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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 11, 1940.

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HIS is the true story of a dictator.

He came to power in his adopted country great national

Czecho-Slovakia for example, is through a

revolution.

admitted by the enemy. Before

And soon he who de- the war is over the Czechs, with their

"into" ardent love of freedoni,lighted to call himself a

"corporal" withdrew

seclusion will prove a serious liability to

majestic the the oppressor. How far the

which surrounds a monarch. Fuhrer is at issue with his

Strict etiquette ruled. An generals as to the future course of the war, cannot be determined. invitation to his table was But the information available eagerly sought.. certainly points to indecision and divided counsels.

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by GEORGE

MALCOLM

THOMSON

He spoke in eloquent words of the natural strength of the two countries, his own with its mighty army, Britain with a flect that made her mistress of the seas: "Two such countries by 2 proper understanding might govern the world?"

BUT it was not all plain

sailing for that Bri. tish Ambassador. The dictator had an ungovernable temper. He could be rude. Once he insulted the Ambassador at a public reception. Once he kept him waiting five hours in an anteroom. And once he or- dered his Foreign Minister to see the British representative- it was in a period of peace-and protest against the hospitality shown in London to emigres from his country.

-Above-all, Tell_the_British aggression against weaker Government it must make the neighbours, he roused the alarm and hostility of Britain.

Britain went to war with him. Yet he continued to protest his desire for peace with her.

newspapers keep within the bounds usual towards nations with which Britain is at peace.”

But war with Britain was coming again. The occasion To one exalted Englishman he was trifling: "I cannot under- wrote: "How can two nations, stand," exclaimed the dictator, the most enlightened in Europe," "how a great nation can declare powerful and strong beyond war over a misorable piece of what their safety and indepen-, .and.”

the war The real causes of dence require-how can they

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vain lay deeper. Ideas of sacrifice grandeur the well-being of com-

Of the final interview the Am-

His companions, the rough, ruthless men who had gathered round him as he marched up All this emphasises the wis-wards to supremacy, blossomed doin of the Allies in waiting on out in splendid uniforms when events, conserving their - they appeared at the state func-j sources and strengthening their tions of the dictator's "cburi."

True, the society of his capi- position, so that the poisons at

tal was not to every one's taste. tion again in a foreign land.merce, domestic prosperity, the bussador in his despatch, wrote work within the Nazi structure

An English peer who went His own land he ruled through happiness of families?" may continue to weaken It. there-and many of them went an efficient secret police. His There is a great deal to be said to admire the great man-des-chief of police was for abstaining at this juncture cribed the ruling caste as people genius.

a result of his endless great nations that the happiness from action that

might apply with "the dress of mountebanks, stimulus to German unity and and the manners of assassins." ambitions, his ceaseless acts of of the world dependa."

The Foreign Minister, he re-

GRIN AND BEAR IT patriotism. Time is a formid-ported, was everything that was able ally of France and Britain.

For the first time Hitler finds himself faced with major prob- lorns incapable of being solved by Tel. 50545. force. If all the truth were known, it would probably be found that the Nazi chiefs are in an unenviable state of mind, In happy and encouraging con- trast is the methodical, business like way in which the Allles pool

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From the outaot of the war,

detestable.

As for the dictator, he trusted į none of his subordinates and bursts of ill-temper. When one treated them all to brutal out- ventured to re- of these men monstrate 'with him over some ill-treatment of foreigners, he shouted in a fury, "Don't trust too much to my friendship. The day when I doubt yours will destroy mine!””

HE carried out vast pro- jects. He trans- formed the law. lle constructed a network of splendid military roads. He built up a powerful army to march along those roads., Ile rebuilt the capital of his country according to his own views of what was impos- ing and worthy of his epoch. unity of command was an accom- He signed pacts, and tore them plished fact. Now there has

up. He reshaped the map of of swift been effected 4 completo co-

Europe by a series ordination in the economic field successful aggressions. and in such vital matters as tho supply of munitions and other materials essential to success iri war. To an extent never before achieved, the two countries will act as one. And their combined resources aro immense. One moro 'renaon has been provided -for-looking to the future with

complete confidence.

When the Spanish Govern- ment annoyed him by showing favour to Britain, he changed that Government by military intervention. His excuso was that Spain was falling into a state of anarchy.

Ho practised political kidnap- pingin neutral countries. He stooped to political assassin-

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that he found the dictator "un- To the British Ambassador der very considerable agita- ·

a man of he said, "I repent continually, it tion."

is on the peace between our two

"So you are determined to go to war," were his first words.

Then he burst out: "The But if they British want war. ure the first to draw the sword,

By Lichty shall be the last to lay it

"It'll be a.rellaf to grow up and powder our faces instead of

-washing them!?

down! They shall be responsi- ble to all Europe."

One last insult he kept for the Ambassador. He was not al- lowed to sail for England before the dictator's Ambassador had left British soil.

THE British Navy ruled

the seas. The dictn- tor replied by building up a system in Europe boycotting British trade. "That is the only way to strike at Britain," he said. By force and black- mail he compelled one nation after another to come into line until only Russia remained out- side.

He got his scientists to In- venting substitute materials to make up for the goods which Britain supplied. Cane sugar- being cut off, sugar was made from beet.

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But could Russia be brought into the system? That was necessary if the grand design against Britain was to triumph. The dictator, met the Russlan ruler, then his enemy: The Russian's first words were:"I shall bo your second against Britain

"In that case," said the did tator with joy, "everything can PLEASE Turn To Page 944