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WONDER what Hit- ler is thinking these days about Goering?

December 23, 1940.

WHAT ABOUT

GOERING NOW?

By W. N. EWER

The Mere Man

Hopo Nover

Much

hns

happened since this to last the inter- year, and vening twelve months seen

He liked good food and good ready, Goering would open the Greater wine. He was good company. He way for them ked sports, gave his guests hammer blow. good shooting,

with a swift changes in our so-called civilised

Je

The Reichsmarschall tleman. is beginnig to be a very HIS RECORD big figure in the Reich.

and

society. These changes, for the most part, have been brought about, either He went to the French coast directly or indirectly, by the Euro- was-danime. siran to watch the coming victory. peau war, the prosecution of which has been accompanied by, a succes- officer and very nearly a gen-

It did not happen. Goering's alon of shattering events, whose stock was in danger of slump-effects have been felt in every corner

of the earth, ing..

Tragedy, suffering, hunger But he had a second string to other forms of distress are rampant So they fell for him-and his bow. Let the Fuehrer Bay over wide areas, and their early, He has far out-distanced when he told them he was all the word, and Goering would abatement cannot reasonably be Goebbels and Hess and for peace and reason, they be annihilate London, and so end foreseen. Yet, in taking stock of the

lieved him. They forgot his the war at one blow.

general situation to-day, there 15 Himmler and all the record.

cause for gratification, not only be- He is cer- That record showed him, al- Hitler, as $0 rest of them.

often when cause millions more fortunate are still spared the worst, but also in tainly the second man in ways and at every turn, for Goering wants a decision, was that the flicker of hope burning in

force and for brutality.

worked into a fury about the many hearts for a better and saner Berlin munition world, which came perilously close Germany.

Hitler always had a yearning bombing of

10 extinguishment, Games more getting his ends for hitting works-rather as, seven years brightly." Nor does he depend en- for dy on the lead as the before, he had been worked into tirely as the others do-on most effective form of argu- an esctasy of rage by the sight

of the blazing Reichstag, ment. Hitler's. personal favour.

That was why he staged the

He gave the order to erase London. The Fuehrer, if he chose Reichstag fire.

Hitler had intrigued his way to, could have Goebbels or to the Chancellorship of the But again the decisive blow followed the collapse of France.

Hongkong Telegraph. would bark in protest. smash down

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Although the time has not arrived for complete assurance, there nevertheless, Bulelent ground for belleving that the forces of evil wi be destroyed. The

consternation uncertainty and

That general gloom

ance, and the retreat of the British forces from even Himmler himself shot Reich. Goering knew what he just did not happen. Night the Continent, have, since the dis

ruthless wanted-a

dictator- after night, Goering's planes ruption of Hitler's invasion plans and to-morrow, and not a dog ship, a savage terror that would have been hammering London: what may be called the defeat of the all opposition. but without the least sign of Nazi air horror, and more recently the success of the Greeks and the Hitler was hesitating, as he al- anything like a decisive blow.

British penetration into Lybia, given "But to dismiss or disci- ways tends to hesitate in crises.

The Marshal's friends and place to a more cheerful state of pline Goering would be a Goering fired the Reichstag,

mind, more confidence and greater risky business. The Mar- knowing the effect that drama publicity agents now hint that faith in the future.

would have on the unstable his real plan is to batter and

Men of the fighting services of the shal is popular. His jovial mind of his leader. He judged batter us night after night un-British Empire and its allies de- til we just get tired of the whole serve all our thanks and our every brutality is of a type that rightly.

encouragement. Let us remember Hitler gazed at the fire and affair. the average German likes.

them at this season and let us also was persuaded. He declared it

cich admirable "sign from Heaven."

who liave shown such THE STRONG MAN

wrihappy He has carefully and stendly ALWAYS GOERING blow, the swift ending, of the derive the same forbenzance, the

But that is not the crushing courage throughout these

months. From their example, let us It war, that he had promised. same resolution, the same will to built up that popularity.. He The terror was loosed.

fight and dvercome darkness and dis- has publicised himself. He is was Goering's terror.

He may fool the German aster, YOUNG VALIANTS

It was Goering who planned people about it. He still holds still doing so.

the "blood bath" of 1934, per- that great popularity. But I Debits And And

Hongkong in MANY have been bearing

That flight over London was suaded Hitler by false informa- doubt if he has fooled Hitler. Credits

these twelve months? We have accomplished a witness to the astonishing quali-a superb bit of personal propa- tion, that it was necessary for

his own safety.

Hitler is off on another path, great dent in some directions, but a ties that are being revealed by ganda.. Britain's young men in this tho greatest ordeal of the nation's long history. It is indeed a cause for constant wonderment and thankfulness.

Yo-

bears the indication "Up" is received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Assaelations, who serve all rights and foräld repubilcations, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement,

Those elderly Jeremiahs who in the years of troubled peace used to discourse with malign

And he is the only party leader that the army respects.

All this gives him a status of his own, a certain security, certain independence.

ANOTHER PATHot forget the civilians, the people.

somewhere on

•

what

of

has

二

It was Goering who carried more to his own liking. He lot of things that required to be done' out that "purge" in Prussia dreams of going East, of going have not been tackled. I am think- round, of forming new combina-ing, above all, of the sorry state of with fourfold ruthlessness.

Always, and right through, tions, of striking at the British our social services. The war

claimed

attention--and urgente the part of the he has been the same. Always Empire the disciple of the smashing flank.

Empire we have only done right

what In considering sacrifice we can make for the com- as the one solution for That is the characteristic mon cause--but the war should not Hitler technique-and it is a be taken as an excuse to cover up When the wretched Hacha of dangerous one.

our fallure to meet our responsibili iles to our own citizens. As a result

blow Alone of the Nazi chiefs, he every problem. can talk to Hitler as man to

man.

eloquence on the degeneracy of our youth, their lack of interest

more robust vehemence often in the things that matter, their wins. evasion of responsibility, their,

line.

flanks.

of indifference and Inaction, we find to-day in our midst the same, if not greater, misery and distress.

Heading of-every-repuri-issued-by- our charitable institutions leads to the same view. And the total in- adequacy of measures to remedy the

He can pit his will Czechoslovakia went to Berch-

We have to guard ourselves against the Fuehrer's; and his tesgaden in March last year, it

was Goering who clinched the against being Maginot-minded, argument by announcing that against thinking that if we can he had 800 bombers waiting, all hold this "island fortress" all

blow Prague to is well. pursuit of pleasure, their undue Hitler must, wonder at times ready to

smithereens unless the Czech We need, with Hitler as op-situation is frankly admitted by the devotion to sport-do not these whether his Reichmarschall is Premier signed on the dotted ponent, always to look to our Government. Poverty and other Ils critics now hide their heads in not becoming too powerful.

have only grown with the steady shame? At any rate, their He must wonder what would It was Goering, too, who 'as- That however is another mat-rise in the cost of living, the rate of tongues have been stilled, and happen if, one day, the two of sured his leader that the mo- ter. Goering. I think, is not which has been officially estimated.

of the European war. their consciences, it is hoped, are them should come really to log- ment he gave the word the Nazi high in the Fuchrer's favour at to be 45 per cent, since the outbreak

But he is too troubling them.

Air Fleet would smash right the moment.

Sir Geoftry Northcote promised gerheads,

through the RAF and all our strong to be removed or at-

that a comprehensive scheme for Always, since the beginning defences and clear the way for tucked-unless very skilfully shortly before he departed on leave and warily by very tortuous and dealing with the problem would be of the Nazi Movement, Goering an invading army.

roundabout wnys.

devlaed. That was the last we heard has, in his relations with Hitler,

Government It might come. Note that of it. It is not foo much to ask the to hurry up; and we the Reichsmarschall was not at should feel we had started the New Keitel the Brenner meeting, though Year aright if we were given some

Indication that the problem and ships Von Keitel was..

being actively tackled.

And what of Britain's totali- tarian critics, who many months told the world that the British race was enfeebled, would not played the role of the strong IT WENT WRONG accept sacrifices, and had only to man. Always his advice has If Brauschitz and be attacked to collapse like a been in favour of force, or ruth- would castle of sand? It is not to be lessness, of violence. expected that shame is now felt

in those quarters. But there

has been a great awakening.

NOT QUITE

The Nazi and Fascist brag- Never was there a greater garts, if they ever believed that fallacy than that pathetic be- the British lion had gone into lief of British diplomacy-and decrepitude, had lost its teeth not only of diplomacy-in the years before the war that Goer- ing was a moderating force in! Britnin's young men. taken the Nazi councils. many of them from the most

and claws, are wiser now.

ordinary, prosaie civil callings, Goering. He was difficult, tem- The diplomatista "fell for"

have shown courage, resource

and sacrifice unsurpassed in the peramental: either moody and Elizabethan or any other glori- unapproachable, or impossibly

ous epoch of our island story, The nation that, still breeds

voluble.

Ribbentrop was clammy, and Buch men has no need to unpleasant: Goebbels was just fear the tyrants' regimented a nasty little rat:"Himmler was millions.

evil and sadistic. And so on.

The young women, too, have But Goering, if you forget his shown themselves worthy of record, was just a bluff, cheery their brothers and their sires: personality. His Jests might and it cannot be doubted that be coarse. But they were Jests, the stoical, indomitable resis-and that was a relief in-Nazi tance shown by the civil popu Germany.

lace in general to all the de-

vilries of Nazi frightfulness l ward with unshakable con- due, nut only to the determina-dence. The foundations of tion not to bow the knee to the nation are as gound as they Hitler, but also to the constant

inspiration of young Britain ever were. It is the

KING'S roll of noble deeds in many material that collits most of all

places of danger, d

and the Ruman mutertal is all

The whole empire goos. for Fright

have

men

GRIN AND BEAR IT

WDE

A Strange This Christmas

By Lichty Christmas

eta vary strict with the children, mother—whenever,

they're naughty, ha just ups and leaves!'

is, for many, not going to be like. any they have ever known. There may be local citizens who have lost, bons, daughters, relatives or friends, In front-line action as well ns in. bombings, sinkings and other disos-- ters' of war. But wives and children evacuated to n for country-that is sad, new experience of war, and Christmas, the children's festival, the season for family reunion, em- phasises it.

But, thinking twice, there was n Christmas Jong ngo which had Ks parallel with this:—

"When they (the wise men) de- parted, Uchold the angel of the Lord, appenreth to Joseph in à dream, saying, 'Arise, and take the young Child and a mother, and- Alcé Into Egypt, and be, thou there until I bring thee word, for Herod. will seek the young Child to des- troy Him."

Perhaps those who are here alone, and "car" only spend Christmas in thought with their dear ones in Aus- trulla and other places, · may find, same little comfort in the knowledge" that. He who, gave us 'Christmas - was Timself onto an evacuated child,

We live in and times, and there is greater sadness than being

tempor arily parted from one's family. So make the best of it, and sick it through. There are others whose Christmas is also a lonely one-and”. perhaps not only just this year!

Whatever your lot, 1 give you the good, old wizi, A. Merry Christmas Hand may the New Year dawn höp- pllyt

Claudius

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