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his opponents:

Rudyard Kipling wrote this in 1914. He could but guess then how true his words would be proved in the next four years. But Kipling's majestic verse is aven truer to-day. It is u hymn that ranks with the "Recessional,"

FOR all we have and are,

For all our children's fate, Stand up and take the war.

The Hun is at the gate! Our world has passed away

In Wantonness o'erthrown. There is nothing left to-day

But steel and fire and stone!

Though all we knew depart,

The

old Commandments stand:-

"In courage keep your heart,

In strength lift up your hand." Once more we hear the word

That sickened earth of old :- "No Law except the Sword

Unsheathed and uncontrolled." Once more it knits mankind, Once more the nations go To meet and break and bind

A crazed and driven foc. Comfort, content, delight,

The ages slow-bought gain, They shrivelled in a night. Only ourselves remain

are"

To face the naked days In silent fortitude, Through perils and dismays. Renewed and re-renewed. Though all we made depart,

The

old Commandments stand:-

"In patience keep your heart,

In strength lift up your hand." No easy hope or lies

Shall bring us to our goal, But iron sacrifice

Of body, will, and soul. There is but one task for all- One life for each to give. What stands if Freedom fall?

Who dies if England live?

GERMANY'S WEAKNESS

war, the two things

I that count are leader ship and backing. What in the strength of Germany in these respects?

Hitherto Hitler has wiekled supreme power. Unquestioning obedience to his orders is the basis of the Nazi Government.

me

G.

-by-

Ward Price

BRITAIN'S BEST-INFORMED WRITER ON HITLER AND MODERN GERMANY

up

to

map in German colours, and of which the cost will be crushing?

I am convinced that the Germans of 35 upwards have not their bearts In this struggle.

We have no English equivalent for the word Gemutlichkeit, which is so oflen en German Ilps. It means quiet and peaceable well-being. I forms the background of the mind of every German once he has settled. down in life.

What have the Nazis done for Ger- mun Gemutlichkeit?

in

For the past four years, since

Gor.

one Saturday morning in April 1935 revealed to the world in un interview with myself that Germany

houre As {1

I have been alone with Hitler and Goring at the height of a

Up to the age of 21. they have all "We were wrong in imaginingt

the started In the Hitler Youth, a well Benny Goodman's Orch." that mine adversary had crisis, and seen the deference

that Japan would hold written a book! Exactly what which even the second man in

the Reich pays to his chief.

whole of the British Fleet in the run organisation in whose camps I

have found the boys being systema Far East; the Patriarch meant by that is not:

It was at the time of the Ger-

We were wrong in thinking that tienlly taught to absorb the principle: was putting her civilian air force on a military basis, the German worker quite clear, except that ho might man reoccupation of the Rhine-

Spain would furnish us with sub-. We are born to die for Germany,

The slightly older men have been has been under crescendo strain.

lie has been shifted about from marine bases; have had the opportunity of criticis-lund. War seemed imminent. I asked Goring whether Ger-

"We were wrong in believing Storm Troopers, and have done their wouki withdraw her ing the book, adversely. Leaving many

All the "bonzes"-ns they call them-in that Poland would throw in her six months Labour Service before one job to another at the behest of

going into the fighting forces, hand when we fixed it up with have been lectured and propaganded Berlin. He has had his pay beavily that to Biblical experts, one can troops from the French frontier

Soviet Russin to divide her to make way for the occupation

"Of course, we know that the and steeped in the Nazi creed of docked for Party subscriptions, while turn with a certain satisfaction to n of a neutral zone between her

many cases, built their grand villas Fuhrer is always right, but IS HE?" "corpse-like obedience," as the Ger- the,bonzes, once poor as himself in

mens.

themselves call it.

and had strings of blg Mercedes cars. which

inured has and France by British, Italian, book

an adversary

Physically they are I am convinced that, with the ex-

He has had to work almost con- cherished ception of three or four million young hardship. Mentally, they have never inuous overtime. His **** written, much to the advantage of and Swedish troops, as in the

Saar during the plebiscite.

meri, who inay see war an oppor- learnt to think for themselves. Like leisure has been roduced by constant He said he would take me to tunity for excitement, glory, and pro- young men everywhere, they are full attendance at political meetings by The advantage to the Western Hitler for the purpose of sug. motion, use German nation enter on of spirit, and should fight well. But order of the local Party boss, or by

their they have neither the individual in- lining the streets for souls. That mood bodes them ill at telligence of the French soldier nor Stormi-Trooper to provide a popular Powers is that they knew before-esting that idea. "But don't this conflict with despair in

you mentioned it to

the very start.

the stubborn determination and self- reception for a Minister on his way

to make a speech. hand precisely. the course that first," he added earnestly, "The

They may fht bravely, of course, confidence of the British. Fuhrer might charge me with

Even when he gets a free evening They are a tough, and disciplined Ifitler's policy would take in his mixing myself up in foreign race. They love their country. To

The Old Men

at his favourite Bierstube, it is likely to be interrupted by a long broadcast monstrous ambition to subjugate politics, which-are-not-my-con--them-title-has hitherto stood for

N-the-new-kind-of-"national oration from Dr. Goebbels or some Germany and its well-being. They

war, however, the strength other purveyor of pompous political. Europe. Peace is far from the cern.'

have trusted and admired him. If they stand by him at first, it will be of a country does not le solely in patitixies, to which he is compelled thoughts of the Fahrer, and ever

because there is no une else to stand marching battalions of fine young by prudence to pay attention. hoa been.. His guiding principle, as

this extreme concentration by But doubt, misgiving, and re- men.

The industrial organisation of a luctance to pay the terrible price of told in his own words, is that this

It has been portly reduced by the his overweening ambition will all the belligerent State is just as important is a world of everlasting struggle, delegation of internal administrative time be gnawing at their hearts. as its armed forces, and here the

THESE people have borne it all with the patience of an over- where one creature feeds on the authority to the Council of Six,

In the past-they have rejoiced over Gennan Government will

worked, underfed horse. Up to the other and where the death of the headed by Goring, while Hitler has their. Fulirer's successes.

gone off to exercise his absolute rule the bill for all these easy triumphs The skilled workers, key-men, present do not think they have has come la-and they don't like it. managers, and organisers of the fac- even resented it very much. It is weaker implies the life of the ns Commander-in-Chief.

In this capacity the Fuhrer. For With this background, let us con- tories are all naturally older than now, when the whin of war begins stronger.

Their minds were to fall on their weary flanks, that the first time since he took office, sider the strength of the Gennan the fighters.

faced by opposition. No war machine on its human side. formed ไท pre-Nazi duys. They they will feel the strain. of will be

longer are his orders sure of the de-

First come the young men, who accepted Nazi rule with enthusiam Nor they alone. Even sired result. The forces of his ad- will have to do the fighting and main because it exalted their country, and Government officiuis, with all their

won triumphs at no cost

amenities of prestige, authority, and versarica are there to obstruct and thin internal order. upset his plans.

Every young German in the car Will they be equally enthusiastic comfortable Ilving, sometimes show. Nor can a generalissimo command lier twenties Bas pussed through the for it now that it has plunged them signs of cracking.

Twice it has happened to me that ke an autocrat. In pence time, as Nazi training organisations, which into a war not defensive but aggres I have been told by those near to have been compulsory for the past alver a war which, even if successful, I have been sitting with high Ger- him, Hitler will dismiss a subordinate six years.

could only paint some more of the man executives at times of crisis,

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SINCERE'S

His Secret

Following this conception human life, his declared aim has beau to swallow any State which is smaller and weaker than his own. He counts it a divine right that Germany should go on expanding in whatever quarter he considers for raising the least objection to his orders. The words "Aber. mein desirable and feasible. "To-day," | Fuhrer .. "are enough. This has he says in "Mein Kampf," "there become an ingrained habit with him. A commander who will not listen to are eighty million Germans in his staff officers saying "But .." Europe. And our foreign polley is as sure of disaster as an engine- driver who shuts his eyes 10 the will be recognised as rightly con- signals. ducted only when, after barely n hundred years, there will be 250 million Germans living on this Continent, not packed together as the ecolies in the factories of an- other Continent but as tillers of the Boll."

The Reich, in his estimation, will never be secure unless it is in ai position to give every descendant of the German race à plece of ground that he can call his own. Germans must never forget that the "most sacrod of all rights in this world is man's right to the earth which he wishes to cultivate for himself, and that the hollest of all sacrifices is that of the blood poured out for it"

Hitler himself has described his method as "advancing with the con-

dence of a. sleep-walker." A gen- era might sleep-walk into victory against primitive savages, but not in a European war.

Will-power-that is what Hitler. declares to be the secret of his suc- resses hitherto. He believes, with all the earnestness of the authors who write books of popular psychology, that if he wants a thing hard enough he will get it.

With the Gestapo at hand to sup- press all wills but his own, this may work all right, but the Fuhrer is now confronted for the first time with the united will of Britain, France and for mora Poland-as strong and dogged than his own neurasthenic volition.

The dominating power of. Germany! 1s not alone in finding itself faced with new and formidable conditions over which it has no control. Sa also is the nation on which it de- pends to curry out Its alma.

The Gernian people have awaken- ed with shock to the discovery that Nothing is said of the sacred all their compincent calculations have rights of the peasantry, who must of been wrong. If you could look to- day into millions of German minds, necessity be violently dispossessed you would find them secretly sing- before the German can stop into) gered by the following realisations: the holy heritage.

How hitler is to get rid of the present Inhabitants to make room for his consecrated Gorman peasan-" try has st to be dischised.

"We were wrong in thinking that, Dritain and, France would never *Night;

We were wrong in thinking tint the British Dominions would de- clare themselves 'neutral;

"We were wrong in thinking that India would rise in rebellion;

But now face a different situation.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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have to

Weary Officials

the

Nazi

like the sudden swoop on Prague Inst year, and the seizure of Memel that followed it sitting quietly over bottle wine in the evening-and

ត

By Lichty my companion has suddenly exclaim-

Oa

—this battle has come to you through the courtesy of the

Itsy Bitsy Cookie Company,”

ed, like a man who must tell some- one and did not dare to confide in his own people: "I can't go on like this, I've not had a decent night's sleep for weeks. I'm kept always on the

I must have a rost."

run.

That pressure will now be multi- plied tenfold.

Men whose nerves are worn rovert to type.

Artificially formed habits

of mind fall away. Their hidden in- stincts come to the surface.

The fundamental inclination of very many German workers is to- wards Communism. ·

I do not expect anything to happen wor have until the hardships of broken the superiletal crust of Ger- man solidarity, but it was perhaps significant that as Hitler drove away from the Chancellery to assume command on the Eastern Front, four of his bodyguard were standing on the running-boards of hla car.

I have seen Hitler moving about Germany scores of times, but never before has he needed such protec tion.

Faithful Fan Wins Mercy

COLUMBIA, 8. C.

A rabid baseball fan escaped a. One or jail sentence for drunkenness when an understanding judge heard his case. The fan, arrested for drunkenness while en route to watch the seventh-place. Columbla team play, was released when his attorney oaked the Judge:- "What else can you expect of a man watching that team play this season?"