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Toll For The Brave
course
For the third time since the war broke out the nation has to face the news that a great vos- sel has been sunk, and that hun- dreds of brave men have been drowned. As a maritime peo- ple, we have been taught in the of our long history to bear such blows with fortitude; tacit tribute to this. it was in quality that the Admiralty gave us the grievous news that the Glorious had bear lost. The effect upon Britain of such losses has always been to confirm her resolution, and inspire her men to fresh efforts to ensure that their comrades shall not have died in vain. Even in times of peace the sea exacts its steady tribute of British lives. It was inevitable from the moment when war was declared that that tribute would multiply itself many times in the months that lay ahead. What must be, must
be.
Though we shall not fail to
The
·June 13, 1940.
English Something
Tinderstand 667THE English," said Hitler something about perfidy." If so, it may be accepted that this generation at least has profited by close ob- servation of the Hitler method,
Understand
About Perfidy
This was the man who could any in
1930
"If the rest of the world clings to the letter of treaties cling to
the elemmal laws of morality." To appreciate the principles un- derlying his annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia and the Polish When the British Government problems which led to the war, it is said that that peace could only be worth while turning to an illuminat- concluded with a German Govern- ing paragraph in "Mein Kampf." ment whose word could be trusted it was abundantly justified by the Jong history of the Fuehrer's broken promises and perfùrics.
"I have stretched out the hand of peace to the rest of the world. I am the herald of European pence," Hitler announced in 1036;
From his earliest days he has. shown himself to be totally unable to keep a premise:
"Your Excellency," he said to Dr., Schweyer in 1023, "I give you my word of honour that I will never attempt
few putsch-and ሲ months later (November, that year) he led the unsuccessful Munich
Putsch. In 1936 he made the stormy protest: "Our opponents ask, 'Can we trust his proposals?' This is an insult!"
"Germany ha Veritable
Island of Peace”
Again and again he has insisted on stressing his peaceful intentions: In the relations between na- tions I see no problem which is incapable of an amicable solution I handled with insight. I refuse to believe that good will lacking to-day in any responsible quarter abroad" (1055).
"The German is not merely by nature ready for peace and a lover of peace. He also is, above all, conciliatory" (1937).
It
wak
સ
"Germany is the only country which has been and will remain tranquil. Germany to-day is veritable Island of peace" (1937).
always from Bolshevism that he was determined to save his people. With his recent pact with Russia fresh in mind the following extracts from his speeches make strange rending!
"In no circumstances would Germany fight for the Bolsheviks." Rather, than sign such a pact I would hang myself" (1935).
"I cannot make a pact with the Bolshevik regime" (1930).
"We have no intention of forcing our kleals on anybody else, but let Moscow ceases to spread its, bar- barism" (1937).
"History," Hitler wrote, "tenches us that nations which have once given way before the threat of arens without being forced to do so will accept the greatest humilin tion and exactions rather than make a fresh appeal to force.
He, who has obtained such an advantage will, if he is clever, only make his demands in small doses. When dealing with a na- tion which has lost all force of character.owing to its having given way, he will be entitled to expect that his fresh but piecemeal de mands will not be considered worth resisting by the nation from which they are made," So it is that in 1934 we find him saying,
"Once the Sanr plebiscite has been sellled, then I hope that, on the other side, problems will be seen in their true light shall be able to conclude a sin- cere peace with France."
and
law, the mamo rights as those en- Joyed by other citizens" (Febru- ury).
ritorial problems in Europa." In saying farewell to Mi, Cham- berlain at Godesberg, Hitler repeated with great carnestness that this was Then there quieldy followed:
"I have decided to place the the last of his territorial ambitions. assistance of the Reich at the dis- In Europe and that "he had no wish posal of the millions of Germans to include in the Reich people of In Austria. Since carly 10-day the other races than German. soldiers of German armed forces So we come to 1930, and all the have been marching over the honesty of his professions evapor- frontler of German Austria" ates: (March),
"My patience is at an end" has by now a familiar ring. Here it is for the first time in his utterances of September, 1038:
"Where the Sudeten German problem is concerned my patience is at an end.. I have, made Bienes an offer
Since England, to-day, uphold. the view that Germany should be upposed under all circumstances and confirms it by the policy of encirclement known to us, the baris of the Navy Treaty has been..re- moved."
With that he denounced the navale The decision be- pact with Britain, tween pence and war la in his "A Pact with Our Great
hands.
"Either he will accept this offer and at Inst give Germans their freedom; or we shall secure tils freedom for them.
"I can only tell the representa- tives of the democracles that it these tormented creatures cannot
Neighbour Poland”
"Danzig is a German city and: wishes to belong to Germany. On- the other hand, this city has con- tracts with Poland, which were admittedly forced upon it by the Versailles Treaty."
In these words was his intention. by their own exertions come to to demand Danzig foreshadowed; but. their rights and help themselves, in 1934, after the Polish-German they will demand both their rights and assistance from us." "My Last Territorial
Claim in Europo"
The echoes of "Meln Komp!" are Mainly heard in the passage in which declared, in November, 1938:
trenty had
non-astgression signed, he had sald
been
"A pact has been signed with Poland, and by that the Relch has clearly shown its wish to maintain great good relations with this neighbour."
A year later he turns his atten- he ive always make it a habil of The belated pretext for a deliber-
tion to Memel. "Peaceful Memel Was stolen by Lithuania. The people of Memel have been oppressed for years, and Germany must turn her attention to it." "Lies that Germany Will
Attack Austria"
In 1830 carne the statement, "The German people do not wish to con- tinue waging war to readjust fron- Each of them is bought by sacrifices out of proportion to what is to be gained." And in the same year, "We hear such leg as that Cier- many will attack Austria to-morrow or perhaps Czechoslovakia."
But in 1938 came these ominous references to Austria;
"It does not lle in the power of man to stop the rolling-stone of fate which, through neglect, or folly, has been set moving. I am happy to say that these ideas cor- respond with the point of view of the Austrian Chancellor whom I invited to visit me.
"The underlying intention was to bring about defente in our re- lations which would guarantee to the National Socialist sympathisers In Austria, within the limits of the
Regotiating first, but if we do not ate change of polley towards Poland: to that succeed in getting our lawful was Britain's guarantee
when It VRH already rights then National Socialist Ger- country
pledge of
many will know how to enforce threatened and Poland's its rights by any means that we assistance to us, In his speech of: may enforce nud may cause war. April 28, 1939, Hiller declared:
I will do everything to keep
This obligation (by Foland) fr to the agreement which contrary Germany armed.
I made with Marshal Pilsudsk some time ago, seeing that in this ngreement reference is made ex- clusively to existing obligations ats to the obliga-
Here is the "herald of European peace" apeaking in the same month:
I am determined to strengthen the nationnt defences to the utmost
limit, to be prepared for ali even- that time, name towards France of
tualities.
tions of Poland which we were aware.
Here are extracts from the Czech- slovakin ultimatum speech of Sep-... "I therefore look upon the agree tember, 1938:
ment which Marshal Pilsudaki and I at one time concluded us having been
intringed by unilaterally Poland and thereby no longer in cxistence."
"And now the last problem which be solved, and will be solved, must confronts us. It is the last ter ritorial claim which I have to make
in Europe, but it is the claim from Here, then, is the brief chronicio which I do not recede and which of promises,
I shall fulfil, God willing.
pledges and perfidy
I which the British Government had in
am grateful to Mr. Chamberlain for mind when making it declaration of all his efforts, and I have assured policy. him that the German people want For nothing but peace,
"I have anmured him, and I stress. It now, that when this problem,is solved Germany has no more ter-
OUR WAR-TIME
HERE was some swithering among ma sang!"
"Three States have come
to-THER gether. Fit a European axis and now a great world triangle. I am convinced that the attempts of our old opponent. (Russia) _la___carry ...unrest throughout the world will experience more and more dim- culties the more the triangle is consolidate" (1937).
"To Moscow, is the centre of world Bolshevism, there would be unremitting hostilty" (1938). "What We Sign We Shall
Keep Loyally'
what. Is he they follow- Truly, gentlemen.
A bloody tyrant and a homicide;: One raised in blood, and one in
blood established..
his
SOIREE
"Mr. Alexander Mackay will give usual rendering of The Lum lat," beamed the minister.
the mighty men of our village "H'm, I've heard it for thirty years. as to the advisability of holding the I'm gaun through to the vestry when
But tradition ye tak' the finly."
"Naethin' ' the sort, meenister," kirk soiree this year.
said big Sandy, fumbling in his poc-- dies hard, and the war itself could'
When the pokes began to explode, ket. "Ladies un gentlemen, I ha'e hardly be a greater calamity than the emission of the annual spree in be shuddered and wandered out-long the pleasure of singin' an entire
the door, just to make sure that the ly --new-ng-The Sodger's. Ro-.-. the kirk.
"Whit aboot the black-oot?" enemy were not stealing on them turn.
Loud applause and cries of "Guld "It was unawares. But he came back when spelred the beadle dismally.
Sandy Issued from tho Be a sair affront in the Germans he heard the minister starting off auld cam owre an: us haudin' a folliaca-the programme with his usual round audience. Sandy bowed, cleared his. of jokes. The dim figures In the tion the hoose of God."
The beadle has no soft spot fer nughter, but though the beadle che said, in an anxious aside to the
dingy news slook with appreciative throat, and peered at his notes.
"Can ye no turn up the lichts?" such ploys as seirees; there are too casionally
gave 3 Brunt which many burst pokes and conversation might have been a suppressed laugh beadle, but that worthy unhelpfully
muttered something about "regula lozenges to bo swept up the next -he did not hold with such lona" faded further into tho seemly mirth in the "hoose o' God."
background. Mellowed with tea and the con-
It was unfortunate that Sandy, an obvious quality in Hitler's state-Man," said big Sandy, the elder, craft. From the first he chafed un-"the wee bit wauchle o licht that tents of the pokes, the audience sat der the remaining provisions of the your auld lamps g'e wadna' attract back to enjoy themselves. Though whose memory was us short as his:
moth, faur less a German. Ye con they could scarcely
the per-eyesight, had not succeeded in get Treaty of Versailles.
"And why should we pay Re-hing up some auld curtains gin ye're formers, the kirk soiree had for years Ling the words of his new song off
feart for bombs."
followed such a well-known pattern by heart, nor could he read the notes.
In the dim light. "H'm," said the beadle. "It's nae that they had no difficulty in re-
awa',
might hamper hint has always been Disregard for pledge or treaty that
"
came en-
use speakin to you. Ye'll be zaun cognising the artistes." to sing kely. Och ay! the same Mrs. M'Toun coyly faced them, couragingly from the nuclence.
the National parations? We of Socialist party are young. We are absolutely innocent of war guilt
(1931).
threw back her head, closed her eyes, "It'll be The Lum Hat' efter n',” And yet he could declare, "I would buld sung, The Lum Hat,****
"Nothin' of the sort! I've got and launched forth into Passed groaned the beadle, and big Sandy, rather die than sign anything which
By
seeing there was no other way out.. Your Window," could not be fulfilled or which the now ane for the occasion-a patriotic
anc."
"By Jings" muttered the beadle, "I was regretfully forced to shove "The German nation could not accept," and "What we sign-we-shall-keepit. Ye've been plugin The Lum
"Ay, I believe it when I hearken whit I wad do wi ye gin ye Godger's Return" back into his poc
passed
tried favourite. The audience, how. bear our logs like men, wo shall { blindly and loyally" (1933 and 1935)-Hal' noo for thirty years, so it's no' that by ma wundda, singin' like ket and-launch forth, on his. well-
But in 1936 he declared, "The
"Yo should hire her for an air ever, were in no way disconcerted.. also claim the right, in the words Rhine part of Locarno has lost its likely your thrapple'll tait' to a new
ane."
raid warnin'" quoth big Sandy, when As they remarked when scaling: of a
The kirk soiree wadna' be the same noble line uttered by inner meaning and in practice has
"Walt an' see," sald big Sandy she had reached her top note, ceased to exist, Germany, on her mysteriously. Macduff at the extremity of his side, therefore does not consider her-
But the beadle's only reply was withoot Sandy's Lum Hat." "Ye'll no be muckle better. yersel', As the beadle was turning out the grief, to feel it like men. The self any longer tied by this dead
It was decided at length to hold
lights," he remarked mallelously pact," sinking of a big ship has in it a
the kirk soiree on a moonlight night, a man." As to the Peace Treaty he said but somehow or other the moon After Mrs. M'Tosh's rendering, had Mun, Sandy, I likit your new sang
But big Sandy did not take up the specially heart-rending quality, in 1933:
his usual "selection" on the challenge. Instead he handed the. akin to the horror caused by
Equally untrue are the sugges-not seem to co-operate, for on the come to a skirting close, the dominie
grim blackness des-ave
iddle, and did not slop fill every beadle conversation lozenge, In tions that Germany Is evading the Ereat night a some great cataclysm of nature, terms of the Treaty in the matter cended on the village. It was hardly
of personnel. The accusation that lighter inside the kirk, for the beadle string was broken and the audience, scribed:Lighten up my darkness," an eruption or an earthquake,
ma' man, an' mind your step, or the ing. the storm troops, stand in any re- had not only hung up curtains but hidden in the glean, were hall-dover remarking: Sook that gaun hame,
They sat up, however, when Germans'll get yer which wipes out at ono blow Intionship to me Reichswehr, or culously shrouded the lights with
much more caution than was neces-came at last to big Sandy's turn.
Lavinia-Derwent whole cities, with all their com-
that they are being trained as re- serviste, is untrue."
"D'ye think we're goun to play af plement of human loves, bates,In 1985 he said:
blind man's bun?" said big Sandy, circumstances "In these hopes and fears. A. battle by
Germon Government regards it as who was short-sighted at any time. land may have a longer casualty impossible to postpone any longer "Michty me! a cat couldna see a list, Just
the measures necessary for the moose 1 this licht."
Latin post-"I know not by she quietly, yet in the broadest of as more devastation
Things were so bad at the back
"And where defence of Germany, sill less to may be caused by pestilence or concent them from the remainder of the kirk that one worthy was what sweet charm our native soll American speech, naked,
heard to remark, Jingy, I was sittin' attracts us to it and does not suffer do you come from?"
To my confession of being from of the world." famine than by oven the fiercest
Introduction of. universal next Jock Broon for has an hoor us ever to forget it."
afore I kent who he was.”
Travelling in New England some Edinburgh she replied--and there volcano; but the shock to the military service and the promulga-
But the Jovial spirit of the kirk time ago, we were shown over a re-wns an obvious yearting in hea Imagination is not so cruel, or ton of the law regarding the esta-soiree was in no way quenched by sidenco for the elderly, The spaci- voice-Ah, Edinburgh! 1 ought to
blishment of the new German Army
TOOKIE,
the organisation, and know Edinburgh. My father left the sepulchral gloom, especially when ou the call-upon sympathy so im he justined as "nothing else than the the pokes were handed round and attention by which the occupants Edinburgh a young me mediately insistent, as when a restoration to Germany of a status the conversation lozenges dealt out. were made comfortable were as much came to this country and his of equal rights which threatens no- Some consternation, however, was a joy as the brightness and activity girls, born here, knew Edinburgh community of people is over- body, but guarantees Germany's
caused by not being able to read the of the lady, about 85 years young well from his frequent and affec whelmed in a moment of time.security." That was in 1938.
inscriptions, on the lozenges. The who showed our small group round; tonate descriptions
How
It has not yet been possible to obtain a list, but it seems certain that the number of those dend in the Glorious and her attendant destroyers must be considerable, We mourn their deaths bitterly
heir deat but we shall see to it that their lives shall not have been waat-
The
In 1937 come,
"The Treaty of Versailles dead. Germany
the
A LINGERING LOVE HOW
Tow true are the words of the which she had long been famillar.
..a
He
is cobbler, especially, was dumbfounded Characteristically American remorks How he loved Edinburgh in free. The in receive love you" from his wore passed, especially regarding the he hoped and tried to see it l guarantor of this freedom is our worn enemy, Mr M Tosh, who place from which each had come the in his later years! Ho bocama: frail,
would have been equally astounded answers revealing that not only were but ever continued to speak of. had she been able to read, "Can you Americans of the company but viale fat off yet-ever doar altyaM rpme a kiss?", wh
which he handed tors from European countries plp youth. A time came. When he seemed
SERER DEALTHe writer had remained allant bu
1 but to her passing and to those around
Cling to the Eternal ---Laws of Morality"
"And later in the same year?
The beadle as usual ttar hvaid pake-burung what really matters in that the ken whuther U
in here, and that the lif
gruntock; pemÁŠIT Germán
was anxious observant until courtesy maderm To-
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or hop heruida reamed to become 21
more alert than before
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