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hissing of events" as that in which our common: lot has been cast during these latter years it is easy to lose all reckoning of time. may, perhaps, be permitted to recall the grim and fate-

I

A Backward Look at His

Early Threats and Promises

proscribing enough of their political hare, attributed it to the sense of opponents to assure themselves the "despair" under which the derman parliamentary majorily which ap- nation was alleged to be languishing The truth, on the contrary, is that at that moment the Germans had the peared otherwise improbable.

Novertheless, Putsch or no Putsch, best of reasons for being eminently

burden in order that she: might ma resume her career of aggression,. On the basis of the argument summarised by Mr Mowrer, we are to suppose that when she has been beaten again. and has "disowned" Hitler-m the had disowned the Kaiser and Com- pany--she will have acquired a clean

sheet from all the crimes she bas committed as his accomplice and will is not allowed to go scot free. feel entitled to be aggrieved if she

What it all comes to is this. About every quarter of a century or so Germany is to exprt à "Herrenvolk's" right to chance her arm at conquering Europe and to take her bloodlust on any of her neighbours who refuse meekly to submit to enslavement. I she succeeds she is to retain all the.. prizes of aggression; if she loses aho is to suffer none of the penalties, on if permities are exacted, we are be deafened with an everlasting Intolerable diktats and all the rest of whine about monstrous injustices it, and to be enjoled with the plea that in ruthlessly trampling down one neighbour after another, she “bonest-

ful anniversary that fell a his electoral auccess in September, antisded with their policy of the pre-

an immediate and ceding six years, the Stresemann, univeranl uncariness abroad, polley, few weeks ago; for until 1030, enused

of so-called "Fulfilment." never ceased to grow that self-same mid-Septem- which has

As the first-fruits of this policy from that day to this. As early ber week in 1990, not one as September 10, only, five days they had secured, under the Young the election, the

Berlin Pion, a reduction of the outstanding person in a million outside after

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

to £1,850,000,000 und on Germany. could remember graph was already writing that tlons

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

fore of Europe."

taking to carry out the Young Plan, they had obtained the evacuation of In the light of what we know now the Rhineland by the French on July to-day imposes his barbaric [dominion over four-fifths of and have learned from the wisdom 1, 1930, four and a half years before ly" believed she was fighting a war

that comes after the event, that may the Treaty date. read to-day like an ironie under- statement, but it affords somo

of "liberation" and "self-defbuco.”

Well, Britain and her Allies are

thing once and for all. One of the more Intuous

Goebbels's · lles of

the Continent of Europe.

Yet at the September. elections, measure of the apprehension inspired less than three months after the It is truc, of course, that the even at that remote hour in the minds Rhineland evacuation, the mood of going to put an end to this sort of

the German - peuple -- was already of acute political observers.

"Thank you for nothing.". About 10 days after the elections success of Hitler was a formal note Hitler gave a comprehensive account served on the world that, with the of his aims in the course of evidence Rhineland now free of French troops, at a trial in Leipzig of three young she was preparing to cheat her way

miserable, melodramatic, misbe gotten flasco of Hitler's Munich beer-hall putsch had occupied the headlines for a few brief 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

The

subalterns

were accused of hack into a position where she could attempting to subvert the army in the resume the pursuit of world dominib interests of the Nazi party. These tion which had been frustrated by alms included inculcating the the defeat of 1010. "martial idea" in the German people, The event which suddenly "protecting" Germany and setting Mowrer has well represented the sort In the following passage Mr Edgar the United Press Ascectations, who ro- hurled him like a flashing meteor her free" and abolishing the peace of thing Germans were saying 10 either wholly or in part without pravions into the world's ken was the treaties. When asked how he pro- themselves: "Why should they be

posed to abolish the treaties, he P

servo all rights and forbid republications,

Arrangement,

lo-day..

asserts that we aim to "exterminata" the German people. We intend nothing of the kind. But we are certainly going to hold the German people responsible. for all the crimes Hitler has committed on their behalf and with their

and indeed

exulting connivance

We are going to see to it in fine, that we and the rest of Europe are well and truly protected for ever more against megalomanin which has mado Germany a pest to sil- and sundry for close on half a century past.

Accused Of Shooting Sweetheart

general election of September 14, replied, "By diplomatic means, and Punished for whatever faults the dis- I state this categorically hereby owned Imperial rulers might have The German people, 1930. Competent observers of the complete evasion of these treaties. Committea? ENGLAND'S HOMES

fought the war in the honest, belief the campaign had predicted by legni, and if necessary by illegal, that it was defending itself against MANY people are concerned some increase in the "Fascist" means "

Western envy and Russian barbariem. about the peace terms the world vote-Fascist being at that time. Such were the alms for which What justification could there be lor. Hitler attracted 6,400,000 votes in these monstrous and apparently un- will have after the war. They the generic term for all people september, 1930, and many more ending reparations?"

millions of votes in subsequent years might also give some heed to of Hitler's kidney-but no me till he was complete master of the Actually, in the six years to 1930

An Army private was accused, another matter of very great had been prepared for anything Reich aims the logical and literal Germany had borrowed from abroad importance and one that comes like the eight-fold multiplication Cuialment of which is before our eyes outshontally more than she had past at Oxford recently of shooting out in reparations, so that during that his aweetheart dead after he had. period she had suffered no real very near to the lives of of the vote from the 810,000

at all, Seeing, moreover, found letters from a corporal on The treaties have been evaded by burden the people. That is the build-recorded two years previously to a spectacular series of tricics and ce 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 ingrained in the minds of the whole practically the whole of her borrow-

nation to a degree for

Frederick 11.

I been living very comfortably at Reichstag from a mere 12 to 107 even the history or which history ungs as well, it is clear that she has Prussia-affords no parallel, and other people's expense. Finally, let in a House of 575.

what, according to Hitler, is the it be recalled that in each of several destruction of Poland, Denmark, years preceding the present war shePrivate Edward George Beesley Norway, Holland and the rest but squandered

more (20), of the R.A.5.C., was committed matter of "protecting" and "liberat un the whole capital liability for for trial, charged with the murder. reparations under the Young Plan. of Irene Sherry (34), a domestic

servant-by-shooting-her-with-n- Service rifle.

homes.

It has happened in the past that for one reason or another building operations have been unduly hurried and conducted

The Alien

on rearmament

was ready

for-the-most-part-in-a-haphazard- At a single-bound-Hitlerism" the German people? way. At one time it was the had leapt up from a contemptible The question has often been put In short, to reimburse the victims urgent demands of the period of obscurity to second among the why millions of Germans should have of her aggression or part of the begun to throw themselves into the damage sne had indicted WES industrial expansion all over the swarm of parties which com- arms of Hitler in the autumn of 1930. monstrous," but she country. The ugly and insani-peted for the control of the u dupes of German propaganda cnough to shoulder a much heavier tary product has been the shame Weimar Republic. A notable and regret of subsequentabamtee 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, whch some of the who, as an alien, was disqualified mistakes of the previous period from membership of that were repeated.

assembly.

Women in the New 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 countrý as an undesirable MOST of us remember the right to stand beside our men know-

worthy of Britain. It is not too alien after his arrogant pro- soon to think and plan, and to clamation of himself as "Presl further the purposes of the dent of the Reich" at the time newly appointed Minister of of his abortiva Munich rebellion,

Works and Buildings.

"While he was waiting for the girl

somo letters written to her by a at her lodging in Oxford he found Corporal Fuller," said Mr.. E. G. Robey, prosecuting

Shot Through Heart Mr. Robey Bald that the girl was

He alleged that Beesley ́raid in a' shot through the heart at close range. statement to the police: "When she came in I produced the letters I had found on her dressing-table and she tried to grab them.

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

Gave Himself Up

"She said she would plense herself and laughed and treated it as a joke. I picked up my riñe and pointed it at her as she sat in the chair.

"Next thing I heard was a shot. I poet's tribute to women; I Ing that we have not failed them thought I had missed and I left the ever fall house. I wandered about, but in the nor, please God, will we

and I gave myself up." learned it in my youth without them in days to come. comprehending the meaning,

woman in our hours of case, Hitler now became overnight Uncertain company and hard to To this end the President of the talk of the world. News: please;. 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, A ministering angel thouf 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-majority of us do not aspire to be and planner in this reconstruc-side Germay was rife as tion, so that now dwellings may whether Germany might not be y We are just ordinary women be made that shall give the full-on the eve 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 standi vision and trained skill in plan- storm troopers and the high up to them better than men. They

Ining from the outset there will

angels, nor perhaps could pass the to necessary, test for that high distinc-

ready to step into the breach when

em to have inexhaustible reserves cheerfulnerS flying pretensions of his rhetoric of courage and even

which come surprisingly to the sur- be the same dreary failures as during the campaign had cerface in times of stress. In the past. Even for the smallest houses there should be tainly lent some colour to such a

the highest avallable architec- tural skill.

possibility.

"A Serious Menace”

As now, for instance. Where should we be without, these reserves showing up so splendidly In hours of darkness and dangert Certainly without them we should

-There will be unlimited opportuni- Hiller, however, was by now firm- be less well-equipped for what is and construction. From the ashes of bowled out a second time by prema-pen tles. for beauty and utility in designly resolved not to let himself be happening-and what may yet hap-

the cities' alums should arise wisely-ture revoli. He contented himseit planned garden townships where the with an open avowal of his ultimate

of the poorer, einssen.

In the new time coming there will

sun can and its way into the homes intention to overthrow the parliamen by rest and urgent demand for the ary.regime, but declared that he right kind of homes. Whether as would employ only parliamentary wife, mother or sister or friend, every woman will have to make her marsin encompassing his end.

contribution to it.

All this was said twenty-five years ago, and what came of it? The situation was summed up in the President's few words the nation trained its architects and then do clined to use them. It will be un forgivable if this inccusation allowed to hold good at the end of

A call, a challenge: his desi made to the womanhood ̈ of this country, and the response han been magnificent,

This undertaking, liko every other undertaking he has ever made, he eventually broke, but not until February, 1933, when he and his gatig et fire to the Reichsing building In Let us keep it up so that when the order to manufacture an excuse for struggle is over, we may have every

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