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day traffic at Berlin's

main street corners comes to a screeching halt; policemen frantically try to heil with one hand and halt. approaching motor cars: with the other as a big black open Mercedes touring ear, swastikas flying from its sides, roars haughtily through the red lights.

Inside rides the most ruth-

ambitioua lessly

most and powerful of Hitler's lieutenants, cold, remorseless Heinrich Himmler. As Reichsfuehrer of the Schutzstaffel or SS (Protec- tive Corps), Inspector of the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo), and Commissioner of all German Police undersized Herr Himanier is the man behind and above the law in Germany, and riding

Stubbs Rd. Phones: 27778-9. through traffle lights is only one

of the ways by which he remixls Germans of his far-flung powers.

A few days before the out-

Wyndham St., Hongkongbreak of war Hitler announced

'Phone 26616 November 13, 1939

The

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Peace, or Surrender?

'HIMMLER, Chick of the Gestapo..

Despite the fact that he is complotely ignorant of. Inter- national affairs, Himmler has often: dabbled in foreign in- trigue. During the Moscow trial of General Tuchitschevsky and fifteen others in August, 1986, it was revealed by the prisoners but suppressed by the Court that Himmler had paid out thou- Bands of Reichsmarks for what ho thought was "accret military information,"

Much to the delight of the Russians and the dismay of the Nazis, investigation revealed that Himmler had wasted valu- nhle foreign exchange buying reports, ordinary newspaper which were passed off to him as "secret military information."

The only Nazi leader who has done nothing but Party work all his life, Himmler's Nazi career began in the gutters of Munich when he was a 19-year-old Storm Trooper. The story of his rise to power-a rise made over the dead bodies of comrades and superiors-ls a perfect example of the lack of personal loyalty in the inner Nazi circle.

Himmler knows loyalty to one man only-Adolf Hitler, whom he considers a "superman"--and as long as Hitler is alive Police- man Himmler will serve him faithfully. But once Hitler is removed by death or otherwise

that, if he died, Goering, then Rudolph Hess, his personal Party deputy, would follow him as Fuehrers. Unfortunately for Hitler's plans, this divine right of Nazi succession does not have ler successfully removed the formed Hitler that the Reichs Germany is being bet on him to in February, 1938, when it his black-shirted forces and in- Himmler will be loyal only to the approval of the one man in

prevent it-Himmler.

Himmler. Smart money inside

Alan A. Michie

Germany powerful enough to Army officers who opposed his wehr was planning a putsch take care of the other contenders

territorial expansion, Himmler against the Government, hoping for the Fuehrer's job. saw his chance to win the. Warto be rewarded with the War In Herr Himmler's modest Minister's post. He mobilisedMinistry for his "vigilance." opinion, he is the man who When Hitler, just after the should take over his Fuckrer's Munich agreement, warned the job and, as commander of the British against permitting cer-world's biggest private army tain of their leaders to join the (the armed, black-shirted SS or Elite Guards) and the world's

The MAN who financed

Cabinet, he showed himself in-largest police force (the Gestapo.PRITZ THYSSEN has filed ['

capable of understanding the British outlook.

Evidently the leaders of the Third Reich-itself a govern-

ment of men rather than of laws-supposed they were deal- ing with a government of men in London, and that so long as certain men remained in power in the British Government, the Third Reich could have its own way with all smaller countries in the area it calls "Lebensraum." The man who flew to Berch- tesgaden and then to Godesberg and then to Munich, however, is the same man who has now told Herr Hitler that the peace on which the Third Reich has continued to count for victory

HAS FLED

HITLER

In camera because details of a highly 'Immoral character were revealed by

the evidence given.

borrowed

Не

from Germany.

He was plus the regular police, Himmler the man who placed his millions is in the best position to make at the disposal of Hitler the iron ore and 50 per cent, of the out- his opinion count.

ngitator, hoping that a victory put of her coal mines. Two hundred TIS third son, August, aroused all

under its his paternal anger when of the Nazis would crush the thousand workmen were Despite Nazi efforts to make German labour movement command.

Its landed property comprised not Western Germany, and Holland

money from

banks in In its less than 33,000 acres. It owned a found an industrial enterprise of his believe that all is harmonious strongly entrenched among the Nazi high command, unions, and was rewarded there is no doubt that Hitler's Hitler by being appointed head miles, 14 private ports, 209 electric in driving the son into bankruptcy by railway system of more than 1,200 own. August, the father, succeeded death would start a scramble for of Germany's entire mining and his mantle. Himmler, although iron industry. has in some youngest of the Nazi bigwigs,

His

ways the best

to

power stations and tenements hous and grasping for himself the Ruc- ing more than 00,000 workers fami- dersdorfer Zementfabrik, coment lles.

works into which the latter had sunk. Fritz Thyssen was allotted 26 per the equivalent of £550,000. August cent. of its capital of 1,200 million the son took revenge by contributing chance to come out on top. SING

QINCE the year 1929 Hitler and Reichsmarks, equivalent to 200

2,000 Reichsmarks to the funds of the Goering had often been Thyssen's million, and became president of the striking workers of one of his father's cunning ruthlessness, guesta at his Castle Landsberg on one trust.

factorles, which knows no bounds, gives of the hills overlooking the Ruhr him a tremendous advantage valley.

There

when plans were for shaped

Germany's future, over the blustering, slow-moving Thyssen had given the heads of the THE Thyssen concern embodied in

E oldest son, Heinrich, married a Goering, the unpopular Goeb-Nazi party his promise that he would

the trust had been bull up by lady of the Hungarian aristoc bels, and the comparatively-back them to the last farthing of his his father, August Thyssen. It was racy, was made a

Baron of the unknown Hess; as the man who vast fortune in their campaign against composed of iron- and coal-mines, Austro-Hungarian Empire by the old smelting-works and rolling-mills. At Emperor Franc's Joseph, and added the murders of the liberty of the German people.

Hamborn and Muchlheim in the to his family name that of his wife, supervised

Fritz Thyssen never possessed Roehm, Gregor Strasser, the

Rhine-Ruhr district, at Hagendingen Bornemisza. His residences at The former Chancellor Kurt von father; August Thyssen, he had in France, were their blast furnaces with magnificent art treasures.

creative mind of his own. From his in Lorraine and at Cam in Northern Hague, Berlin and Munich are alled Schleicher, and hundreds of herited the immense Industrial estate others put out of the way by the and the lust for power, but not the rivate poris and plera with mam Castagnola, on the shores of Lake SS and the Gestapo during five ghung spirit. Even as a man of moth cranes for loading manganese Lugano, he owns the Villa Fortunate,

ores were owned in Nikolajewsk at advanced years he was known and

Leopold experienced in disposing of opsen."

of Brazil and in British India.

August Thyssen had only two brother-in-law of Emperor William

II. ponents: most important of all..

pamions: the love for money #15 a

At the age of 60 he divorced his source of power, and the love for

At-

is not in the British vocabulary years of Nazism, Himmler isntways referred to as "young Thys. the Black Sea, on the Atlantic shores once the seat of Prince Frederick

ho commands воте 250,000 i

cousin of Prussia,

and

men, armed members of the SS, TOLLOWING the revaluation of his second son, Fritz. With his wife first wife to marry a beautiful 20- the Gestapo, and the regular the Reichsmark the gigantle Ger- and other children he had nothing in year-old Berlin mannequin, but the Law marriage was not a success. This police who will be his shock [man steel trust, the "Vereinigte Stahl- common but mutual hatred. troops in his bid for power.

Peace based on the abuse of confidence in the pledged word, peace bullt on the ashes of Polish cities and on the moral ruins of Czech democracy, peace balanced on the violently shift- ing policy of opportunism which could lead to a marriage of National Socialism and Bol-

Goering, Goebbels and Hess shevism in Moscow, peace that can count on no armed support. even now is regarded by the Moreover, they can count on no quarter from Himmler once the signers of the Russo-German struggle for Hitler's power be-

Himmler has gins.

fought general aggression pact as op-

Goering ever since the carly portunity to divide Europe be-Munich days of the Party; he |tween them that peace, Mr. despises Goebbels, as do most of Chamberlain stated, London sees the Nazi underlings; he has tolerated Hess simply because, an Burrender.

as the man who had access to Hitler at all times, Hess was in a position, to do Himmler im- portent favours.

The approval voiced in the House of Commons and along London's darkened streets is an approval which does not ignore the possible costs of persover- ance on the field Herr Hitler

Ambition is Himmler's middle himself chose when he marched name and his schemings and on Poland. No Brilon so san- intrigues in fields beyond his guine as to expect the Third own have often caused embar rassment in high Nazi quarters. Reich's reply to be confined to He is intensely jealous of the worda; many expected the an- power of the Reichswehr and swer to come from the akios has long schemed to get the posts of Minister of the Interior over black-out London. But No and of War.

is No. And Berlin's apparently hopeful reference to intervening to In more specific | tion by the United States shows terms than they have yet heard, the Third Reich is beginning to what ard the war and peace understand..

aims of the Allies. They would Millions the world over are like to see the blue-print for hoping, working and praying for reconstruction to consult frank peace. Those called upon to ly with the architects, of the

world's to-morrow. make sacrifices for it are wait

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werke," was created by a merger of suits in which all kinds of family girl, the Baroness Maud von Thyssen- the most important iron works of scandals come to light were fought | Bornemisza, it will be remembered, the Ruhr district. It controlled 75 year after year in the German courts, was injured in the car smash per cent. of Germany's production of Often their sessions had to be held which "Prince" Serge Mdivani, ex- husband of the Woolworth heiress, Barbara Hutton, met his couple of years ago.

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When old August Thyssen died, at the age of 85, he had won all the family lawsuits, so that, in accord ance with his testament, his beloved son Fritz could succeed him in the possession of the £20 million estate. and the chairmanship of the whole vast industrial organisation.

*

TOGETHER with Emil Kirdorf,

another one of Germany's indus trial leaders,, he rendered Hitler the.. financial assistance that enabled him to rise to power. Between them they provided the enormous sums required for the upkeep of Hitler's private army of brown shirts.

Two years ago, the first conflict aross between Fritz Thyssen and the Fuchror, Thyssen resented being apled upon by Himmler's Gestapo, who listened in to his telephone con- versations and opened his lettera. In: consequence, he left Germany for a lengthy voyage to South America, whence he returned after a recon- cillation had been brought about the Intervention of friends.

Now this man, member of the Prussian State Council, economic. dictator of Germany's heavy Indur iry, bearer of the golden badge of the Nazi party, president of the board of directors of a score of Ger- man and international companies and syndicates, has fled the country, abandoning the greatest part of his riches. He has seen the Writing on. the Wall,

M. Walter