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ONE of the things Adolf

Hitler must think about to-day is undoubtedly the future of all the grand

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HITLER

buildings he has dotted and drew sketches of his ideal Ber- Those sketches are being used as around Germany, and the fine motor roads he has the basis of the rebuilding of the capital, now that the would-be

the threaded through the coun- architect has

power to build how, when, where and what he tryside,

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con-

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Panton

their flots have the cost of the move and

out-of-pocket охреще то

funded.

All this building upheaval in Berlin alone costs nearly £29,000,- 000 a year; and, if peace' is main- tained, will continue to do so for the next twenty years. But this sum' will not. bu borno alone by either city or State: All concerned will have to contribute their bit.

und costing, placed by two main stations on the lane, which has now been reserved

of uctivity. The

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Large companies, not permitted. lo build elsewhere, will be forced to erect their buildings on the axes.

He told me

For instance, Krupp's (Germany's once: "Why

TO-DAY he is busy bring-

armament factory), recently.com- should I want war? I need

ing down to earth his

pleted Berlin headquarters in the 'Tiergartenstrasse, Berlin's Park- peace to carry out all the great castles in the air-on a scale which plans for the rebuilding of the is making Germany, and especially

for foreign logations and embassler Roleh, to make it worthy of its Berlin,

topsy50,000,000 a year.

outskirts of the town.

forced to leave their present alles. great past and present history." something like

Berlin is the chiet centre at

As a result Krupp's had to sell For

twenty present than

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of their new building and will have minutes he wont on detailing Spree, which winds through the

the Fuehrer's building is build another one on the North- Is young. good-looking South Axis. All this means that the his plans further thousands of city, winds too much, and is being offensive

Professor Albert Speer. Thirty city will have to pay only for the miles of motor roads when the straightened out. Two giant boule- vards are being blazed through the present programme Is

three, married, with four children, new streets and the extra ground cluded in 1941

elly, north to south and east to wes professor Speer has his brown hair they will cover. rehallding After the fashionable nomenclature

course, the man-in-the of Berlin to take twenty years of to-day, they are called the North- paried like his leader-on the right

Berlin-street has his jokes reconstruction of Ham- South Axis and the East-West Axir, side. As general building inspector

Berlin's "Nelson Column," the for the

capital, he burg, Munich. Cologne and 2008. Column

has about it all, such as the one about of Victory erected supreme power to carry out

ne the airmen ordered to bomb Berlin enn plans. He

force who returned saying, "There was no a modern Rome or Athens.

Thorgarton, Berlin's Hyde

Park, it owners to sell their property, can need to waste bombs. The enemy being pulled down bit by utt, and cenfiscate if necessary. Permission is demolishing his own capital."

from him That is not a war policy, will be re-erected

be obtained mile away, must first

The Berliner has got used to the That needs ponce,” he ended Dozens of monuments being before any building is done in the sound of dynamite explosions de-

moved. Huireds of houses, whofo lty.

molishing bits of his city. proudly..

As far as I 11 discover, fair TC Hitler's two ambitions mean But to-day he faces the pos- blocks und streets, have disappeared.

The elty's ten railway stations, compensation is paid to house and anything, they mean that he won't bilty that all these plans might go up in brick and flying one in the heart of the elty, ore land owners who have to sell out. run the risk of exchanging dynamite

being demolished. They will be re- Berliners who have to move from explosions for bombs. mortar if enemy bombben got to work.

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What Being Broke Taught Me

was one

underground hospitals, operating responsibilities and bills outstand-that one is really broke. When from simple things. In my prosper-

Hitler

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for there. HAVE often read in the paper of The writer of this article is not a limited circle,

people in pretty good circum-"down and out," but just a married thing that I forced myself not to do But all the new buildings have

man who has come upon bad times. borrow fran those who might help going broke. I had even vnet und eficient A.. shelters, slouces

me get another job or from prospec- man may go mun I met now and then at the good a hell-crown looks to a pernitive employers. A dun deep into the ground, Hitler's heard that a distant acquaintance,

nine 13-W Chancellery, built in

I have to tess man, and what a lot he can get broke through no fault of his own, Its hundreds of club, hod gone broke. muntits, with all rooms and marble halls and com-admit that never had the news given for a tea shiling note he really but prospective employers cannot learnt that one can live on eradicate the thought that it is his pleted only last January, has ARPT to the least sympathy on my tries.

the ments so frugal-und thank heaven fault. At all costs a good appear

and a cheerful air must be shelters to hold several thousand part. Having read or heard

would have unce news

It gave

another

them--that one moment's for From every physical aspect Berliners.

thought

treated them with contempt in better, maintained before those on whom a

future job depends. this is very similar to the Hitler's own shelter is sixty feet

Then I

myself went broke. With days. down in the earth, complete with

I learnt, too, that it is not only n bombs wife and two children, a well-

I learnt amongst other things how enemy European case, yet how dif- everything should

fumished home in

a very dit- a moderately humiliating thing but

It can be to derive pleasure catch him in the capital.

sized house in a good suburb, with Bleuit thing to make others realise sy ferent, in an absolute contrast,

days I thought that it would are the relationships Involved! Beatres, kitchens, food stores.

und his henclunen could with appearances to keep up, things became so desperate at last cus

dinner, I found my car; the idea of going shopping Where the German-Polish fron- live underground there for weeks went broke. My-Brm 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 tler 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 were literally on run here and there lied me with desolation. But I had not been the American-Canadian boun-rves the possibility of having to seek flat, and soon to wonder not how to believe that we

shelter just as much us the people meet bills of £10 or £20 but how the verge of starvation.

When I had to fell an old business without my car two weeks before i to find coppers to buy a loaf or a dary presents-not-a-single in London, Rome or Paris..

i pint-of-milk.

acquaintance that I was broke, he realised how simple it was to get on without one.--1-began to obtain real sentry-not only

What does everyone say? That I thought that by "broke" I meant along the

THAT is why his beloved should have saved enough out of my didn't happen to have a fiver on ine. pleasure from walking, and walking | imaginary line

buildings between the

Worry salary of £10 a week. But is saving Even when at last I succeeded in cn a fine day was one of the "good him. They never are for from his as easy Bs that? In prosperous borrowing two shillings I know that things" of life. I learnt the truth State of Washington and the mind. Last August, during

ent times few of us are not inclined to he thought I merely wanted it for of the saying, "The best things in Hitler spent

use I had come out life are free." Province of British Columbia, Sudeten crisis, Adolf

It was truly much of his time poring over blue indulge in a car, club subscriptions, bus-fare because

amazing what my There were, of course, others who wife and I found we could do with- was no amount of extravagance. I but along the entire 3,000-mile prints, consulting architects, when good clothes, holidays, and a certain without my wallet.

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 border.

were wondering if he planned to sands, of others. Perhaps I was re- and they did the only thing they a thrill we got from an unexpected. press the button which would plunge morseful that I had not saved more could do. They lent me

a pound bit of luck. When a relative_pald Only a few days ago Canadian Europe into war.

then the £30 that stood to my credit) and then kept strictly out of the back a couple of pounds I had lent Again, only a week or so ago, when the crash came, but what was way, determined to lend no more him

palmier days it was and American citizens once

the present crisis moved towards the use? I had to face facts and don't blame them for a minute. Heavenly to be able to buy one or united their efforts to climax, architects with bundles of the future. That £30 soon went. Why should they lend? If onu ient two little things we and the children more

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

had never dreamt of before. Berchtesgaden to the magic moun-

Pleasure in Simple Things prise, across the Canadian "cor-tain of Obersalzburg, with Hitler's The Verge of Starvation ridor,"

I began to learn the truth about! In any case the people amongst: Right, up to the very last moment

learnt how! whom I could borrow formed States and Alaska.

Hitler was playing with his architecte cost. of living. I tural plans and dreams. It was a That there will be a highway bitter blow to him that shortage of fabour had led him to restrict these from the United States to Alas- plans during the last 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-all for the time being, perhaps to ton and Canada. Which of two or more proposed routes will bo chosen will not be a matter of political chicanery but of en-as the statesman of peace, the man

joining tho

Unitedchalet

destruction.

IL.

is strange to consider that

I Her has two ambitions. The firit is to go down in hilatory

who enlarged and enriched his Reich a without a war. He still has that re-

cord.

Dot gineering feasibility; matter of national rights or pre-eminence but of the greatest good for the greatest number; not a matter of warfare between one nation and the other, but

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

His second ambition consists of Berlin.. - transforming replanning

Germany, Munich into the Athens and making medieval Nuremberg a of the advancement for peace-town of sigantic modern structures, with a Colosseum-like stadium la hold 400,000 persons.

ful progress of "two nations side by side."

"Corridor" problems, it seems, can be solved peaceably,

an

This desire for a twentieth-cen- tury building renasceara, which has tities of brought him already the "Maaler Bulldor," "Architect of the Third Reich," is no new whim of the Nazi leader.

To dreamed of building when he

architect, THE prefix "Special to the Tele-was a boy. He wanted to become

and

-the ono of

was the re-) graph" is" used by the "Hongkong | tragedies of his lite

fusal of the Vienna School pf Telegraph" le indicate news which Areflecture to accept him as a Is siriolly copyright under the pro- pupil. Perhaps ils recent orgy of visions of the Telecommunications architectural creations is his way of

forgetting that refusal, Ordinance, 1936. Buch news da boste the Indication":"OP" is received in Hongkong on the date of publicalot,

DEFORE. the war he B

dreamed “ of building palaces while he had to paint houses by the United Press Associations, whe to earn his living." Later," in 1926, servo ́all" fights and forbla" re- when his opponents méerod at him publication, either wholly or in part, the "little ex-corporal" with the

*moustache," comic

and power without previous arrangegnent. seemed far away, Hiller sat down

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

SALES MANGER

"The Siegfried Lina is a cinch-why, a couple of years ago we ranținto the same thing when we broke into the Whiffla Valve and Whistle: territory!”.

in my

pence on the pavement I felt as good

ns if I had been left riches in a will.

There were, however, little kind- nesses that made us feel very sad. Poople would ask us to ten and give us expensive cakes or they would offer to trent us to the theatre or ple- tares. 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 hava to eat the price of having a pair of shoes mended or watch plcture when the money would have bought us tea and sugar or a little cont for a fire.

A Lotion 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 reading with contempt of a million- aire who had been so poor in his young days that he could never en- Joy his wealth and dared not

spend

до

a penny o21 extravagance...A longer despiro that altitude. I pity , for though. I have been earning my £3 week now for over six om till frightened af months, I

extravagance. | spending coppers on

In fact, I got genuine pleasure from saving coppers. I no longer jump on a bus to travel throo hundred yards, or rush out to the pictures of an 'evenlag because I am bored. I don't spend frat and worry about it afterwards..

My wife and I work out our week- ty budget; we pay our bills arst, save a bit next, and snatch a little "ex- travagance," IC you can call it that, Inst.

We are paying our Way, we have. a: savings account, we are finding pleasure in many ways we had nover thought of before, reckoning a beau- tifully na day or, a gorgeous suruset amongst our blessings, thankful· have won through, and fonder and prouder at the home we have miin«: fáined, through "adversity that we ahould have been of a palace, before the crash