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THE predx "Special to the Telegraph" i used by the "longkong Telegraph to indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni rations Ordinanes, 1916. Such new as hears the indication "UP" is received in Bangkang on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republication. either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

Listening In

SHOULD one listen in to Nazi

broadcast?

THIS

March 13, 1940.

"I LIKE

NTERSPERSED with

conflicting rumours of forthcoming German offensives against the Low Countries and in the South- East of Europe are persis- tent reports of new under- ground approaches to the Allied Governments for

peace pourparlers.

Such approaches, if made- and it is no idle guess that they may be on the way-would not be without a certain danger; for there are still people in England (and in France) who think that some sort of deal can be done with what are called the "mod- erate" elements in the Nazi Party.

Now the central figure in these "moderate" elements, the man with whom it is thought an honest deal might be done, is no less a person than Field- Marshal Goering-Hitler's nam- ed successor, his chief lieuten- ant, and next to the Fuehrer himself the most powerful and menacing exponent of the Nazi regime in practice.

The theory about Goering appears to be that, though something of a genial ruffian,

MAN

WAR"

SAID:

It 1ម . commonly Belleved though the evidence is not con- clusive, that his agents fired' the Reichstag in order to implicate the Communists and Gring about their final destruction..

It will be remembered how, at the subsequent trial in the Ger-. man Supreme Court of Justice, this strange being, then Prime, Minister of Prussia, gave what WAS a mockery of evidence, literally dancing with rage, and -shaking both fists wildly at the prisoner Dimitrov, while A stream of frenzied abuse pour- ed from his lips.

"You wait," he bawled, as Dimitrov was taken away, "till we get you out of the power of this Court."

It was Goering who invented' and established the Gestapo, the most cruel and bestial or- ganisation of secret police ever imposed upon a civilised com-- munity, and used it with ruth- less gusto to maintain the dictatorship until he handed over his machine of torturò and death to the equally efficient hands of Heinrich Himmler.

"We need men who will be-

Feiks Trysels blind and deaf and dumb when

By A. J. Cummings

we want them to be so," he told his second-in-command, at the outset; "We want auto- matons but they must shoot straight."

It was Goering who, in the great purge of June, 1034,

he might easily be transformed a daring young airman, to de- as a commercial pilot, he met "cleared up" North Germany into a good European; that he feated Germany after the Arm- Hitler at Konigsplatz in the and had the firing squads at did not want to begin and does istice, he has been filled with autumn of 1921; and, finding work "from dawn to dusk" in not want to continue the war the fury of revenge-revenge in him a kindred spirit, joined the old military academy at This question might have been readily and against Britain; that he opposed not only against the victorious him at once in a blood-partner Lichtenfelde, where years be- definitely answered before the and is still opposed to the Nazi- enemy, but against Catholicism ship for the smashing of "the fore he had undergone his army war-to the effect that no great Soviet Pact; that he has resisted "yellow internationale (to quote tion" of Germany.

and Bolshevism, against the Jew republic" and the "libera- training.. harm would come of the prac- Hitler's plans for an extension

It was Goering, above all, his own words) of Jewish tice. tice. Since the war began, how. of the war into neutral coun- capitalism" and

He has remained to this very who set going the secret. re- against the ever, the situation has changed tries; and that, with adequate democracies which he still fans "the best of them all," said time when she was forbidden. day Hitler's right-hand man armament of Germany-at a. as a matter of course, and the encouragement from the Allies, tically believes to be the instru- Hitler warmly not many months under treaty more than 100,000 question may require several he could overthrow Hitler and ments and dupes of the Jewish arrange satisfactory terms which would make him the master of дл old-style "Conservative"

answers.

1

peril.

ago.

soldiers and carried out with passionate enthusiasm Hitler's. He proved his courage and order to build the greatest air- He once said to a friend of his inflexible will in the critical force the world had ever seen.

power.

"I like war and I am period of the Nazi struggle for A dozen times he has declared

his intention to use this mighty" veapon,--his-pride-and--joy,-to----

He induced the aged Hinder-

ing Hitler Chancellor by telling him a lle about General yon Schleicher's intention to march on Potsdam and arrest the Pre-

sident.

more

available оп his.

Much depends on the person who listens in. There are people who become depressed when Germany co-operating with the mine: they hear anything unfavourable Western democracies for the going to give Europe another to the Allies, even when that overthrow of Bolshevism and taste of it." His reckless and news is a palpable falsehood, the maintenance thereafter of ferocious temper-gives-point to burg to sign the decree appoint- bring England to her knees. They have a lingering notion a comfortable status quo in these words. that there may be "something in Europe. it.". These people would be

This is wishful thinking with. happier and would lose nothing a vengeance. It is based, not

He is the man who prefers

No wonder a grateful Fuehrer- by ignoring the Nazi broadcast.

guns to butter, who wants the on ascertained data, but. on a world to tremble once

has presented him with so many medals and decorations that Curiosity and sense of number of entirely nebulous "before the tramp of Prussian

(as they say in Germany) if novelty induce many to listen. assumptions.

grenadiers." He cares nothing But that feeling soon weará off,

He also frightened Hinden- there are more to come and for human life, and has had burg into abolishing constitu- they are pinned on the only and all the 80oner because it

hundreds of his own comrades tional safeguards, thus enabling place still becomes plain that the broadcast

One is that in any circum shot with as little compunction him as Prussian Police Minister ample form he will be unable to is not of news but the clumslest and most malicious of les instances short of disaster in as if they were rabbits.

to terrorise and stamp out all sit down. Penniless and embittered, opposition and deposit the lea- Now this tended to spread discontent and the field or Germany's complete indecision among

the Allied economic collapse Goering could scarcely able to exist on his pay ders in concentration camps. soldiers and civil population. expect to supplant Hitler, while One excellent reason for ab- still alive and in full possession staining is that the Nazis wish of his peculiar faculties, as the the Allied people to listen in. I national Icader-hero. Why oblige them? One listener,

Another assumption, founded who used to listen to the Nazi on absurd but carefully dis- farrago but does not now, puts geminated rumours of the ab the matter in this way: "Suppose dication, in the near future, of I have a feud with a private

a thoroughly baffled Fuehrer, is enemy, Will I advance my cause or improve my morale if that the rumours would not be I allow him to ring me up at a crudo Nazí trick to entangle frequent intervals and listen the Allies into sham peace nego- without reply while he tells me tiations from which it would be that I starve my children and beat my wife, forged that almost impossible to withdraw. cheque, and set fire to the timber But the most important ns- yard?"

Time and taste will settle the sumption of all is that, if Hitler question for each individual, By were dead or discarded, if what listening he may be at times | Mr. Churchill calls "the smear amused, or irritated; but certain of Hitler" were wiped from the ly not informed-save on the Himitless capacity of the Nazi human path, the smear of Goor- broadcasters for lying.

ing would be less foul, his word more to be trusted, his rule less

Wrong-Way Drivers likely to keep Europe in a for- Handled By French mont..

PARIS. The "delicate" problem

What manner of man is this

of what to do with Brillah Tommies | Gooring on whom we are to who lapse into their habil of driving build hopes of a solidly-negotiat on the left side of the highway has.

been solved by the Trench, Governed permanent peace? What is

ment.

There offences and other trame | his record?“

rule violations will be, turned over

to military authorities of the Brilish

Let it never be forgotten that,

Army, Minister of Justice Georges from the moment he flew back,

Bonnet announced.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

783

WHO CAI

squat, barrel- chested ginnt, grotesque in his obesity, but as full of energy as ever, has been placed by his

By Lichty master in absolute control of

clan of

Roman nose?".

Germany's war economy. If Hitler had not trusted him he would not have placed him where he is.

In his own way he is as much an evil genius of Nazi Germany - s the Fuehrer himself. In a sense he is more dangerous since his brutal conduct is | camouflaged behind a bluff and breezy manner that has de- ceived many simple foreigners.

Criminals, great and small, have used the same camouflage- with fatal success. It is not an irrelevance that Goering's household pet is a beast of the jungle. The man is as merci- less as he is jovial, without moral acruples of any kind: and. his twin gods are unlimited power and unlimited revenge.

Is there anything at all ing his record and personality to auggest that he can be used or- trusted by a decent diplomacy to bring peace and security to: a shattered Europe? In the world as it is to-day those who, would sup with the devil should use a very long spoon..