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that mine adversary had written a book! Exactly what the Patriarch meant by thai is not quite clear, except that he might have had the opportunity of criticis ing the book, adversely. Leaving that to Biblical experts, one turn with a certain satisfaction to a book

adversary has written, much to the advantage of

which- an

can

For all we have and are"

Rudyard Kipling wrote this in 1914. He could but guess then how true his words would be proved in Bul the next four years. Kipling's majestic verse is even truer to-day. It is ( 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

Commandments old

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 foe. Comfort, content, delight;-.

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

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

TN war, the two things ship and backing. What is the strength of Germany in these respects?

Hitherto Hitler has wielded Unquestioning supreme power. obedience to his orders is the basis of the Nazi Government. I have been alone with Hitler and Goring at the height of a crisis, and seen the deference which even the second man in the Reich pays to his chief.

by

Ward G.

Price

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

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

I am convinced that the Germans of 33 upwords have not their hearts

this struggle.

We have no English equivalent for the word Comutlichkeit, which is 60 allen on German Ips. It means quiet and peaceable well-being. It forms the background of the mind of every German once he has settled. down in life.

What have the Nazis done for Ger- man Gemutlichkeelt?

in

For the past four years, since Gor- Up to the age of 21, they have all "We were wrong in imagining

up the started in the Hitler Youth, a well-ing, one Saturday morning in April that Japan would hold whole of the British Fleet in the run organisation in whose camps 1 1955 revealed to the world

have found the boys being systems- Interview with mysell that Germany Far East; It was at the time of the Ger

a military basis, the German worker "We were wrong in thinking that tically taught to absorb the principle: was putting her civilian air force en 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,

He has been shifted about from marine bases; land. War seemed imminent.

believing Storm Troopers, and have done their I asked Goring whether Ger-

"We were wrong

the "bonzea"-as they call them-in her withdraw many would

All that Poland would throw in her six months Labour Service before one job to another at the behest of hand when we fixed it up with going into the fighting forces. troops from the French frontier

have been lectured and propaganded Berlin. He has had his pay heavily Soviet Russia to divide her;

creed of docked for Party subscriptions, while to make way for the occupation

Of course, we know that the and steeped in the Nazi

many cases, but their grand villas of a neutral zone between her

Fuhrer is always right, but IS HE?" "corpse-like obedience," as the Ger- the bones, once poor as himself in

nans themselves call it.

and land strings of big Mercedes cars. are inured and France by British, Italian,

Physically they

He has had to work almost con- 1 um convinced that, with the ex-

overtime. His cherished ception of three or four million young hardship. Mentally, they have never tinuous and Swedish troops, us in the Suar during the plebiscite..

men, who may see in war an opper- learnt to think for themselves. Like leisure has been reduced by constant his opponents.

He said he would take me to tunity for excitement, glory, and pro- young inen everywhere, they tre full attendance at political meetings by The advantage to the Western Hitler for the purpose of sug motion, the German nation enter on ut spirit, and should fight well. But order of the local Party boss, or by

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

the stubborn determination and self- reception for a Minister on his way the very start. tay you mentioned it to

to make a speech. hand preelsoly the Course that first," he added earnestly. "The

They are a tough and disciplined Hitler's policy would take in his. Fuhrer might charge me with They may fight bravely, of course, confidence of the British.

mixing myself up in foreign race. They love their country. To monstrous ambition to subjugate polities, which are not-my-con-them-Hiller-has litherto stood for Europe. Peace is far from the cern." thoughts of the Fuhrer, and ever has been. His guiding principle, as told in his own words, is that this is a world of everlasting struggle, where one creature feeds on the other and whore the death of the weaker implies the life of the stronger.

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Even when he gets a free evening The Old Mon

at his favourite Bierstube, it is likely N-the-new-kind-of-"national to be interrupted by a long broadcast oration from "Dr. Goebbels-or-some- Germany and its well-being. They

war," however, the strength other purveyor of pompous politicnt have trusted and admired him. It they stand by him at first, it will be of a country does not le solely in platitudes, to which he is compelled

young

by prudence to pay attention. because there is no one else to stand marching battalions of fine Is this extreme concentration by. But doubt, misgiving, and for the

luctance to pay the terrible price of The industrial organisation of of power an asset in war? It has been partly reduced by the his overweening ambition will all the belligerent State is just as important the as is armed forces, and here

THESE people have borne it all delegation of internal administrative tane be gnawing at their hearts. Six,

with the pallence of an over- In the past they have rejoiced over German Government will have to nuthority to the Council

But now

a different situation. thee hended by Goring, while Hiller has their Fahrer's successes.

worked, underfed horse. Up to the The stilled workers, key-men, present 1 do not think they have gone off to exercise his absolute rule the bill for all these easy triumphs

has come in-and they don't like #. managers, and organisers of the fac- even resented it very much. It is us Commander-in-Chief.

In this capacity the Fulirer, for With this background, let us con- tories are all naturally okler than now, when the whip of war begins German the Alghters. Their minds were to fall on their weary Banks, that the first time since he took office, sider the strength of the

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

the Nazi Following this conception

Nor they alone. Even longer are his orders sure of the de-

First come the young men, who necepted Nazl rule with enthusiusm human life, his declared aim has sired result. The forces of his ad will have to do the fighting and main- because it exalted their country, and Government oficials, with all their

won triumphs at no cost.

amenities of prestige, authority, and been to swallow any State which is versaries are there to obstruct and tain internal order.

upset his plans.

Every young German In the ear- Will they be equally enthusiastic comfortable living, cometimes show smaller and weaker than his own. Nor can a generalissimo comniand ller twenties has passed through the for it now that thus plunged them signs of cracking.

which into a war not defensive but aggres- Twice it has happened to me that He counts it a divine right that like an autocrat. In peace time, a Nazi training organisations.

I have been told by those near to have been compulsory for the post sive; a war which, even if successful. I have been sitting with high Gor- could only paint some more of the man executives at times of crials, Germany should go on expanding him, Hitler will dismiss a subordinate six years.

like the sudden swoop on Prague last- in whatever quarter he considers for raising the least objection to his

words "Aber,

year, and the seizure of Memel that orders. The

followed il-sitting quietly over desirable and feasible. "To-day," Fuhrer "are enough. This has

bottle wing in the evening-and he says in "Mein Kampf," "there become an ingrained habit with him.

my companion has suddenly exclaim- A commander who will not listen to

ed, liko a man who must tell some- aro eighty million Germans in his staff oflcers saying "But

one and did not dare to confide in his is as sure of disaster as an engine- Europe. And our foreign palley driver who shuts his eyes to the

own people:. "I can't go on like this. I've not had a decent night's sleep will be recognised as rightly con- signals.

for weeks, I'm kept always on the run. I must have a rest."

mein

Hiller himself has described hla

ducted only when, after barely aj method "advancing with the con- hundred years, there will be 250 ndence of a sleep-walker," Agen- million Germans ving on this eru might sleep-walk into victory against primitive savages, but not in Continent, not packed together as A European wor. the coolles in the factories of an- other Continent but as tillera of the Boil."

WII-power-that is what Hitler declares to be the secret of his suc- rescea 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.

The Reich, in his estimation, will never be secure unless it is in a

With the Gestapo at hand to sup- position to give overy descendant press all wills but his own, this may of the Gorman race a piece of work all right, but the Fulirer is now confronted for the first ilme with the ground that ho can call, his own. united will of Britain, France and|

far more Germana must never forget that the Polantas strong and

dogged than his own neurasthenic "most Bacred of all rights in this volition.

The dominating power of Germany world is man's right to the earth

is not alone in finding itself faced which he wishes to cultivate for with new and formidable conditions

no control. So! himself, and that the hollest of all over which has sacrifices is that of the blood also is the nation on which it de-

pends to carry out its aims.

'The German people have awoken- poured out for it."

ed with a shock to the discovery that Nothing is said of the sacred all their complacent calculations have If you could look to- rights of the peasantry who must of been wrong.

day into nililons of Germon minds, necessity be violently dispossessed you would find them secretly stag- before the German can stop into) gered by the following realisations:. "We were wrong in thinking that Urliain and France would never the holy heritage.

night;

How Hitler is to got rid of the present inhabitants to make room for his consecrated Gorman pensan- try has still to be disclosed.

"We were wrong in thinking that the British Dominions would de- clame themselves neutral;

"We were wrong in thinking that Indin would rise in rebellion

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That pressure. will now be multi- plied tenfold.

Men whose nerves, are worn revert to type. Artificially formed habits of mind fall away. Their hidden in- stinets come to the surface.

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The fundamental inclination very many. German Workers is to wards Communism.

I do not expect anything to happen have until the hardships of war broken the superficial crust of Gar- man solldarity, 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 his car,

I have reen Hitler moving about Germany scores of times, but never before bas ho needed such protec- Lion.

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