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-whose articles in the London "Daily Mail" on Nazi Germany below-the-surface are arous~ ing exceptional Interest throughout the United Kingdom-tells you to-day of the smouldering rivalries between the Nazi Party leaders and the heads of the German Army.

Ours to Reason

Nazi leaders and why!

Army seldom

officers man

Generals

quite agree

"Advantage!" he exclaimed. “It's

disapprove of mest. These young follows have

Since

News-by Order

HOW amusing it in now to re-

call the almost frenzied ecstasies of rallef with which wo acclaimed Armistice Day, 1918. The news seemed too good to be true. After nearly five years of desperate fighting, ofruinous: expenditure, and tragio slangh. ter, which meant the total eclipse of all normal happy peaceful life, the interminable horrors of the Great War were

over.

of

men's

All hats were in the air then. IN peace time high Gor-

NOR purposes of internal Every face wore a smile of in-.

· relief. The have the very thing we

FOR

tranquil expressibly propaganda the wireless sun was no longer a goblin.. Skles spoken to me of defects in their been given such a big concell of is the principal instrument of the were blue again. A malevolent armed forces. It may, of themselves in the Party formations HONG KONG HOTEL, have been their aim to that they think they know evers. German Government, Relchisender-spell had been suddenly lifted from

letter

Hatomovsky, the energetic mankind, and the minatory mutter

cannon no longer held GARAGE

allay the suspicions of a visit thing."

the big Army purge in young man who la in charge, under Stubbs Rding newspaper correspondent as February last year, when 15 generals Dr. Goebbels, of the German Broad- hearts and hearths in daily and to the use that Germany might were dismissed, the Party has com casting system, has done his work nightly thrall. The troubled world

well.

had known nothing like it since the ultimately make of them-but pletely penetrated the Army. All Every large town in Germany has

to attend three have had

dove brought back to Father Noah thal olive branch which meant that there are common-sense reasons troops

God's wrath was appeased... for believing that what they political lectures a week, and officers wireless loud speakers on the lamp-

bren have

restricted to giving posts; every restaurant and beer-

of said was true.

technical instruction. The soldiers, house is almost compelled to keep turned on, and "What we tack are. emelent officers after completing their service, now its set constantly

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the poorest, so that the official nows wishes to extend thanks, to all N.C.O.s." they told me. "We have the Storm Troopers.

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Incidentally these sensations infinite heavenly relief were shared not least in Germany. For in that. country the full tide of disastrous war was swiftly avalanching back on its own homesteads. To all Ger- mans it was starkly evident that the hour of dreadful retribution was at hand. The neid grey, legions, who' had marched forth so proudly and. confidently four and hall years earlier, and had held the miseries of the war at ami's length from Fatherland,

I full reirent along the whole Western Front.

were

short space of time avail-

nation.

Yet "But there is a serious shortage- able for building up esprit de corps

all Germany knows which will take years to make up is not so serious a handicap. Alr

of majors and Heutenant-colonels fighting calls for more individual ini- nothing unfavourable to the Govern- and colonels, owing to the fact that tiative, and the German flying men ment would be communicated.

hard school. Even under normal conditions, for the first 15 years after the war have been put through

enormous, every foreigner who talks to Ger. the Relehawehr was limited to 100,- Training casualties are 000 men, and the type of man who but no statistics of them have ap mans detects an uneasy eagerness to hear the facts about many matters would norinally have become

an neured.

Whereas originally the German that have been the subject of ex- officer and ricen to field rank went

Air Force was stalled by officers tensive treatment by the German who volunteered for it, the system wireless stations. of appointment by order has been ERMANY'S armed forces substituted.

date from 1935. The men I was told in Germany last spring the production of aeroplanes have done two years' service with that the Colours, and those who were too was actually being slowed down be- old to be conscripted have been re- cause the Air Force was not able to peatedly called up. for spells of produce enough pilots to fly modern iraining of six weeks or two months. lgh-speed machines.

100, how One wonders, This experience is not as much as the German General Staff would like for men who have to face soldiers work in war. with the unbroken military tradi- the Nazi creed being that "Tha over again, will the sequel still be We do not hear ED much Fuehrer is always right," it has been the same? tions of the French,

Moreover, during those four years assumed that the minor Fuchters now, in the light of present events, the Army has not been a happy each in his degree are also infalli from those dear souls who told us it though German was all rubbish about Germany be family. The officers have had to put ble. Splendidly

And what about the parrot-cry When the last World War broke up with many sights from Party organisation works on normal occa- ing responsible for the Great War. bonzer, for whom those of the old slons, it is never at its best in an

that it is impossible to keep a great nation down? If there is going to be out there was no doubt of the en- Geman Army, at any rate, feel a emergency.

A Weakness

a next War and Germany happens thusiasm of the German people. secret contempt.

I shall never forget the Nuremberg

THERE is a new weapon in with better luck this time to win i

this war whose muzzle the Nazi bludgeaners will show us They were told and they firmly be-Party Congress of 1835. A special "lieved that they had been called meeting of the Reichstag was sum

there, and all the senior enches Into all our homes. The all about that pile. upon to defend the life and freedom generals and admiralp attended 11. wireless broadsides of the German Make no error on-that-scora, --II. giving the Nazi salute of the Fatherland; and they fought They sat to one side on the ground Propaganda Ministry can be heard we had lost the inst war we should to our Prussion overlords, precautions have to-day floor, I was in a gallery overlook- on the ether every evening, and so have been

far no anti-gos with a devotion which all the worlding them.

Goering, as President of the Reich been found necessary to deal with and jumping to it. We should not been allowed or encouraged them in this country. acknowledged.

to rearm ourselves, and our grand- For if there is one weakness in stag. announced

would German character which has sons

sill be sweating, a It is doubtful if the whole Ger-standards of the armed forces were the

generation or two hence, to pay off black, many admirable qualities--it is con- changed.. The to be

Indemnity which man people are fired now by equal white, and red ang with the fron genital ignorance of the psychology a swingeing war

be replaced by the of other nations.

the Germana would have collected Cross was to Ardour.

and, if necessary, at On Tuesday night I heard roars punctiliously. Nazi Swastika,

would Day after day, of late, reports

bayonet's point. There "The Fuehrer has pulled the old of laughter coming from the Daily the

started in have been no societies have come through various chan- flag out of the mud into which it Matt wireless room.

They were repeated so often that Germany to cultivate friendly rela nels of discontent and disorder: had fallen," said Goering with dan

gerous eloquence. "It is now to be I went to inquire what the joke was. tions with conquered Britons, and I German Ad- "Berlin is a city of sad faces. There replaced by the Swastika, which in I found four or Eve people listening doubt whether any of

assured their that Great Britain is no wish for war, only a dull fear the symbol of the fighting spirit that to the English broadcast from Berlin, mirals would have

will rebuild Germany,"

which was followed by an Ameri- countrymen The words shocked oven me.. I can expressing his profound admira- offered to defend the German Empire! that it may come, and the fervent]

that it was still

Was it who said, of the fact

What German have Hved in a Prussian military tion hope that it will not."

family and know what their fog possible to get a drink in Germany. "You will always be fools and we To a German the British character shall never be gentlemen"? It is meant to them the flag that flew victoriously at Koniggratz and was and the way to make un Impression borne in upon me that he may have carried triumphantly to Paris in on it will always remain a mystery. been right. 1870.

Foch Calls Their Bluff How great and genuine was the relief of Armistice Day, to Germany In wartime, the feeling that un- pleasant truths are being systematic-only those quite understand who saw the German peace envoys as they ally withheld may act like dry rot

waited on Foch in his corridor train on the moral of the German nation.

in the wood. They were no longer What About the Future

the arrogant swashbuckling Junkers of guy August, 1014. They were It is not the ex-soldier's way to ery over apllt milk. What has hap- pale-faced, haggard with fear, and the pened is accomplished history. But stamped their feet with impatience the future? If the whole as the Allied Generalisaimo quietly them. Their prepared to receive Jilustrious War Lord, Ludendorff himself, had bidden them lose not one instant of precious time.

Germany's

military stupendous machine was jangling to ruins about their cars. The pickelhaube was on the elhal brink of a frightful sauve qui pout. Even then the Prussian mentality remained constant to its they tradition. Though jackboot were biting their nails with sub- pense, they blussed.

That message, which comes from Brussele, might be said of any nation confronted with the dire prospect of another world war, but

that all the

old

I looked at the hard, weather- beaten faces of those German Army it may be of more algnificance commanders. If ever I saw lips tighten and eyes dash with indigna- theirs. Gripping among a people who have been fed tion they were

they sat staring for years upon the glories of war their sword-hilts,

straight in front of them as they and been taught to look forward to heard the second man in the Reich declare that the flag which embodied it with joyful anticipation.

their honour as soldiers had "fallen into the mud."

The food question is perhaps one

What private protests the generals of the chief causes of this reported

have made, I do not know, but may depression. The last war was well it is significant that when the new

standards, appeared Service on its way before food shortage months later the old Iron Cross de- -began to make itself felt in Ger sign was combined with and not re-

placed by the Swastika, many.

On this occasion shortage began even when war seemed to be on the distant horizon.

Iwo

In the early days of national ser- vice German officers, openly taught their recruits that the Army WOK a much older institution, with finer traditions, than the Party. Nazi

In a remarkable book, "Germany's influences were strictly kept outside the barrack gates. Young Party War Chances," written a few weeks bosses drafted for rallitary service ago by a Hungarian Professor of found themselves singled out for Constitutional Law, and banned fatigues and snubs, after ita contents had become

public property,

occurs:

this passage

Refused to Sing How often have I watched the group of generals at "Long before the begin big Party functions--always stand- ning of the struggle restrictions on ing together a finelooking. Impres all sorts of foodstuffs have already sive, reserved group, avoiding all but Although the the most formal of contact with the .the two been introduced.

officials. When Nazi masses of the German people are national anthems were sung at the not starving yet in the strict sense end of the ceremony you would see of the word, it is none the less true them join in Deutschland uber Alles, that there can be no talk of their but their lips stayed firmly, shut for the Horst Weasel Lied, tho: Party Bong that followed, being sufficiently fed."-

"It must be a great advantage for Such raports, and all other, no you," I said onea to a regimental ports of a like nature, should be officer, that all your Secrülte. have read with the utmost 'caution and previously served in the Storm any rate, have learnt barrock-square with a liberal discount. But they Troopers or the 8.8. They will, at need not be ignored altogether.mine discipline.

have

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

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UNFORMATION

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with ample tuonala."" you hera wa can provide.

not

When Foch, demanded what they come-for, their reply was that they. came to discuss peace terms. But Foch, a soldier and no politician, was In any mood for bluff. His plain, blunt reply was that he had no peace terms to propose. Then, and then only, the German emls- saries

thefr cossed

bluff. They meekly told the Generalissimo that they came to sue for peace.

The Gangsters Again That was twenty-one years ago next November. Less than a genera- tion ago. Judging by the astound- ing circumstances of to-day it might well have been a century. For what a contrast presents itself to Europe's pallid face at this moment. Ger- many, doubly rearmed and with the old arrogant, domineering spirit of "Deutschland Uber Alles" tuned to a yet more strident and caddish nole, is no longer humbly suing for peace, but menacing the whole Continent with another ruinous holocaust of battle and

old bloodshed. The wicked Prussian policy of ransom in once more being addressed to Ger- many's neighbours on the approved Chicago gangster methods. Because the whole philosophy of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and Goebbels" gutter backchat boils down simply to "Stick. 'em up!"

This is a metamorphosis startling and incredible enough surely to make angels weep tears of blood. It look us nearly five years to draw the dragon teeth of Germany. But It was well and truly done. In 1918 we had Germany down and out. It colt us twice a thousand million and OVIT A million pounds

mention the British dead, not to ordeal of that long, squalid, ver- minous struggle In the mud and blood,

To-day wo, tiwake to the realisa- tion that all that appalling sacriace has been made in vain. There are all with us some millions of those ex-Servicemen who did their inanful bit in the Great War to end war. It ́might be a healthy experience for some pollicinus if they could hear what those men are saying about this great betrayal now. Hitler has fooled us to the top of our bent. He has bluffed us out of the deathright of all those limitable coldler ceme tories of oura)

It would be egregiously presump- tive for anyone to pretend to speak for all 'ex-Servicemen. But there is not much doubt what the average man thinks and feals now. who carried a pack and shouldered a ride In the last war. His pentiment is one of sheer amazement that any politicians, outside a lunatic, azylum should have made such an ultér and calamitous muddle of the oppor- tunity presented to them in ÷ 2015.