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whole British Empire took up arms to overthrow Hitler and Hitlerism.

Hitler we all know, or think we know a giant in cunning and political de-

Violence

Dictators' Dreams of the Permanent Subjection of Conquered Peoples

often reinforced by economic aet

even

if the Dominions arc graciously spared, as beyond. German or Italian digestion; British possessions in Africa, In the Near East, In the Middle East, in the Far East, and in' the Pacific; sugar islands; rub- ber Islands; some of the world's best harbours, and strategic key

irritants within the A8 All cars serviced the same as pravity with a brain dis jealousy, has been the ruling Reich. Enough is it to say that points; colonies in good going cased, the embodiment of a motive of dynastic and national he lied at each success, and that order, with docks, railways and roads, and with native popula- ruthless idea, imposed and ambition. Sometimes the spolls his territorial horizons are now tions which have learnt the All units of 91,500 and over in value maintained by force. Hit- have been, consolidated by the in boundless as were Napo ways of peace and order, yet.. according to Nazi and Fascint He denies been recovered by the tempor- carry the Hongkong Hotel Garage lerism is the epitome of victors: sometimes they have leon's.

it, of course, as propagandists, will leap with joy. whatsoever is false, brutish, arily dispossessed.

Napoleon denied it. He has to change their British sorvitule Certain districts like Alsace, burgled an entry into one for German, Italian and oven arrogant and aggressive. in political theory and action.

I do not forget the mas good harbourage, have swung ing them from British aggres- the gorgeous Far East In fee. sive virtus-not virtue, but from side to side with the cen- sion. He professes a passion and perhaps unless Fate, in hard, unyielding a of

which has enabled conference table from crown to peace. So did Napoleon. It American Navy, forbids-build crown. Hardly a country in has taken a long time to rouse up a mighty military Empire Hitlerism to become so dead- Europe has retained its boun- the United States, but they are which shall take charge of the ly a menace to mankind. By daries unchanged through the roused at last, for they now see Philippines, the Netherland In- gross, deliberate misuse this, lifetime of its oldest inhabitant: as something almost imminent a dies and show the flag of the too, has been transformed new States have been picced to peril which had been derided as Rising Sun

gether out of the disjecta mem- remote and imaginary. After waters.

Transylvania, Savoy, not to neutral country after another on Japanese freedoms. speak of islands possessed of Napoleon's pretext of "protect- Japan is to be allowed to hold

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bra of kingdoms in collapse. We France, Great Britain. After These dreams of diseased. It is no longer litlerism, have accepted such wars as the Great Britain the Americas. militarists in a madhouse do nol however, that we are fighting: it historic instruments for the Here indeed is "expanding con- terrify me; they are bound to break on the rocklike resolution. is the threat of world-Hitlerism, adjustment of national boun- quest.""

In view of the size, the re- of free peoples if only the free the many faceted evil thing daries to correspond with the which the Dictators of the Axis nutritions of national strength. moteness, the wealth, the man peoples have nerved themselves

The phenomenon we face to power, the sea power and the to meet the shock. and their satellites enll the New

We get more and more ready THE prefix Special to the Telegraph" Order. This black shape, al- day is of a totally different kind machine power of the United Indicate news which is alrielly copyright ready casis its shadow upon the “an organised movement for States the Hitlerite programme day by day: the United States. expanding conquest.' It is naturally seemed fantastic. 10 shielded by their superb Nuvy something new in degree if not Americans till the efficacy of in the Pacific and by the British Hitler's recipe for destroying Navy in the Atlantic, will set in kind.

is used by the longkong Telegraph" to under the provisions of the Telecommuni- world's most distant places.

THE COMING CRISIS

attempt

+

armed Invasion his successes on the

By J. B. FIRTH

to work in earnest now that they have settled the momentous. question whether they want their great President to have a

cations Ordinance, 1938. Such news as bears the indication "UP" la received in

Mr

Hull's Cordell Hongkong on the date of publication by

recent the United Press Associations, he re-speech at Washington will have serve all rights and torbid republications, either wholly or in part wout previous brought home to many on this arrangement

side of the Atlantic, as on his, a vivid realisation of this truth, President Roosevelt's Secretary It could not fairly be charged the morale and sapping the third term of office or not. And BRITISH military experts appear of State spoke as if he had just even against Bismarck, the man strength of the next victim then in due time the grand of to be convinced that itler will been smitten by the blinding of Blood and Iron, that he or- namely, treachery and Fifth fensive and the crash of fallen ganised his new Germany for Column activity was suddenly idols and bastard Dictatorships. farge-scale invasion of light of a sudden revelation.

For the choice, na Mr Cordell Britain in the coming Spring. The

"We are in the presence," he "steadily expanding conquest." revealed by the collapse of one. detailed analysis of the possibilities declared, "not of local or re. He snatched the Duchies from small neutral after another and Hull truly said, is between Free which the "Telegraph" received and pubilshed yesterday from the London gional wars but of an organised Denmark and Alsace-Lorraine then by the appalling collapse dom and Servitude. We know

Austria he of France.

what freedom fs: WO can correspondent of the "United Press"

spared, and that not merely be The heart of France stopped, only judge by the appalling made no effort to Indicate why th and determined movement for from France, but

the

cause he knew he would want because the soul of France had fate which. has overtaken experts were so confident in their steadily expanding conquest,"

Czecho-Slovakia time prediction: nevertheless the fact

Those taking part in this her benevolent neutrality when rotted. The secret poisoners Poland and that ever since the fall of France

came to settle with had spread the virus of defeat- what it means to live in the threat of an Invasion has been movement call themselves the he imminent, plus the generally accepted "Have-Nots," who are short of France. Uncompromising Prus- ism. Corruption in high places terror of the Gestapo, the last belfer, that until and unless Hitler room to live and expand, who siun though he was, it did not and in low; the Army riddled word-Hitler's word-in the in- has conquered the British Isles by demand the colonies which be enter his mind to keep Den- with political intrigue; the Air struments of tyranny which euntinent can never be consolidated, long to other nations by right of mark, Norway, Belgium, Hol- Force neglected and let down, since history began tyrants are sufficient reasons for accepting discovery, development and con- land and France in permanent and. Hitler's agents everywhere have laboured to devise.

to Germany. He at work.

There is no need to look be- the experts' views.

quest, and are resolved to take subjection

Napoleon once said at St yond the Gestapo to form one's More likely is it that the British by force what they cannot gain was content if his new Germany

was organised so as to be more Helena that if his Army of In- judgment of Nazism, of Fascism war chiefs, through their intelligence by cajolery or fraud. branches and the result of nerlul re-

ready for war than her neigh- vasion had got to London the or of Phalangism-if that obs- connaissance, are fully informed as "They are on the march," said ours, and always on the alert canaille would have welcomed cure and minor variant is worth la Cermati military movements over Mr-Cordell Hull, "with great ar-to-squeeze-concessions out of him Not so They would a mention Without the Gesta- the other side of the English Channel mies, air fleets and navies.. other nations by rattling the rather have seen him torn to po they could not survive a and are consequently basing their

They physically disregard every subre, But he had no plans or pleces; his sentimental admirers month. When their military predictions on knowledge and not on right of a neutral nation. They time inbles of continuous con- were found in conjecture.

the superior strength is broken in the field threaten peaceful nations with quest.

classes. Hitler has made much, the Gestapo will not survive 4 To many in this port of the world

Hitler's most respectable pre- the same mistake. But how day, and many a debt of ven- it has been a source of wonderment the direst consequences if they that Hüller has not before attempted do not remain acquiescent while text for aggression was that he should this foul fellow know the geance, I trust, will be repaid his boasted Invasion. In October the conquerors are seizing other only sought to restore to the British mind?

with interest na the tortured last Mr Churchill gravely warned continents and most of the seven Reich bodies of German origin He has plunged into a stu- peoples awaken to find them- the nation to prepare for what he

Ain seas of the carth." termed

which were aching to return to pendous gamble. No such mus- selves free once more. the

Again Testing-time

Nor are all these brutal vio- the Fatherland. He gave res sive scheme of world conquest "The master and slava rela- during the first week in December the London pupers were declaring

lences "mere excesses of the peated assurances that when he was ever launched before. No tionship among nations and in- that Hitler would have

ever dividuals" is not for the 20th decision in the immediate fiture, et exigencies of war to be aban had recovered Austria and the partners in aggression

the German districts of the Sude- planned to share so rich a booty, Century. The New Order is both occasions passed without any-doned voluntarily when thing untoward happening. Possibly fighting ceases," leaving the ter tenland, he would be fully satis. Whole provinces of France and only a foul and scientific resur- one of the principal reasons for Hit-rorised neutral or the trampled fled, for he did not want large the French Colonial Empire, rection of the worst Old Order ler's continued hesitation was the victim free once more to pursue intractable foreign elements to the British Colonial Empire, of the past. failure of his trial Invasion, which, his own course, albeit in the It is now common knowledge, he

thai

of the he shadow attempted,

conqueror's On lost thousands of men In an might. No, the violence is to attempt which was as futile as the expedition by the Spanish Armada go on. It is not for Herrenvolk In 1588. It must have had a dam- to spare the conquered. They

occasion

pening effect upon his ardour for are to continue to stamp on the crossing swords with the English faces of their victims: defenders on their own soll, An-, other subduing influence has been the constantly successful ralds made by the RAF upon Hiller's bases. Whenever concentrations of barges and other surface craft have been ab- served they have been mercilessly bombed, and for the major part des- troyed; at every turn the dictator has been hampered and thwarted in his ambitious designs

Neutral

observers,

U.S. For

Lacks Cruisers Wartime Duties

By Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr.

I

Britain's Case

"By deed, by utterance, the would-be conquerors have made abundantly clear that they are engaged in a relent-

NEW YORK, Jan. 30 (UP), teeling convoys and of running down vision with the idea in mind in encl less attempt to transform the Cruisers have multiple duties enemy sea raiders comprising similar individual case of using the ship in time of war. Sofne of them already civilised world, as, we have to be the eyes of a flect and converted merchantmen.

are down in the war plans of the known it, into two worlds in scout out the enemy position, to

navy to be converted into cruisers. Great Britain, has more than 75 which mankind will be re- drive home a destroyer attack

The number and calibro of

guns regular cruisers-heavy and light- 10 duced again to the degrada- on the enemy in battle, to pro- yet he has not half enough to take to lost in each case was care- fully worked out even before the These factors, however, cannot. tion of a master and slave re-tect the capital ships of its own are of fleet duties devolving on ships were built, and during con- minimise the crisis which confronts lationship among nations and fleet against such attack and, cruisers and to guard the sea lanes, struction the decks were strengthen- the people of Britain; they do, never-

individuals maintained by when these dutles are fulfilled, Britain has fited but a number of ed for the reception of these guns. theless, strengthen the confident

If war came to-morrow these ships bellef that Britain will not only meet brute force."

to keep open lines of sen com- merchant ships to act as cruisers. The Carnarvon Castle, wiilch fought That is the New Order which munication. the crisis calmly and with fortitude,

a German raider in the south Atlan- would be sent immediately to the

have

their nearest navy yard to

guns but will emerge from fi victorious is to be established in Europe,

installed, armour plate placed, to and with the sting of Hitler's powers Asia and Africa and later, if and cruisers in commission and is build-

The United States Navy has 37 tie, is one of these.

The United States has in the past protect the bridge and fire control of aggression very largely extracted.

notably when opportunity offers, in the ing 40 more. These latter, however, few years built some ane merchant centre and otherwise prepared for will not be in service for several ships especially designed and adapted their new role. Places for ammuni~ American newspapermen, whose job Americas.. is to be an objective and impersonal Two points, therefore, stand years ns some are only in the blue for conversion Into auxillary crul- tion storage will be designated and

print stage.

sers, The latest, and largest, of electric power hoists Installed from as possible, constantly testify to the out clear. The Axis Dictators

the 27,000-ton America, magazines to mune. The demands of the fleet for these superior morale of both the British fahtling forces and the civillan popu- are bent upon world domination.cruisers must be considered first. Others.

the Manhattan

No Match For Regular cach After that, cruisers that may be Washington of 24,280 tons

Such converted warships would Inlion over that of their protagonists; The post-conquest, status

Washington, 2388 bo no match for a regular cruiser the sume people have time and again signed to the conquered is per- spared can be assigned to running

Coolidge, 21,030

tons; with its armoured decks and elde pronounced their verdict that Bri-manent subjection.

20,014 ions fain's air force, given anything like equality in numbers, can outfight the "Local and regional wars" veying merchant shipping."

Monticello, 10,361 tons; Marl- armour, and a crew highly skilled in If war comes to this country in the

it is speed of 23 knots Nazis; the people have lived through have been the commonplace of

sufficicat. However against successfully the first, and conse- European history since the col-next few years our available cruisers pora and Monterey of 10,017 tons Sunnery. With these craft it would

-37 plus perhaps a few new unes cach, and Lurling, 18,000 tons. Some vold battle, quently the worst, of the Luftwaffe lapse of the Roman Pence. rushed to completion-will not be of the new and faster freighters similar

submariries, terrors; our land forces and our

would eighty fleet are keenly walling the Martial kings and martial States enough. Other vessels must be sup- might serve as light cruisers and and against attern aries of the enemy vaunted "Der Tag". These are tie have been in perpetual conflict piled then to do cruiser duty on com- there have been planned for con able to give a good account of fuelf. Germany is believed to have several such raiders now operating quallides which creato calm conf-with their neighbours in order munications lines. This may be done version into troopships or hospital

Idea In Mind

at sea and more of them may bé British right over Totalitarian might, make their frontiers dence. In the ultimate victory of to gain some coveted province or by converting fast merchant ships ships.

usually passenger. liners into armed more auxiliary cruisers These ships

All of the vessels damed above expected.--Copyright 1940 by "United to which Colonel Stimson has also secure. Territorial acquisition, would have the double duty of pro- were built under government super- Fress."" lestifled.

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