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and create enemies.

What can those who so indus- triously sow the dragon's teeth expect but a harvest of ärmed

men?

I have never felt that libbentrop deserved the intense odlum in widch he is held in Britain. It is probably attributable to the fact that he has been more in the news than some of his colleagues.

He does not shore the responsibility; traditions of the German diplomatte for the excesses of the German Gov service, he chose Ribbentrop. ernment against the Jews, nor has The new. Foreign Minister stepped he ever sent anyone to a concentra-into a unique position among the tion-comp. As a former member of men who govern Germany. Alone Pastor Ninoller's congregation at among them, he had lived abroad, Dahlem he can hardly have approved knew foreign countries, and spoke

: persecution to which the Protest their language. ant elergy has been subjected,

Great was the prestige of Ribben-

To me his present position seems trop in the early days of his high to call for pity as much as binme.ce. Then came the test, which Von Ribbentrop is a man who set had in it the kerm of hla undoing. out to make palical career. Like One of the first questions put to muny who have done the same, he Ribbentrop was:

Will Britain and France fight to better judgment to serifeed his secure success. He prophesied smooth oppose German expansion in Eastern things. For a time he seemed to be Europe?

To that question-as I believe, right. Then, suddenly. the whole basis of his policy collapsed beneath against his better instinct the For him. He can now be hardly more elgn Minister answered No. than crestfallen subordinate of thei Leader he misled.

It was the verdict hoped for, the one that Hitler wanted to hear. It certainly carned the Fuhrer's favour, When Hitler decided at the begin It may be that 1 traduce Herr von ning of last year, to get rid of Baron Ribbentrop in suggesting that he von Neurath and put foreign affairs adapted himself to the ambitious with in the hands of someone wholly de-schemes of aggrandisement voted to himself, and free from the which he found himself surrounded in the councils of the Cerman Gov- ernment. But I have good reason to believe that when he got the Fuhrer to appoint him Ambassador in Lan- don he did so by asserting that he was the man who could bring the British Government and people rout to the German point of view.

As an Arabessador he was not n success, His acqunntence with the fundamentals of the British 'charse- ter was slight. There were errors of tuet in his nubile pronouncements

MY FAMILY EVACUATED

Says Man In Letter

From Scotland

By Lichty

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"All the time he was calling on har ho just thought he was selling har somo insuranco!"

MEIN KAMPF WHAT DOES GERMANY THINK

ZACRIPTA MANENT—“written words remain"--was an old proverb of the Romans. It applies with unim- paired force to the career of Adolf Hitler.

During the past month he must often have thought of those. 4,000,000 odd copies of Mein Kampf that are in the hands of Ger man readers, with the hope that they are not just now being studied too closely,

They have brought him in close on £500,000 in royalties. He would probably be prepared to pay more to withdraw them from circulation.

For Mein Kampf is the most damning indictment of his present foreign policy. The "big, stupid sheep-flock of our muttonheadedly patient people." as he terms his fellow-countrymen, must wonder, as they read it, how their Fuhrer's words are to be reconciled with his deeds.

For years they have been obliged to study that wearisome work as the infallible and inspired gospel of Nazi principles. Every household had to buy copy or be suspected of lukewarm loyalty; the school children were taught to repeat its choicest passages by heart; it was presented, by Gov- ernment decree, to every newly-married couple.

Marshal Goering, in October 1935, declared that "We National Socialists. know only one fundamental' document. It is Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. Nothing else is felol but this mighty work."

The average German, already rather startled to learn from the ofetul communiques that Nazi and Bolshevist forces are amiably co-operating in the partition of Poland, and reading with even more surprise that Marshal Voroshiloff, the Red Commander-in-Chief, is coming on an official mission to Berlin, must be plunged in strange confusion when he turns, for en- lightenment upon these unexpected events, to Chapter 14, which is headed "Eastward Orientation or Eastern Polley."

THE outbreak of war saw the and gestures, and the reaction pro- hurried evacuation of my duced by these must have been gall- wife and children to the country.ing to kim.

And so at short notice I am Thought We Wouldn't Fight end me to make a special analysle left to look, after, the house and.

Its opening words are reassuring: "There are two grounds which of-the-relations_of_Germany to

I le the Govern

possible dut he sincerely Russia:

and as the youngest is a baby it was ment and people to be so pacifist "1. This is perhaps the most decisive essential that

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aspect of Germany's entire foreign policy;

"2. This question is the touchstone of the political capacity of the young National Socialist movement as re- gards clear thinking and right act- Ing."

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the present rulers of Russia are bloodstained, common criminals;

"It must not be forgotten that these rulers belong to a people in "which bestial cruelly is ailled in an

exceptional way with unbelievable mendaelty, and which believes itself more than ever called to impose' its sanguinary despotism upon the rest of the world.

One does not. ulance with a pariner: form on whose only aim is the destruction of his fellow-partner. "2. The mennee to which Russia once succumbed is hanging steadily over Germany. Only a bourgeois: simpleton can suppose that "Bal- shevism is banished.

myself. I do not mind. My greatest anxiety was for the children, It was not enough for these

that nothing would induce them to my whe should go Nazis that they should. break

take up arms, with them. the pence, threaten security and

Now that the British nation is not The first only fighting but is united as never How am I to manage? freedom, and 하다 alarm the trouble was

the housekeeping are before any war, we have almost instinct of self-preservation in rangements. It is essential that forgotten the unfortunate manifesto- every land within their reach stay at home, not only for reasons of tions of public opinion that may have:

economy but also to keep the house encouraged this mistaken opinion. and jealous of independence. in use as far as possible. I can cook The Peace Ballot of 1935; the a littin, sumcient at least for the Peace Pledge Union,, which bound

TITLER goes on to muke a They must also flout and

needs of ordinary

few dlaparaging remarks man. The

their members not to take part in u affront the religious sense of house I can look after at

One can imagine the honest Ger~- war of any kind; and the deplorable about the ability of most members of the Christian world by the dis- leisure, and I shall engage a char-vote of the Oxford Union against politics, and then, with all the em categorical statements to take up his

the Nazi Party to understand foreign

nun reader turning from these woman to come in from time to time fighting for King and country," play of what the organisation of to do any extra labour such as wash seced to foreigners a proof that plinsis of spaced type, which German Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and devout English Roman Catholicsg and cleaning.

Britain would eling to peace at any

printers use

Instead of Italics, he study again the long leading article. proceeds to lay down his own a-written at the order of the Pro- describes as "the bitterest anti-

cost. But my problem was solved to

thoritative dogma: Such influence may have deluded

paganda Ministry, describe how Christian hatred," expressed in some extent by the meeting of a Ribbentrop. He did not know the

"We National Socialists deliberate- Germany and Russia are working to- a set determination to

friend who is in exactly ex-

same British character, well enough to ly draw a line under the foreign gether in perfect concord to redraft. position us myself. The suggestion assess them at their real value. In political aims of pre-war times. the map of Eastern Europe. tirpate Christianity from the came simultaneously almost from

"Goli in Himmel! What does it all fissured the Fuhrer We stop any case, he

the perpetual German minds of the young."

both of us, fur it was in both our that when it came a real show-march towards southern and weatorn mean?" he may well exclaim. It minds. Why not dig together?

eyes to the the Fuhrer was right when he wrote Those are the words of a de

It was easily arranged. I

down the British and French Gov- Europe and turn our go to

Mein Kampf”—and here he would claration just issued by Lord sleep at his house during one week, ernments would profest, but would lands that lie to the east.

shudder, for even to think such Fitzalan of Derwent and Lord and he is to come to mine, the fol-ever go to war.

On him, therefore, inust lie much

thoughts is dangerous in Germany- Denbigh on behalf of the Coun- supper together, and throughout the of the responsibility for what has

is he wrong now? And if he is right now, why has he told us for cil of the Catholic Union of day we shall each fend for himself, since occurred.

For 13 time. his view seemed

the last six and a half years to be- Thus companionship, “economy and Great Britain.

lleve every word he wrote in Meln

There is no answer to these ques- tions, as the unfortunate German wind to his cost.

the

lowing. We shall have breakfast and

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outbreak of war.

As far as I can

"When we speak of new territory in Europe we can, first and foremost, only think of Russia and the border States under her influence ...

"This colossal Empire in the cast

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the necessity of keeping both houses justified. Hitler awooped on Austria. is ripe for dissolution.

Britain and France did not, however, | "From the purely military view- Kampf?" They will find an echo in open will be served.

a Russo-German coalition, shall see the family, from time to pose the Anschluss, and Ribben-point, every heart, whether Catholic time and occasionally my wife will tron's stock soured accordingly. waging war agalust Western Europe, or Protestant, that is sustained come in from the country to see that That was a nearer thing.

Then came the Sudeten wrangle. and probably against the whole

world on that account, would be Hitler is floundering from one We have agreed nut to and cherished by the Christian ail is right.

I remember Herr van Ribbentrop's catastrophic for us.

polley to another, haunted by the try to phone απα another in. the faith; and not less, it may be event of an air raid, but to send anxiety before Mr. Chamberlain's "Russia would have to overthrow convictions he held in the past, and Berchtes Poland before the first Russian has now, for momentary advantage. believed, in not a few millions postcards immediately to say that all proposal to visit Hitier

his in well. My wife understands that I den, and his unmistakable relief soldier could arrive on the German abandoned; doubting, for all of German hearts as well.

have my duty to do as an air warden when, a fortnight later, the Munich front. But it is not so much a ques- supreme self-confidence, the wisdom Disavowing any hatred of the and pressure of business may menn Conference fasily agreed to the an- tion of soldiers as of technical equip of un opportunist policy which has ment. In such a war Russin, as a led him into such glaring repudiation German people, those for whom considered,

that I am not at home. All things nexation of the Sudetenland,

The seizure of Bohemało งมา technical factor, would count for of his own most emphatic statements postcard

message Moravia was the next step. The ad- nothing to oppose to the general in the past.

} |Lord Fitzalan speaks feel that seems best.

vocates of a forceful forward policy motorisation of the world, which, in "the policy of their rulers in pursuing rapacious nima by me. But have my job to attend to, small wonder that the Fuhrer pro- clsive form.

I shall miss my family and they in Germany triumphed again, and the next war, will make its appear-

Ribbentrop was their prophet. It is ance in fin overwhelming and de

NLY one pussago of Mein Kampf will stand, for Hit- violence and mendacity must be made even more pressing by the claimed him a greater genius than "Under such conditions, the ler himself has brought about its which he resisted to the end by all who see, my A.R.P. duties will take up Bismarck.

struggle would assume the character fulfilment. It is that In There is an old Ilovatinn maxim: of sheer slaughter. The German declared, as though already planning believe in the undying implica- most of my leisure time,

thy sali, take youth would have to shid more of its the destruction of a people with tions of the laws of God."

I am also hoping that male parents When fortune fills It is only natural, too, and it situated such us may be able to orthy canvas in." The German blood than it did oven in the World which he later on pledged himself to

form some sort of club for social and Foreign Minister had played his luck War; for, as always, the burden of live in peace until 1944: is not less timely, that the recreational purposes. It

Oghting would fall on us alone; and "Nobody can doubt that this world. will be too high.

The Immediate consequence of the the result the womenfolks and the

would be Inevitable will one day be the scene of dread- Council of such a representative good for body as the Catholle Union of children to know that fathers are not invasion of Czecho-Slovakia was the catastrophe.

ful struggle for existence on the part "Even admitting that a miracle of mankind. In the end the instinct Great Britain should protest that we of the home front will re- Frence to Poland and Humania, and occurred, and that such a war did of

too lonely without them. It may be guarantee given by Britain and

self-preservation alóno will their deepeat sympathy for gain some of the comradeship and the opening of conversations with not end in the total annihilation of triumph. Before so-called another devoutly Roman Catho- communal spirit which so characteris- the Soviet Government.

Germany, the final result would be humanitaronisin as a manifestation would be of combined stupidity, 'cowardice, nation--"the people of ed the trenches for us during the

that the German nation Great. War...

bled white Christian Poland."

and Ingrained conceit, will melt It is at least a great relief to know

away like snow under the March. The declaration gives one that the children are out of the way

sun more convincing assurance of of the worst of i! From their let- the unity of the British peoploters I know that they have discover- of ovory creed, as well as "of ed new interests already, and are

waiting for the time when daddy can to sign it in November 1937. His Kampf, "the following must be but those who bury him might do overy class.

come to tell him all about It...

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Bitter Humiliation

THOM that moment Ribben-

trop's star began to pale. He was the founder of the Anti- Comintern Paci, having vlaited Rome

added:

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these considerations,"

No one yet knows where the man: continued litter in Mein wind on the world will one day lie, who has brought the present blood-