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One

man who doesn't his nice new

want

Berlin

ONE of the things. Adölf-

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

lin.

bombed is

HITLER

buildings he has dotted and drew, sketches of his ident Ber around Germany and the Tiroso sketches pre being used an fine motor, roads, he has the basis of the rebuilding of the capitak now that the would-be threaded through the coun- architect, has the power to build how, when, where and what he tryside. F

likes. Ho- told me

once: "Why should I want war? I need.

A

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:

TO-DAY ho is busy bring-

ing down to earth his

by

Selkirk Panton

their, finta have the cost of the move

·and ⠀ out-of-pocket expenses | res funded.

All this building. – uphesyal; in Berlin alone-costs, nearly £20,000 -- 000 ́n year arid, if pesco: la shhin- lained, will continue to do so for the next & twdity years. "But this gum Will not be borne nlano,-by: either ells or State. All concerned will have to contribute their bith, Large companies, not permitted to build elsewhere, will be forced to..... erect their buildings on the axes. For instance, Krupp's · (Germany's armament Inctory), recently com- pleted Berlin headquarters in, the TiergartenstrasSO, 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 placed by two main stations on the lone, which has now been reserved. Reich, to make it worthy of its Berlin, topsy-turvy

costing great past and present history," something like £50,000,000 a year. outskirts of the town.

For more than twenty

of netivity. The River minutes he went on detailing Spree, which winds through the

-and

Perlin is the chler · centrent

After

for foreign legations and embassies, forced to leave their present sites, As a result Krupp's had to sell OMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of their new building and will have the Fuchrer's building to build another one on the North-

his plane-further thousands of city, winds too much, and is being offensive is 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

vards are being blazed through the present programme is con- city, cluded in. 1941. rebuilding ty, north to south and east to west. three, married, with four children, new streets and the extra ground

Inshionable nomenclature Profesor Speer hng his brown hair, they will cover. of Berlin to take twenty years. of to-day, they are called the North- parted like his leader on the right

course, the man-in-the reconstruction of Ham South Axis and the East-West Axls. side. As general building inspector

Berlin-street has his jokes the for the Reich

ho Berlin's "Nelson Column,"

capital, burg. Munich, Cologne and

bas about it all, such as the one about. the carry out

the airmen ordered to bomb Berlin other cities, turning, them into 200ft. Column of Victory erected supreme power to

can force fifty years ago in the heart of the Fuehrer's plans. He

Te who returned saying, “There was nu a modern, Rome or Athens,

Tiergarten, Berlin's Hyde Park, is owners to sell their property, can need to wasta bombs. The enemy

The Berliner has got used to the

molishing bits of his city.

aro

"That is not n war policy being pulled down bit by bit, and confiscate if necessary. Permission is demolishing his own capital."! wil be re-crested a mile away. must first be obtained from him. That needs peace," he ended Dozens of monuments being before any building is done in the sound of dynamite explosions de- proudly,

moved. Hundreds of houses, whole city.

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

But all

Tune Cod What Being Broke Taught Me

When

was onc

to derive pleasure.

days I thought that it would

IN the light of Europe's war,

course, Field-Marshai brought about in a large

Hermann Goering, his nir chiel, has declared publicly that; measure by a neck of land that those enemy bombers will not live

HAVE ollen read in the paper of The writer of this article is not a limited circle, for there severed a province, it is interest-a moment over the Releh.

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

stances going broko. I had even man who has come upon bad times, -borrow from those who might; help ing to note that there also is a vost and efficient A.R.P. shelters,

me get another job or from prospec- man may gu Canadian "corridor" that sun-dug deep into the ground. Hitler's heard at a distant acquaintance,

new

Chancellery, built in nine man I inet now and then at the good a half-crown looks to a penni- tive employers. A

of club, had gone broke. I have to icss man, and what a lot he can get broke through no fault of his own, ders Alaska from the United months, with all its hundreds of admit that never had the news given for a ten shilling note if he really but prospective employers cannot.

rooms and marble halls and com-

I learnt that one can live on eradicate the thought that it is, his, picted only last January, has ARP ise to the least sympathy on my iries.

the meals so frugal-and thank heaven | fault. At all costs a good appeare shelters to hold etern) thousand part. Having read or heard

would have anve and a cheerful air must be Mul on news

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

are una af trehled litem with eðntempt in better maintained before" those on whom qua this is very similar to the Hitler's own shelter is sixty feet thought.

Then I myself went broke. With days.

future job' depends. ***** down in the earth, complete with

a wife and two children, a well- I learnt, too, that it is not only European case, yet how dif-everything should enemy bombs furnished home, in a moderately humiliating thing but a very dlf- I learnt amongst other things, how ferent, in an absolute contrast, catch him in the capital. There is sized house in a good suburb, with flcult thing to make others realise easy if th

underground hospitals, operating

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

Hitler and his henchunen could in. with appearances to keep up, things became so desperate at last us 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 a frm I had thought would go on to give any children a dinner, I found my car; the idea of going shopping. tier bristled with armaments, So at least the Fuchrer of the Reich

on end if they wanted to, or had 19mploying me for ever. I was left; it almost impossible to make people on a bus or not having the car: to-

run here and there filled me with were liternily, on desolation. But I had not been the American-Canadian bounces the possibilty of having to seek dal, and soon to wonder not how to believe that we

verge of starvation. shelter just as much as the people meet bilis, of. £10 or E20 but how then I had to tell an old business without my car two weeks before 1 dary presents not a single in London, Rome or Paris.

to find coppers to buy a loaf or a

realised how simple it was to get on pint of milk.... sentry-not only along the

What does everyone say I acquaintance that I was broke, he without one I-began to obtain-wa..

thought that by broke" I meant I THAT is why his beloved between

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

are worrying State of Washington and then. They never are far from his salary of £10 a week. But is saving Even when at last I succeeded in on a tine day was one of the "good prosperous borrowing two shillings I know that things" of life. I learnt the truth mind. Last August, during Province of British Columbia, Sudeten crisis, Adolf Hitler spent, times few of us are not inclined to he thought I merely wanted it for of the waying, The best things in

ent indulge in a car, club subscriptions, bus-fare because

I had come out life are free. much of his time poring over blue-good clothes, holidays, and a certain without my wallet.

It was truly amazing what my prints, consulting architects, when amount of extravagance. I was no 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 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.

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

palmier days. It was. the present crisis moved towards the use? I had to face facts and I don't blumo thein for a minute, heavenly to be able to buy one or more united their efforts 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-racing 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.

never end. Berchtesgaden to the 'mugle moun- prise, across the Canadian "cor- tahof Obersalzburg, with Hitler's The Verge of Starvation- Pleasure in Simple Things ridor," joining the United | chalet on it.

I began to learn the truth about

In any case the people amongst Right up to the very last monent

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

Hitler was playing with his architec- the cost tural, plons and dreams. It was a bitter blow to him that shortage of labour had led him to restrict these plans during the lust months. It would be a still more bitter blow

the

but along the entire 3,000-mile border..

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for him to have to abandon them all for the time being, perhaps to destruction.

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Trego tut

That there will be a highway from the United States to Alas- ka is a premise accepted by the interested citizens of Washing- ton and Canada. Which of two or more proposed routes will be chosen will not be a matter of political chicanery but of en- gineering feasibility; not matter of national. rights or pre-eminence but of the greatest good for the greatest number:

His necond ambition consists of not a matter of warfare between

replanning Berlin, transforming one nation and the other, but Munich into the Athens of. Germany.

is strange to consider that The first is to go down in History as the stalesman of peace, the mun who enlarged and enriched his Reich without a war: He still has that re- cord..

...

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:

of the advancement for peace-iown of gigantic modern, structures, ful progress of two nations with

by side."

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

THE" prefix "Special to the Tels graph" is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to indicate nows which is strictly copyright under the pro- visions of tho Teloonmmunications Ordinance, 1956. Buch nows sa bears the indication "UP" is inceived in Hongkong on the dafs of publication,

and making medieval Nuremberg a

Colosseum-like stadium to. held 400,000 persons,

This desire for a twentieth-cen- fury building renascence, which has already the titles of brought him "Master Builder," "Architect of the Third Reich," is no new whim of the Nazi lender, '

He dreamed of building when he was n boy. He wanted, to become an architect, and one of the tragedies of his life was the re- functi of the Vicoria School of Architecture to accept him as a pupil. Perhaps his recent orgy of architectural creations is his way of forgetting that refusal.

EFORE

the war, he smed, for building!

paint houses

p

palaces, while he

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by the United From Associations, whé io cart his living. Later, in 1926,

Freserva⠀allërights's und -- förblá

publioniion, elther wholly

wilbout provions, arrangement.

when his opponents neered at him the "little ex-corporal with tha comic moustache,' and power peered far way, Hitler sat down

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tunt? In

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

SHES

FANTAGER

The Slogtriad kino is a cinch

why, a couple

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pence on the 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 tea and give us expensive cakes or they would offer to treat us to the theatre or ple- tures. Of course, we assented, but t 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 tea and sugar or a lttle 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: orice reading with contempt of a million- nire: who had been so poor. In his young days that he could never ca- Joy his wealth and dared not spend penny on extravagades. I no longer despise that attitude. "

pity

n

It for though I have been earning my £3. a week now for over six months, I am still frightened of spending coppers on extravagances. In fact, I got genuine pleasure from, saving coppers. I no longer jump on a bus to travel three hundred yards, or rush out to the pictures of on evening because I em þored; - don't spend first and worry about it. afterwards.

My wife and I work out our week- ly budget;.we pay our bills first; sitve a bit next, and snatch a little !#ax- travagance, if you can call it that,

Wo paylig way, we have: savings account, we are Ending pleasure in many ways we had never thought of before, reckoning a beau- Utully Ana'day or a 'gorgeous street amongst our, blessings, thankful, to | have won through, and fordor, and. prouder of the home)we havn mabi |ininad", through) adversity thaiti we should have been of in-palace Vafore the crash