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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December

THE SHOCK OF HER LIFE

Revelations of a vast Nazi sabotage plot havo staggered the United Stater.

Hitler's Invasion of America

By Allan A. Michie

(An American Journalist now in London)

HELEN WHEN

OLD

By Robert Power

"So Menelaus nagged;

and Helen cried; And Paria slept on by Scamander side."

YOUNG poets are much given to thoughts such as these; torturing thoughts of the passing of loveliness and romance into the chill disillusionments of old age.

It was Rupert Brooke who pictured. Helen of Troy- "the face that launched a a thousand ships"-grown old and withered and "gum- my-eyed," so that her hus-·- band wondered "why on earth he went Troyward" to wage war because of her.

"So Menelaus hagged; and Helen cried."

The reason, perhaps, is that Baron Edgar Spiegel von und zu the young, and in particular Peckelsheim, World War

U-boat young poets, are too much pre- commander, watches' American naval

occupied with physical beauty operations in the Gulf

to do full justice to the spiritual of Mexico

side of human love. from his post as New Oricons con-

sul..

I have known old couples, whose lives have been filled

Offcial propagandist for the Nazis with fire' and tempost, attain to Is Dr Colin Ross, who interprets a serenity more beautifull by American reactions to his friend the far than any physical love-

liness.

Fuchrer.

Dr Frederich Auhagen, another Nazi-American who considers, him- A warped old age is not a self an intellectual, presents the Nazi natural old age. On the con- puint of view at public forums and trary, it is a perverted state social gatherings.

reached by those who commit the cardinal sin against life- Unofficial apologist for the Nazis the sin of losing heart. Be- is Kari von Weigand, pet foreign cause to lose heart is to aban- correspondent for William Randolph don one's own inner harmonies Hearst's newspapers.

and throw off all sense of af-

that

While von Weigand was in Ger finity with the dear ones who many recently Hitler shrewdly gave have passed through the tem- him an exclusive Interview, with the pests by one's side. result that von Weigand is now pre senting the Nazl case at as many "Menelaus's bold waxed garrulous,

It is possible, of course, MERICA has been the vic- hinterland of the United States and social functions in New York as he and sacked a hundred Troys 'twix A

tim of an invasion: an service for nothing if it cannot sell can get invitations to. invasion carefully planned and it. carried out by Adolf Hitler's The German Library of Informn- ngents.

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South America, and gives its news-

tlon, a branch of the Nazi Consu-

and gets out such

OUR ANSWER

To present the British case in Amerlen it is essential that the

noon and supper." It is possible that' Helen's golden voice "got shrill as lic grew deafer.

Possible, but not inevitable, and it

is not inevitable, because the decay of the spirit is not an inevitable part of human destiny-it is an abnormni rather than a normal process.

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lute in New York, has 37 employees, Two counter-attacks can be made It began long before the out-polish Acts of Atrocity against the tain, the other by America.

documents as against this invasion. 'One by Bri- break of war in Europe, but it German Minority in Poland," and has been allowed to develop in "Britain's Designs on Norway."

So let young lovers of all ages take comparative secrecy largely be- Ia special pride is a weekly bulle-

tin called "Facts in Review," which Ministry of Information establishes of heart; if they grow as they should cause-its-two main weapons gives the official-Nazi-views-on-the-wide-awnice, news-conselous in-grow, they will never know this espionage and

propaganda-war and politics, and goes out to formation (or propaganda bureau in but will exchange one loveliness for awful land of the poet's imagination, several hundred thousand Influential New York. are not easy to expose.

Americans.

another still more satisfying and pro- found.

Enough evidence has now Items from "Facts in Review" fre- To expect the present British pro- I prefer the poet's true vision of been gathered by the Federal quently find their way into small- paganda machinery In America to the old age of Helen and Menelaus, Bureau of Investigation to en- town American newspapers, and keep pace with the German machine which Rupert Brooke set down mere- able some of the facts to be put even Into nationally-known mogu is like backing a carthorse against ly to mock at:-

on record,

The revelations are disturb ing to America; they should cause some concern at Britain's Ministry of Information.. -

The facts show that:

zines.

a Derby winner.

HIMMLER'S SPY From America the only counter-

He flung the sword away

And kissed her feet, and knelt before her there, The perfect knight before the

perfect Queen"

I prefer that vision, because among people of a noble spirit I have seen it enshrined far more often than I have are seen great lives crumble into sordid.

ness and ruin.

attack the Germans would under- More insidious. are the activities of stand would be to break off diploma- the German Rallroads Information tic relations with the Nazis and, ship Office in New York, which is headed the German agents back home, by sunve moustached Ernst Schmitz, More and more Americans He has retained his full staff, al- backing this step every day. The Nazis have built up an amaz- Ingly efficient, widespread propa- though the British travel burnaux in ganda mill in America, directed by New York closed at the outbreak of Germany's diplomatic and consular war. officials Sti Washington and New York;

He subsidises, with advertisements, newspapers friendly to Nazism, and German agents have been carrying keeps his German superiors informed out sabotage in factories making war of the movements British ships materials for Britain and America; around New York for the benefit of

U-bont commanders.

Naal commercial agents are cessfully converting American busi- The German Embassy in Washing- and the 24 consular posts ness and financial interesia to a ton

the most policy of appeasement with Germany throughout America are through the offer of "busincas ad- important cage in the Nazl Invasion vantages" for America in Europe If machine. the Nazis win.

FOUR AIMS

Under Nazism Germany's "diplo- matic, representation" has increased alarmingly. The New York Consu late, for example, now carries 110

never had more than 39,

The objectives of Hitler's invasion on its pay-roll In pre-Nazi days it

of America are many:

(1)-To block American aid to

Tho. San Francisco office has 28.

Britain either by Influencing public It used to have eight!

opinion or by sabotage if necessary

The personalities directing Hitler's"

but at any rate to stop American invasion are typical of Nazi agents intervention" in the wor;

(2) ----To prevent America building up adequate defences for herself in the shortest possible time;

(3)--To create internal dissension

in the United States; and

(4)-To discredit democracy as a method of Government.

throughout the world.

Wiedemann, sinister-looking confl-

Number One man is Captain Fritz;

dant, of the Fuehrer, and his com manding officer in the last war, who direets Nazl ́ Interests from San Francisco.

Wiedemann elected a post on the west coast because he felt it was A variety of ́ngencies have been most ready, for Nazi penetration. employed to 'carry out the Invasion.

Working on the sympathlos of the Herbert Scholz, consul in Boston, seven milion first- and second-le an intimate friend of Himmler's, generation Germans in America are and keeps watch on the activities of the Auslands Organisation-headed other Nazi diplomats as a favour for from Germany by Bradford-born the Gestapo chief, **

Ernst Wilhelms Bohle, who still re- Tall, handace Wilhelm Tannen=" tains his Britia critizenship, along berg, economic adviser at the Ger with his German and the Deutscher, man Embassy, and Schacht's mouth- Aurland Institute in Stuttgart, which piece in. America, has the special floods, America with propaganda.. assignment of making American The Transocean News Service, Businessmen appeasement-minded by from its headquarters in New York, dangling post-war deals with: Ger- plishes Nazi-slanted now, into - the many before their' eyes.

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

Now if any relativos come, wo can grab those and make

It look like we're just leaving!"

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