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WHY FIGHT

'S

IR," said Mr. Churchill, strik- ing his chest, "the ordinary instincts of humanity require

the rescue from the sea of drowning men or castaways, should they be ob

- served by his Majesty's ships in the

Course of their duties."

Cheers from all sides; but no answer to my question "Whether, in view of the mur- Ydering of unarmed seamen by German uir

men, he will consider ceasing to send out ships to pick up these German airmen when their planes are brought down in the sen."

Again and again we have sent out our ships and men to search the seas at considerable risk and expense for possible survivors from German planes which have been shot down.

If their bodies are found we read of official funerals and wreathà In-

THE predz "Special to the Telegraph" is ned by the "tougkong Telegraph" to indicate nows which is strictly copyright under the provilons of the Talecummuni- cattons rdinance, 1936. Buch news as ngkong on the date of publication by bears the indication "Up" is received in the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republication,

arrangement.

either wholly or in part without previous

"Heil Hunger!"

UNTIRING propaganda has led the world to believe that the Prelude in-C. Sharp (Rachmaninoff!, Arthur Rubinstein. Nazi regime is producing a Menuetto and Trio (Schubert) William Tell-Overture (Rossini)

nation of splendid physique. Toscanini and N.B.C. Orchestra. Science tells another story, and

science does not lie.

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scribed "To a galloni enemy."

At

now.

NOT BACK?

Why do we rescue Nazi

airmen

who have been

shot down into the sea?

Why not let them drown?

HERE IS A STRIKING CONTROVERSIAL VIEW · -by Colonel-

J. C. WEDGWOOD

M.P., who won the D.S.O. in 1915

mitted?

the same time we hear of the spray dare not say why that is not done brutality has he not already com- ing with bullets, officially described as murder, of our unarmed seamen by those same "gallant enemies."

Officially, of course, the answer to He has turned the prisoners of our all this is that Hitler would retaliate. nlly Poland into slaves, slaves for How can be? What has he got to whom the medieval galleys would be horror and a pleasant change. At sea he connot

At the same time Goering, with whom we are at war, praises our retaliate "gallant airmen," and I suppose Mr. Churchill purrs with satisfaction. What humbug!

CIGNOR MUSSOLINI'S con was

SIGN

an nirman in the Abyssinian war, and described in print with great gusto the fun of spraying Abyssinians how they scattered, how they threw themselves on their beller

faces, only making them

Larget.

It was then only Abyssinians, but it made us feel pretty sick. Now it is Englishmen and the "rabbiters" become "gallant enemies."

I want to know! In the Spanish war the Italian and German armen thot at those who jumped with para-

chutes, killed them easily in the air;

on?

OUR My

What

PRESS

AND

Correspondence With

By LORD KEMSLEY

do worse things than he has done uncharted mines are everywhere, no low of the sea or international Tasy has not been broken.

There is no British money left in Germany for him to confisento. Our prisoners in his hands cannot much exceed 100, In the last war retalia- tion was a very real threat. It forced Mr. Churchill to restore the criminal U-boat men.

DUT now, for all these crimes is it not our turn to retallate? We might sow mines, as they sow mines, in the Baltic, and along that Norwegian coast,the highway their Iron ore supplies.

for

We might employ German prison- ers at sea. We might employ them. making ronds in Franee, or, better still, in Sierra Leone or St. Helena.

They want colonies; let them see the colonies and develop them. There is that road into the fine back blocks of British Guiana (through a forest) which was suggested to the Jews,

None of these things need be more than a threat, if it would stop in- discriminate mining and torpedoing, and save some of those miserable Polish slaves,

There is no other way, save to re- move Hitlerism.

GERMANY

Dr. Dietrich

HAVE been credited recently over it was there that I received on that | #ce of Finland and the Baltle to Rus¬ the Hamburg wireless ctation date the letter-untranslated, in its sia, nothing would have induced me and in an address to German editors original German text-which was in- to make the offer I did.

This

It was more important to kill the such a source, with. It may, now nounced from Berlin the fact that the

pilot than the machine.

Is this now "bad form"?

men airmen that it shall not be done? Or is it another one-sided piece of decency?

**

Lotter To Dr. Dietrich

To conclude the matter, I give the

at Wiesbaden by Dr. Dietrich, the tended as a draft for publication. It It is worth noting that only official head of the German Press, had been posted by Dr. Dietrich in thirteen days after Dr. Dietrich had with launching an attack against him Munich, according to the postmark posted from Munich his article which on the British radio and in the on the envelope, on August 18. It he headed "The Price of Peace, newspapers,

control. Ic has had reached my address in London Germany had invaded Poland and charged me with, church of among other on August 20, and had then been the continued on her orgy of plunder

fairness, with pre- forwarded to Deauville.

and slaughter, proving incontestably varleation and mendacity.

that the offer from Dr. Dietrich was accusation, coming from

The Soviet Pact

Ia mere trap, and how right was my I need not seriously But on August 21 there was an tions.

decision to terminate the negotia concern ever, be advisable in the interests of Soviet-German Pact had been sue- Or is it both the German and the British cessfully negotiated; as the official our orders, too? Is there on under- { peoples for me to review in chrono-record shows, it was signed on Aur text of a letter sent by me to Dr. CO., LTD. making a thorough examination

logical sequence

ence the events connected of documents provided by Nazi standing between British and Ger-with the proposed exchange of news- As this document established and Dietrich on August 1 and the trans-

ected gust 23 by Ribbentrop and Molotoff. Wh

articles between the paper

two finally decided n

a complete reorienta-lation of his reply on August 17. If countries, an idea for which

Dr. tion

-01 Germany's traditional Dietrich was originally responsible.

anti- needed,

to establish the anything Communist published in

and Russia againat nection with this correspondence and statement Allles,

agreement by discussion hope of my visit to Germany, these two let

im-ters I thinic provide it to the fult. that he had newspapers

to put the entire probable. This was my view at the

Chandos House, London, W.1. German Press at the disposal of nn time, and I was supported in that

August 1, 1939. Dear Doctor Dietrich, American writer if he could have in view by some of the highest political

I have been thinking over the change the right of inserting in autuarities in this countes

American newspapers on In-

and Notwithstanding this trembling

conversation that I was privileged it is that Mr. Churchill boasts oft formative article about Germany threatening nature of the inter-

have with the Fuchrer at from the German point of view. Ile national situation, on the afternoon

Bayreuth on July 27,

You will THERE was nothing like it in the revealed that his offer had been re-of

remember that in that conversa- of August 22 Dr. Hesse, the German inst war. Listen to Mr. Chur-jected, and he made capital of that Press Allache in London, at the re-

as in my talks with fact. chill then: "We cannot recognise

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authorities and by doctors and scientists of the Reich, and has written an article entitled "Heil Hunger," which is condensed in the Reader's Digest.

On May 13 of last year Dr. Dietrich tween Germany, and alliance he bona fides of my mentions in con-

We did not torpedo the Bremen because there was no certainty that ing the crew could be rescued; but the Seven Seas are full of British and neutral ships sunk with all on board. We-play-the-game-What-a-game

the U-bonts

German

number of the lead-the

Challenge Accepted

It made

very

called upon, me at my

London to inquire

if the "any,

British

In

In

had

His researches led him to the conclusion that Germany is breaking down physically. What is said to the contrary is sheer

This propaganda.

national tragedy is the result of under- nourishment, excessive labour, and rigorous over-training, to which childhood and youth are subjected in the insane effort to

Six days afterwards, on May 19, I been safely received. He gave me make a nation into a military chips and fishing boats, often without learned of this suggestion and took a personal message from Dr. Dietrich machine.

warning, and regardless of the loss up Dr. Dietrich's challenge immedin- to say that the article representing The whole range of children's of life entailed, ns on the same foot-tely, and on behalf of my important Germany's case should be published infectious diseases, says Dr. ing as honourable soldiers" (Hen-group of British newspapers notified in Britain before the one stating the case had been sent to and my willingness to accept the offer, Bri Gumpert, has increased sharply.sard, April 27, 1915, p. 573), and he in question on the same terms. Six published by the German papers. Rickets, IL vitamin-deficiency decided to imprison them specially, days after that, on May 25, an answer This ingenuous suggestion was, need- discase, fast disappearing in separate from "honourable prisoners came to me from Dr. Dietrich ex-less to say, not acceptable to me.

I COL as to whether the most countries, shows an appall of war, till they could be tried for proposal would really serve the cause it. had always been understood that could only remind Dr. Hesse that ing increase in Germany. These their crimes,

of peace, and asking for certain as- there should be simultaneous children belong to the Youth or-

Crimes Why,

of surances, mainly of a character pro-publication of the views of both eldes ganisations, and the premature

tective to German Interests, and the in both countries, that it would be 1915 were exertions of the long marches

virtuous in comparison definiteness of the exchange to be manifestly unfair to the German with the German airmen of to-day, made. and military exercises under- amusing themselves with fishing-to Dr. Dietrich my

In a letter people to deny them the right of at once he hopes for reading the British statement at the mine the growing organisms and boats, lightships, and swamped boat-a peaceful understanding between same time as the British publle was contribute to the bone deformi-

England and Germany, and Informed given the opportunity of reading the ties which begin with rickets.

him that the points he raised would German

Nevertheless, be given full consideration and denit August 23 I acknowledged to Dr. Never mind! Goering says we are with by me after the Whitsuntide Dietrich receipt of his letter and ar- Medical reports of the Uni- versities for the last four years

honourable enemies, and Goering is

tlele, and Informed him I was or an honourable man.

He won't be vacation. indicate a marked physical de-hard on us when he is the Relch Six days afterwards, on May 31, ranging for the translation of the terioration, with an alarming Governor here. He will decorate our wrote once more to Dr. Dietrich article. increase in heart complaints.graves with wreaths, and the British agreeing unequivocally to all the Young factory workers are in

Union of Nazis will shed tears as points he had raised. I suggested

Infamous Bargain they kiss his hand.

that an official German representa- even worse condition, Women,

I will not express any opinion tive should be appointed who would upon the German article, but content once. dedicated to the kitchen

In the Boer war the Boers pulled be empowered to discuss with me myself with pointing out that the and the nursery, are now em-

up rails and wrecked railway trains, every detail of official procedure in essential condition of publishing it If I remember aright, we ployed in factories in work far couple of Boer prisoners on the en-articles.

put a connection with the exchange of the was the right beyond their strongth, with gine as a protection, serious effects on their health.

Many more startling facts are revealed-increase in alcoholtem, Bulcides, and the death-rate among them.

We are so much accustomed to look with caution upon every- thing that pertains to Germany that even the statements of

loads of escaping scamen.

幽

Visit To Germany,

case.

*

on

to

I am

tion, as well you, Herr Rosenberg, Baron Weiz- Backer, and others I laid emphasis upon the wholehearted support which is being given in this coun try to the Prime Minister's policy. Everybody here recognises that, while on the one hand our Govern- ment look forward wholeheartedly to the time when confidence has been sufficiently restored to make it possible to begin the construc- tive work of building proce, 'they have

had

no alternative, on the other hand, but to take the steps that have been taken to consolidate the

of the country. Those strength steps which resulted from a con- viction that they must resist fur ther attempts to impose by force unilateral changes have received the complete support of every section of public opinion.

not sure how far I succeed- ed in conveying to the Fuchrer that British

although it would' opinion, like, to arrive at an understanding with Germany, has had a con Adence so shaken that discussions with that object in view do not scem to be feasible in prezent cir» that the cumstances. I realise Fuchrer (and you, too) don't con- sider that there is any justification. for this attitude of our people, don't want to argue that now, but It is very important, and indeed essential, that the facts should be known by the Fuchrer and there is that confidence here does not at nion here could be convinced that confidence

could be re- established, L.e., If the fundamental basis of the Declaration which the Fuchrer prom

and Mr. Chamberlain signed the day after the Munich Conference could be accepted afresh by both sides, there would be much better hope of useful diam. cussion.

to publish

COITOS- Ponding

papers, that this particular German article awaited a mutually agreed

article in the German

the moment exist. Nevertheless

Of course, these were only Boers, not German gentlemen; otherwise we

Fifty-three days later, on July 23, translation, and that although an Eno question whatever as to the fact: on the personal and urgent Invita- might put a German sailor from

glish article had been

prepared, that some scuttled ship in each fishing tons of Dr. Dietrich, I went to Gernino awalled an agreed translation: trawler or lightship.

discuss

all the points with and it was quite clear in my would see that he did his share of him, and am July 27 I arrived at

The

crow

many

to

that before these two traLTS

work, and the spraying with bullets with him, with Herr Hillor, and im- the two

Bayreuth, where had on interview

view could be agreed the crisis

of

the

would be less fun.

countries would be portant German omelats. Dr. Die- cipitated

cipitated beyond repair. At that There are now some 3,000 of these trich, however, took up the attitude, moment the international situation prisoners doing themselves well in in napose on my request for line was at such a tension that any iden

to scientists are scrutinised closely. our or pelson camps. mediate action, that particular of

of reciprocal newspaper exchange But there are good reasons for

My information from the north is moment was not the right one for the was beyond consideration. that they are behaving with in-publication of the articles.

A later!

I reiterate my assurance to belloving what Dr. Gumpert solence, confident already, that their dute, he suggested, might show an German people that in conducting Bays of the general condition of day will come.

Improvement in the international at- these negotiations I was throughout the German people.

mosphere which I last asked the officer hope which would 'givo greater] perfectly sincere in my desire for There is not to-day in Ger-

a rapprochement between

be obvious that peace, it WHEN

must prisoners were costing us £2 the two

countries. Expressing the made every effort and took every many, he says, a definite state of per head per day to feed and house, opinion that the sooner the articles reasonable step to bring about this hunger, as in the days of the without including the cost of barbed were published the better, I. left Dr: very dearable mutual exchange of World War. blockade. But there wire and troops to keep them in. Dietrich with the expression of a views, but if I had been made aware is the much more treacherous

hope from him that he would be able during the course of my correspond- atate of continuous and chronic and their own way back to

It would be cheaper to let them to send me the German article very ence with Dr. Dietrich and my visit undernourishmont,

to Germany of the nature of the in-. The Nazis other prison camp which is Germany. Nothing further, however, was famous bargain that must have been have produced not health, but in the last war they were made to heard by me from him unul Monday, in the course of maiding at that very sickness..

work on the land, behind the lines August 21. I was at that time taking time between Hitler and Stalin for reconstructing France, I know but a few days' holiday at Deauville, andi the division of Poland, and the sacri-

that soon.

ir opinion

You will remember that towards the close of the conversation at Bayreuth, in reply to my inquiry

to whether he had any proposals:

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to make for a better understanding, Herr Hitler suggested that each country should put its requirements on paper and that this might lead ton discussion. It seems to me- that we have here suggestion that ought to be followed up and I should like to pursue it. "In order-

to make progress, do you think it would be possible for you, in con- Adence, to obtain the Fuhrer's

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