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Battle Of Babel

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WAR as significant as that being fought on the Western Front is being waged on the wire- less. It is literally a war of

A words, and in the end its effects may be even more profound than those of the battles fought on land, on sea, and in the air.

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From Britain come the voices of 4 announcera, calm, cultured. unemotional-perhaps too much So, bay sume critics-telling the unvarnished truth to the world. From German stations the world hears the impassioned, theatrical tones of the Nazi announcers, so anxious to make Germany look innocent before the condemning world court that they deny allega- tions even before they are made against them. And, perhaps most significant of all, the "German Freedom Station," calling upon the German people to overthrow the tyrants whn are repressing

them.

Every warring nation is mobilis- ing its wireless propaganda resources as rapidly as it is its industrial assets to carry on the From Britain is. brondcast the truth in many languages and with

perfect accent. In this Allies have many

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But I still like a bit of

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by Stuart Fletcher

SCANDALISED a policeman the other day.

It was in Oxford Circus. I was carrying a sultcase which, whatever any mathema- tician likes to say, weighed five tons. I asked the policeman for the nearest cloakroom.

At Paddington Station, he told me.

___".Oh dear," I said, with.com... mendable moderation."What a nuisance this war is!

The policeman stiffened vis- bly. "Sir," he reproved me, "there is a great many what is suffering worse than that."

How true, yer for every single person who is being bombed or bayoneted or enduring trench fever and all the other idiotic atrocities of war, there must be thousands who are going round saying "Oh dear," or words to that effect, because their little private

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man Socialists, exiled Austrinus, and Czecha who have been lucky enough to escape from the clutches of Hitler and the Gestapo are telling their people the truth about this war of aggression.

Y

evening enjoying the miraci twilight which, in peace-Le London's street lights completely ruin, 1 was startled but not sur prised to read a neat little notice fixed into the ground near a can- tive balloon.

It had been printed in bold ink- strokes on a white oblong of card- board, and it read: "The public is requested not to feed the Blimps.

That made me happy for a whole evening. and I went back to my big empty house,

where the silence and the

darkness are far more oppres- sive than the most outrageous noises made in peace-time by my singularly lively daughters, feeling that the war (on the civilian front) had its campensations,

Someone else, a little previously perhaps, but prophesying quite nccurately, had fixed a similar notice to one of the air-raid dug- outs in the Park,

This one read: "House Full"

MI88 my evacuated family a

lot.

'OU see, life is made up of

One of the joys of family life ittle comforts like reading is coming down late to breakfast. It lamps in trains, cloakrooms, is led up to by a whole chain of street lights, doors that are pieces anticipatory delight the clatter It has been suggested that Britain of wood that you push open instead of other people getting up while should employ more and more of of strange garment-like materials you blissfully lie on in a half-doze; these speakers, and get some that you fumble with, washing up the violent entry into your bed of them to write messuges for pro- that gets dono by someone else' a three-year old morsel paganda leaflets. Among these instead of getting left for yourself humanity who pulls your hair and exiles are some of the most brilliant, scientific and literary men of post- war Germany.

off

Without a doubt the most re- markable station at present adding its quota to the war of the wireless Is the "German Freedom Station,' which so far has defied its enemies. Those who risk their lives to get over the truth to the German people in this way are heroes of the first wator. If caught, death would be their reward.

the

Not long age an opponent of the Nazi regime began broadcasting similar messages from a forest just over the Czecho-Slovakian bor- der. It was just previous to the time when Hitler's legions accupied country, One night three fanatical young Nazis, together with a woman, dashed across the frontier In a powerful car, murdered the announcer, and managed to get back Into Germany. No stops wore taken to arrest the criminals.

"Put an end to the senseless and criminal war into which we have beou plunged by Hitler. Soldiers do not fight at the front, but direct your arms against the culprita."

The voice 18 drowned by odellborate Interference, but it comer

to do.

Yet, there's something about this war.....

I was talking a day or two ago with a Polish airman who was one of the very last people to escape from devastated Warsaw.

He was in seventeen Warsaw air. raids, and this is what struck him most Two types of gas-mo-ks were issued, to the public-a bag- pipe-looking military type claimed to be very emetent, and a more old- fashioned kind solidly fashioned of ins wood,

first everyone tried to get the better kind, but after a few raids it was the solid type of gas-mask which people were after. And din

you know why? Because they could sit on them! They wanted a bit of comfort even at the death.

VERYBODY likes a bit of creature comfort. That's why

I like our barrage balloons. They look so happy, so prosperous, so distended with the kind of well-

being that anllets elderly gentle-

alen after a good lunch.

As they reel a little holplessly in the breeze they inspiro the samó

again-Workera, overy gun you sort of affectionate toleration that maka in the factories will help provo

all feel for the amiablo

long the war. Sabotage the pro- | drunkard. duction of arms and you will heir our fight for freedom, dignity, and

peace."

Walking in Hyde Park the other

of

aforms you with manifest un cruth that she caught a rabb. yesterday; then tltivating odour which creep upstairs like St Anthony's temptresses: then th Jingle of spoons and forks; the the final descent to a family which. has fong since given up being scandalised and is actually glar

เล that that you are only as late as you are and no later.

But coming down late to a break- rast that you have got to cook I've given up surf is awful,

akfast.

theory that

I've invented reakfast is an unnecessary meal bat people eat too much, and that asting till lunch-time produces a sane mind in a sound body.

But I get awfully hungry about ten o'clock.

M

Y"family with that pecu- liar lack of discriminatio which you meet in youn children and old ladies misses me

100.

My eldest daughter who, at the age of nine, has started thinking things out a bit was puzzled the other day because near her evacua- tion spot she saw some childrer complete with father,

Why couldn't she have he: Daddy too, she wanted to know. I was explained that this Daddy happened to earn his living in th country while her own had to wir his (and her) bread in London, ****I know," she said, solving the

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He mus problem instantly. come and work down here, Th Co-op. I saw a notice in the window-wout an errand-boy."

So it my name disappears from this paper you'll know what's hap- pened. The pull of family comfort will have proved too strong for me and I shall have gone off to be an errand-boy.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Dichte

"I do miss Wilbur since we broko our engagement-1 koop thinking of things to say to him that would burn him up!"

LIES

Hitler's Long Knife

¡¡FI set out to choose a villain for a "penny dreadful" 3 would pick on Dr. Frank, Nazl Reich Minister of Justice, who has just been appointed Governor-General for the Polish territories occupied by Germany.

The man who will now administer Hitler's terror over the Poles in the ideal combination of Prussian Impu- dence and American Gangsterdom, which make up Nazism.

This is not a far-fetched comparison because Dr. Frank started out as criminal lawyer in Berlin's East End. Only when the Nazi party in its most riotous period provided most of the murderers. low-breakers, ` and plain Gangsters in pre-Hitler Germany did young Dr. Frank switch over to politics. He specialised in political murders and other erinca committed by members of the Nazi party.

Frank defended his Nazi clients very nhly. He is a good orator, and he has Immacu- a certain personal appeal. lately drerted, clean shaven, witha straight, dark hair brushed back, he looks almost a gentleman."-

When Iler came into prower Frank was first made Commissar for Justice- in Bavaria, and later Bavarian Minis- ter of Justice. Soon he gained for himself a reputation as the rat -Nazi leader to shock the world.

That was whch the Reichstag, under Hitter, a contained Socialist M.P.. During a debate, Frank, preferring force to argument, thrust President Loebe, one of Germany's most distin- guished Parliamentarians, from his sent and took his place. The scene. created a scrisation.

The Frank ventured out into the feld of international politics. To the Austrian Nazly. with whom the Austrian Government was then en- gaged in a deadly struggle, he sent out messages of encouragement. Next he decided to go to Vienna himself

Lo attend a jurists' gathering."

The Austrian Government, through Ita Ambassador, explained in Berlin that Frank's visit would not be ap preciated, and politely naked whether Be turbulent Nazi Minister could not stay at home.

But that did not stop Frank.

I shall never forget the hour of his Brrival. The Austrian Nazia decided on a demonstration of welcome. The. Austrian Government, on the other hand, had prepared a different recep-

on for Frank.

As soon as he stepped from his plane at the Vienna nerodrome, a high” Aus- trian polico oïcial met bin and ex- pressed to him the Austrian Govern- 'ment's opinion that "his visit was. highly unwelcome and was regarded as very Inopportune."

Frank blushed; then all colour left his face. But kë railled, and with an angry gesture stepped to his car.

Bince that day he has been used --- by Ititler as an agent-provocateur. He sent out messages to illegal Nazi partles everywhere. He threatened Governments of weak Blates with Hitler or destruction.

Ho coined the phrase of the "long. knife with which Jews and other enemies of Nezhm would be killed." Bince then he has been known as the "Long Knife" of the Nazi Party.

It goca without saying that 1938-30, the "Nazi 'Year of Action," found him prominent in the International field. Again he attended Jurists', Congresses," frat in Sudetenland, thon in Danzig. On both occasions he was provocative, rude. Everywhere he encouraged the Nazi rebels.

He sande hit last speech in Zoppat, in Danzig territory: Poland is lost," he anid.

I am afraid it is while Dr. Prank is Hitler's Governor ibero...

WILLI PRISCHAUER