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MAN SAID:

LIKE WAR"

·NTERSPERSED

with

conflicting rumours of

forthcoming German offensives against the Low Countries and in the South- East of Europe are perais- tent reports of new under- ground approaches to the for Governments Allied 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- crate" 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 licuten- 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 ruman,

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commonly believed, though the evidence la not con- clusive, that his agents fired the Reichstag in order to implicate the Communists and bring about. their final destruction.

It will be remembered how, at the subsequent trial in the Ger- man Supreme Court of Justico, this strange being, then Prime Minister of Prussia, gave what

was

a mockery of evidence, literally dancing with rage and shaking both fiats wildly at the while 3. prisoner Dimitrov, 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 torture and death to the equally efficient. hands of Heinrich Himmler:

"We need men who will be blind and deaf and, dumb when 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, 1934, "cleared up" North Germany

he might easily be transformed a daring young airman, to de- as a commercial pilot, he met and had the firing squads at: into a good European; that he feated Germany after the Arm- Hitler at Konigsplatz in the

work "from dawn to dusk" in

training.

SHOULD one listen in to Nazi, did not want to begin and does istice, he has been filled with autumn of 1921; and, finding the old military academy at not want to continue the war the fury of revenge-ravenge in him a kindred spirit, joined Lichtenfelde, where years be might have been readily and against Britain; that he opposed not only against the victorious him at once in a blood-partner- fore he had undergone his army definitely answered before the and is still opposed to the Nazi- enemy, but against Catholicism ship for the smashing of "the

It was Goering, above all,. warto the effect that no great Soviet Pact; that he has resisted and Bolshevism, against the Jew republic" and the "libera-

his own words) of Jewish harm would come of the prac- Hitler's plans for an extension "yellow internationale (to quote tion" of Germany.

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Boldiers and carried out with passionate enthusiasm Hitler's: He proved his courage and order to build the greatest air- Much depends on the person

He once said to a friend of his inflexible will in the critical force the world had ever scen. who listens in. There are people

"I like war and I am period of the Nazi struggle for A dozen times he has declared who become depressed when Germany co-operating with the mine:

his intention to use this mighty" they hear anything unfavourable Western democracies. for the going to give Europe another taste of it." His reckless and

He induced the aged Hinden weapon, his pride and joy, to to the Allies, even when that overthrow of Bolshevism 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."

power.

ing Hitler Chancellor by telling him a lie about General von Schleicher's intention to march These people would be This la wishful thinking with He is the man who prefers on Potsdam and arrest the Pre- happier and would lose nothing a vengeance. It is based, not guns to butter, who wants the sident. by ignoring the Nazi broadcast, on ascertained data, but on a world to

Curiosity and a sense of number of entirely nebulous "before the tramp of Prussian novelty induce many to listen. assumptions. But that feeling soon wears off,

and all the sooner because it

becomes plain that the broadcast One is that in any circum

is not of news but the clumsiest

of his peculiar faculties, as the national leader-hero.

tremble once more

and

GRIN AND BEAR IT

No wonder a grateful Fuehrer has presented him with so many medals and decorations that (as they say in Germany) if

Now this

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

By Lichty master in absolute control of

grenadiers." He cares nothing 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 place still available on his: hundreds of his own comrades tional safeguards, thus enabling shot with as little compunction him as Prussian Police Minister ample form he will be unable to

to terrorise and stamp out all sit down. embittered, opposition and deposit the lea- Penniless and most malicious of lies instances short of disaster in as if they were rabbits. 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 the Allied people to listen in. 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 seminated rumours of the ab- the matter in this way: "Suppose dication, in the near future, of I havo a feud with a private

a thoroughly baffled Fuchrer, is enemy. Will I advance my cause or improve my morals if that the rumours would not be I allow him to ring me up at a crude Nazi 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 almost impossible to withdraw. bont my wife, forged that cheque, and set fire to the timber yard?"

But the most important as- 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 limitless capacity of the Nazi hunian path, the smear of Goer- broadensters for lying.

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

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PARIS. The "delicate" problem

What manner of man is this

of what to do with British Tommies Goering on whom we are to who lapse into their habit of driving build hopes of a solidly-negotiat- on the left side of the hidway hai

been solved by the French Govern-

ment.

ed permanent peace? What is

These offences ant other trame his record?" rule violations' will be turned over

to military authorities of the British

Lot it never be forgotten that,

Army, Minister of Justice Georges from the moment he flow back, Bonnet announced

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

In his own way he is as much Jan evil genius of Nazi Germany- as 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: jan irrelevance that Goering's: household pet is a beast of the jungle. The man is as merci- lesa na ho is jovial, without moral scruples of any kind: and: This twin gods are unlimited power and unlimited revenge.

Is there anything at all in:" his record and personality to suggest 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.