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Toll For The Brave

For the third time since the war broke out the nation has to face the news that a great ves- 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 to course of our long history bear such blows with fortitude; it was in tacit tribute to this quality that the Admiralty gave us the grievous news that the Glorious had been 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 pence 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 tires in the months that lay ahead, What must be, must

be.

The

June 13, 1940.

English Something

Understand

Perfidy

About

THE English," said Hitler Thi was the man who could say in

THE

***understand something

If so, it may be about perfidy." nccepted that this generation at least has profited by, close ob- Bervation of the Hitler method.

When

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law, the same rights as those en- Joyed by other clilzens" (Febru. ury). Then there quickly followed:

ritorial problems in Europe." In anying farewell to Mr. Cham- berlain at Godesberg, Hitler repeated with great earnestness that this was I have decided to place the the inst of his territorial ambitions aalstance 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 to-day the other races than German." soldiers of Is

German armed forces So we come to 1939, and all the have been marching over the honesty of his professions evapor- frontier al German Austria" ales: (March).

"If the rest of the world clings to the letter of treaties I cling to the eternal laws of morality," To appreciate the principles un- of Austria derlying his annexation and Czechoslovakia and the Polish the British Government problems which led to the war, I said that that peace could only be worth while turning to an luminat- concluded with a German Govern- Ing paragraph in "Mein Kamp?" men whose word could be trusted It was abundantly justified by the long history of the Fuehrer's broken promises and perjuries.

"I have stretched out the hand of petes to the rest of the world, am the herald of European peace," Hitler announced i 1038;

I

From his earliest days he has shown himself to be totally unable to keep a promise:

Your Excellency," he said: to Dr. Schweyer in 1923, "I give you my word of honour that I will never attempt a

few putsch"-and a months later (November, that year) ho led the unsuccessful Munich

pulsch. In 1838 he made the stormy protest: "Our opponents nsit. Can. we trust his proposals? This is an insult!**

"Germany is a Veritable

Irland of Peace"

"History." Hiler wrote, "teaches us that nations which have once threat of alven way before the arms without being forced to do Do will accept the greatest humilia- tion and exactions rather than make a fresh appeal to force..

"He who has obtained such an advantage will, if he In 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." be it is that in 1934 we find him snying,

"Once the Saar plebiscite has been settled, then I hope that, on the other side, problems will be Been in their true light and we shall be able to conclude a sin- cere peace with France." A year later he turns his allen tlon Memel. "Peaceful Memel

to

Again and again he has insisted was alolen by Lithuania. The people on stressing his peaceful intentions; of Memel have been oppressed for

"In the relation between na. years, and Germany must turn her. tlons I see no problem which is attention to it." incapable of an amicable solution "Lles that Germany Will If handled with insight. I refuse Aftack Austria" to belleve that good will lacking

In 1936 came the statement, "The to-day in any responsible quarter German people do not wish to con- abroad" (1033).

tinue waging war to readjust fron- "The German is not merely by tlers. Each of them is bought by nature ready for peace and a lover sacrifices out of proportion to what

£0 be

And in the same gained." of peace. He also is, above all, is

"We hear such iles as that Ger- year, conciliatory" (1937).

any will attack Austria to-morrow or perhaps Czechoslovakia...

But in 1938 came these ominous references to Austria:

Germany-in-the-only-country which has been and will remain tranquil. Germany to-day is veritable island of peace" (1937).

it was always from Bolshevism that he was determined to save his people. With his recent pact with fussia fresh in mind: the following his speeches make extracts from strange reading:

"In по circumstances would Germany fight for the Bolsheviks. Rather thon, sign such a pact I would hang myself" (1935).

"I cannot make a pact with the Bolshevik regime" (1936).

"We have no intention of forcing! our ideals on anybody else, but let Moscow cease to spread its bar barism" (1037).

1

"It does not lie 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 a detente in our re- lations which would guarantee to the National Socialist sympathisers In Austria, within the limits of the

OUR

"My patience is at an end" has 'by now a familiar ring. Here it is for the Orst time in his utterances of September, 1930;

"Where the Sudsten German problem is concerned my patience at an end. I have made Benes an offer .... The decision be tween peace and war is in his

hands.

"Either he will accept this offer and at last give Germans their freedom, or we shall secure this freedom for them.

k

"Since England, to-day, upholds the view that Germany should be oppored under all. circumstances and confirms. It by the policy of encirclement known to us, the basis of the Navy Treaty has been re- moved." With that he denounced the naval pact with Britain, peng

A Pact with Our Great.

Neighbour Poland"

"Danzig is a German city and wishes to belong to Germony. On the other hand, this city has con- tracts with Poland, which were admittedly forced upon it by the Versailles Treaty." -

"I can only tell the representa- lves of the democracies that if these tormented creatures cannot by their own exertions come to their rights and help themselves in 1934, after the they will demand both their rights and assistance from us."

In these words was his intention

"My Last Territorial

Claim in Europe"

Bucceed

to demand Danzig foreshadowed; but Polish-German

non-aggression treaty had been signed, he had said:

to

that

"A pact has been signed with Poland, and by that the Reich has clearly shown its wish to maintain The echoes of "Mein Kampf" are

great plainly heard in the passage in which good relations with this he declared, in November, 1838:

neighbour." The belated pretext for a deliber- "We always make it a habit of negotiating first, but if we do not ate change of polley towards Poland

lawful was Britain's in getting our

guaranter rights then National Socialist Ger- country when it was already many will know how to enforce threatened and Poland's pledge of Its rights by any means that we assistance to us. In his speech of may enforce and may cause war. April 28, 1939, Hitler declared:

I will do everything to keep Germany armed. Here is the "herald of European pence" speaking in the same month:

"I am determined to strengthen the national defences to the utmost limit, to be prepared for all even- tualities,"

Here are extracts from the Czech- slovakiaultination speech of Sep- tember, 1938:

This obligation (by Poland) I contrary to the agreement which I made with Marshal Pilsudski some time ago, seeing that in this agreement reference is made ex- clusively to existing obligations at that time, namely, to the obligu- llons of Poland towards France of which we were aware.

therefore look upon the agree- mert which Marshal Pilsudski and mert I at one time concluded as having been

infringed unilaterally

by Poland and thereby no longer in existence."

"And now the last problem which must be solved, and will be solved, confronts us. It is the last ter ritorini claim which I have to make In Europe, but it the claim from which, I do not recede and which of promises, pledges and perfidy I which the British Government had in

I shall funt, God willing

"Here, then, is the brief chronicle

am grateful to Mr. Chamberlain for mind when making its declaration of. all his efforts, and I have assured policy.what him that the German people want For nothing but pence,

"I have assured him, and I stress

it, now, that when this problem is Folved Germany has no more ter-

1s he they follow?· Truly, gentlemen,

A bloody tyrant and a homicide; One raised in blood, and one in

blood established. .

WAR-TIME SOIREE

DRE was some swithering among mo sang!"

"Three States have come to-the nighty men of our village "I'm. I've heard it for thirty years. gether. First a European as 's and as to the advisability of holding the I'm gaun through to the vestry when Hat,"" now a great world triangle. I am kirk soiree this year. But tradition ye tak' the flair." convinced that the attempts of our dies hard, and the war Itself could

culties the more the triangle is "Whit about consolidated" (1937).

"Mr. Alexander Mackay will zlve- his usual rendering of "The Lum beamed the minister. "Naethin' o' the sart, meenister," said big Sandy, fumbling in his poc When the pokes began to explode, kot. "Ladies an' gentlemen, I ha'e

ald opponent (Russia). to carry hardly be a greater calamity than unrest throughout the world will the omission of the annual spree in the shuddered and wandered out to noo the pleasure singin-an-entire experience more and more dim-

the door, 'just-to-make-sure that the lynew-sang: The Sodger's-Re- kirk. the

the black-oot?" enemy were not stealing on them turn.

Loud applause and cries of "Guid

issued Sandy'

from the "To Moscow, as the centre ofered the beadle dismally. "It wad unawares. But he came back when

be a sair. affront gin the Germans he heard the minister starting off aud world Bolshevism, there would be cam owre an' us haudin. a jolllca- the programme with his usual round audience. Sandy bowed, cleared his unremitting hostility" (1938).

of joices. The dim figures in the throat, and peered at his notes. then the hoose o' God."

dingy pews shook with appreciative The beadle has no soft spot for laughter, but though the beadle och he said, in an anxious aside to the "Can ye no turn up the lichts?" Fuch ploys as soirees; there are too

casionally

Gave B grunt-which many burst pokes and conversation might have been a suppressed laugh beadle, but that worthy unhelpfully

be swept up the next he did not hold with such

muttered something about reguln- Disregard for pledge or treaty that lozenges to

tions and faded further into might hamper him has always been Man," said big Sandy, the elder,

day.

seemly mirth in the "hoose of God."

od.background. an obvious quality in Hitler's state-the wee bit wauchle o light that tents of the pokes, the audience sat

Mellowed with tea and the con- It was unfortunate that Sandy, craft. From the first he chafed un-

"What We Sign We Shall

Keep Loyally"

ceased to exist. Germany, on her

new

"By

his usual

the

en-

der the remaining provisions of the your auld lamps gl'e wadna' attract back to enjoy themselves. Though whose memory was as short as his a moth, Laur less a German. Ye can they could scarcely see the per-eyesight, had not succeeded in get- Treaty of Versalles

"And why should we pay Re-hing up some nuld curtains gin ye're formers, the kirk soiree had for yearsing the words of his new song off

feart for bombs." National parations? We of the

followed such n well-known pattern by heart, nor could he read the notes said the beadle. "It's nae that they Socialist party are young.

Wo ure "I'm,"

had no difficulty in re- in the dim light. Ye'll be gaun cognising the "artistes."

"Ca' awa, Sandy," came absolutely innocent of war guilt" we speakin' to you.

to sing likely. Och ay the same (1931).

Mrs. M Tosh exyly faced them,couragingly from the audience. threw back her head, closed her eyes, "It'll be The Lum Hat' efter a' And yet he could declare, "I would auld sang, The Lam Hat'"

"Macthin' o' the sort! I've got a and launched forth into: "I Passed groaned the beadle, and big Sandy, rother die than sign anything which

seeing there was no other way out, could not be fulfilled or which the new ane for the occasion-a patriotic By Your Window

ane." Though we shall not fail to German nation could not accept," And__“What wo sign we shall keep

"Ay I'll believe it when I hear en wings" muttered the beadle, "I was regretfully forced to shove "The wad de wi' ye gin ye Bodger's. Return" back into his poc-. H. Ye've been singin" "The Lum bear our loss like men, we shall blindly and loyally" (1033 and 1935). at 00 for thirty years, so it's no passed by ma wundin, Bingin like ket and launch forth, ice. Wow- tried favourite. The audience, how- But in 1936 he declared, "The

that's also claim the right, in the words Rhine pact of Locarno has lost its likely your thrapple'll tak to

"Ye should hire her for an air-ever, wete in no way disconcerted. rald warnin'" quoth big Sandy, when As they remarked when scaling: of a noble line uttered by inner meaning and in practice has "Wait an' see said blg Sandy she had reached her top note..

"The kirk soiree wadna' be the same Macduff at the extremity of his side, therefore does not consider her mysteriously.

But the beadle's only reply was withoot Sandy's Lum Hat." "Ye'll no' The self any longer tied by this dend

be muckle better yersel', grief, to feel it like men.

As the beadle was turning out the It was decided at length to hold Pact."

lights," he remarked maliciously- min man." sinking of a big ship has in it a

As to the Peace Treaty, he said the kirk soiree on a moonlight night,

After Mrs, MToshi's rendering had Man, Sandy, Ilkit your new sang!" but somehow or other the moon did

But big Sandy did not take up the specially heart-rending quality, 1933:

Equally untrue are the sugges-not seem to co-operate, for on the tome to a skirling close, the dominie akin to the horror caused by

"election" on the challenge. Instead he handed the Ilons that Germany is evading the great night grim blackness des-

Addle.

and did not slop till every beadle a conversation lozenge, In- It was hardly some great cataclysm of nature, terms of the Treaty in the matter chided on the village. an eruption or an earthquake,

of personnel. The accusation that lighter inside the kirk, for the beadle string was broken and the audience, scribed:Lighten up my darkness," the storm troops stand in any re-ad not only hung up curtains but hidden in the gloom, were half-dover- remarking:"Sook that gaun hame, I'ma man, an' mind your step, or the which wipes out at one blow lationship to the Reichswehr, or zealously shrouded the lights with They sat up, however, when it Germans get ye!!! whole cities, with all their com-

that they are being trained as re-ch more caution than was neces came at last to big Sandy's turn.

sary.

D'ye think we're gaun to play at plement of human loves, bates,

these circumstances the blind man's buff?" said big Sandy, hopes and fears. A battle by

German Government regards it as who was short-sighted at any time. land may have a longer casualty impossible to postpone any longer Michty mel a cat couldna' see

How true are the words of the which she had long been famillor,. lint, just a more devastation the measures necessary for the mose I this licht.".

by the quietly, yet in the broadest of defence of Germany, still less to Things were so bad, at the back Latin poet: know not may be caused by pestilence or conceal them from the remainder of the kiric that one worthy was what sweet that our native soll American speech, asked, "And where

heard to remark, "Jings, I was sittin' attracts us to it and does not suffer do you come from?" famine than by even the fiercest

To any confession of being from The Introduction - of universal next Jock Broon for hauf an 110or us ever to forget "

Travelling in New England some Edinburgh she replied and there volcano; but the shock to the military service and the promulgnatore I kent wha he was."

flon of the law regarding the esta

But the fovial spirit of, the Icirkitme ago, we were shown over a re- was an obvious yearning in her | imagination is not so cruel, or shment of the new German Army tree was in no way quenched by sidence for the elderly. Tho spack-voice-"Ah. Edinburgh! I ought to

the call upon aympathy so im- he justified as "nothing else than the the sepulchral gloom, especially when our rooms,

by which the occupants Edinburgh.. as a young man. He mediately insistent, as when a restoration to Germany of a stolus the pokes were handed round and attention

of equal rights which threatens no the conversation lozenges dealt out were made comfortable were as much came to this country and we, his community of people is over-body, but guarantees

Some consternation, however, was a joy as the brightness and netivity girls, born here, mew Edinburgh 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 1939.

the Inscriptions, on In 1937 came,

lozenges. The who, showed our all group round. tionate descriptiona.

"How he loved Edinburgh! How It has not yet been possible to "The Treaty of Versailles I cobbler, especially, was dumbfounded Characteristically 'American remarks

{to receive love you" from his were passed, especially regarding the he hoped and tried to see it again obtain a list, but it seems certain dead. Germany. 18.

sworn enemy, Mrs. M'Tosis, who place from which eath had come, the In his later years! He became frail, that the number of those-dead-ln-own army

guarantor of this freedom is our would have been equally astounded janswers revealing that not only were but ever continued to peak of the

servists, is untrue." In 1935 he said:

of the world.”.

the Glorious and her attendant Cling to the Eternal

| destroyers must be considerable. We mourn their deaths bitterly: but we shall see to it that their lives shall not have been wast- ed.

Laws of Morality”

Mumm

free. The

back

A

Ing.

Lavinia,Derwent -

A. LINGERING LOVE

the organisation, and know Edinburgh. My father left

had she been able to read, "Can you Anericans of the company-but-via-famolyot over-dean city of spare a kios?" which he handed tors from European countries also. youth. A time come when he seemed The writer had remained silent but to be passing and to those around The beadle as usual was anxious observant until courtesy made a re-him he said quietly T not feel to avoid poke-bursting. "We'll no mark pecessary, when at once our ing very well so I'll try and alcop And later in the same year:

what really mailers is that the ken whuther it's guns or no, he guide, seemed to become, if possible, but before tak the linggrondkus li

more alert than before,

had in dander, round by Edinburgh German Army is here, and that grunted pessimistically. Germany has got rid of bars The life, an sowl of the pairty With both ores and, voice indicat, amis 20 feriority complex.”

sold big Bandywalt till ye hearing a recognition of something With