the war in the most unlikely way, a Major serv-. Was Hitler right when he wrote: Ing with the R.A.F. in France.

Now, though the Conservatives "The Russin of to-day, deprived of still don't like him, he la

la Ormly established at the Treasury. its Germanic ruling class, is not a

succeeds better with figures than possible ally in the struggle for

with human beings. because his German liberty. From the purely zeal and acumen are immeasur- military viewpoint a Russo-Gerably greater than his power of

Bandiing men. man coalition waging war against Western Europe, and probably against the whole world on that account, would be calastrophic for us."

Was Hitter right when he wrote: Bismarck's "political angmcity would never allow him to ally him- self with a State that is doomed to disappear"?

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Was Hitler right when he 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 be the witnesses of a catastrophe which will afford the strongest confirmation of the nationalist theory of race"?.

He will try to make his extrac- tions from our pockets na painless

as possible. He will never lose that smooth smile which marks hla shy- ness, however, badly things may go.

When Sir John gat 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 Sir John commences Home Secretary, Mr. Chamberlain was sworn in as Lord

Mayor of his native city, and wonderfully well he satisfied the Tory burgesses,

They said that they never had auch an excellent chief magis- punctual, he was tactful and bo trate. He was diligent, he was

was seemingly hover bored by public dinners,

Birmingham had always classed him as the fool of the family--a These quesilons might be multi- different breed from Joe and pliod, many times, every one of Austin. They rovised their them going to prove either that opinion when he had worn their lovely chain of onlas "for six Hitler was wrong thon or that he months. They began to mutter has wholly abandoned one of his that old slogan, "He will go far."

A year later, soon astor Major

most fanatical convictions.....

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BY TOM DARLOW

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John Bimon Joined aquadron in France, the Lord Mayor went as far as London. Ko bocamo Director-General of National Bervico.

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

He is always in the picture, and he is eminently sensible. The R.A.F. entered the war yesterday ningnificent in morale and equip-

"Merely a Job

ment. for Austen'a

that. brother," said the London world. which had never met him, His department round him a cold fish, but a very efficient fish.

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Civil servants liked him because he knew his job, because he treated them as Intelligent col laborators, because he was not a "politician." Nevertheless, ho completed his war service without

noticeablo making an

impact among

the tritons, His reputation

Was won among the minnows.

Ho

rounded things off by getting elected to the Commons in Decem- ber, 1918, acepted Lloyd George's coupon as his ticket of admission. said sch- Now, isn't that nice! timental M.P.S. Another Cham- berlaini 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 1022,

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

disgraceful intrf- gue. Mr. Chamberlain has atuck

to peace-time Leslie Hore-Belisha, who was ab ornament of the R.A.S,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 1919, since when he has nover looked backward,

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

Bir Kingsley Wood was busy

last during the

war-but not nearly so busy as he will be during this ono na Air Minister, He was soundly conservative member of an LOC. which stil lived in Spring

Gardens.

In 1017 ho promoted the memorial to the food controller that all bread should be sold by weight. A soundly common-sccise suggestion. Like the Premier, he entered Parliament in 1918 on L.Q.'s coupon. Next year he was knighted. Perhaps someone re-. membered that bread business,

Since then Bir Kingsley has been very much up and doing. Whether you agree with hla ylows or not.

Thank Bir Kingsley for

Lord Halifax was just Mr. Edward Wood last time wa fought the Germans. Ho becamo д colonel in the Yorkshire Dragoons, but his withered arm made his military career the local formaŝty of the son of an ancient and noble

Admiralty, so wonderfully de- scribed in his book, "The World Crisis," was the centre and soul of his life.

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

There remains one more name. I was wrong earlier when I said only two of the new Cabinet Bat in the war Cabinet during the 1914-1018 struggle. I forgot an Invisible man, Maurice Hankey, made a poer when he retired aftre so many years as Cabinet Secretary.

He was there all the time who- ever may have missed a meeting,

house. He had launched-histe said very little and only when political career as M.F. for Ripon În 1910, but he first found a place for bimself ALK Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies In 1921.

Men like Lord Baldwin thought worlds of him from the rat. I remember that shrewd old artist Bir William Rothenstein saying of him," Edward Wood will be Prime Minister. Eo has the most com- plate Integrity. That counts most in the end."

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Bir Samuel Hoare waged the most adventurous last war of them all. Ho had been in the Commons since 1910. In August, 1914. he joined his regiment, the Norfolk Yeomanry, but was in- valided out with rheumatic fover, While i ho learned Russian, and Kitchener, making Hight of the fover, sont him to Russia to organise British military intelli- gence there.

After the Bolshevik regime was estabilshed they sont him to Italy as chief of our military Intell gence there. He talked Italian, too, you sec.

After the war he was one of the principals among the Tory MPa who torpedoed L.-G7's Coalition administration, and so secured himself a right to a scat on the inner Tory councils.

He somehow reminds me of a most intelligent and liberal- minded maiden-aunt, for all his career of adventure and athletics. You would never imagine that ho came from #olid brot and banking background, Mixed with theso

delightfully conservative strains, however, runs a tincture of Quaker blood. Sir Samuel is proud that Elizabeth Fry, tho prison reformer, is a collaterai ancestor.

ho gets it from.

risked to speak. He listened always. ile 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 night call it a

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 satisfied with the position; there is no possibility of the country being starved.

A Government official gave this assurance recently.

The public are asked not to buy more than a normal week's supply of food. Divisional Food Officers malte the suggestion that, in addition, housewives should provide na "Iron rution," which would also cover 'a | week's supply.

Private evacuation fa not yet Jadvised by the Government.

Private enr 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 necded in London `olono.

A.R.P. Swindler Tricks Women

Perhaps that is where A 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-

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And finally, Winston Spencer Churchill. What a day it was fordon. him yesterday! Once agala ho sat at the Admiralty, in iupremo chargo of the British Navy, as be had sat on the night of August 4, 1914.

Bobic careers are touched by the Anger of fate, and Winston's le one of them. His tenure of the

After examining gas-muals in the jhouse, he produces, an “omeial first- ald-outilt" and pays there is 26, 102, to pay. If his, victim objects, he brings out a notebook and threatens la "report" it.

The out contains fodine and two bandages worth about. Bd. --