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ONE of the things Adolf

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HITLER

and drew sketches of his ident Ber-

Hitler must think about. to-day is undoubtedly the future of all the, grand buildings he has dotted . around Germany and the Those sketched are being used na fine motor roads he has the basis of the rebuilding of the capital. now that the would-be threaded through the coun- architect has the power to bulld tryside.

how, when, where and what he likes.

once: "Why should I want war? I need TO-DAY he is busy bring-

For

than more

twenty is

the

and

by

Selkirk Panton

outskirts of the town.

their flats have the cost of the move and out-of-pocket expenses

funded, Al

this building upheaval in Berlin alone costs nearly £20,000,- 000 a year and, if peace is 'main- tined, will continue to do so, for the next twenty years. But this rum will not be botDO alone by either city or State. All concerned will have to contribute their bit..

Large companies, not permitted. to build elsewhere, will be forced to erect their buildings on the axes. For instance, Krupp's (Germany's armament factory), recently com- pleted Berlin headquarters in the Tiergartenstrasse, Berlin's Park-

for foreign legations and embassies forced to leave their present sites. As a result Krupp's" had to sell

Ho told me

ing down to earth his pence to carry out all the great castles in the air--on a scale which plans for the rebuilding of the making Germany, and especially placed by two main stations on the lane, which has now been reserved GARAGE

Reich, to make it worthy of its Berlin, topsy-turvy,

costing great past and present history." something like £50,000,000 a year, chief centre n of

River activity. The Stubbs Rd. Phones: 27778-9 minutes he went on detailing

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of their new building and will have which winds through the

the Fuehrer's building to buikt.another one on the North- his plans-further thousands of dty, winds too much, and is being offensive સ young, good-looking South Axis. All this means that the miles of motor roads when the straightened out. Two giant boule professor Albert Speer. Thirty- city will have to pay only for the present

is

vards are being blazed through the programme

con city, north to south and east to west, three, married, with four children, new streets and the extra ground cluded in 1941 rebuilding After the fashionable nomenclature Profes or Speer luas his brown hair they will cover. of Berlin to take twenty years of to-day, they are called the North- ported like his leader on the right

reconstruction of flam- South Axir, and the East-West Axis. sitie As general building inspector OF courte, the man-in-the Berlin-street has his jokes burg, Munich, Cologne

Berlin's "Nelson Column," the for the and

capital, he has about it all, such as the one about the the airmen ordered to bomb Berlin other cities, turning them into 2004. Column of Victory erected supreme power to

plans. tle can

foren a modern Rome or Athena,

ty years ago in the heart of the Fuehrer's

who returned mying, “There was no Tiergarten. Berlin's Hyde Park, is owners to sell their property, can need to waste bombs. The enemy being pulled down bit by bit, and cenfiscate it necessary. Pormlesion "That is not a war policy, w be re-crested a mile away. Laust first be obtained from him is demolishing his own 'capital."

The Berliner has got used to the he ended Dozens That needs pence,"

of monuments arc being before any hulding is done in the sound of dynamite

explosions de- proudly.

molishing bits of his city, But to-day he faces the pos- blocks and streets, have disappeared, Az far as I can discover, fair If Hitler's two ambitions mean sibility that all these plans The city' ten railway stations, compensation is paid to house and anything, they mean that he won't might go up in brick and flying being demolished. They will be re- Berliners who

some in the heart of the rily, are land owners who have to sell out. run the risk of exchanging dynamite

have to move from explosions for bombs. mortar if enemy bombers got to work.

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What Being Broke Taught Me

news gave

I have to

days I thought that. it would

those enemy bombers will not live has declared pubilely that chief,

HAVE often read in the paper of The writer of this article k nos aliniited circle, for there was one moment over the Helch. But all

people in pretty good circum-"down and cat," but just a married thing that I forced myself not to do the new bulidings have Ing to note that there also is a vast and

man who has come upon bad times. eDetent A.I.P. shelters,stonces going broke. I had even)

borro from those who might help me get nother job or from prospec- Canadian "corridor" that sun-

dug deep into the ground. Hitler'a heard that a distant acquaintance.

Chancellery, built new

in mine a man I met.now and then at the good a half-crown looks to a penní- tive employers. A man may go with all its hundreds of club, had gone broke,

less man, and what a lot he can get broke through no fault of his own,, Foms and anarble halls and con- dmit that never had the news given for a ten shilling note if he really but prospective employers cannot States..

pleted only last January, has AREs to the least sympathy on my tries I learnt that ono can live on eradicate the thought that it is his heard the meuis so frugal--and thank heaven [fault, · At-all" costs ‘a: good appears shelters to hold several thousand part. Having read or

another moment's for them-that one would have ance and a cheerful air must be From every physical aspect | Berliners."

drought.

treated them with contempt in better maintained before those on whom a this is very similar to the down in the earth, complete with Hitler's own shelter, is sixty feet

'Then I myself went broke. With days.

[future job depends. wife and two children, a well- ' European case, yet how dif- everything should enemy

I learnt, too, that it is not only n furnished home in a moderately humiliating thing but

I learnt amongst other things how very dif- ferent, in an absolute contrast. falch hitn in the capital. There are ized house in a good suburb, with ficult thing to make others reailse easy it can be to derive pleasure

underground hospitala, operating

responsibilities and bills outstand that onc is really broke. When from simple things. In my prosper- are the relationships involved! theatres, kitchens, food stores.

litter and his henchmen could ing with appearances to keep up, things became so desperate at last s Where the German-Polish fron- live underground there for

weeks went broke, My firm went under, that I had to borrow a florin in order have broken my heart to part with on end if they wanted to, or had to, firm I had thought would go on to give my children a dinner, I found my car; the idea of going shopping tier bristled with armaments, so at least the Fuehrer of the Reich employing me for ever. I was left it almost impossible to make people on a bus or not having the car to

flat, and soon to wonder not how to believe that we the American-Canadian boun-sees the possibility of having to seek meet bills of £10 or £20 but how the verge of starvation,

were llerally on run here and there Alled me with desolation. But 1 had not been shelter just as much as the people dary presents not a single in London, Rome or Paris.

to find coppers to buy a loaf or a

When I had to tell an old business without my car two weeks before 1 pint ut antik.....

auquaintance that I was broke, he realised how simple it was to get on Bentry-not only

without one. I began to obtain rent along the

PHAT is why his beloved | What does everyone say? That I thought that by "broke" I meant I wit

buildings the

should have saved enough out of my didn't happen to have a fiver on me, pleasure from walking, and walking imaginary line between

are worrying him. They never are far from hisory of £10 a week. But is saving Even when at last I succeeded in on a fine day was one of the "good State of Washington and the mind. Last August, during the

that? In prosperous borrowing two shillings I know that things of life. I learnt the truth crisis, Adolf Hitler spent mes few of us are not inclined to he thought I merely wanted it for of the saying. "The best things In Province of British Columbia, his time poring over blant Indulge in n ent, club subscriptions, bus-fare because

I had come out life are free."

It was truly amazing what my but along the entire 3,000-mile prints, consulting architcets, when good clothes, holidays, and a certain without my wallet.

There were, of course, others who wife and I found we could do with- the world's statesmen, much as now, worse than hundreds, perhaps thou-knew the truth of my circumstances out and have no repining, and what

amount of extravagance. I was no border.

were wondering if he planned to

morseful that I had not saved more could do. They lent me a pound bit of luck. When a relative pald Europe into war.

than the £30, that stood to my credit and then kept strictly out of the Lack a couple of pounds I had leat Again, only a week: and American citizens once the present crisis moved towards the use?

50 g when the crush came, but what was way, determined to lend no more him in my palmier days it was I had to face facts and I don't blame them for a minute. teavenly to be able to buy one or uniteil their offorts to climax, architects with bundles of the future. That £30 soon went, Why should they lend? if one lent two little things we and the children

blueprints under their arms were build a highway, by joint enter-meing up that road leading from and then 1 began to learn things to every borrower, the thing would needed; one day when I found six-

Berchtesgaden to the magle moun- prise, across the Canadian "car-tain of Obersalzburg, with Hitler's The Verge of Starvation Ploasure in Simple Things ridor," joining

United chalet on it.

Right up to the very last moment I began to learn the truth about} In any case the people amongst States and Alaska.

Hiller was playing with his architec-the cost of living. I learnt how whom I could borrow. formed tural plans and dreams. It was That there will be a highway bitter blow to him that shortage of from the United States to Alas-labour had led him to restrict these plans during the Inst months. It ka is a premise accepted by the would be a still more bitter blow for him to have to abandon them interested citizens of Washing-ull for the the being, perhaps to

destruction, ton and Canada. Which of two,

Sudeten

as easy

ps

Only a few days ago Canadian press the button which would plunge sands, of others. Perhaps I'was re- and they did the only thing they a thrill we got from an unexpected

more

the

·

The other ambition is to go down in history as the greatest builder the world has seen since Augustus built Rome 2,000 years ago.

or more proposed routes will be IT is strange to consider that Hitler has two ambitions. chosen will not be a matter of The drst is to go down in history political chicanery but of en-as the statesman of peace, the man who enlarged and enriched his Reich gineering feasibility; not & without n war, He still has lint ro- matter of national rights or cord. pre-eminence but of the greatest good for the greatest number;|

His secand ambition consists of not a matter of warfare between

replanning Berlin. transforming one nation and the other, but Munich into the Alliens of Germany, and making medieval Nuremberg 'n of the advancement for peace-town of glitantic modern structures, Colosseum-like stadium to ful progress of, "two nations with a

hotd 400,000 persons.. side by side."

"Corridor" problems, it seems, enn be solved peaceably.

This desire for a twentieth-cen- tury building renascence, whleli has brought him alrendy the titles of "Master Builder," "Architect of the Third Reich," is no new whlm of the Nazi lender.

He dreamed of building when he was a boy. He wanted to become ar architect, and 000 of the of his life was the re-

THE prefix "Bpecial to the Tela graph" is used by the "Hongkong | tragedies

Telegraph" to Indicate news which Architecture to accept him

fusal of the Vienna. School of

is strictly copyright under the pro- pupil. Perhaps his recent orgy of visions of the Telecommunications architectural creations is his way of

forgetting that refusal. Ordinance, 1936. Such news na beare

the Indication "UP" is received in Hongkong on ihe date of publication,

tho. ВЕТОНЕ

I dreamed of

Whe -he building

by the United Press Associations, who places while he had to paint houses is earn his Hving.. Later, In 1920, reserve⠀ all rights and forbid=re- when his opponents (aneered at him publication, eliker wholly or in part, as the "le ox-corporal with the

moustache,"

and powet camle without previous arrangement.

seemed far away, Hiller sat ? down

had never dreamt of before.

never end.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

CRET

FIELD SAL

SALES

AUGER

Jele

"The Siegfried Line is a cinch-why, a couple of years ago we ron into the same thing when we broke into the Whiffla Valvo and Whistio territory!"

pence on tie pavement I felt as good as if I had been left riches in a will.

There were, however, little kind- nesses that made us feel very sad. People would ask us to ten and give us expensive cakes or they would joffer to treat us the theatre or plc- tures. Of course, we assented, but if those people had only known how much rather we would have had the money. It was heart-breaking to have to eat the price of having a pair of shoes mended or watch a picture when the money would have bought us tes and sugar or a little coal for a fire.

A Lesson in Economy

Then at last I got a job. It was not much of a job according to my old standards, but It brought in 23 a week, regularly. I remember once randing with contempt of a million- aire who had been so poor in his young days that he could never en- foy his wealth and dared not spend I penny on extravagance. I no longer despite that attitude, I pity It, for though I have been earning. my £3 a week now. for over six months, I ain sill frightened of spending coppers on extravagance. In fact, I get genuine pleasure from saving coppers. I no longer jump on a bus to travel three, hundred yards, or rush out to the pictures of nr evening because I am. bored, 1. don't spend first and worry about it {atterwärts.

My wife and I work out our week- |ly budget; we pay our bills first, save bit next, and snatch a little "ex~ kravagance," if you can call it thai, Jant.

We are paying our way, we have a ravings account, we Aro. Anding pleasure in many ways we had never thought of before, reckoning a-beau- tifully fine day gorgeous sunset Inmongst our blessings, thankful to have won Uirough,, and, fonder, and prouder of the home we have main lained through......... ndversity than 4 we should have boon of n paince before the crash.

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