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Hitler First Shook Germany Ten Years Ago

AM

A Backward Look at His

Early Threats and Promises

universal UncaRinesa

ceased to grow

burden in order that she might MID such a "furnace-

resume her career of aggression. On hissing of events" as

the basis of the argument summarised by Mr Mowrer, we are to suppcso that in which our common

that when she has been beaten again and has "disowned" Ifiller-as she Ilot has been cast during

had disowned the Kaiser and Com- these latter years it is easy

pany-she will have acquired a clean to lose all reckoning of time. proscribing enough of their political have attributed it to the sense of sheet from all the crimes she fins opponents to assure themselves the "despair" under which the German committed as lils accomplice and will I may, perhaps, be permitted parliamentary majority which ap- nation was alleged to be languishing feel entitled to be aggrieved if she

The truth, on the contrary, is that is not allowed to go scot free. at that moment the Germans had the. What it all comes to is this. About to recall the grim and fate- poured otherwise improbabia,

Nevertheless, Pulech or no Putsch, best of reasons for being eminently every quarter of a century or so ful anniversary that fell a his electoral success in September, satisfied with their policy of the pre- Germany is to exert a "Herrenvolk's"

caused an immediate und ceding six years, the Stresemann right to chance her arm at conquering. few weeks ago; for until 1930,

abroad, policy of so-called "Fulfilment." Europe and to stake her bloodlust that self-same mid-Septem- which has never

from that day to this, Az early As the first-fruits of this polley ber week in 1930, 'not one

48 September 19, only five days they had secured, under the Young the Berlin Pinn, a reduction of the outstanding person in a million outside afte

correspondent of "The Daily Tele- capital liability on account of repara

£1,850,000,000 and an Germany could remember graph was already writing that tlong to

Hitler's movement must be regarded alleviation of the annual payments due under the Dawes Flan. Above ever having heard so much as portending "n terious menuce to as the name of the man who the tranquility of Germany, and there- all in consideration of their under

taking to carry out the Young Plan, they had obtained the evacuation of to-day imposes his barbaric In the light of what we know now the Rhineland by the French on July dominion over four-fifths of and have learned from the wisdom 1, 1030, four and a half years before

that comes after the event, that may the Treaty date. road to-day like an Ironle under- the Continent of Europe.

statement, but it affords Bome Yet at the September elections, measure of the apprehension inspired less than three months after the It is true, of course, that the even at that remate hour in the minds Rhineland evacuation, the mood at already the German pouple was miserable, melodramatic, misbe- uf acute political observera,

"Thank you for nothing." The gotten fiasco of Hitler's Munich

About 10 days after the elections success of Hitler was a formal notice beer-hall putsch had occupied

the

election.

fore ut Europe."

dy

Hitler gave a comprehensive account served on the world that, with the at a trial in Leipzig of three young she was preparing to cheat her way

on any of her neighbours who refuse meekly to submit to enslavement. I she succeeds she is to retain all the prizes of aggressien; it she loses sho is to suffer none of the penalties, or, if penities are exacted, we are to deafened with on everlasting

Intolerable diktate and all the rest of

whine about monstrous injustices, It, and to be enjoled with the plea that in ruthlessly trampling down one

ly" balleved she was fighting a war neighbour atter another, she "honest of “liberation" and "self-defence."

·

Well, Britain and her Allies are going to put an end to this sort of thing once and for all. One of the of Goebbels's lies fotuous asserts that we aim to "exterminate" the German people. We Intend

more

the headlines for a few brint of his alms in the course of evidence Rhineland now free of French troops, going to hold the German

days in November, 1923, but like Kapp and many other nameless adventurers of that turbulent period, the little Austrian painter had soon relapsed into a total oblivion.

By J. C. JOHNSTONE

who were accused of hack into a position where she could subalterna attempting to subvert the army in the resume the pursuit of world dominu interests of the Nazi party. These rich, which had been frustrated by

included alms

inculcating the the defeat of 1918, "martial idea" in the German people, "protecting Germany and "setung Mowrer has well represented the sort

In the following possage Mr Edga her free" and aboushing the peace of thing Germans were saying to ficatles. When asked how he pro- pos

themselves: "Why should they be abolish the treaties, posed to

he replied, "By diplomalle means, and punished for whatever taults the dis I state this categorically here by owned Imperial rulers might have the complete evasion of these treaues fought the war in the hunest benef committear. The German people cy legni, and if necessary by illegal, that it was defending itself against

to-day.

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of the kind. But wo are

people responsible for all the crimes iit.er has committed on their behalf and with their willing and indeed exulting connivance,

We are going to see to it, in dne, that

and truly protected for ever- well and the rest of Europe are more against megalomania which has made Germany a pest to oil and sundry for close on half a century

past.

Accused Of Shooting Sweetheart

The event which suddenly the United Press Associations who hurled him like a flashing meteor into the world's ken was the general election of September 14, 1930. Competent observers of ENGLAND'S HOMES

the campaign had predicted

means," MANY people are concerned some increase in the "Fascist"

Western envy and Fussion karburism. Such were the alms for which What justification could there be lor about the peace terms the world vote-Fascist being at that time. Hitler attracted 6,400,000 voles in these monstrous and apparently un- will have after the war. They the generic term for all people september, 1830, and many more ending reparations?" might also give some heed to of Hitler's kidney-but no one till he was complete master of the

maisions of votes in subsequent years Actually, in the six years to 1930

An Army privato was accused another matter of very great had been prepared for anything Reich-aims the logical and literal Germany had borrowed from abroad

substantaily more than she had paid at Oxford recently of shooting importance and one that comes like the eight-fold-multiplication fulfilment of which is before our eyes cut in repa.ations, so that during wat his sweetheart dead after he had

real' period she had suttered no very near to the lives of of the vote from the R10,000

Seeing, morcover, found letters from a corporal on The treatles have been evaded by burden at all. the people. That is the build-recorded two years previously to a spectacular series of tricks and be has since repudiated not only her dressing-table. ing and rebuilding of England's 6,400.000, which raised the perjuries, the "martial idea" has been the whole of her reparation debt but Hitlerist representation in the named in the minds of the whole practically the whoig of her borrow- nation to degree for which history .ngs as well, it is clear that she has It has happened in the past Reichstag from a mere 12 to 107ven the history of Frederick II.'s been living very emiortably

Prussia-alfords no parallel, and other people's expense. Finally, let that for one reason or another in a House of 576.

what, according to Hiler, is the it be recalled that in each of several destruction of Poland, Denmark, years preceding the present, war she building operations have been

on realmament Norway, Holland and the rest but a squandered unduly hurried and conducted

matter of "protecting" and "liberat- tuan the whole capital bability for

reparations under the Young Plan. for the most part in a haphazard At a single bound Hitlerism" the German people?

The question has often been put In short, to reimburse the victims way. At one time it was the had leapt up from a contemptible urgent demands of the period of obscurity to second-among-the-why millions of Germans should huve of her aggression Er part of the “bejun - 15” throw themselves into the dambjjesht — hadTM -inflicted-wik

but she industrial expansion all over the swarm of parties which com- arms of Hitler in the autumn of 1930. monstrous," country. The ugly and insani-peted for the control of the and dupes of German propaganda encugh to shoulder a much heavier tury product has been the shame Weimar Republic. A notable and regret of

subsequent absentee from the embattled generations. The next period ranks of his party in the new of wholesale building was after Reichstag was Hitler himself, the last war, when some of the who, as an allen, was disqualified mistakes of the previous period

that from membership of were repeated.

assembly.

The Alien

WAS

at

mole

ready

Women

New

in the World

By Annie S. Swan

Now another such building It is a curious commentary on expansion may be in the near the methods and mentality of future, and it is all-important the Weimar Republic that he that the country should profit by had never been expelled from experience and do something the country as an undesirable MOST of us remember the right to stand beside our men know-

worthy of Britain. It is not too allen after his arrogant pro-

"While he was waiting for the girl nt her lodging in Oxford he found some letters written to her by a Corporal Fuller," said Mr. E. G. Robey, prosecuting.

Private Edward George Beesley (29); of the RA.S.C., was committed. for trial, charged with the murder of Irene Sherry (34), a domestic servant, by shooting her with Service rifle,

Shot Through Heart Mr. Robey zak that the girl was.

Ho alleged that Beesley rald in a shot through the heart at close range. statement to the police: “When sho came in I produced the letters I had found on her dressing-table and she tried to grub them.

to

"I said, 'You have not been true me while I WAS in the Army. It's time you made up your mind after going with me for seven years. don't intend you having another man to fool like you have me

Gavo Himself Up

"She said she would please herself. and laughed and treated it on a joke. ·

picked up my rifle and pointed it at her as she sat in the chair.

"Next thing I heard was a shot.

I ing that we have not falled them-thought I had missed and I left the

ever poet's tribute to women; nor, please God, wil we

fall house. I wandered about, but in the

and I gave myself up."

soon to think and plan, and to clamation of himself as "Presi. learned it in my youth without them in days to come.

further the purposes of the newly appointed Minister of Works and Buildings.

dent of the Reich" at the time comprehending the meaning. of his abortive Munich rebellion. O woman in our hours of case,

Hitler now became overnight Uncertain compony and hard to To this end the President of the talk of the world. News- please;

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the Royal Institute of British papers everywhere hastened to When pain and anguish ring the brow Architects pleads for the early devote long articles to his record, ministering angel thoul and complete recognition of the attainments and Intentions, and All right, but I am sure the function of the trained designer speculation both inside and out-maiority of us do not aspire to the angels, nor perhaps could pass the and planner in this reconstruc-side Germay was rife as toneessary test for that high distinc tion, so that new dwellings may whether Germany might not be. We are just ordinary women rendy to step into the breach when be made that shall give the full-on the ove of another and more required. est possibilities of healthy lives formidablo Hitler Putsch. The In the big sorrows and crises of for our people. Unless there is street brawling tactics of his life I have noticed that women stand vision and trained skill in plan-storm troopers and the high. Up to them better than min. They ning from the outset there will nying pretensions of his rhetoric of courage and evenly the tumor- be the same dreary fallures as during the campaign had cerace in times of stress. in the past. Even for the smallest houses there should be tainly lent some colour to such a the highest available architec-possibility. tural skill.

"A Serious Menace”

There will be unlimited opportuni-

em to have inexhaustibld reserves

which come surprisingly to the

As now, for instance. Where should we be without thras res Tyrs showing up zo splendidly In hours of darkness and danger? Certainly without them we should Hitler, however, was by now arm-be less well-equipped for what Is ties for beauty and utility in designly resolved not to let himself be happening-and what may yet hap- and construction. From the ashes of bowled out a second time by prema the cities' slums should arise wisely ture revolt. He contented himself planned garden townships where the with an open avowal of his ultimate

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pen,

In the new time coming there will

sun can' and its way into the homes intention to overthrow the parliamen-brent and urgent demand for the of the poorer classes.

sary regime, but declared that he right kind of homes. Whether as friend, All this was said twenty-five years would employ only parliamentary wife, mother esister, or

every woman will have to make her ago, and what came of 11? The means in encompassing his end,

contribution to it. situation was summed up in the This undertaking, like every other President's few words the nation undertaking he has ever made,. he trained its architects and then de- eventually broke, but not until clined to use them. It will be un- February, 1933, when he and his gang forgivable if this accusation set fire to the Reichstag building in allowed to hold good at the end of order to manufacture an excuse for struggle is over we may have every

the present warj

A call, a challenge has been made to the womanhood of this country, and the response has been magnificent,

Let us karn it un so that when the

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