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The Spirit of Hitler

There is much talk to-day of making war not on the German people but on Hitlerism, writes Anne Morrow Lindbergh in the "Reader's Digest."

TH

Waiting for

the

Call-up!

BALKAN Bag-o'-tricks

Four men are looking

into it anxiously to-day

and Greece--has been tempor-j arily persuaded to play possum, That is peace-maker Sarajoglu's work, though Bulgaria has re- served all her rights to present} her plate again after the war.

Bulgaria's standstill agree-

wards realising dead Kemal Ataturk's dream of a Balkan bloc in defence of peace.

THROUGH the snowstreaked V.C. and the British M.C. in the ment has gone a long way to-j

passes of the Balkans, the last war. sleek blue coaches of the Orient Express have brought three

Shukri Sarajoglu, Turkey's statesmen to meet a fourth in She asks if Hitler and his Belgrade. And nearly 60,000,- Foreign Minister and peace- regime is not the embittered 000 people are anxiously await- maker-in-chief to South-Eastern spirit of a strong and deeplying the results of their discus. Europe, is quite prepared for fairsized cats left. Those of

sions, which begin to-day. humiliated people. It is irrele- vant, she argues, whether or not this spirit is justified.

You

The fact is, it is there. cannot kill a spirit; you cannot incarcerate it. It returns like Hamlet's ghost. The ghost of Hitler will haunt an uneasy Europe for generations if the course of this war and its consequent pence is the same as that of the last war.

And the row they have to hoc is none too easy a one.

another tough job.

ALL BECAUSE of my

AGE

By HERBERT ASHLEY

THE General was not effusive. He did not know that 24 years ago almost to the day

I had stood in the same room and asked a simi- larly incffusive Inter- view Board if I might join the Army. It did not seem like 24 years ago.

"The doctor has not put you in a very good class," said the Gen- eral. It occurred to me that this was not an encouraging open- ing to the impressive talk I had mapped out in my mind with the three members of the Board. Moreover, it was not accurate.

The "doctor"-there were six-put me in Grade II. (two) in red ink. It was explained by an N.C.O. with an eye to the main chance that this meant "service abroad but not in the front line:" Younger men in Grade I. (one) in red ink offered wistful congratulations.

I was shocked. The ex- planation was thut it was "because of my age.".

I had not remembered my "age" until I saw that devastating Grade II. (two) in red ink. I had not realised I had “age.” There had been times when I had almost fiercely pointed out graying hair about the brow to a per- son, hoping thereby to ob- tain respect and sympathy. But their existence had always been denied. The laurel due to Ex- perience and Suffering had been withheld. Now I know that I have "age." Time, it seems, marchés

but

will the General let me march with it? The medical examination, D- parently by the entire member-

ship

your

on

of the British Medical

580 was extensive and Eyesight good ("with glasses"), Leath good ("those you've still got"!); ents highly developed from 17 years' reporting.

Still, there are three very

Hungary, Germany and Russia. For 60,000,000 people inhabit He ought to know what tough And all of them have their eyes Greece, Turkey, Rumania and jobs mean, after those fruitless fixed in the most interested Jugoslavia, the four countries of weeks in Moscow last year manner on Rumania. the Balkan Entente..

when the Soviet wanted a pact Russia would like_to_get

Another doctor examined"my It is their Foreign Ministers with Turkey and the longer, back from Rumania the province

heart. Here, there, there, there; who are gathered under the more successful struggle to put of Bessarabia, which she lost

up, down, there, there. A long shadow of the once-glittering King Carol of Rumania and after the last war; Hungary

time over one place, I thought. citadel which gave Jugoslavia's King Boris of Bulgaria on would like to get back the pro- He left the area reluctantly, but capital its name of "The White speaking terms.

vince of Transylvania.

returned like a criminal to the site of his crime. It fascinated Fortress"-Belgrade.

Germany would like to turni

him.

He King Carol's domains into her All the visitors hope perhaps to get a hot tip on Hitler's next Private granary, oil-field and

timber-yard. move from their host, M. Cin-

☆ Plump, neat, grey-moustached car-Markovitch. For this time General John Metaxas is probu- last year Jugoslavia's Foreign King Curol, conscious that So much for the spirit ofbly the least worried of the four. Minister--who can trip a pretty Transylvania and Bessarabia Hitler. But it should be re- considering he is Greece's dicta- pensant dance, despite his stoop contain many more Rumanians tor as well as its Foreign Minis- and ascetic looks-was his than minorities, is saying "no" membered that Germany has ter.

country's envoy in Berlin.

very firmly to any territorial de- long been haunted by a spirit

But then few experiences can Diplomatic crystal-gazing, is mands. On Germany's he is seem very terrible after a taste more or less what has brought trying to do a careful hedge. that was the curse of Europe, of Prussian Army discipline, the four statesmen together by "If that fails to satisfy Ber- and it was not an embittered and 40-odd years ago General the frozen banks of the Danube. lin, are you behind me?" is the John was the star pupil of the They have met to guess which question worried M. Gafencu, and humiliated Germany either. Berlin Officers' Academy.

way the cat is going to jump one way or the other, will be It was not an embittered and

next in their corner of the world, putting his Balkan Entente col-

leagues. humiliated Germany that at- tacked Denmark, and Austria,

and France in a series of wars

between 1864 and 1870, and that plunged the world into war twenty-five years ago. It was a Germany flushed with the lust for conquest; the strongest military power in the world. Those wars were planned years ahead and were deliberately provoked.

After the last war Germany may have felt embittered and humiliated. She had good rea- son to bo so. The crime she had planned had miscarried, and her disappointment was bound to be bitter. But there was nothing of the spirit of humiliation in Hitler's dream of European and then world domination. There

was the love, of military glory, of greed, envy, and arrogance.

Grigore Gafencu, tall, fair and to stop it jumping..

The trouble is that there are It's a tricky question. It's a haired newspaper owner, crack air pilot, is undoubtedly the such a deuce of a lot of cats tricky business anyhow, keeping | most concerned. The demands loose in the Balkans.

Bulgarian put upon a Rumanian Foreign The Minister are enough to dismay garia's "give me back your an- even ono who gained Rumania's nexations" claims on Rumania

Why

cat- Bul.

would want to

to bomb

Because it is the hub of the most strongly forlifed area in the world, SYLT has been navni and transformed since 1935 into a aerial stronghold where hundreds of air- planes are kept in underground: hangars. Thote innocent-Jooking farms you can seg from the Danish Island of Room, four miles to the north, have 18in. concrete roofs beneath their tiles,

1.

Out in the sea is QIELIGOLAND, famous great war fortress, recently strengthened, AT TONNING, on the mainland, is a new airport; another at GELTING, SCHLES- WIG has become an important military centre. Further down the coast the lalands of NORDERNEY, WANGEROOG and BOR- KUM have been fortiged. In the Baltic the fortifications stretch on far na; Rugen,

The purpose of this is to protect the groot German ports of Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel

peace in the Balkans.

Ronald Matthews

anyone Sylt?

Lubeck, Wilhelmshaven. It is unlikely they will be used as a base for air attacks against England. Better ones exist in Westpitalia and the Rhineland: Sylt, they say, is a branch of the German naval air arm, Air Section 6," which has headquarters nt Kiel,

Sylt is twenty-three miles long, only half mile wide, and connected to the sharo by a rollway' which runs along a seven-mile peninsula stretching towards the shore.

Sylt used to have a population of 8,000, now evacuated. The islands, for all their steel and concrete strength are slowly dif appearing. The area of the group, of which Sylt le the biggest, used to be 1,000 square milles 700 years ago. Now it is 100. But as the sea gnaws away the conation"one side it deposits sand on the other, forming ane beaches which attract pleasure-stokers, Sylt's resort Weaterstrand was cliosen by Goering for a holiday in August 1939;

ing

called another doctor; they Ilstened together. The second obviously did not know why the first was so enthralled, and they tried to converse with each other in a kind of scien- tine dumb crambo. "HOB.V.?" asiced one. "Possibly," Bald the other, "or B.CTD. bilingually. Then, cheerfully, "We're not go-

to fall you for that." It In, it appears, my "age"

The General Was human after all. "Hitter is n queer fellow," he said. "There may not bo a push until next March, but it may be to-morrow, who knows? When I comes, shall we say for you the infantry, in France?" He added there was more "scope" in France.

In spite of my "ogo," It seems to me that the odds are in-fa- your of this country. We do not know when ltler will strike, but he does not know that I am Great Britain's secret wen- pon.

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