Beware of the English! German Propaganda Exposes England

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BEWARE OF THE ENGLISH!

R UL E BRITANNIA, BRITANNIA RUL E T HE WAVES!

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English! German Propaganda Exposes England compiled

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STEPHEN KING-HALL

HAMISH HAMILTO N go GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON

First Publish(d 1939

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY WltSTBRN PRIl'ITT NO SERVI CE! LTD., BRISTOL

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FOREWORD PREFACE A WARNING "IF WE HAD BEEN STRONGER" DISARM THE WAR-MONGERS! ANOTHER WARNING TO ENGLAND BEWARE OF WINSTON, DUFF AND ANTHONY! SILENCE, PLEASE, YOU PARAGONS OF VIRTUE! BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE REMAINS UNCHANGED BOMBS RATHER THAN CHILDREN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MURDERED WHAT ARE SWEEPSTAKES? EMPIRE, JEWRY AND DISRAELI PURITANS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE DISTRESS IS APPARENTLY NOT INTERESTING MAHATMA GANDHI HYPOCRITICAL WIRELESS SPEECH BY BALDWIN THE OPEN DOOR IS SHUT EDEN INCITES AMERICA'S MONEY-BAGS AGAINST GERMANY TRAFFIC IN CHILDREN ENGLISH PRICES FOR CHILDREN Vll

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"MR. CHAMBERLAIN, THAT WAS NOT THE THE ACTION OF A GENTLEMAN " ENGLAND'S YEAR OF TROUBLE THE "TYPICAL ENGLISH GIRL " PALESTINE IS A HELL-EYES PUT OUT, THEN KILLED HAPPY CHRISTMAS IN THE RITZ HOTEL WHITHER ENGLAND? THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY TAKES THE PART OF JEWISH MURDERERS I AND THE WHOLE GERMAN PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE OF CULTURE IN ENGLAND NOT ONLY EVERY FOREIGNER IS SHOCKING , BUT EVERYONE WHO EATS WITH A HEARTY APPETITE THE BLACK COFFIN HOW THE ENGLISH DO THINGS DEMOCRATIC AMAZONS PLUTO-DEMOCRACY MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S UMBRELLA AN EVENTFUL BREAKFAST MR. EDEN AND THE BOMB LAYERS ENGLISH PROPAGANDA BRITAIN'~ SPANISH INTERESTS DEFENSIVE PROPAGANDA THE UMBRELLA A SILESIAN VALLEY IN AFRICA GOOD ADVICE HOW THE LONDON WORKER LIVES QUESTIONS TO ENGLAND VUl

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FOREWORD This book is evidence for the prosecution in the case of The Decencies versus Dr. Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda. The reader forms part of the Jury. I hope it will be a large jury. As an Englishman it is not easy for me to take an entirely objective view of my own country, but though I hope that I am not guilty of the stupidity of supposing that my country is always right, or that there is not great room for improvement in our social system and our behaviour as the trustees of Empire, I assert that it is difficult to imagine a more mischievous or slanderous account of the English and their ways than that presented to the German nation by the Goebbels-controlled Press of Germany. This book shows you England and the English as we are described to the Germans, a nd , what makes the affair so wickedly d angerous, is th at the average German- as decent a person as any other human being-has little or no opportunity of reading any other account of England and her people. Persuaded that the vile and wicked English have as one of their main purposes in life the destruction of the German nation, the German who wants peace will see in Great Britain the principal obstacle to his laudable ambition. What is to be done? I am convinced-as I have written elsewhere--that some of the vast resources which are at the disposal of the British Government should be employed in a great intellectual counter-attack designed to revive the critical faculty in German minds by providing them with an alternative to the type of stuff with which-as this book reveals-they are being doped day by day, month by month, year by year. Xl

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It might be difficult, but it can be done, and success would strike at the very roots of a regime whose whole philosophy is based on a worship offorce and the negation of the dignity of the individual, a regime which in order to survive mu st expand and ca n only expand at the expense of the principles of the democrati c way of life. This book is both a footnote to history and the writing on th e wall of our own times. Let every Englishman read it carefully and draw his own conclusions. STEPHEN KING-HALL .

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PREFACE "Mass propaganda or the mass production of opinion can do more to separate one nation from another than any otherfactor. It can rouse prejudice and passion, and, if pursued over a srdficiently long period of time, it can close the minds of its victims to all other points ofview."-MR. EDEN.

Tars book is a demonstration of the practical application by Dr. Goebbels of his dictum" Propaganda must not be in the least respectable; nor must it be mild or humble; it must be successful." Since Dr. Goebbels is not a private individual, but a responsible Minister of the German Reich, and since he controls the entire German Press, the German wireless services, the German film industry and every other means of influencing and moulding public opinion in Germany, his own views on propaganda and the way in which he puts them into practice have acquired an importance which has come to be recognized as one of the most powerful influences in international relations. The skilful and unscrupulous use of the propaganda weapon has been one of the deciding factors in Herr Hitler's domestic struggle for power during the years 1923 to 1933. No one has admitted that more clearly and frequently than the Fuhrer himself. Having learnt the value of this weapon and made themselves masters in its use, the leaders of the Nazi Party have to an increasing extent relied on propaganda, both at home and abroad, to help them attain their foreign political objectives. Their propaganda has been successful because it has been consistently used to pave the way for political and military action, which came as the fulfilment of a state of psychological anticipation aroused by the propaganda campaign which preceded it. Each propaganda camXlll

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paign, whether directed against Austria, Czechoslovakia, Spain or Lithuania, has been followed by events which could not fail to keep the German public receptive and submissive to the next onslaught of its controlled Press and wireless. Therein lies the strength of German propaganda, but also its weakness. What will happen if some day events take a course different from the one which public opinion has been led to regard as certain and inevitable? If, for instance, the German-Polish conflict does not end in a Polish Munich, or if the picture now presented to the German people of the British and the British Empire proves to be a fatal error ofjudgment? Perhaps we may not have to wait long for an answer. The subject chosen for the purpose of demonstrating the practical working of Dr. Goebbels's propaganda machine is Britain and the British, the word" English" in the title being used only in deference to the timehonoured German custom of absolving the Scots and the Welsh from all blame for the wickedness of the British. In selecting this particular medium for demonstration, I was prompted by the desire to find a subject that would speak for itself and require as little comment as possible, one that would allow the reader, from his own intimate knowledge of the subject matter, to form an opinion on the character of German official propaganda. At the same time the additional purpose has been served of producing a survey of Angle-German relations-as represented to the German public-during the most crucial months of our recent history. The period under review covers the nine months between the Munich Agreement and the beginning of July I93g-nine months in which Anglo-German relations have undergone a profound and all-important change. There is no need to describe the radical change of British feeling towards Germany in this period. It has been entirely spontaneous, resulting directly from Herr XlV

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Hitler's tearing up of the Munich Agreement and his annexation of Czechoslovakia. It was certainly not the result of official pressure; rather was it the pressure of public opinion which more than anything else made the British Government change its German policy. In Germany the process has been exactly the reverse. For a very short time after Munich the attitude of the German Press-in other words the official German attitude-s-towards this country was one of r eserved friendliness, whose coolness was in contrast to the warmth of popular sentiment which had undoubtedly been deeply impressed by Mr. Chamberlain's personal efforts to bring about a peaceful solution of the Sudeten German question. The general feeling of friendliness towards this country and also France, and of relief that war had been avoided, actually produced a strong nation-wide demand for a relaxation of the enormous political, economic and social strain imposed on the German people in preparation for war. There was a definite feeling that Germany, having no further territorial demands to make, could afford to slow down her military preparations and that the time had come to think not only of guns but also of butter. This reaction of popular opinion was evidently regarded with serious misgivings in German Government circles. As early as the first days of October 1938, the en tire German Press, backed by frequent speeches ofHerr Hitler sounded a warning note: " Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Halifax may be all right, but England is a d emocracy, and that means that to-morrow the arch-enemies of Germany-Churchill, Eden, Duff Cooper-may be in power. We cannot afford to relax our vigilance, we must continue to rearm as fast as we can." There is every evidence that this line of propaganda did not have the desired effect of bringing the German people to the new state of emotional hostility required to carry out the occupation of Czechoslovakia proper. And so, as xv

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so often in recent German history, anti-Semitism was called in to help . Fr om the end of O ctober onwards the entire Germ an propaganda apparatus launched an antiJ ewish campaign which surpassed a nything that had been experienced before by the German Jewish community and culminated in the officially organi zed pogroms of November 10, followed by the final outlawing of the Germ an J ews. Significantly enou gh, foreign observers agree un animously that nowh ere was greater indignation crea ted by these measure s than in Germany itself. Dr. Goebb els, however, had secured the argument he wanted. T he horror which greeted the German pogroms throughout this country gave him an opportunity to declare a violent anti-British Press war, relying chiefly on th e " You're another" method and the demonstration of British hypo crisy and perfidy: "How dare the English play th e governess- with their record of barbarous oppression. . . ." T his anti-British campaign abated slightly towards the end of the year and during the first two and a half months of 1939, but it never ceased in its efforts to prepare the ground in advance for the radical deterioration of AngloGerm an relations which the German authorities had reason to expect from the execution of their Czechoslovak plan s. Th e day th at German troops marched into Prague saw th e beginning of an anti-British Press campaign which in violence, hostility, misrepre sentation and blind hatred sur passes an ything of the kind pr eviously experienced in the Press of any country-not even excluding the Press campaigns of the Great War. Even in the days of the worst Golt strafe England campaigns a considerable number of Germ an newspapers maintained a certain standard of deta chm ent and independ ence of judgment. To-day everyone of the 2 ,500 German newspapers, supported by th e wireless and the film, writ es under orders from the Berlin Ministry of Propaganda. The only freeXVI

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dom left to edi tors is in the ma ke-up of their paper (exce pt for front-page headlines), th e select ion of nonpolitical news a nd the choice of style. As rega rds th is last it is sometimes di fficult to convey in translation an accurate idea of the abysma l literary level to whic h the hired j ournalists of th e Third R eich h ave reduced the Ger man Press, once famous for it s high lit er ary and in tellectua l stan da rd . An a bsolutely faithful stylistic tr anslation wo uld in man y cases have made the book unread abl e. U nhap pily it seems that con cen tr a ted an ti-British attacks are slowly but surely p roducing the desired effect . The fable that Bri tain is en cir clin g German y in preparation for a militar y a ttack on her h as p roved particularly successful. On th e other hand, the methods hitherto employed by th e British a uthorities in combating the Ge rman propaganda offensive have been far too timid to counteract its influenc e effectively . A considerable step forward, ho wever, has been tak en in the formation of Lord Perth 's Foreign Publicity Dep ar tmen t, representing as it do es official re cogn ition of the serious view taken in Whiteh all of th e menace of German anti-British propaganda . In view of the controlled character of the German Press, th e method of selec tion used for the compilation of th e various ar ticles and illustra tions in this book may not seem to be parti cularly import a nt. A careful attemp t has nevertheless been m ade to render th e selectio n as represen ta tive as possible, both as r egards the type of article and th e newspaper from whi ch it has been taken. Each a rti cle must be regarded as representing a vast number of sim ila r on es published in other papers. The selec tion of the newspapers has been mad e with a view chiefly to their national a nd r egional importan ce. The Volkischer Beobachter, the centra l organ of th e Nazi Party, with the largest circulation of any German d aily (ove r 6 00,000), naturally has a spec ial claim to prominXVll

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ence. So too, have Das Schuiarze Korps (5°0,000 ), the powerful weekly of the Secret Police and the Special Guards, the Berliner Lokal An;;eiger (200,000), the form er central organ of the Con servative Party, Der Angrij[ (115 ,000), founded by Dr. Goebbel s and still closely connected with him , the National Zeitung, Essen (155,000) , in which General Goering tak es a close personal interest, the Berliner Illustrierte Nachtausgabe (280 ,000) and the B.Z . am Mittag (220 ,000 ), representing the popular press of the capital, and finally the leading provincial papers, such as the Westdeutscher Beobachur, Co logne (235,000), the Schlesische Tageszeitung; Breslau (33°,000), the Frankfurter Zeitung (7° ,000) , and the NS. Kurier, Stuttgart (5° ,000 ). T he book, therefore, should give a fair cross-section of the impression of British life an d policy, as conveyed to the German reader by his con trolled Press during the past nine month s.

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A WARNING I A M very happy, now that th ese millions of Sude ten Germans are free, that th ey belong to us and th at peace h as been sav ed . But let there be no mistak e about this . The very achievem ent of these last eight m onths must stre ngthen us in our d ecision to be cautious and not to relax in anything necessary for the protection of the R eich. We a re not dealing alone with statesm en who also want peace. We must be aware that at any moment a Ch amberlain could be succeeded by an Eden, a D uff Cooper, or a Churchill. If these men were to obtain power we should know clearly and beyond doubt that their aim would be to unleash immedi ately a world war ag ainst Germany. They do not even hide th eir true ambitions. They speak about th em quite op enly. I have th erefore resolv ed m yself to continue, as I an nou nce d in my sp eech a t Nurember g, to work on our Western defen ces and to continue this work with increased en ergy. We want pe ace. But we also want one other thing, and this we want from England. England must free her self fro m certain arrogances left over from the Versaill es epoch . This tutelage of foreign governesses is something th at Germany cannot and will not stand . The inquiries of certain British statesmen and M embers of Parliament into the fate of Germans or R eich subjects within our territory are out of place. We on our part do not look into certain things in England. At any r ate, we mi ght find, if we wished, cause enough for interest in certain events which at this moment a re happening elsewhere. In Palestine, for instan ce. I

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But we leave th at to tho se who think them selves chosen by the Lord God Almi ghty to solve th ese probl ems. We can be satisfied simply to observe how marvellously q uickly they succee d in solving them. We sho uld like to give them this well-m eant ad vice : Devote yourselves to th e solution of your own problems and leave us alone. Th at also is part of th e poli cy of appease me nt and the safeguardi ng of world peace-that all responsible sta tesme n should m ind their own business and not meddl e all th e tim e with probl ems of other countr ies. H ERR HITLER at Saarbrilcken, 9 October 1938.

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"IF WE HAD BEEN STRONGER " O NE of the main arguments advanced by the British Opposition in its criticism of Chamberlain's policy was: " All this would not have h appened, Germany would not have gained her point so decisively, iJ we had been stronger." This accu sation against Chamberlain, which he triumphantly survived , simultaneously implied a reproach against Britain's rearmament policy. Conversely it was a r ecognition of the fact that the German Government won such a signal and uncompromising victory only because behind it stood the people's army, a weapon ready to strike and in fear of none. In France, the same admission is made in the semiofficial journal, L e T emps: " A p eac eful solution to the mo st vexatious European problems cannot be found so long as demands have to be conceded solely because th ey are backed by effective might and because the military preparations of other parties to the agreement are in ad equate. " This is th e point which has caused a division of opinion in England. True, Mr. Eden has d enied that such a thing as war-mongering exists in England. But even his pathologi cal vanity will not attempt to deny that he, Churchill and Duff Cooper have unceasingly worked for a preventive war, especially during the last few weeks of the crisis. Duff Cooper, indeed, went so far as to boast in the House of Commons that only his mobilization of the British Fl eet forced the Fuhrer to the Agreement of Munich. This bit of arrogance only goes to show how little he and others understand the fundamental principles of the Fuhrer's policy. The war-mongers' party in England has been unable to prevail against Chamberlain's superior and enlightened 3

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a ttitude. It failed becau se th e h orr ors of an oth er war seemed to be pret ty unpopu lar among the En glish peopl e. For some time to come, at any rat e, continued a tte mpts to d rive England in to a war are not likely to be successful. The democracies have learnt man y lessons in the past weeks and months. M an y more lessons will h av e to be learnt by th em if they wish to conv ince us th at they are prep ared to take part in Euro pea n co-operation in a rea lly new spiri t. 1 or can they overloo k the fact that a nati on of8o million needs bigger ar ma men ts th an a nation of 40 million. Germ an y's rearm am ent is defensive. Its aim is to protect the R eich . But in England and France th ere are still many voices commanding a serious hearing which preach a straightforwar d aggressive arm ament policy. That is the little difference between the state of affairs here and in Engl and-but what a differ en ce ! We h ave thus every reason to go on asking England the qu estion: " Why this aggr essive armament if you never again in tend to go to war?" Westdeutscher Beobachter, 23 O ctob er 1938.

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' Yo u know, I've nothing against tradition or aga inst the way we are m ad e to wear th e chin straps of our bearskins, but I think it would be bett er if our politicians were also made to wear th eir hats in the sam e way !" Das Schioars;e Korps

DISARM THE WAR-MONGERS! IT is all very well to speak of international dis armament, but I am not at all sorry th ere armament of weapons, so long as there is disarmament. The strange custom has developed in the

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dividin g th e nations into so-ca lled au th or itar ian, i.c., disciplined sta tes, a nd dem ocra tic sta tes. In the authoritarian states it is taken f or granted that there is no abuse and slandering of other nations: that there is no war agitation. But the dem ocra tic states a re " democracies." I n other words all these th ings may happen th ere. In th e author itarian sta tes incitem ent to wa r is, of course, u nkn own a nd out of place, for th e gover nment sees to it th a t no war propagan da takes place. But in the democrati c count ries the governme nt has only onc duty: to uph old d emocracy, whi ch mean s freedom , if necessary, even to incite to war. I have recently men tion ed th ree war-mongers, Mr. Church ill, M r. Duff Coop er, a nd Mr. Ede n. They have felt th emselves attacked . Yet Mr. Churchill has openly stated th a t the present r egime in Germany must be set aside with th e help of th ose internal German forces which would gladly pu t themselves a t his disposal for that purpose. If Mr. Churchill trafficked less with tr ait ors paid with foreign money and more with Germans he would perhaps realize th e madness and stupidity of his utteran ces. For I can assure this gentleman , who seems to be moonstruck, th at th ere are no forces in German y which turn against th e regim e. There is only one force: the NationalSocialist Mo vement, its Leader and his followers in arms. But th ere is one thing I will not dispute with these gentlemen. We have naturally no right to demand that oth er natio ns alter their Constitutions. I have only the du ty, as Lead er of the German s, to take account of these Constitutions and the possibiliti es to which they give rise. A few days ago the deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons declar ed: "I desire that Germany and Italy shall be destro yed."! Naturally I cannot prevent the demo cratic game from bringing this man into 1 Wha t Mr. Gr eenwood said was: " I should like to see th e d estru ction of d ictatorships in Europe." (Ed.)

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the Government in perhaps two years' time, but I can give this assurance : I will prevent him from destroying Germany. If the rest of the world speaks of disarmament, we are gladly ready, but under one condition, that first there is a disarmament of the war agitation. So long as they speak of disarmament and let the war agitators continue, we must assume that they want to steal our weapons in order to prepare for us the fate of 1918. I can tell Mr. Churchill : "That happened once, but never agai n." at Weimar, 7 November 1938.

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A IOT H ER WARNING TO ENGLAN D WHEN people complain that We put so little tru st in their assura nces of peace, then I must take up an argument from my last speech. I t is not as if we wish to presume to meddle in other people's Constitutions. Above all I do not wish National-Socialist principles to be adopted by oth ers. Let them stick to their democracy, and we will stick to our ational-Socialism l But I am bound as a German statesman, in the interest of my people, to study the methods of the other world, and to take into consideration possible da ngers. And in this connection I will not be dictated to by any British Memb er of Parliament . When people say: " We only meant that dictatorships and not the Germa n or the I talia n peop le should be destroyed," I can only answer that it was only possible to say such a thing before November 19 18, bu t never after Novembe r 1918! In those days the same people used to tell us that it was only a question of destroying " Pru ssian Militarism," only destroying the dyn asty, only the House of H ohenzollern . The Germ an people, it was said, would then be allowed their freedom within the framework of in ternational democracy. And we experienced this "freedom" ! The German people has learnt its lesson from that experience. This much I can assure all those who think they can set on foot a war-mongeri ng campaign against the Germ an people- for the next th ousand years Germ any will never again be deceived by mere ph rases! As its responsible leader, I will warn the nation of its da ngers, and I regard it as a danger that this war-mongering should continue uninterruptedly in oth er countries. 8

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No t long ago th e q uestion of civil aircraft was being d eb ated in th e H ouse of Com mons. O ne par ticular new aeropla ne was decla red to be especially serviceable. Th en a n O pposition mem ber shouted : " Let us hope this aeroplane is also ca pable of carryi ng bombs to Berlin! " We u nderstand what th at mean s! Perh ap s you will tell m e: " But that was only a memb er of the O pposition ." And I will r etort that according to the Constitution of democra cies th e O pposition of to-day can become the Governmen t of to-m orr ow! In fact th is is wha t usually occurs. W e have declared more than once that we want nothing from these countries excep t the return of those colonies which were unjustly taken away from us. But I have al ways given my assura nce th a t th is na tu rall y constitutes no ground for a war. Apa r t fr om this we have nothing to claim from these nations, a nd we ask them for nothi ng. We only want to tr ad e with th em. And so whe n people talk of ap peasemen t, we d o not kn ow what we are supposed to appease. Bu t we must not lose sigh t of one th ing. T o-day in Fran ce and England the men at the helm are men who certainly want peac e. But th ere are other men who mak e no attempt to co nceal that they want war against Germany. To-morrow Mr. Churchill may be Prim e Minister! And if a Bri tish Opposition Leader declar es: " We do no t wish to d estroy th e German people, only the r egime," it amounts to exactly th e same th ing, since no one can d estroy the r egime with out destroying the German people! If some bo dy d eclar es that h e wishes to free th e G erman people from the regime, I say to him: " You are not qualified to spe ak for the German people! But if th ere is a man qualified to speak for the German people, then, my honourable British Member of Parliament, I am that man." The German regime is a private affair of the German people, and we forbid all schoolmasterish supervision! Moreover, I imagine, we have accomplished more than these gentlem en, and above all 9

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have put our state in order , which ca nno t be said of every country in the world. I am, therefore, also obliged to take in to account the mentality of those who ar e not in power to-clay, but who may be to-morrow, a nd abou t whose innerm ost though ts no doubts can rema in. The Germ an people will und erstand why I am warn ing them a nd why I myself am determin ed to take all necessary steps to safegua rd us aga inst an attack from that qu art er. I am resolved to safeguard th e security of the R eich to the utmost of my ability, and I know th at the whole Germ an people will support me in thi s. I t mean s sacrifices, no doubt, but it is bett er for us to acce p t these sacrifices than one day to have to pay them to foreign countries in the form of tributes or, as they used to say, of reparations. If these British adv ocat es of world democracy now d eclar e th at th is year we have destroyed two democracies, I can only ask, " Wha t really is a democracy then? Did God Almighty give the keys of d emo cracy to Messrs. Churchill and Duff Coop er? Was it written in the tablets of the law th at th ey should be in the possession of the British Opposition? For us democracy is a regime which represents the will of the people. According to the rules of Parliamentary democracy I once became Chancellor of Germany. I was, moreover, the leader of by far the strongest party. According to th e rul es of Parliamentary democracy I then obtained the necessary majority, and to-day-let Mr. Chamberlain doubt it if he will-to-day I possess the unanimous assent of the German people! In this year I have not destroyed two democracies but- I might almo st say-as the arch-demo crat I have destroyed two dictatorships! Doubtless the gentl em en of the British Parliament are very much at home-in the British Empire. But not in Central Europe. They lack any sor t of knowledge of the 10

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p resent situation or th e events which hav e led up to it. I sho uld b e grateful if th ese gentlemen would concentrate th eir eno r mous kn owledge and their unfailin g wisdom for th e tim e bein g, say, on Palestin e. That would be so beneficial. F or what is happening there smells damnably of force a nd very little of demo cracy! at Muni ch, Novemb er 1938.

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" Y es, Mr. Ch ur chill , a case of chro nic hate-iris, I'm afraid!" Volkischl!T Beobachtet I I

BEWARE OF WI NSTON, D UFF AND ANTHONY l T HE F uhrcr last night dealt with the th ree wise men of the H ouse of Commons once more, Winslon Chur chill their leader, Duff Cooper a nd Anth ony Ed en. Whil e in office a nd in coun tlessspeeches all th ree have made their attitude ab und antly clear . T hey are against Germa ny ! Not only against Na tional-Socialist Germ an y, but they were also agai nst the Germ any of Scheidemann and Stresemann, of Eb ert a nd of Bruning. Germ any once was a democracy with all the democrati c rul es and trappings, yet the aforesaid gentlemen still were enemies of our state. It has been proved , therefore, that th ey ar e fund am entally set against th e German people. For this reason, to believe in their disclaimers would be little short of suicidal. I t mu st be a true rumour that th ese th ree men have hung an En glish pr overb over their beds, a proverb which they contemplate morning and evenin g in solitary fervour, so th at by day th eir deeds may be guided by its text and by night it may form the subject of their dr eams: " My country, right or wrong !" They probably rega rd the observation of this principle as particularly patriotic, and believe th at the highest duty to one' s cou ntry lies in being quite without scruple in word and deed, whether these are right or wrong. I t was th is attitude which resulted in the Versailles Dictate, the un employment, starvation, Bolshevism, and infant mortality which reigned in Germany-everything which in the course of twelve years turned our country into a prison in which th e German people were compelled to work in cha ins. Wh at was the use of the Frenchman Briand and the Englishman Sir Austen Chamberlain-who, incidentally, was a bosom friend of Winston Churchill in his fight against 12

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Germany-sitting round a table in Gen eva with "our" H err Stresem ann, affably talking politics, drinking coffee together , and posing for photogr aphs, in order to show th e Pr ess of the world just how nice Briand and Sir Austen Ch amberlain were being to H err Stresemann? It was just the sam e th en as it is to-day. N egotiations? Why not? They cost nothing a nd create a good impression of pacific intentions. But th en , as to-d ay, th e German people wan ted to see action, and now th e only difference is that we see to the action ourselves. L ast Sunday at Weimar the Fuhrer quoted Churchill's speech, expressing th e view that the Munich preservation of peace was deplorable, and that it would have been better to run the risk of war, in order that Herr Benes might con tinue to oppress the Sudeten German people. Mr. Churchill also declared that he " had nothing against th e German people," but that he disliked th eir present leadership. When the Fuhrer ad vised him to refr esh his knowledge of Germany by contact with Germans instead of traffickin g with traitors who unfortunately still exist here and th ere in Germany, Churchill boasted in " an explanatory a nswer " that he had had conversations during the course of th is year with Gauleiter Bohle, Konrad Henlein and Gaul eit er Forster of Danzig. That is true. But another thing is no less true; namely that it has always been Churchill's practice to negotiate, in order to draw from negotiation some far-fetched justification for his own opinions. His actions, his warmongering speeches and his in sults uttered in the House of Commons are sufficient proof for us that he is against us on every issue. It would not matter if we were a d emocracy or a monarchy, whether we had a conservative Government or not. Mr. Churchill would never be satisfied with us-because he is against the German people. And if he is even less in sympathy with the present Government, it is precisely because in the Fuhrer 14

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Mr. Churchill is at long last confronted by a German who has a longer arm and a mightier spirit than his own. " Ge r ma n people, be on your guard! " is the Fuhrcr's cry of warning. W e have learned our lesson. Mr. Churchill and hi s follow ers will never again succeed In A PLEASANT SIG HT F OR ENGLAND'S WA R- MONGE RS

How delighted Messrs. Churchill & Co. would be if it wer e in their power to put their mad ideas of annihilating th e authorita rian states into practice with th e help of th ese giant guns for England's new battleships. Volkischer Beobachier.

lulling u s into a sense of false security. Not even if he published twenty articles in the Evening Standard trying to hoax us into believing that he loves the German people. Winston, Duff and Anthony may have heard the Fuhrer's speech yesterday evening on the radio. It would by typical of them if they were to jump to the conclusion that only a few hundred men were supporting the 15

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Fuh rcr with their appl au se. For th ese gent leme n seem to be under the impression th at German y is ru led at the bayonet 's poin t as the English are still ruling. The whole German peopl e whi ch to-d ay, despite th e efforts of Mr. Chu rchill , is eighty milli on strong, was present yesterday in the Bur gerb raukellcr an d will alwa ys be p resent wherever th e Fuhrer is. Mr. Churchill cannot impress us in th e least with his ideas of right and wr ong, and of wh at is good or bad for German y. Behind th e cyni cal sm ile of a smug a nd overfed bourgeois he is th e embodiment of Germany's archenemy . Hamburg er T ageblatl, 10 November 1938.

The belief th at pugs, a breed of do gs which flou rished in th e last century, are extinct has p roved mi stak en. In England a few excep tiona lly unpleasant spec ime ns survive, who, despite th eir toothlessness, still try to wak e the neighbours with th eir shrill yapping. Kladderadatsch. 16

SILENCE, PLEASE, YOU PARAGONS OF VIRTUE! O NCE again the E nglish governess is full of indignat ion. No t, as one migh t su ppose, over th e m assacres in Palestine, but over th e alleged p ersecution of J ews in Germ any. All h er d emocr a ti c sym pathy is lavished on the J ews, and beh ind her lorgn ett es, hot tears are plainly visible. R eall y, th ese N azis! One is j ust beginnin g to believe that th ey h ave adopted civil ized behaviour when they fall a new from grace. And the reason? O nly because a " poor ir resp onsib le " J ewish youth shot a German dip lomat. R egr ettable, adm ittedly, h ighly regrettable. But th en does not the culprit's yo uth largely exonerate him from bl ame, and does not hi s despera te position make h is " silly you thfu l gestu re " quite un d erstan dable? T o-day th e English G overness is to be seen reflected with unaccustomed clearness in the mirror of the British Press. The belief that England's custo mary arrogance was slowly giving place to a m ore intelligent attitude has proved d eceptive, and we fr ankly ad mit that we are extrem ely p ained to b e obliged to make th is statement, which, however, b ecomes in evitable in view of London's rea ction to events in G ermany. Au th oritative circles in Germany have already r epeatedl y m ade it clear to these in corrigible moral preacher s th at thi s continual interference in foreign affairs shows a regrett abl e lack of tact. Even the Fuhrcr h imself, in his speech at Saarbrucken, felt compell ed to draw attention to this matter. W e h av e b ecome accustomed to pretty steep behaviour, but p eople should know th at such an open act of provocation will n ot go unanswer ed by Ger man y. If things go on in this w ay, we m ay on e day see a meeting of the German R eich st ag with " Palestine" as an item for dis-

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to US 11'l111 even to-day she is not yel ready 10 do 10. We know th at Ensl od notices with Increasing astonishrnenr how crmany .ince her re turn to the r nb of U1C grea t po wen, like: giant refreshed, is developing irresistible . phcra of power and influen ce- a nd that she will contin ue 10 develop them. 0 nglith It Balan ce of Power" pol icy wiJl be able to stop her. FundameD ~U y, BrilOlin'. atti tude remai ns un changed. Jt 11 not at if she had suddenly developed friendl y feeling! towar ds the authoritarian 'latCJ. If people in England arc agl taling (or the convcnion of de mocracy into outWllI'dJy .. AuthorilarWt Democracy," implying UJe need (or concerted development of power, th en l1l it only means one l1ling-Rearmament! And once she has cornpleted her rearmam en t, on which side of the scale will England throw ha weigh l? A man who knew England well on ce coined a phrase 10 the effect th at En gland was alwa ys prep ar ed to sacrifice other nations to pr eserve peace. That sounds J3CQltic, but it may well turn out to be tru e.

N. S. KurUr, 12-1 3 November 1938.

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Resistance to English Evacuation Plans . . . the exaggeratedpoint of view of" A.(y Home is T/!y Castle." WE have heard much of the Englishman 's love of tradition and of how the inhabitants of this islan d kingdo m cling to what has been ha nded down to them. We had always regarded this as a positive quality in the English cha rac ter. I n point of fact, however, it is linked with an obstinate pig-headedn ess and with a relucta nce to give up or even modify comfort able ha bits which belong to a bygone age. Wh at we have witn essed in proof of this during the last few weeks in Engl and is alm ost incr edibl e unless one makes allowance for the mentality of the average citizen of this country . In what oth er country, for instance, would th e mere suggestion th at in the event of London being evacuated town dwellers should be compulsorily billctcd in comfortable coun try houses, have been greeted with a storm of pr otest in word and writing ? A few days ago we met a young woma n, the doting mother of several children and happily married wife of a well-to-do city ban ker. Like thousand s of other Englishmen this man had his family living in the secluded comfort of an old country house, far from the densely thronged town. This typically English woman sur prised us by saying that she would pr efer a few bomb s on the roof to having to take town dwellers int o her house under compulsion in accordance with the Government's evacuation plan. Th is did not represent the selfish rea ction of an exceptionally hard-hearted English woman, but was simply a concrete expression of the principle" My Home is my Castle." I t is a fact that no official, no policeman, no lan dlord, nor anyone else is allowed in Eng land to enter a private 22

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house without the owner's permission. During the course of generations how sensitive the Englishman has become about his traditional house rights, about the inviolability of his private life! H e ha s developed a feeling of mastery within his own four walls which from his youth up has steadily developed into an innate intolerance of any form of interruption or disturbance from without. I n the endless suburbs to the west and north of London, and the working-class qu arters to th e east and south even the poorest house has its own front door opening on the street. Englishmen may have known each other for years without ever having invited each other to their private hou ses. No good English husband would dare to brin g somebody home simply to talk business. The cares and even the successes of daily work are not mention ed at hom e un less absolutely necessary. Nobody takes home deeds or business papers to pu t in order of an evening or over the week-end. A man's study, as we know it, hardly exists in England, and even a desk is a comparative rarity. An Englishman 's hou se only caters for his wife, his family and that pleasant side of life which is shut off from the outside world by an impenetr able cur tain. Foreigners have often painted a glowing picture of this pleasant a tmosphere of privacy to which they have been admitted as friends. But" Rather bomb s than allow slum children in my house," is the result of an arr ogance which has developed from time immemorial out of the tradition of "My Home is my Castle." It explains the horror, so incomp rehensible to us, which even very goodhearted En glishmen felt when the Governm ent announced its special measures. This incident is an insignificant reflection of the great events which are taking place in Europe, but it is ju st another exampl e of two different worlds separated by a narrow strip of water.

Hannooetscher Kurier, 15 Novemb er 1938.

HUNDREDS OF THO USANDS MURDERED

The brutal hunger blockade" in the name of humanity," PARLIAMENT and Press in England ar e once more entirely in their clement. They use the retaliatory measures of the German Government for th e J ewish murd er of a young Germ an diplomat as a pretext for an unbridled campa ign of atrocity stories and provocation under the cloak of " huma nity and morals." Wc will not engage with th e Brit ish Press in a longwinded discussion on the nature of " huma nity" in English histor y and in the politics of to-day. Such a discussion would be too painful for British cars. We only wish to select one single example from the most immediate past , of which to remind those lovers of humanity on th e other side of the Ch annel. What was it like during the Great War, when Great Britain inflicted a terrible hunger blockade on defenceless Germ an women and children? Then no finger was raised in England or in the" neutral " United States of Mr. Wilson. No cry of pr otest echoed throughout the lan ds of world democracy against this war of extermination which was a mockery of all rational justice. I n those days the apo stles of humanity possessed good nerves. In bloated comfort they gazed in their newspap ers and magazin es at pictures of the pit iful pining and starvation of German children, greedily rummaging in refuse heaps, and shrinking about like ragged skeletons. No Anglo-American conscience was outrage d when British propaganda painted the effects of this hunger blockade in their crudest colours, and broadcast throughout the world the pictur es of dyin g German children as a " terrify ing exam ple." 24

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No democratic hearts were touched by the fact that women, children and aged people in Germany pined away in misery and died of weakne ss ; but when the British auxiliary cruiser and munitions ship Lusitania, on which 2,000 passengers had sailed, regardless of urgent Ger man warnings, sank with the loss of 1, 200 souls (among them 100 Americans), then Anglo-Am erican " world conscience" was at once in an uproar, and the spiritual justification, for which New York J ewish financier s had been on the look-out since the outbreak of war, was provided for a crusade again st the German " Huns," pirates and buccaneers and slayers of women. But the starvation of Germany during the war was nothing compared with the inhumanity of continuing the blockade for months after the Armist ice had been signed. On I I November 1918 the Armi stice was concluded. Trusting with pathetic faith in Wilson's promises, Germ any handed over her sword. She had accepted and observed the severest terms, bu t she had not yet signed that nauseating dictate, which eight months later the Entente powers pr esented for signature at Versailles. No comparable examp le exists in the whole history of the world of such cold-blooded, horrible extortion from a helpless opponent as the one which th e ap ostles of humanity of the Western democracies dictated on this occasion, only too well aware of the destru ctive effect of the blockade . Did not an Englishman named Wille, writing in September 1918 in the Weekry Post, cynically remark: " I know that not only tens of thou sands of Germans who are still unborn are henc eforward condemned to a life of physical inferiority, but also that thousands who are not even conceived must share the same fate. The' English Plague ' [the German term for rickets] will probably become the most common disease in Germany after the war is over. . . ." As a price of being allowed to import a few consign700,000

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ments of provisions fro m abroad, Germany then had to surrender her ent ire merchant fleet to Great Britain . So much for the humanity of the Western demo cracies in 1919. But German y's Foreign Minister, Graf von Brockdorf-R antzau, who had to app ear as the" accused" before the hate-ridden victors at Versai lles, became the accuser when he hurled back at the assembled potentates of the Entente th ese manly words: " Crimes committed in war time are not excusable, but they are committed in a struggle for victory. But the hundreds of thou sands who were destroyed as a result of the blockade after th e war were killed with cold deliberation, after victo ry had been won and guaranteed-think of this when you speak of guilt a nd atonement ." J ust as the repr esentatives of world democracy were in no position in 1919 to speak of guilt and atonement, so to-d ay the y should be chary of using the words "huma nity" and " morality." Germany remain s unimpr essed by th em. Fate has dealt with us too harshly, and the English Plague remain ed too long imp lant ed in the body of the people for us to have forgotten how revoltingly our people were a bused twenty years ago in the name of humanity. And so to-day we once more see the twisted face of hate-inspir ed politicians peeping out from behind the ma sk of moralizing sympathy, politicians who, if th ey had th e opportunity, would stoop to any means, even the most obj ectionable, to force Germ an y to her knees .

Berliner Illustrierte Nachtausgabe, 19 November 1938.

WHAT ARE SWEEPSTAKES ? IT is well known that those who take the most tickets always end by drawing blanks. And talkin g of blanks do you know what sweepstakes are? Do you know what their littl e game is? Th eir little gam e can be summed up in a few curt words, but ... ! And then the question appea rs justified. It has been proved th at the Western democracies are a veritabl e Eldorad o in all matters of social arrangements, liberty of opinion, and particularl y of living a free and un troubled life. By compa rison, the Nazi Empire is a hell where everybody groans und er an un believable tyranny of opinion. For a long time there has been nothing left to eat, and, ab ove all, th e social promises made to the workers before the seizure of power have turned out to be nothing but bluff. Conseque ntly the German workman is inclinin g steadily toward s Daddy Stalin and his Red Par adise. At least that is what the foreign Press says, with the newspap ers of England at their head, and they must be right! But what ab out the sweepstakes? Millions of tickets are sold throughout the world. O nce a year a great race called the Camb ridg eshire takes place in England. T wenty-five horses, or there abouts, go to the starting post. In a vast drum are placed numb ers for every ticket sold. Th en a number is drawn for each horse. Th ey're off! A little reflection will show that one horse must arrive first. Th e owner of the ticket whose number correspond s to the winning horse is the happy winn er of a million pound s. That is what sweepstakes are .

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Wc arc left unmoved b y th e fact th at the ways in which th ese ticke ts are fin ally sold at fantastic prices ar e often th orou ghly crooked , or cven th at the J ews have descend ed like locusts on thi s profitabl e little business. We are not inter ested in the fact that milli ons of fools ar e to be found who will pay p rep osterous sums to possess a chance, the od ds against which ca n onl y be describ ed as astronomical. We are interested in something else. The Third R eich also has its lotteri es. At th e mom ent, for instance, Austr ia h as the opportunity of trying a new one, " the State Lottery for the creation of Employme nt." It is tru e th at it is not possible to win a million pounds, which equ als about 12 million marks. But by con trast nearl y five hundred thousand ticket hold ers win pr izes, and not only onc, as in the case of sweepstakes. Eve n so, the lucky winner of the fir st prize gets as mu ch as 50,00 0 marks. Quite apart from th e fact that J ews have definitely no finger in th ese lotteri es, one is tempted to believe that this sort of sharing ou t of winnings is more socia l than that of the sweepstak es. And now com es th e important poin t. T he sums collected from th e sale of our State Lottery tickets go en tirely to cr eating employment, and -since this is no lon ger a simple matter on acco unt of the shortage of workers-to th e maintenance of workers in emp loyment. Which ca nnot be claimed for sweepstakes. Wh ereas sweep stake s become a vice to a p oint where the law has to in tervene against them, and whereas there is always a hint of " r edressing fate" about the ir results, the sale of tick ets for ou r State lott eries is a really socia l act, which helps to pu t at the Ftihrer's disposal the necessary mea ns for the ach ievement of imp ort ant tasks. A sing le m ark-that is the price of a ticket in th e lottery for the creation of employment- is not much felt by th e individu al, but many drops go to make an ocean. Just onc exa mple of h ow things are done in England 29

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- and of how wc take hold of a similar idea and use it in our own way ! Onl y a small example- bu t a significant one! Vblkischer Beobachter, 21 November 1938.

A WISE MAN FROM THE EAST

" What exactly is democra cy, Achmed?" " When we both have the same manacles." Kladderadatsch.

T ilE PO WER BEHIND BR ITAIN'S SO-CA LLED J USTI CE

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EMPIRE, J EWRY AND DISRAELI Tns English Press has showered a hail of hostile and schoolmasterish criticism on Ger ma n J ewish decrees, as well as on the measures we took for a rea l racial isolation as a reply to the cowar dly murder in Paris. But this attempt at interference by a large section of the British Press and of the Ed en-Churchill-Duff Cooper triu mvirate has oth er cau ses. J ewry itself has taken the field! The relation, or rather the bond between Empire and Jewry, of which to-day we arc constantly reminded, 31

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becomes apparent when wc rememb er th at it was a son of the" chosen people " who stood godfathe r at the birth of the Empire-Disraeli , Earl of Beaconsficld (1804-81). It would, of course, be untru e to say that th e creation of the Briti sh Empire at th e end of the last century was th e individu al achievement of this En glish Prime Minister and sta tesman ofJ ewish descent. It was create d by Anglo-

"SHALL VEE MAKE A DEAL?"

A pretty pair. Th e Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, Hertz, and the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Hinsley, a t a war-mongering a nti-German demonstration in London.- N.S. Kurier.

Saxon seamen, merchan ts, planters and sold iers. But Disracli was the champion of conservative coloni al policy, of British Imperialism, and also of all th ose terrible and bloody methods which En gland has con tinu ed to employ ever since as part of her coloni al policy, and whi ch we are witn essing to-d ay in Pal estine in th e form of " civilizing bomb attacks" launched on Ar ab settl em en ts. Westfdlische Landeszeltung, 22 November 1938. 32

PURITANS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE THE best and the worst elements from all countries set out to North America. The German pion eers belong to the very best of them, and the very worst ar e of the tribe of Baruch, Morgenthau and Wise. America would have remained a desert without the German agri cultural work er and the German craftsman; but the J ews will turn her into a desert once more . We have to-day every reason to concern our selves with America. The Anglo-Saxons, as well as the J ews, see to that. They form a majority in the U .S.A. But during the period of colonization it was chiefly the German pioneer, attached to the soil, who made it possible to build up a sta te. Without the German labourer, the peasant clem ent among the An glo-Saxon immigrants would never have reached th at point of crystallization necessary to maintain itself ind ependently. Wherever the Anglo-Saxon made conquests he plundered, without becoming a settler. Only in the United States of America the German, and also the Dutchman, Scandinavian and Frenchman, spurred him on to become a settler. In contrast to th e modest, unpretentious character of pioneers of all other races, the Anglo-Saxon laid claims to the right to rule, and nearly always managed to exercise this right unopposed. This continued until his high -handed behaviour became a bit too much for colonies that were growing stronger, and America fought for her freedom. No American history book mentions that, during the long years of this bloody struggle for freedom, the vast majority of the gentlemanly Anglo-Saxons opposed Washington, whilst th e little men, the settlers and peasants, fought and gave th eir blood for the stars and stripes . 33 D

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Further it is scarcely mentioned anywhere that it was a German who took the first successful step towards the formation of an American sta te-J oha nn Konrad Weiser of H eidelb erg, who in 1]4.2 brought a bo ut the first continental congress at Phil adelphia. H e is forgotten becau se he was a German. Even to-day the Am erican of German origin, who usually h as no int erest in politics, patiently allows the Anglo-Saxons to tread h im und erfoot. The less he complains, the more h e gets trodd en on. The most he is allowed to be by th e Angle-American is a taxp ayer and .. . cannon-fodder for th e second world war against Germany, which is so ardentl y desired. At this time of decisive histori cal development particularly we Germ ans are forcibly struc k by the overbearin g and repulsive a ttac ks of the An glo-Arnerican Puritans. Who are they exac tly, these sanctimonious guardians of the morals an d conscience of the whole world? Let us examine them for a moment un der th e microscope of history. They were a littl e band of such excessively pious hypocrites that even En gland was glad to be rid of them. More than thr ee hundred years ago, with wives, childre n, and bastards, the " pilgrims," as they called th emselves, landed from the ldayjlower on the coast of New England. The Indians (savages are more human in spite of everyth ing) received th em in a friendly way and readily supplied the starving pa lefaces with provisions all thr ough the difficult early days. Indeed, they even gave the stran gers land for their homes and houses. The gra titude of th e Pu rit an s ended with the arrival of more ships and men from En glan d. Now they were strong enough, and could begin to think of conqu ering the country with th eir muskets. A really perverted Ph ari saical h ypocrisy is typi cal of the Purit an outlo ok. If a Puritan, and thi s is still tru e in 1938, contemp lates committing a crime, he br iefs the God of Isaac and J acob as counse l and calls on the Old T estament as j ury. A perfect examp le of this is to

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be found in the conduct of the self-righteous pilgrim father s towards the Indians. They had been willing to accept their hospitality; but they want ed to be lords over all the land, even over the Indians themselves, who were then as hard-working slaves to toil for the Kingdom of the Cho sen People. The Indians, however, were lovers of freedom, worshippers of Nature ; they had no intention of subjec ting themselves or giving up to foreigners the land of their forefathers. Only by honest exchange, so they explained, would they cede more territory. Th e conflict ha d begun , and the Puritan turn ed over the pages of his O ld T estam ent to see first of all wha t were the righ ts and wro ngs of the case. To begin with, he established beyond all doubt that the In dians were neither Semitic nor Jap hetic, Therefore they must be of Hametic origin. But it is written, " Let the race of Ham be cursed." H ence, as pious Christians, they were obliged to fulfil the will of God and utterly eliminate these accur sed heathens from off the face of the ear th. Strengthened by such divine revelation, they began a holy cru sad e of mur dering Indians. McLeod in his works throws invalu abl e light on Puritan morals. Th ey said to the chiefs of the Ir oquois that redskins and palefaces were to have "equal rights" in the country ; but th a t, since the form er were yet too ignorant , they must first study European mann ers and customs. Th erefore, the children of the highest Indians were to be educated in Engla nd, so th at they might then use the knowledge they had acquired in the service of their people. After mu ch hesitation, which was, alas, only too well justified, the tribes decided to follow the strangers' advice. A whole shipload of hopeful innocent children left the contin ent to learn in England the wisdom of the palefaces. Two years passed by with out news. Th en the Iroquois heard from the " inconsolable" psalm-smiters, that on the journey to England smallpox had broken out on board, and that every child without exception had fallen a

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victim to the epidemic. From ocean to ocean there arose the cries of the Iroquois mourning for th eir child ren. Onl y later did the sha ttering tr ut h leak out; th e ship had never had ord ers to sail to England; no epidemic of smallpox had broken out on board ; by order of th ese pious criminals the children had been sold as slaves in the West

Indies. I t is clear that this " opening up of the Promised Land " by the white Pharisees met with bitter but h opeless resistance from the Indian tr ibes. When it was later realized that the I ndian women would not allow themselves to be misused as slaves or mistresses, it was decided to exterminate them. As a proof of this, here is one of the innumerable documents of the period: "The state pays the sum of 50 pieces of eight for th e scalp of every Indian woman , which is to be produced as proof that the squaw has really been done to death ." This order, which was rea d and approved on the 14 April 1756, in the presence of th e councillors and judges of the sta te of Pennsylvania, led to the extermination of countl ess thousa nds of In dian mothers and wives, who belonged to the "accursed race of H am." In the Amer ican colonies of the eighteenth cent ury there was only one single evangelical society that was rea lly a friend and missionary to th e red man . . . th e German Moravian Brothers. T hey collected togethe r the rema ins of the decimated tribes, built sett lements, instru cted and protected the victims of the Pu ritan T error. And wha t thanks did they get for it ? In the year 1782 the In dian mission settlement of Moravian " Gnadenhu tten " (mark the Germ an name) was attacked by Puritan barb arians and all the defenceless re dskin Christians were killed and scalped. Why? Because a high price was set by the State on th e scalp of an enemy Indian, and enemy warriors could not be scalped with so much ease and so little danger. As they said , no one could see from a scalp whether it had come off a peaceful

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or a warlike head; and so a bloody harve st of scalps was reaped in the peaceful huts of mercy. The nineteenth century was no less cruel to what little rem ain ed of the origin al popul ation of the contin ent . Male Indians were called " bucks," that is, stags ; and they were hunted the whole year, with no close season. Only seventy year s ago one might still hea r in the wild West this bloodthirsty joke, " T he best Injun is a dead Injun." Hypocriti cal agreements-traps into which the red man , hunted like hum an game, fell again and againdestroyed what the bull ets could not reach . The " accursed race of the sons of H am" has been exterminated until only a harml ess handful is left. With smallpox, brandy and syphilis and with fire and the sword the Puri tan has broken and destroyed the red image of God. Cain, where is thy brother Abel? Now we know something about the puritanical mora lity and self-righteousness which even to-day inspires the sons and heirs of the old Puritans to pronounce a sentence of excommunica tion on Germ any . Now we know the nature of the close link between J ewish and Puritan cruelty, mendacity and immorality. Let us be clear about this, qui te clear, that it is the bloodthirstiness of the Old Testam ent which und erlies the moral indignation of the Puritans, the bloodthirstiness of an inhuman race of liars, nearly related to the ] ews! The day will come when the simple American citizen who has already succeede d in the great task of creating a sta te out of his new home, will have done with the whole J ewish-Puritan race. Not the murder of their broth ers in Germ any, but only peace, work and prosperity can assure a life and a futur e to this betrayed people of America. T he way to the future of the American people can never lead over a Euro pe that has been laid waste, but it lead s through a community of the workers, such as Adolf Hitler gave us five years ago, and which every 39

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German will guard and defend to his last d rop of blood in spite of J udah and Puritan morality.

Volkisclzer Beobachier, 4 Decemb er 1938.

HOUSEH OL DERS AT HOM E

" Damn it all, look after our own house instead of everlastingly peering a t the neigh bours' pots a nd pan s."

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DISTRESS IS APPARENTLY NOT I NTERESTING WHERE are the br ave represent atives of the British people in Parliament now? Where are those men of the Left, who are always rea dy with the words "justice ", " mercy" and " love of one's fellow men "? Where, too , ar e the gentl emen of the Ri ght, who used to plume them selves proudly on the size, the mightiness and the riches of their cou ntry, which rules half the ear th and which for centuries, bountifully blessed by fortune, has received the goods of this world in a vast, incalculable stream ? "''here were they this week ? It was not this week a qu estion of discussing the distress of the J ews and making accusations about th ings which are no concern of English Member s of Parli ament . T his week there appeared on the order of the day in th e H ouse of Commons a matter which should have touch ed the hear ts of the elected representatives of the Engl ish people far more deeply- a matt er which cast a dark and very ugly shadow on th e selfcompl acency of the H ouse. Th e probl em debated in the H ouse was that of the English Distressed Areas. Distress is growing in th e distressed areas, as they were called by the M .P.s whose constitue ncies they represent, and who in th eir own comp rehensible int erests were forced to say a word in pu blic on the present situation. And , as the debate ma de clear , the extent of these districts is also growing. It is spreading in exact proportion to the decrease in England's foreign tr ade. In the minin g districts of Durham the average figure for unemploymen t is 25 per cent of the popul ation . This figure reaches as much as 44 per cent in several districts in South Wales, which means that, if women and children ar e taken into account, pr actically the entire population is excluded from the natural right to work.

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What a dreadful picture! But what a subject for parliamentary eloquence; what a chance of exercising j ustice, mercy, love of one's fellow men; what a golden opportunity to use greatness, might and riches to a practical end! If only, in what concerns England, th ey would unite in action as they unite in cheap verbiage on other occasions! Then it would be possible to cre ate a paradise on earth for these men of the distressed areas . But just imagine-at times during this debate, this very important and perhaps vitally important debate for the future of England , only 19 (let us say it in word s, nin eteen!) out of the total of 615 members took part. Distress is apparently not an interesting subject. Westdeutscher Beobachler, 4 December 1938.

MAHATMA GANDHI GANDHI can scarcely be expected to understand Germany's stru ggle against the Jews and her attempt to free herself of economic and politi cal parasites. This knight of the gloomy countenance who him self suffered the humiliation of a political fiasco has no right to meddle in Germany's domestic affairs. He ha s no justification for preaching a war against Germany, since he wit h his " passive resistance" is himself too much of a coward to take up arms for his own people . There is, indeed, an unbridgeable gulf between the politi cal fighters of National-Socialist ,Germany in their brown or black uniforms and the I ndian lawyer in his spectacles and his loin cloth.

Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten, 7 Decemb er 1938.

In India th ere have been renewed outbreaks against the British domination. You cannot kill the I ndia n fakir. Westdeutscher Beobachter.

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" Hands up!"- in Humanity's Name! BALDWIN was right to address his radio appeal to the entire English-speaking community of America no less th an Britain. For his speech is a 100 per cent expression of Anglo-Saxon cant, Anglo-Saxo n politica l falsehood, Anglo-Saxon exploitat ion of the lachrymatory gland, and Anglo-Saxon " revolver" hu manity. We have no obj ection to Mr . Baldwin collecting as much as he can, or tak ing from an yone who will give, or giving to anyone he choses. That is his own business, a matter of domestic politics for that English nation which is proud to claim that it is nothing less than the descendan t of the ten lost tr ibes of Israel, and which has advanced no fewer tha n seventy-seven proofs to establish this identity thro ugh the " Anglo-Saxon-Israelite Id entity Society." Just as Mr. Baldwin chooses, then. But we must ask Lord Baldwin in the plainest possible term s, just as we refrain from int erferin g in his English affairs, to refrain from babbli ng about and insulting his way into our German affairs like a guttersnipe. For that is what he did when, not conte nt with squeezing AngloSaxon 'tear glands, he brandished his Anglo-Saxon hum anity revolver und er our nose, in an attempt to swell th e takings of the Baldwin Appeal Fund by shameless insults directed against Germ any, and by putting the whole blame for events of which he disap pr oves on explosions " of hum an inhum anit y against fellow beings." Th at, noble lord, is guttersnipe talk ; and you were well advised to stress the fact that you wished to bu rden neither the British Government nor the British cha racter with the responsibility for such behaviour. We will th erefore hold you alone responsible- you an d your

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"Germany's behaviour makes me weep tea rs of blood. She has snatched out precious child ren of the Versailles Treaty from these strong British arms!" (T he legends on the pulp it read "The Boer WarHunger Blockade of Germany-India-Palestine." Un derneath is written" English Cultural Histor y." )

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During the period referred to, the policy inaugurated by English sta tesmen and continued up to the day when M r. Ch amberlain's Governmen t was form ed aimed systema tically a t exterminating us and making us miserable. Wh ere was Anglo-Saxon humanity when the devilish hammer of Germ an oppression wa s forged at Versailles? Wh ere were En glish tears whe n th e blockad e was decreed and carried out which was to starve Germ an y's women and children? I n what wre tched hole was Eng lish shame hiding its head when English Bishops declared with pious smugness that for man y years Germ an y's future would be blighted with rickets, rightly called the Engl ish sickness? Where was English humanity when all Germans without exception were enslaved by the shac kles of the D awes Plan? O r whe n a n attempt was mad e to strangle Germany's present and fu ture existence by means of the Young Plan ? Then in truth was the tim e to ponder that "our Ch ristianity is not wor th much:' But at that time no Lord Baldwin said "we cannot turn away from these facts." H e could and did. And this typical representative of thi s beastly " huma nity " to-day dares to accuse Germ any in his gutte rsnipe way of" human inhumanity against fellow beings !" Was it in Germ an star vation camps that women and children were exterminated ? O r in Eng lish Conc entr ation Camps during the Boer War? Did we tie men to ca nno n mu zzles and shoot them to bits-or were these En gland's methods in India? And if Lord Baldw in gets up to-day like some tear-stain ed H ecuba and poses as the snivelling spokesman of a " huma nity " which is nothing bu t the loathsome depr avity of An glo-Saxondorn, are we su pposed to receive any othe r impression than one of the most contemptible falsehood? Berliner Lokal Anzeiger, 9 Decemb er 1938.

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THE OPEN DOOR IS SHUT A JAPANESE Government spokesma n ha s bluntly repudiated the idea of an " open door" in China; Chamberlain announced in the Hou se of Commons th a t th e Japanese Ambassador, Shigimit su, refused to renew his undertaking to maintain the "open door"; and th e J apanese Press declares that in the part of China under J apanese control foreign capital will be excluded from a ll enterprises which are of military or economic importance to Japan. A century of European political expansion in the Far East is at an end.

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The Am erican s and English have been unable to prevent the J apanese from conquering all th e big towns of China, and from scaring th e Chinese Nati onal Governmen t into th e re mote Pr ovince of T etchuan, without thought or respect for th e concessions du e to and privileges enjoyed by the Anglo-Saxo n powers. Wh at has become of the I ntern ati on al Settlement a t Shan ghai to-d ay ? Wh a t is left of H ong Kong-Hong K ong th at can no longer deliv er a bale of cloth to Canton without the per mission of the J apanese militar y authorities? Ruins and memories of dep arted glory ! Sir R obert H art, th e all-powerful overlord of the Ch inese customs service, wou ld turn in his grave if he could see th e collapse of Bri tish po wer in the East. What th e Chinese were never able to ach ieve in their passionate str uggle for na tiona l indep end ence]apan has decreed with a single stroke of the pen. The one-sided trea ties wh ich the European imperialist powers on ce forced upon China have been declared invalid . Chinese trade will in future be for China-and for th e common interests of th e Far Eastern bloc led by J apan. T he door on ce open to foreign imperia lism is now shut. Perhaps Washington appreciates the subtle irony of the fact that J apan did no tify her form er ally and present political ene my, England , the weary old Lion, of the end of the" open door " but omitt ed th e cour tesy in the case of the Yankees. We Germans have no reaso n to regret th ese developmen ts. Long ag o we gave up any part we had had in th e imperialistic exp loita tion of China. We ca n onl y look on with approval if China and J apan ar e united in a single bloc under th e anti-Bolshevist leadership of J apan, and if th e men and riches now being used again st Japan become p ar t ofJ apan's p ower. One has only to read the speeches of M essrs. Mo rgenthau, Baru ch and oth er leading lights of the Synagogue community in the United States to rejoice with all one's heart at Japan's progress. To us, as 49 E

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go od comra d es, th e doo r of th e great Far Eas tern bloc will always rem ain ope n.

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Spiteful abuse and hatred in the name cif democracy T HE form er English Foreign Secret ary and notorious warmon ger, Anthony Eden, went to the United Stat es of Am erica afte r he h ad found tha t his own countrymen were no lon ger willing to listen to such an int ern ational well-poisoner a nd associate of men like Winston Churchill and D uff Coop er. Welcomed by thousand s of Am erican wom en as th e darling dandy from En gland , he made his debut befor e fou r th ousand memb ers of th e American Manufac turers' Associa tion. These members represent the fattest mon ey-b ags in th e world, whose sole aim in life is to b ecome ri cher and riche r. And this is the sort of audie nce th at the man with th e wavy h air a nd th e elegan t tie chose to address on demo cracy. T he speech, wh ich teemed with abuse and petty spite dir ected agains t th e totalitarian states, was also broadcast by three hu nd red Am eric an radio sta tions so th a t no one in the Promised Land across th e ocean should b e deprived of th e exquisite tr eat of listeni ng to the effem inate voice of the political dandy. Anthony Eden, who prop oses in th e name of democracy to continue his tirades on types of govern me nt in a few da ys before the Press Club in W ashingt on, behaved like a Hollywood film star in m edi eval costume, and was, of cour se, wildly a pp lau de d by the money di ctators and social snobs. This fad ed "hero" of Europe launched the most shameless attack on the di ctatorships and on those nations which are under totalitarian leadership, and above all as was on ly to be expected, on the Fuhrer and Germany. He spoke at length on the violated rights of democracy. 51

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the continent of America. He would then have received a drubbing on a certain part of his anatomy which he would have remembered to his dying day and which would have stopped his impudent mug once and for all. But he preferred to speak of dictators to those who themselves are dictators of the gold bags. Anyone still retaining the slightest sense of decency in political life must be revolted and sickened when he reads the account of this down-at-heel political racketeer's publicity trip.

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TRAFFI C IN CHILDREN THE House of Commons is at present busy with a new Bill dealing with adoption. And high time, too. The astounding accusations against several adoption societies which came to light during the course of the debate made it clear that in England adoption is carried on as a normal and profitable commercial undertaking. The promoter of this new Bill, a Conservative woman M.P., described a number of cases which provided a damning exposure of existing conditions. Pressure and extortion are mild descriptions for what goes on. Often unmarried mothers are compelled to work for years in order to payoff their debt to the Adoption Society. Often, too, the fate of the little creatures is even more deplorable than that of their despairing mothers . They are in many cases made over to people who exploit them from their earliest youth and in some cases even bring them up as criminals. In recent years the number of these sinister enterprises has grown considerably, since the business seems to have been a profitable one. Both parties to the deal, mothers as well as prospective foster parents, have had to pay fancy prices to enable unscrupulous people to live in comfort. Plenty of people on the banks of the Thames would certainly be overjoyed to discover similar hair-raising occurrences in Germany, the permanent home of barbarism. But once again it has been shown that the British Isles are a hundred times more medieval than Germany. Nor is the conclusion of a Conservative member that in England far greater sympathy is shown to animals than human beings exactly flattering to the English character. In proof of his theory he showed that a radio appeal on 54

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behalf of a society for the protection of animals ra ised £ 18,000 and one on behalf of a children's hospital only £I 80! SO, in the eyes of these people a dog is worth exactly 100 tim es as much as a child! THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT HAS J UST PASSE D A P E NAL R EFORM LAW BY WHICH CO RPORAL PUNISHMENT, WHICH W AS HITHERTO STILL I NF L ICT ED , IS TO BE ABOLISHED.

"Hit him once more, T ommy, and then take this handker ch ief to d ry your tears . . . We must show our indignation at German's brutality ." Kladderadatsch.

The word " ba rba ria ns" ought to be allowed to disappear from the En glish dictionary for a little while!

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ENGLISH PRICES FOR CHILDREN T wo disclosures have recently been made in the English House of Commons. First an M.P. stated that cc in England a dog is regard ed as 100 times as valuable as a child." Secondly, it was revealed that in England-the only land of really genuine cchum anity " - the buying and selling of children has been developed into a regular industry. There are proper companies which trade in children whose prices are listed up to £500 or £600. Yesterday in the House it was decided th at these companies should in future be, not forbidden, but registered, and that in this way England's conscience would once more be set at rest. In other countries children are regarded as the nat ion's most valued possession. I n England, that land of prosperity and "humanit y " they are the object of sordid transactions of doubtful limited companies and have a price ticket attach ed.

B..?,. am Mittag, 19 December 1938.

"MR. CHAMBERLAIN, THAT WAS NOT THE ACTION OF A GENTLEMAN" the beginning of my short visit to London was not exactly pleasant. After all, I had flown quite a long distance and had looked forward with pleasurable expectancy to my first visit to "Merry Old England ." And then to receive this quite unexpected welcome! I asked the first person I met, who looked outwardly quite friendly enough, the best way from the aerodrome to the town in German. He stared at me, screwed up his face, made a wry mouth, spat at my feet and instead of condescending to answer favoured me with the verdict. "Oh, a German." That was the end of my first conversation with an Englishman and my curious welcome was over. In little more than two hours' time the banquet at which Chamberlain was to speak was due to begin. My mood and my eag er expectations of hearing the speech were naturally somewhat damped by the tone of my reception. For I had every reason to believe that the Englishman who had addressed such a brief but neverthele ss drastic remark to me was very far from being a gentleman. I asked myself whether many other gentlemen of the same sort existed. My doubts were justified. The same evening was to bring me a second great surprise. Mr. Chamberlain was the guest of the Foreign Press Association at a function. The German members, as eo-hosts, had copies of his speech submitted to them some hours before it was due to be delivered. In this way th ey knew in advance that Mr. Chamberlain intended to pass unfriendly comments on the German Press in particular, and on National-Socialism in general. Had Mr. Chamberlain spared his speech for another 57 EVEN

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occasion it would still have caused a sufficient surprise in view of the atmosphere created at Munich. As it was, however, it was a gross and thorough ly " un-English" piece of tactl essness (English men are always convinced that they are masters of tact) for a guest to criticize and blame a part of his audience, includin g a number of his German hosts, without their being ab le to refute his accusations. For Ch amb erlain knew full well that this was not a Parl iament in which one can reply to one's attack ers. Nor was the complete lack of embarrassment with which the Prime Minister aired his unauthor itative views as to the temporary nature of cer ta in forms of government any more consistent with the gentlemanly behaviour which the Englishman likes to claim. In saying this, one is involuntaril y confronted with a mass phenomenon which cannot be ignored in this connection. A stay of even a few days in London brings home to one the utter impudence of the " Governess attitude " adopted by En glish politician s towards German y's domestic affairs. T he self-complacency of the average En glishman, his prej udice against everything in life which runs counter to the viewpoint of-English conservatism is so incredibly arrogant that English public opinion on Nazi Germany almost without exception adopts the sta ndpoint that the Germans must be freed by England and its " Messengers to the German people" from a Nazi rul e of force and system of terrorization. The citizen of London, as I found him in conversation , is convinced that in Germany the masses are dr agooned and robbed of their freedom by a Nazi minority which uses force, threats, and mass hyp notism, not to speak of its lack of Chri stian morality. He is quite convinced that the English people and others must fulfil their heaven-sent mission offreeing the German people from the fetters which bind them , or at least of bringing about a compromise between the methods of Nat ional-Socialism and those of the Western Powers 58

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both in domestic and foreign policy. T his idea, totally divorced from reality, has given the Englishman a confused and utterly erroneo us conception of the world situation. Only this can explain Chamberlain's behaviour after Munich and the feelings apparent in England which so astounded public opinion in Germany. J ust as the German observer accepts, as a matter of course, the standards of English life, which differ totally from his own, so the Englishman-as citizen of the Empirebelieves that he is the centre of the world, and that consequently he is responsible for the preservation of world order. To the Englishman, therefore, the new German nation is a disturber of this order. The mere fact that we refuse to accept this fundamental error of England's way of thinking is sufficient to brand us as a "dynamic machine of conquest," and to make us the bogy of English public opinion. Danziger Vorposten, 19 December 1938.

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A page from the Volkischer Beobachter presenting a German interpre tation of Lord Bald win's phrase " the Moral Par tnership" of the British peoples. T he pictu res purport to show British terrorist method s in India, Egypt and Palestine, of which the most extra ordinary is the execution of I ndians by shooting them from the mouths of guns.

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ENGL AND'S YEAR OF TRO UBLE year 1938 has brought Britain and its inhabit an ts greater excitements and more bitt er disappoin tments than any year since 1914. At the beginning of the year the feeling was prevalent in England that rearma ment was going well. In certain circles people openly boasted of the possibility of checking the rise of the totalitarian states. At the Foreign O ffice Eden's policy, which was synonymous with England's whole post-war policy, was still influential and reflected the standpoint that England must outwardly appea r as though she was in possession of all the power in the world . Eden, and with him Sir Robert Vansittart, were of the cast-iron conviction that it was only necessary bold ly to thro w the weight of England's legendary prestige into the scales when a decision had to be taken in order to bluff En gland's opponents into submission. Th e Prim e Minister, Neville Cham berlain , was of quite a different opinion, and turned both the leading representatives of this policy of bluff out of office. Van sittar t and Eden had to go. H ardl y had they gone than Austria was included within the Germ an R eich. In twenty-four hours, as one English paper put it, a bloodless war was fought and won. Such an event was without parallel in history. In England there arose a conviction that the continuation of this policy, begun in 1935 by Italy, of " affronting British susceptibilities" must end by endangering the respect and reputation enj oyed by the British Empire. It was felt that the line had to be dr awn somewhere. But drawing the line impl ied a ret ur n to old methods. Th e French Ministers were summoned to London in THE

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April 1938. The English frightened them badly, and then assured them of England's support in the event of anything happening to Czechoslovakia. At the same time English influence got to work in Prague. There were those in England (see Eden and Co. ) who were re ady to defend Czechoslovakia to the last Czech-in defence of misund erstood British glory. In May the British Ambassador presented his famou s warning to the German Government. But it soon transpired that this return to old methods did not represent the real policy of the Prime Minister. Why? Because Chamberlain h ad a better realization of English interests and England's might than either the loud-mouthed politicians of the Left or Eden, Churchill and Co. H e effectively checkmated them inJuly by sending Lord Runcim an to Czechoslovakia. Thus at the last moment he attempted to revive a policy of peaceful settlement and reasonable understanding. But the previous relapse into Eden's system of bluff had already had unfortunate reper cussions. Using England as his trump card, Dr. Ben es believed he could risk a gamble on war and peace. We know what happened subsequently, and there is no ne ed to repeat it here. We have already said that rearmament was not even sufficiently successful to back a policy of bluff. In addition, England's economic rearmament, of which the English were so fond of talking, was in an equally bad sta te. In 1938 England's foreign ' trade, industry and finance showed signs of a decline. Finally, in order to develop political power, not only arms and money are necessary, but men. But 1938 has r evealed a deep cleavage of national opinion in the field of mass leadership. The forces of the Left and certain "rebels" of the Right are in opposition to the country's official policy. The workers were incited by war-mongers to a wild state of anti-Fascism and bellicosity, but were not prepared to join the armed forces. War talk on one 63

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hand and extravagant pacifism on the other resulted in a muddle out of which no statesman could have succeeded in welding national politica l p ower. Chamberl ain knew very well the reasons that pro mpt ed h im to go to Germany three tim es in succession when peace was seriously thre at ened . The rise of G rea ter Germany in one uninterrupted and irresistible march of triumph has rob bed England of those weap ons an d tru mp cards on which every Englishm an has been used to depend for cen turies pa st. In 1938 Englan d was ca ugh t unprep ar ed for ac tion .

Berliner Biirsen Z tilung, 19 Decem ber 1938.

T HE " T YPI CAL ENG LIS H GIR L "

T he result of a prize competition-s-pretty but stupid O N E of the biggest Eng lish mornin g pap ers, whose circulati on runs int o millions, recentl y organiz ed a prize compe tition to discover nothing more nor less than the typical English girl-or perh ap s we should say Brit ish, since all entries were to be from residents in the Un ited Kingdo m. The searching questionnaire set by this en terprising pap er contained a number of columns in which everythin g imaginable (yes, reall y almost everything) which it is permissible to ask abou t a woman 's life, was asked. The result was published not long after, and all England was in suspense to sec the T ypical English Girl in London, since the first prize consisted of a week's visit to Bri tain's capital. But before Miss Audrey P. came to London, one of the paper's repor ters, for who m th ree-qu art ers of a page was reserved daily, was sent to the medium- sized pr ovincial English town to see how this most typical of all girls lived. The daugh ter of a well-to-do fruit erer, she works five days a week and earns 35/-, a very modest sum by English sta ndards. Thirty shillings she gives to her parents to pay for her clothes and board. She keeps 5/- for herself, which size spends entirely on cosmetics and cigarettes! How does this you ng lady, who was chosen out of 32,000 entries as a typical exa mple of English girlhood, spend her spa re time? Very simply and rather monotonously. Four days a week she goes-dancing! She ha s exactly half a dozen boy friend s with whom she is on more or less intimate terms. What would her Victorian grandmother have said to this? 65 F

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English dance halls only begin th eir evening programme at eight o'clock. So Miss Audrey, who gets home at [our, has plent y of time to make use of the interval. T his she does as follows : She has tea , th en takes the pap er and looks at th e woma n's page, and th en turn s on the wireless and listens for th ree hours to-dance music. Every day! And then in th e evening she goes dancing properly. English dan ce halls close at eleven o'clock at the latest. Since Miss Audrey does not go to bed before twelvethirt y a.m. she still has some time to spa re. H ow do you think she spends it ? Sh e turns on the wire less and listens, mostly from foreign stations, to-dallce music! But Miss Audr ey has got one other habit. She goes every Saturday to th e Municipal swim ming baths. And tha t is everything th ere is to tell about Miss Audrcy's life. She thinks it's grand. And the Daily Express, the paper that succeeded, a t th e usual "stupendo us cost and sacrifice" which it expends on its read ers, in selec ting this ap par ently typical examp le of the weake r sex in England, hastened to dr aw up a programme for the young lady's visit to London. T his progr amme fairly teemed with Palais de Danse and extremely dou btful revues (the kind where the stalls are full of the ba ld head s of elderly gentleme n). Of course she was taken to the best dress shop (French, naturally), chose the best gowns and frocks, went to the best restaurants, was given a perm an ent wave by Lond on's best haird resser, was atte nded by London's best manicurist, and finally, as a crowning treat, visited the dance hall in which Joe Loss and his band play their so-called music. This surprise alm ost caused Audrey to faint with j oy. J oc Loss, incidentally, is her favourite ba nd conductor. He and no other. And when finally J oe Loss came down from his platform and asked Miss Audrey for the next dance (his first violin looked after the conductin g, which is totally un necessar y anyway in th is sort

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of music), she first of all blushed red and then went white as a sheet. "It can' t be true, it 's too wond erful!" she whispered, and glided away across the dan ce floor. T his was her last evening in London. The next day she travelled back to Wan sea, where she lives with her parents, da nces four times a week, listens to dan ce music twenty-eight hours a week (always the same old rh ythm) bath es once a week, and spends every penny of her 5/on lipstick, eyeblack, powder, nail varnish and cigare ttes! Th a t is the typical English girl discovered at such pain s from among 32 ,000 entries by the Daily Express.

Der Mitteldeutsche, 23 December 1938.

PALESTIN E I S A HELLEYES PUT OUT THEN KILLED

Incredible Brutalities DJ the English SOME of the at rocities comm itte d by th e English in Palestine are quite unbelievabl e. The ac tivities of the English troops are not limit ed to fighting aga inst armed irr egular forces, but consist mainl y in th e savage persecution of entirely peaceful civil populati ons. During an attack on the Arab village of Att il five people were deliberat ely chosen and tortu red. They were beat en over th e head. Then their t)'es were put out. After th ey had been mutil ated in th is ghastly way th ey were finally given the coup de grace.

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Blood y Punitive measures in th e Service of Zion . Wiener Neueste Nachrichtm.

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IN the shopping qu art ers of Lond on crowds of people throng shoulder to shoulder, filled with the desire to buy . And while the cold and the heavy fall of snow have provided the necessary Ch ristm as a tmosphere, th ey have also caused fresh suffering and despa ir among the un employed, who still number 1,8 0 0 ,0 0 0 in this country . They are not to be seen near the dazzling shop windo ws of the palati al stores known all the world over, except when they beg in some draugh ty entranc e wit h mat ches or home-made toys. But last Wedn esday fifty or sixty un empl oyed cryi ng " Work or Bread " lay dow n in the street in Oxford Circus, a nerve centre of the Empire. In an instant the tra ffic was at a sta ndstil1 until police reinforcements removed the demonstrators. The newspap ers euph emistically descr ibed the event as a " Lie Down Strike," but it caused a considerable stir nevertheless. As if it were a joke to lie down in the stree t in a threadbare coat or simply with a shawl round one's shoulders whe n the barometer is well below freezing point! On the following Thursday aftern oon an oth er band of un employed " inva des" the Ritz, on e of the smartest hot els in London. Their less adven turous companion s mean while wait outsid e and try in vain to get a peep of what is going on within thr ough th e tightl y drawn plush curtains. And what exactly is goin g on?.. The guests, numbering ab out forty men and three women ask for tea. They arc ready to pay for it. The distin guished wait er, who is serving a few sparsely populated table s in the gril1-room, favours the newcom ers with th at haughty smile of refusal whi ch he has been taught to

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cultivate for unwelcome guests in these superior surro undings. T he manager appea rs and is apologetic. Tea, he says, is only served up stairs. T he guests explain th at they are willing to pay. I t is no good. The police,

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who have meanwhile been summoned, make a discreet entry in the background. T hen these guests of the R itz Hotel suddenly beco me despondent, troop off. But at least they disp lay placar ds bearin g the slogan " Work and Bread. " T here is a n un fort un a te incident. A press pho tographer who was lucky enough to see the in ciden t

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and take a ph otograph had his camera broken by employees of the hotel. But the u nd amaged pic ture was publ ished neverth eless. I t shows a few doze n men, careworn, not exactly nobly dre ssed, and a ll in the prime of life, sitting decent ly and quietly in the comfo rtab le arm-chairs of the grill-room side by side with the other guests. That is all. But isn't it a scandal? Surely a stor m of indignation will break out in the English Press, or at least in the pa pers of the Labour Par ty. But no, all that happens is a battl e of words as to whether the prop rietor of the Ri tz is a "publican" in the legal sense of the word, and whether he was, therefore, legally obliged to serve the uninvited guests. The orga n of the L abour Party, the Marxist Daily Herald, finds a way out of its c1assconscious embarrassment by saying that on entering the hotel the unemployed took the wrong turning to the right int o the grill-room, where, in point of fact, tea is no t as a ru le served, instead of going upstairs to the first floor where a dance band plays at this time of day. Nor does the Daily Herald describe the behaviour of the R itz's manager as "scanda lous," even though he certainly does not bu y adver tisement space in that paper. Neither does it deplor e the Ritz's lack of Ch ristian Charit y towards one's neighb our nor its regretta ble want of humour, which arc both supposed to be characteristic of the English. After all, what harm would have been do ne if the R itz Hotel Lt d., in view of the total refusal of State aid to the un employed at Christmas , had decided to give its fort y-th ree guests (who, in the words of th e man ager, behaved like gentlemen, took off their caps, and wiped their feet on the mat ) a hap py Ch ristm as for once, whether out of charity towa rds one's neighbour or ou t of a humorous appreciat ion of th e situation. Durin g the same Thursday afternoon in whic h in the grill-room at the Ritz this cha p ter was being added to the history of social understanding in England, the Govern-

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ment in the House of Commons was refusing point blank any in crease in State aid for the unemployed. Nor had it any other proposals to submit for the alleviation of their misery. On th e sam e aft ernoon, too, a report of the Ministry of Education on the health of schoolchildren was published. From this it appears th at th e percentage of und ernourished children once again shows an incre ase-in Newcastle from I I to 17 per cent , in Gateshead from 17 to 22 per cen t, in Durham from 19 to 2 I per cent. In terms of everyd ay life this means that in these districts of England, as well as in many oth ers, every fifth child is suffering from und er-nourishment. And this in a nat ion which cont rols the riches of ha lf the world. . . . " H appy Christm as! " As far as we are able to judge, the read ing of these d amning figures will in no way spoil for the guests of the Ri tz Hotel th e fine Christmas dinner to which they will sit down. In the strongholds of capitalism people have grown accustomed to contemplating such figures withou t emotion. Nor do they need the Daily Herald's practical hint, but as real gentl emen they know that one turns right into the grill-room and up stairs to the ballroom , whe re one is quite sure of meeting neith er workless fa thers nor under-nourished children. In this sense-" Happy Christmas!"

Westdeutscher Beobachter, 25 December 1938.

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WHITHER EN GLAN D? BRITISH policy is silent. It never anno unces a definite programme. On e might almost think th at it is without definit e aims. But it has cer tai n a ims of which it is perfectly conscious, to which at ap pro pr ia te mom ents it clings with grea t obstinacy . Th e main objects of En gland's policy used to be the buildi ng of her Empire a nd the expansion of her world tr ad e. In pur suit of these ends English Governments mor e th an once have not stopped short at going to war themselves or en ta ngling other countries in wars. In past centuries, ind eed , England has, by clever calculation, almost always managed to derive the greatest adva ntages from th e war s of Europe. But in the World War she mad e the discovery th at modern wars bring no gain even to the victori ous pow ers. T he gigantic struggle of 1914 to 1918 so thoroughl y overturn ed the world orde r that all English a tte mpts to crea te a new basis upon which to erec t a reli abl e business poli cy ha ve hitherto failed. England 's upp er classes, who until now have been able to cling to power in spite of a far-reachin g " de mocratization " of the Government machin e, ar e afra id that a new European war would result in genera l destruction, general chaos and , consequent ly, in th eir own collapse . For this reason the y are very exercised over the maintenance of world peace. The country 's rul ers are doubly so in view of the fact that the Briti sh Dominions are showing an increasing independence over decisive q ueslions of foreign policy and that lack of unity withi n the Commonwealth in the event of war would inevitably lead to the final break-up of the whol e Empire and the downfall of Brita in as a great Power. In our tim e, therefore, the preservati on of world peace has becom e the

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main obj ective of British poli cy. British Governments a re to-d ay re ady to pay a price if they feel they have th ereby contributed towards assuring peace

A Policy ofBusinesslike Reasonableness T he inh abita nts of the Brit ish Isles, outwardly so selfcon trolled, have often been passionately moved by ideologies. But English sta tesmanship ha s generally only used political ideo logies when th ese promised to be useful. In its opinion practical politi cs and political idealism cannot be divorced from each oth er. The ideology of the Leagu e of Nations struck British politi cians as being useful in the post-war period, because it promised to uphold the existing state of affairs. And so the League was regarded by En glan d's rul ers as a not uninteresting experimen t, alt hough much in its organization and doctrines was in fla t contradiction to th e lessons of history. The British public, however, ado pted the ideals of Geneva with enthusiasm only whe n import ant Imperial int erests were threatened and whe n it saw in th e appeal to Collective Security a usefu l defence against th ese dang ers. And although the inad equ acy of the League of Nations soon became ap paren t, it was able to persuade its leading statesmen for some time yet to fall in with its wishes. In this way, British policy du rin g the last decad e has lacked that clear objective which alon e secur es success. Consideration for pu blic opinion, although the latter was only formed by par ty agita tion, was thought by responsible Ministers to be more 'importa nt than true sta tesma nship. As a result Britain suffered political defea ts u nder R am say MacDonald and Baldwin which d eeply shook h er self-confidence. Under these two Prime Ministers it was forgotten that even in th e conduct of for eign affairs debit and credit must be bal an ced, and th at in international affairs busin ess should not be done with bills of doubtful value. 75

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But for the last eigh teen months British foreign policy has been conducted by a sta tesman wh o h as tri ed to reintrodu ce th e sou nd principles of the business world, who thinks before he ac ts, who is not afraid to change his mind if this helps to guarantee the whole en terprise. Neville Chamberla in d ismissed Ede n from th e Foreign O ffice because he did not und erstand th e " policy of businesslike reasona bleness," H e made his adviser, Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretary- a man wh o on strictly religious princ iples refuses to do anything which is not compa tible with his conscience. Wh en Chamberlain was Chan cellor of the Exchequ er, he labour ed to restore Englan d' s finances to a healthy sta te. As Prime Mini ster he intends, with the help of his conscientious colleague, to carry out a salu tary aud it of British aims and foreign policy.

Obstaclesfrom ioithin Th e Prim e Minister is deep ly convinced that the welfare of his peopl e can be secured and promoted only if more settled conditions obtain in the world. H is efforts ar e therefore mainly devoted to esta blishing better relations between the Powers and to d oing every thing to mitiga te existing intern ational differences. What he did in a sma ll way by reaching agreement wit h Ireland, he is tryin g to do on a grand scale by appeasem en t with Germ an y and Italy.

The " Peacemaker" Chamb erlain has been praised by his own coun trymen and by oth er nat ions as th e " Peace ma ker", becau se in the Septemb er crisis he mad e a substa ntial con tribu tion to the preservation of world peace by his personal int erventi on. Undoubtedly there exists in En gland to-d ay amon g influenti al politi cians no other who possesses the moral courag e display ed during tho se weeks by Mr. Chamberlain. The world can therefore be thankful that

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he was Great Britain's Prime Minister in the severest crisis since 19 I 8. Chamberl ain wou ld gladly have avoided th e crisis. H e had learn t from the international unr est th a t acc ompanied the reunion of Austria and Germany th a t it is not enough to reco gniz e the j ust grievances of ot her na tions, but also that it is necessary for tho se Powers whic h have been fortune' s favourites to work actively for th e timely remo val of the causes of th ese grieva nces . By th e lin e of action he chose subsequently in the Czechoslovakia n question, h e recognized th at a rad ica l cure is bette r th an half measur es in conflicts which are fraugh t with dan ger ously dynamic forces. At th e end of September he returned home from Munich in hi gh spir its as mu ch becau se a terrible new war had been averted as because he brought with him a do cument wh ich mean t lastin g peace between Germany and En gland. H ow h is voice trembled with j oy when he read to th e crowd at H eston Aerodro me the decla ration which h e and Adolf Hitler had signed a few hours pr eviously ! There ca n be no doubt that, under th e influen ce of the welcome accorde d him in Germ an y, he still felt to th e bott om of his heart what po ssibilities for th e develop m en t of a be tter peaceful relationship with a " poten tial en emy" had ari sen out of Munich . His people, it is true, were happy and thankful that he h ad av er ted the terrible dan ger of war, but, feeling that in th e hour of dan ger Britain had not been sufficiently prep ared a nd suspec ting that British diplomacy h ad suffered a " de feat " in the crisis, th ey immed iately dem anded a tr emendous accel eration of the rearmament progr amme. Chamberlain did not dare to oppose this dem and. On the very day of his return from the Muni ch conversations he once more became sober and objective under the influence of the atmosphere whic h surrounded h im . And when subse quently a passiona te and reck less ag itation took mean ad vantage of German y's hostile attitude towards the J ews, he felt it necessary to abandon

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for a moment h is efforts towards An gle-German Appeasement But since then he has often made it clear th at he is only waiting for better political weather at h om e.

Readinessfor National Service Perhaps, too, Chamberl ain did not set himself agai nst th e public's will to rearm, because it seem ed to be a sign of a great new reviv al of national spir it. The Briti sh people does not like to be d isturbed in its ha bit s. It is inclin ed to be lazy. But it has often sho wn in times of nati on al emergency th at it is prepared for the most extreme sac rifices. The Briti sh have often given a superficial impression of decadence, as, for example immedia tely before they were called on for the grea test efforts by the elder Pitt, and again later by th e younger Pit t. At the outbreak of th e World War certain appearances could also be regarded as symptoms of decay. But in this terribl e tri al of stre ngth th e Brit ish peopl e again did its utm ost an d achieved outsta nding result s. Sin ce the n there has been ano ther period of enerva tion. The idealistic belief of the Leagu e of Na tions era that war was a th ing of the pas t combined with extremist political doc trines to produ ce a fresh weakening of nation al organiza tion a nd national energy . R earmament at home seemed to th e peop le a t first alm ost a crime. Then, when the first reverses in foreign politi cs occurred, th ey recovered th eir reason. Since then , England has pro gr essed along the road of rearmam ent. Th e terror of the September cri sis, which ha s subsequently been exploited by assiduously spread and often fant astic rumours as to Germany's alleged intentions, has pr ovoked not on ly a desire for grea tly accelerated rearmament, bu t also a greater readiness for Nationa l Serv ice. Altogether the creation of a giga ntic defensive machine has far-reaching effects on th e life of the nation.

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The Bea verbro ok pap ers declare triumph antl y that the country h as returned under Chamberlain 's leadership to a policy of isola tion, thus implying th a t a t long last it ha s adop ted th e course wh ich they have been advocating for m any years. This assertion is not altogether untrue, since in fu ture Great Britain will only fight ifher own vital interests are threatened. Am ong these, h owever, she includes th e inviolability of certain othe r sta tes. I t is certain that the very short era- regarded histori call y-in whi ch British policy under th e Leagu e of Na tions felt itself bound, at least in theo ry, to th e obliga tions of collective security, is over. For th e tim e being, even if th e Opposition wer e to co me into power , it would be impossible to revert to th e old sta te of affairs. At th e peak of the crisis En gland was brought to th e realization that she has no need to risk h er own existence and th at of her Empire in orde r to sta nd in th e way of the natural developme n t of th e Co ntine nt. She has also learn t that if one does not wish to be th reaten ed a t home, one is well advised not to meddle in th e power politi cs of other gre a t na tion s. Britain 's own sphe re of activity is grea ter th an that of any other power. H er Em pire em braces a qu arter of the globe' s who le surface , and a quarter of its entire population. I n addition, she has va luable trad e connections in a lmost every part of th e world. The pr otectio n of her Empire and of h er world trad e is Brit ain 's primary interes t, although in contrast to former peri ods she no lon ger seeks to extend her possessions. M or eover , she is no longer in a position to protect her interests alone. She h as, th er efore , joined Fr an ce in a commun ity of in terests whi ch-as Mr. Chamberl ain recently said-b inds her more firml y th an a tr eaty. It is England 's wish th at cer tain other countries should be inclu ded in this com m unity of interests: Holland and Belgium as buffer states to the Channel, Portugal because she owns str a teg ica lly important islands in th e Atlantic, and Spa in,

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Greece and T ur key as guardian s of th e entra nces of the Mediterr an ean. Englan d will also pursue an elastic policy in order to come to an und erstanding with Germ an y a nd It aly. America urges her to opt for the Western Powers." But since Britain's leading sta tesme n reali ze th at th eir country ca n count upon Am erican help in a Eu ro pea n wa r only after she has already received irr ep ar abl e blows, she prefers collaboration bet ween the four grea t Euro pean Powers. She believes tha t no secu re world peac e is possible so long as Euro pe is divided by ac u te differences. For instan ce, British policy in the Far East is a t the moment weakened becau se it is constantly necessary to keep an anxious eye on the Europea n situa tion. Perhaps there would never have been a th reat to British trade in China- which may la ter well lead to far worse dan gers - if the situa tion in Europ e h ad been mo re peaceful. Man y Englishm en believe tha t British sta tesmanship should have been able to avo id giving sim ultaneous grounds of gr ievance to J ap an , I taly and Germany. In 1939 there will be a Gen eral Election. It is to be hoped that it will free Mr . Ch amberl ain and Lord H alifax in their decisions on foreign pol icy from th e restr ictions of home policy which have h ither to prevented a ny really fruitful policy of appeasement. For this th e British Governm ent will require a closely knit a nd deter mined maj ority, not, as in the last two Parl iam en ts, an oppressive preponderan ce which reduces the machin ery of Government to indolence and the suppor ters of the Government to indiscipline. Frankf urter Zeifung, 25 December 1938. 11

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Tn s Archbishop of Canterb ury (he is called Dr. Lang) is the highest dignitar y in th e English Church. It was he who at the Coronation of th e K ing of England set the Crown up on the King's head " in the nam e of God." This Archbi shop of Ca nte rbury recent ly published a letter in The TiTTILS. The Times is one of England's most important newspap ers. I t is the mou thpiece of the English Government. The Arch bishop's letter reads as follows:

To The Editor of" The Times" Sir,- I believe that I spea k for the Christian people of this country in giving imm ediat e expression to the feelings of indigna tion with which we have read of the deeds of cruel ty and destruction whi ch were perp etrat ed last Thursday in Germ any and Austr ia. Whatever pr ovocation may have been given by th e deplora ble act of a single irresponsible J ewish you th, re prisals on such a scale, so fierce, cruel and vindictive, cannot possibly be justified. A sinister significance is added 10

them by thefact that the police seem either to haoe acquiesced in them or to have been powerless to restrain them. It is most distasteful to write these words j ust when there is in this country a general desire to be on friendly terms with the German nation. But there are times when the mere instincts of humanity make silence impossible.' Would th at th e rul ers of the R eich cou ld realize th at suc h excesses of hatred and malice pu t upon the friendship which we are read y to offer th em an almost intolerable strain! 1

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I trust th at in our churches on Sunday and ther eafter remembrance may b e made in our prayers of those who h ave su ffere d this fresh on set of p ersecution a nd wh ose future seems to be so d ark and hopeless. Yours faithfully, COSMO CANTUAR.

A few days after this letter was published, on the occa sion of th e twentieth Armistice celebration, Divine Service was cele brated in all th e churches of Engla nd . The Archbishop of Canterbury preached in Westminster Ab bey in London, the most celebra ted church in England. O f this serv ice th e En glish Pr ess wro te : " I n Westm inster Abbey an unprecedented event took pl ace. Interrupting the traditional service, the Ar chbishop of Can terbury said : ' Let us p ause in silence as an exp ression of sympa thy for the persecuted J ewish people.' This incid en t caused a sensation." Both th ese state me n ts were mad e by the Archbishop of Canterbury in his ca paci ty as th e foremo st repre sentative of the Christian Church in England and , as he himself put it, as the " mouthpiece of the Christian popul ation of England." H e issued th ese sta tements as the sworn servant of Christ an d H is teaching, and as a preacher of Christianity. By so doing th e Ar chbishop of Canterbury became a traitor to Christ, to all that He struggled for and to Hi s gospel. Christ never expressed Hi s sympa thy for the J ews. H e never took th e J ews' part. H e never excused, nor would H e ever have done so, a J ewish murder. Christ said to th e J ews : " Ye are of your fat her th e devil. He was a murd erer from the beg inn ing, and abode not in the truth, becau se there is no truth in him . He is a liar and the father of it." - Joh n viii, 44. Ch rist ca lled th e J ews " the childre n of Sa tan." H e 83

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called the m "murderers." H e ca lled th em "falsehood incarnate." Becau se Chr ist thus exposed th e J ews, and becau se He fough t, p reach ed an d tau gh t against them, the J ews sought to mur d er H im too. In the gospel of St. J ohn it is wri tte n: "And therefore did the J ews persecu te J esus, and sought to slay h im." - J oh n v, 16. " After these things J esus walked in Ga llilce: for He would not walk in J ewry because the J ews sought to kill Him." - J ohn vii, I. In the end th e J ews succeeded in br inging Christ before Pilat e and getting H im crucified . They had Hi m murdered on Gol gotha. In so doin g they gave the whole world proof that the y are in fact " murderers from the very beginning." T o-day th e J ews are providing the Aryans with a far more terr ible proof. In 1914 th e J ews involved the world in the Great War. The cost of this to the peo ple involved was 13 million dead! The J ews brought the Bolshevist reign of terror to the Ru ssian Empire. By systematically plan ned mass murder, exile and starvation the J ewish Bolshevist murderers br ought th e total of their victims in twenty years of bloody ru le up to 60 million dead! The Jews set on foot the R ed revoluti on in Spain. Th e result of th is J ewish Bolshevist mu rd erous undertakin g to date is I million dead! J ewish agents and J ewish thu gs have during th e past twenty years sown the seeds of revolution s, de monstrations, str ikes, murder attempts, etc., in almos t every country in the world. The result of this Jewish Bolshevist plotting is a sea of blood, a sea of tears, untold sufferi ng, untold misery, and untold distr ess throughout th e who le 84

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world. World history in th e p ast h as noth ing to show compara ble to th is gigan tic total of m urder ed men and women. I t is the present, th e time in wh ich we are actu ally living whic h has provided the grea test, grimmest and most monstrou s proof that the J ews ar e wha t Christ declared them to be: " Murderers from the beginning." And it is this race of murderers, thi s people who 2,000 years ago crucified Christ on Golgotha, whose part is now taken by the Arch bishop of Can terbury- the highest dignitary of the Chris tian Churc h in England. On behalf of this race of mur derers he writes letters to the English papers. O n behalf of this race of criminals, bathed in blood and over burdened with guilt, he interrupts his divine service in order to assure them of his sympathy and his affection. What would Ch rist, who was mur dered by the J ews on Golgoth a, h ave had to say if He had attended the service in Westminster Abbey? H e would have pr eached a sermon against the wolf in sheep's clothin g and aga inst false prop hets, and He would have said, as H e said 2 ,000 years ago : " Ye blind guides, which strain at a gna t and swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Phari sees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outw ard, but ar c within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleann ess, Even so ye also outw ardl y appea r righ teous men, but within ye ar e full of hypocrisy and iniqu ity." -Ma tthcw xxiii. Against th is hypo crisy of the Ar chbishop of Ca nterbury the Ar ab woma n leader, H oda Charavy, has turned in indignation. She wrote the following let ter to the highest dignitary of the English Ch ur ch:

To the Archbishop of Canterbury, London You did not raise your voice in 1924 when England, on the occasion of th e murder of the Engli sh Sirdar,

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Sir Lee St ack, imposed an ind emnity of £ 5 0 0 ,000 on Egyp t, despi te h er official apology, and orde red the withdrawal of Egyptia n troop s from the Sud an . To-day the English troops in Palestine a re killin g men, wom en and chi ldren who are innocent, or are gu ilty of no gr ea ter cr ime than defending th eir country. Against th is too, my lord Arc hbisho p, you have never raise d a protest. But you did suddenly raise your voice becau se the Germans imp osed an ind emnity on th e J ews as a reprisal for the atroc ity committed on the Germ an D iploma t in Paris, whose perp etrat or admitt ed that h is m otiv e was "revenge on Germ any." No single J ew h as denounced th is crime . Is your friend ship then r eserved only for J ews, my Lord Archbishop ? What are your pr inciples for distinguishing good from evil ? R ODA C H ARAVY,

Egyptian Women's Leader. The Egyp tian Women's leader, Ho da Cha ravy , is not a Christian. She is a Mohammedan. But in th is lett er she gives a thousand times more proof of a sense of righ t, a thousan d time s more regard for truth, and a thousand times more hon esty, in fact a tho usan d times more real Christian ity th an D r. Lan g, th e Archb ishop of Canterbu ry. Jesus once cried to the J ews: " Woe un to you, scribes and Ph arisees, hypocrites! for yc compass sea and land to make onc proselyte, and when he is m ade, ye make him twofold more the child of hell th an yourselves." The Archbishop of Canterbury, the highest dignitary of th e Christian Church in England, is well on the way to becoming just such a convert to J ewry. Der Stiirmer, 26 December 1938.

I AND TH E WHOLE G ERMAN PEOPLE WE quote the following from the Z wickauer Tageblatt.

A Letter of Chamberlain On e of our readers, Herr Wern er Gru nd (Zwickau) sends us the following letter of the English Prime Minister, personally signed by Mr . Chamberlain, which we repordu ce below : IQ Do wning Street, Whit ehall. Please receive my war mest th an ks for your message. Du ring the difficult and troubled tim e which we passed thro ugh, the expression of sympa thy and good will which I received from all parts of the world have been a great source of str ength to me. Yours, etc., NEVlLLE CHA.\IB ERLAIN.

Herr Werner Grund had previously addressed the following letter to Chamberlai n on I O ctober, irnmcdiately after the Mun ich conversations : I and the whole German peop le ur gentl y wish to than k you from the bottom of our hear ts for your great deed in the cause of European peace. I j oin with it the sincere wish that never again ma y war br eak out between Germa ny and England. So much for the Zwickauer Tageblatt. Th e English Prim e Min ister obviously shares with other famous people, notably with those connected with

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the film trade , the fat e of being a victim of autographhunters, who wish to have "a personally signed" letter over th eir plush sofa, as if th ey were on intimat e terms with th e parti cular celebrity who wro te it. As such autographs are given only for reasons of pu blicity, their valu e is limited. For we cannot believe th at smart Mr. Chamb erlain does seriously pay attention to the scribblings of a fool who takes upon himself to act as a mouth piece for eighty million people, when he blandly and modestly says: " I and the whole German people. . .." Among the eighty million who cannot remember having appointed Herr Werner Grund as the interpreter of their feelings, there are a few who might attribute the preservation of peace not exclusively to Mr. Chamberlain, bu t to M. Daladier, and further to a man called Mussolini, and finally, to a cer tai n Adolf Hitler! O f course, H err Grund of Zwickau had no need to know about all this, since probably the Goddess Germ ania app eared to hi m in person in a dream in order to cornmunicate to him a message for Chamberlain. Foo ls are privileged in such matters. But the Editor of the Zwickauer Tageblatt, upo n who m th is abysmal cretin descended, should have known better.

Das Schuiarze Korps, 5 J anuary 1939·

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Who wouldn't want to Jom in! Who isn't tempted by this society dance, which permits one to--er, take arms and whirl round, to go down on one's haunches (hey, who's tu mbling over? ), to slap one's thighs in a giddy vor tex, and finally picking up the tempo again in a thrilling climax to stamp on the floor and-to let out an enthusiastic yell of " O i "-the passionate love cry of th e nobl e art of T er pischore. Long live-in a word-the Lam beth Walk , th e un cro wned King of contemporary lashion able dan ces. We will not cast up in reproach its murky origin from the slums of London and oth er harbour districts, even 91

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thou gh th is dan ce has alrea dy cla ime d th e sacrifice of huma n lives. In Brigh ton a 5 2 -year-old wai ter, called Her bert Bren nam, fell dead from hear t failure while doing the Lambeth Walk. With th e frenzi ed cry of " O i !" on his lips, the cry of th e j oy of living, he left this world for th e eternal dancing ground . He wa s the first victim ofthe dance floor. Shall th e sense of style of Germa n Society be th e next? A degenerate d an ce?-no, dege nera te peo ple! And th ese thin gs go on not only in cheap dance hall s an d disreputable night club s. Even high class hotels have ope ned th eir revolving doors to th is disgusting bi t of J ewish ap cry. Der S. A. Mann, J an. 6, ' 939'

I N ENGL AND N O T O NLY EVER Y FOREIG NER I S SH OCK ING, BUT EVE R YO NE WH O EATS WITH A H EAR T Y APPETITE WHAT is consid ered shoc king in England? T he reader should be awar e th at th e qu estion of what is shocking is an Eng lish qu estion. The word "shocking" originates from England, a nd was invented th ere. And so one would think it would be quite simple to answer the question of what is considered shocking in England . As a matter of fact, it is p articularl y difficult, since we Germ ans have only taken over ha lf the original sense of this word. "Shoc king" is something which is not done, which is considered offensive. But what man or class can definitely establish what is good or right or bad or wrong ? I t is, of course, th e well-groomed, well-fed, petted and pampered U pp er Crust, which considers itself better th an its more lowly born brethren who are forced to gru b for pou nds and worry about pennies. Th ey h ave had no time to learn what is shocking. Shocking is what is not do ne. Every foreigner is shocking because he does not kn ow how to behav e properly. Th e privilege of being shocking intention ally, and in a calculated way, is reserved for Englishm en alone. This privilege allows him to tread on oth er people 's corns, j ust to show that he is top dog in the world. Class prejudice, conceit and arrogan ce coined the word " shocking." It is Byzan tine. We ar e reminded of th e famous story of Charles the Great's ambassador to the I mperial Court of Byzan tium. Th ere it was shocking, and even a crime, to eat both sides of a fish. Anyone who did so was cond emned to death. The Fran kish am bassador, who had no inkling of what was shocking in Byzantium, was pr omptly con93

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dcmned to death . H e was, however , gran ted a last request, and asked that whoever had seen him eating both sides of a fish should have his eyes put out. Since no candida tes were forth comi ng, it was dec ide d that he had been unjustly sentenced . All England is one great Byzantium. You mu stn 't take salt yourself until it is offered you. But if you do take it, you must first offer it to your neighbour. If you don't you are a boor. or must you ever use your knife to help yourself to salt. Such an action shocks the natives of Britain to the core. O n th e othe r hand you must cut your pot atoes with a knife . That is done. If you put your soup spoon to your mo uth point first, it is a sure sign of bad upb ringing, and therefore shoc king. If on the Continent you wa nt to tell a Britisher without speaking to him , th en look and see how he ea ts his soup. He eats it out of the side of the sou p-spoon. It is shocking to display a good appe tite. You must apparently disdain your food, and only nibble a few mouthfuls out of polit eness. But you may get drunk . T hat is not shocking, as long as you sober up aga in in th e str eet. You mu st not use your fork as a shovel, however grace fully you may do it, and you are forced to make twenty -five pr ods at gree n peas, which in this country admittedly assume the proportions of small cannon balls. It was shocking to smoke a pipe in evening dress, as the American Ambassador did repeatedly to the boundless indignation of refined Engli sh opinion. But since England 's politi cal patriarch, Lord Baldwin, took to smoking a pip e in evening dr ess after d inner, it is no longer shocking. Now it is admissible. This contrast perhap s rev eals most clearly the court ly, Byzantin e, conceited mea ning of the word' shocking.' When a foreigner goes to an English party, an invisible circle is formed aro und hi m to discover whe ther th ere is anyth ing shocking about him. If a do zen or a hundred people get together to pick holes in someone else according 94

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to the standards of their own limitations, something can always be found. This is duly spread abroad to prove that the behaviour of the person in question is really shocking. It is shocking, even in a private house, to ask a girl, and still more a young married lady , for a dance, unless she has been introduced to you. This too, is a survival of snobbery. It is a custom based on the assumption that every well-connected young man of decent birth will know as a matter of course all the girls in his family's circle of friends. But if a foreigner, whether he be German or French, thinks of finding anything in England shocking-for example the lovers in Hyde Park, or many other things which are discussed from time to time in the Press or in the House of Commons-then the native born Englishman gets on his high horse and declares in pained surprise that it is shocking for a foreigner to think anything in England shocking. Yes, then he is really shocked ! Th e English public can stand praise by the cartIoad, but only an ounce or so of criticism . It is shocking to talk religio n or phi losophy in England . Th ey are serious subjects and give rise to conflict of opinions. But it is not shocking to question the foreigner abou t these matters. From which we may conclude that the Englishman is absolutely infallibl e on the subjec t of what is or what is not shocking. In this he differs from the miserabl e foreigner, who has no idea what really is shocking in England. T his attitude pays very well. I t intimidates the foreigner, terrifies the diplomat and puts the visitor to th e British Isles in his place, inspiring them all with a fittin g awe for the almost godlike position of the British. By the tim e the foreigner has learn t what is shocking, he has become a fully-fledged Briton, and not a trac e of his original nation ality remains. Illustrierte Nachta usgabe, 10 J anu ary 1939· 95

THE BLACK COFFIN IT may be that th e black coffi n which the English unemployed have been carrying about the ma in streets of London for the past week and which they have tried to unload in front of Mini sters' hou ses originates from the arsenal of Communist propagand a. But this propaganda would be in vain if the black coffi n was not in fact symbolical of the social and economic distress which does undoubtedly exist. Foreign visitor s seldo m man age to see what lies beyond th e elegant facade of London's West End . With its richly decorat ed cur ta in of wealth and elegan ce and its picturesqu e cosmopo litan life, London hides from view another England, to which one of our occasional contributors paid a visit last autumn.

In the Industrial Country of England The centre of English industry lies in th e narr ow rectangle which stretches in an almost un in terrupted line of manufacturing towns from Coventry and Birmin gham to Leeds, Halifax and Bradfo rd . A thousand square miles of English industry; a thousand square miles of smoke-laden air and steamy mist-darkened summer sky; a thousand square miles of grimy houses inhabited by a hard-working pop ulat ion; endless rows of one-storied houses, their bed rooms over-crowded with women and children, unempl oyed youths and old peo ple. This is where a grea t part of the English worki ng class, the men and women and children of whom the coming generation of the Midlands will consist, spend their entire lives. Her e dirt casts its grimy cloak over th e cobbl estones in the street, over the bricks of the houses, over windowpanes, door s, walls, and often over carpets and furniture

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as well. The inhabitants of these distr icts have long ago given u p tryin g to compete aga inst th is " na tur al phe no men on ." O ften young married women , or families wh ich have migrated from the country or from abroad , attempt for a while to struggle against it with scru bbing brushes and soa p, before th ey too sink into that ap athy of habit whi ch is oft en wro ng ly admired in the English. Ther e ar e hundreds of thousands of the se houses, one so closely resembling th e other that th ey might h ave been mass produced in one factory and delivered in precise ly the same way . A narrow front door opens off the street on to a gloomy passage unlit by windows whi ch lead s into th e kit ch en. T he living-room to th e left with its one or two windows is seldo m bigger than twenty-five square yards, a nd is choc-a-bloc with bedstead s, furniture and washing hangin g to dry. In this, the biggest room of the house, a married son or daughter with a grow ing th ird gen er ation h as often tak en refuge. Such a numerous famil y n at urall y ca n pay more easily the dispr oportionatel y high re nt, which is still th e basis of many great fortunes. Befor e th e open coal fire hangs washing, drying shoes and clothes and on it a me al is being warmed or a kettle is sim me ring . The pall of smok e and the smells which fill the room are indescrib able. Hygienic condi tions of the most rudimentary sort ar e almost unknown. D isease and infection ar e unavoidable. I n consequence, an yone suffering from an infectiou s disease is immediately and compulsorily transported to an isolation hospital, even if he sho uld prove unwilling or claim that there is a child to look after . It is only by this drastic means th at it is possible to hold in check the epidemics which never cease to rage in the poorer sections of England's po pulation, whether in the country or in the towns. In th e two bed rooms on the first floor live parents, growi ng children (often five or six in a room) and infants in arms. The only buildings which break the mo notony of the houses are th e " pubs," th e cinema and th e Ministry of

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Labour office, to which people go for paym en t of U nernployment R elief. The" pubs," as th e primitive public bars with a counter are called , were unti l recent ly the only place of ent ertainment and re lax ati on , and indeed the social centre of th e poor commu nity. Children of all ages sit or lie out side the entra nces. T he relief offices are genera lly little wooden huts whieh have been put. up where a house h as been demo lished. At eertain tim es of the day lon g qu eues of men, women and young people sta nd before th em, wai ting to collect the " dole." On such occasions one often hears "The Land of Dole and Glory " sung-an ironical rend ering of the Eng lish Nationa l Anthe m. But nothing is so characteristic of the cu ltura l standards of these people as the garishly illuminated cinema, the entertainment pal ace built in cu bist reinforced concr ete, showing a mark ed tendency towards th e Sov iet R ussian ideal of " People's R ecrea tion al Cen tres." It is totally unrelated either to its surroundings, to Eng lish tradition, or to th e neighb ouring archi tecture. T he thi ck carpet in the pr eten tious foyer, which blazes in th e glare of a thou sand- candle-power chandelier, creates a grotesque impression. Thi s oasis of artificial brigh tn ess in gloomiest England is responsible for a remarkable cult of clothes, especially am ong th e young girls, who generally earn more money th an anyone else in their family. Everything which is no longer fashionable in Lond on is sent for sale in these outl ying parts of the provinces. Factory girls, who h ave th e greatest difficulty in feeding themselves properl y, spend quite a disproportionate part of their wages on clothes, shoes and stockings, hats and coats, gloves and bags, wh ich are never used except to visit the cinema. I t h as been estima ted th at a third of the weekly wages earned in th ese streets of direst pover ty ar c spent in th e cinema , eith er directly on two or more visits to the" Pictures," or ind irectly on clothes, which the magni ficent entrance to the cine ma seems to

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dem and. T ogether with th e English yellow pr ess, J ewishcontro lled film s poison the masses of th e popul ation of Britain. H ere, where th e peopl e is notorio usly un suspectlIIR. W OR LD CONT RO L LE R

Tus UNElIIPLOYED: " I say, J ohn, you might occasionally keep your eye on England." (T he board over the hu tch says : 2 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 unemployed in Engla nd. ) N. S. Kurier.

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These are the melancholy conditions under which this part of Britain's pop ulation lives-the most unass uming people in the whole of Western Europe. Modest in ea ting and drinking, in their homes and in their leisure, in their mental and spiritual needs. No oth er workers would tolerate such an existence for long. But they are so physically exhausted and so lacking in mental vitality that they are content so long as th ey are able to preserve the sta ndards of living to which th ey have been born. The narrow indu strial developm ent which for the last century and a half has shaped the life of Eng land's working class, ha s produced an utterly disillusioned type of man. He ha s only one remaining wish-not to forfeit the last remnants of his stand ard of living as a result of world political events. III Wal es

" Something shall be don e." Those were the celebrated words utt ered by K ing Edward VIII when, a few weeks before his abdication in 1936, he visited this part of his kingdom and saw for him self the un speakable misery which had hitherto been carefully concealed from him and from the general publi c. Has an ythin g been don e? Can anything really be done? A very comfortable tr ain takes us in two and a ha lf hours from elegant London to the " black hell " of South Wales. Where once pro sperity, contentment in work and a cultural life with a national chara cter of its own existed, the wheels sta nd still, factor ies ha ve fallen into d isuse, and this people of miner s and world-famo us Celtic bard s lives in the most appalling poverty. This country has never been a pleasan t on e in the century and a ha lf that has passed since th e discovery of coal and iron ore, since an unexampled system of exploitation, cha racterized by the chea pest and always technically 100

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antiquated equipment, wa s to bring in va st and qui ckly earned fortunes to the mine own ers. The va lleys of South Wales, formerly so lovely, soon became craters of belching black smoke . In th em not only men, bu t also women and children, horses and dogs were harnessed for the produ ction of this inexhaustible wealth of coal. The En glish miner was paid, and still is to-day, by th e amount of coal he has mined during the day. It is left to him to get anyone to help him he can . And so a father ofa family often took his ch ildren from the age of seven with him in to the mine, to clear away rubb le or load coa l into th e min e tru cks. Women and child re n formerl y often did th e j ob whi ch is to-d ay don e by ponies. Everywhere in ou r r ound of the Wel sh coal valleys we met unemployed miners of littl e more th an fifty wh o had alr eady spent forty years of th eir life underground. They can clearly rem ember th e tim e wh en th eir moth ers and gra nd mothers, sparsely clad , were forc ed to wor k in the galleri es and on the pit face. Female lab our of thi s sor t is nowadays forbidden by law, but it is quite commo n for a min er to tak e several boys down with him to help him. This is necessary in or de r to keep hi s wages up to th e level of 35/- or 40/-, little enoug h as com pared with the average weekly wa ge of 70/- of an English labourer. But the good old days of regu lar work a nd steady, even if scanty, wa ges are long sinc e past. A hundred thousand miners with nothing to do: this m eans half a million peopl e ar e thrown on to th e mercy of pu blic relief or on to ch ar ity. For only insur ed workers receive: at th e very best 15 / - relief, with a littl e extra for women and ch ildren, and th at is only just sufficient to keep them from actual starvation. The mineheads stand silent, no smoke issues from the ch imneys, steel ro pes lie around rusting in ank le-deep mud, m achines and boiler houses are ruined as if a war had swept over th em . There are signs tha t ever ythi ng th at was not too firmly secured h as been tak en away as scra p 101

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iron and firewood. D oors and windows arc smashed, roofs fallen in . I n one of th e offic es we found sheep which had tak en shelt er again st th e heat of the sun. T he floor of the office was covered with the remnants of wage and order books, fad ed by wind a nd weath er. Far and near no living soul. Wh ere for many decades the riches of toil had been br ough t to the light of day there was now an eerie stillness and emptiness. Ruins wher ever one looks ar e th e terrifying witn esses of a perp etu al state of un empl oyment whi ch has come to be taken for granted. H ere, in the overcrowded valleys of Glamorgan and Monm ou thshire, in the R hondda Vall ey, Merth yr, Ebbw Vale, Forest of De an an d the countless other valleys of the South Wal cs mountains which have made England rich with their Black Gold, one and a qu art er million men, women and children vegetat e. They are hopel ess in their isolation, unh eeded by the Press of Engl and a nd th e gen eral public, except when for a fleeting moment some hunger march to London or an event such as the King's journ ey touches the nati on's conscience. Could he ha ve help ed? Two years have gone by. Not on e of the men who stand in little groups at the street corners believes any longer in help. England's exp ort trade with Welsh coal is, as they themselve s believe, lost for ever. " The stupidity of the politicians at Versailles has ruined our home trade by handing over the coal-mining distri cts of Upper Silesia to Poland. " Nearly half the un employed miners are between the ages of forty-five and sixty-five. Many of them have not done a single day's paid work for twelve years. Th e same fate awaits them for the rest of their lives. You meet them everywhere, in the towns and in the country of England, begging for wor k or shelter. " T he English have ruined us," said a man in Rh ondda Valley to me in a resigned voice, " the best thing would be to flood all the pits and min es." The misfortune of the Welsh is that th ey are principally 102

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dependent o n one single ind ustry, namely mining. Since it is now ap par ent th at the world's lost coa l mark ets will never be recap tured, a nd th at th ere are over a hu ndred th ousand men in th is industr y wit h no prospect of employmen t, at tem pts have been mad e to esta blish new in du stries in Wales. Subsidies amo unt ing to milli ons h ave been gran ted by the State in or de r to tempt man ufacturers from all over the world to sett le in Wales an d to occupy fac tories waiting to receive th em . Not only are bu ildi ngs, ligh t, heating an d electr ic power to be had almost free, bu t capital is available and a consider abl e rebate in taxes is granted . Large long-term loans can be obtained.

Meagre Results No one can do ubt the sincerity of these attempts to provide new opportunities of work; but how meagre and, by G erm an standards, how incred ibly p alt ry are th e result s a ttained in five yea rs of organization ! A visit to th e largest "Trading Estate" is eno ugh to prove this. A few dozen m ini ature factory buildings h ave been put up , such as one finds as store sheds or garages in factory yards in real ind ustrial districts. In 64- of th ese tiny thi n-walled hu ts factories h ave act ually been established ; in all 1,796 workers and employees h ave b een provided with a living. Nearly 80 p er cen t of th ese are young gir ls earning minim um wages, with which th ey can support neither fami lies nor dep en de nts . In many cases manufa ctur ers fro m th e sa me district h ave moved to the " T rading Estate" simply in order to profit by its advantages. The resu lts of th is attem pt to help half a million men h ave thus been entirely negative. Over half Wales's population of 2t million are the descendants of settlers from Ireland. Their houses are more like caves th an anything else. Apart from one small entrance there is only one small window on the first floor 103

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in th e fron ts of th ese rows of hou ses, wh ich run like grey pri son walls up hill and down d ale. A sor d id little channel runs between th e houses, in to which re fuse is emp tied from every house. O ne very seldo m finds a h ygienic system of dr ainage, as we know it, in the provinc es in Engla nd . Even in a nourishing and well-to-do por t like Bristol they ar e content to let their drains now into the ca na ls wh ich run throu gh th e ci ty, so that every thing is gradually carried out to sea on th e tide. An old report of a Govern men t Commission on living conditions in Wales sta tes : " T he bodi es and the habit s of the population are as dirty as th e villages and houses in th ese districts. Everyt hing centres rou nd m on ey and p rofit, which contro ls everything. T he blame for these disgra ceful conditions in th e mining a rea mu st be laid principally on the mi ne owners and employers of labour, who treat th e miners and th eir fam ilies with less conside ration th an cattle." This verdict sti ll holds good to-day or rath er once again holds good . The gr eat coal strike of 1926 finall y p u t a n end to the prosperity wh ich on ce existed . In th e 150 years since the foundation of th e coal industry th ere wa s one short peri od wh en good money was ea rned, and in wh ich the min er could ea rn up to £10 per week. That wa s dur ing th e Great War and immed iatel y after it , before th e Dictate of Versaill es sup plied th e Western Powers with vast quantities of coa l. T he numer ous ports, loo, which are scattered alon g th e lovel y Welsh coas t, have experienced a corresponding wav e of un employm ent. I n Car d iff Docks, where 800,000 ton s of coa l a month wer e ha ndl ed in 1923, the correspond ing figure in 1937 was 237,250 tons. The revenue of the Grea t Western R ail way from Pcn arth Docks fell from £500,000 to £ 46,68 3. Natura lly the burd en of th is ind ustria l decline fell p rincipally u pon the populat ion of th e sea port town s, who se di stress is, if anything, still more acute th an th at of th e minin g va lleys. 10 4

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Breeding Grounds of Bolshevism The collapse of th e industries of Sou th Wales, th e dislocation of world trad e, and th e fund am ent ally rott en system of liberal econo mics have combined to impl ant in hundreds of thousands of min ers' hear ts a feeling of worthlessness and futil ity, a feeling wh ich is having a terrible effect on the younger generation. These are the hot-beds of En glish Communism, or ra ther Bolshevism ; this is where Soviet propaganda is assiduously spread by the ubiquitous activities of th e " Left Book Club. " The public bookshop s sell th e whole range of Marxist literature, and in the lend ing lib raries and reading rooms all the revolution ary literature is to be h ad. Books pr aising Sta lin and th e Sov iet system are to be h ad in th e cheapest editions. These are either pri nted in Moscow or, as a ny imparti al investiga tion will show, are published in Eng land with R ussia n mon ey. An efficient orga nization sees to it th at they reach th e most out-of-the-way cottages . O f cour se th is Sov iet lit er ature does not stop sho rt at a glorificati on of the Russian R evoluti on an d the existing Soviet regim e, bu t takes up th e cudgels aga inst the National-S ocial ist and Fascist system in th e most provocative way. Not only th e young peopl e who have nothing to do, but also old and experienced men, fathers and offic ials, greedily consume this lit erature, which dan gles before th em a way ou t of social distr ess. The proverbial inte lligence of th e Welsh and their avidity for int ellectual food since th e decline of Puritanism make th em a very receptive soil for th e seeds of Marxist propaganda. In these mining districts, where th e hom es of th e working popu lation are often literall y standing on the bare coa l by th e pit side, no fire burns in th e hearths of coun tless inhabited houses. Coal has to be paid for no less th an potatoes or margarine. One sees women and childre n on lon ely slag heaps digging among th e slag for 10 5

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litt le bits of coal to warm them in cold weather. In many a garden, too, a littl e privat e sha ft has been sunk, from which at night neighbours in th e same plight come to rake togeth er a few sacks of coa l. In the long village streets many shop windows and public ba rs ha ve long been painted white-a sign that they have noth ing left to sell. Churches and the chapels of Puritan ical sects have been closed. Only a fraction of the popula tion still retains some vestiges of interest in spiritua l matters, which for centur ies were the very life and breat h of Wales. Utter resignation reigns to-day in this pa rt of Gr eat Britain, this part which has produced so ma ny gre a t poets and writ ers, stat esmen and generals.

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English newspapers and Bishops cannot do too much to expose th e 'atrocities' to which the ' poor J ews' are subjec ted . There are peop le who almost turn somersaults in th eir eage rness to depict these atrocities; certain favour ite tal es of castor oil and oth er means of torturing J ewish souls specially th ought out by the inventive Germans are served up aga in and again. We should like to draw the atte ntion of these gentlemen to conditions in the English textil e industry, in which opiu m is specially distribut ed by the man agement to female han ds for the purpose of keeping th eir children quiet, so that they may work undisturbed for th e profit of 'John Bull.' But the English Governess will hear nothing of this. Viilkischer Beobachter. 4 Februar y 1939·

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Petticoat Parade H ow times cha nge ! When before the war women in England were struggling for the vote and for equal rights, they were derided as blu estockings and " menwomen." In fact, the who le of public opinion definitely sided aga inst the suffrage ttes. That was long, long ago. Whereas in those days" bobbies " removed demo nstrating suffrage ttes forcibl y from the stree ts and carried them to Police Stations, to-day th e picture has gradua lly been reversed. While noble lords stru t with measured tread round golf courses, and honourable bar onet s grow flowers or drink whisky, or pu rsue suchlike" manly" occupa tions, the par ade grounds of British bar ra cks ring with the clatter of heels and the marchin g steps of Women's Batt alions. Yes, ind eed! the ladi es are learning to mar ch; Miss Smith is learning to stand to attention, da rlings and sweethearts are practising " halting " and " righ t wheeling," in the hope of soon becoming lieu tena nts and majors. . .. Nobody would believe us if we were not in a position to publi sh pictures in proof of this. Have a good look, friends. With all du e respects for the weaker sex, and quite apa rt from the inevitable smile, one is seized with a slight shudder when faced with these British Amazons. If England were to figh t its wars with armies of this sort, she would certainly win them . Why ? Becau se the soldiers on the other side would quite forget how to shoo t. But it won't come to that , beca use tho se wh o ar e marching in our illustrations are " only" ca ndida tes for officers' commissions in th e newly formed Women's Auxiliary

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R eserve in En gla nd . Bu t they will-and this is really enough to kill you -also learn to shoot. H ow quickl y the British progressed with the military education of thi s Auxiliary R eserv e is, moreover, show n by pictures themselves. Some of th e wom en ar e not even properl y d ressed. This of course provok ed floods of tears, bu t in spite of this the un-uniformed ones-after th ey h ad removed th e tr a ces of th eir wo manly emo tion with the

help of p owd er, lip sticks and eyeblac k-appeared on parade a t th e Chelsea Barracks. The ta ilor s wer e paid t he equival ent of 2 50 m arks for eac h of these ladies' un iforms, but since th e demand wa s so great, and furth er since the making of women's uniforms is frau ght with mor e di fficult y as a result of the well-known biological differen ces wh ich di stin gu ish the m from the male sex, and conseq ue ntly take more time, many a darli ng was compelled to march in her own clo thes. The drill sergean t of th e Gren adi er Gu ard s canno t 10 9

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have had an easy job conduc ting the se mar ching exercises. For one thin g, he was not allowed to treat these future women officers like recruits. Should he, for example, in the case of the four th lad y cad et in the front rank spoiling the line, yell out in a stentorian voice, "Look out , number four in the front rank, please tu ck in your pouter-pigeon's chest a bit !" Good grac ious no, that would not do at all. That would be--oh! shocking! Well, he will know wha t to do instead. Perh aps he will coo like a little Scottish nightingale , " Please, Miss Mary, the left leg a little higher as you mar ch, no, a little high er still!" Perhaps he will murmur like a mild spring breeze, " Oh, Lady Pemb roke, would you be good enough to tigh ten your belt a little!" And what will the drill sergeant do of an evening in the ca nteen ? Well, he will probably double his ration of whisky as a result of his efforts on the parade ground. Since recruits ar e accepted for the Auxiliary Reserve between the ages of eighteen and fifty, irrespective of whether they ar e married or not, one can easily imagine the touchin g scenes which took place in these weeks among the relations of the recruits.. Mr. Miller who is, let us say, an emp loyee in a big store, mu st now get used to the fact that his sweetheart will no longer go dancing with him. She will sighingly confess to him , " O h, darling, I didn't know how strenuous mar chin g was! " Dignified fath ers of families must have had to mop up oceans of tears, because their respected wives did not cut such a good figure on th e parad e ground as an eigh teen-year-old spor ts girl. In other cases relatives have been aware from th e outset of a manl y tone of command creeping in among memb ers of the " weaker " sex, which has doubtless rejoiced th e memb ers of their famili es! But it is no business of ours what consequ ences this Guards parad e- excuse us, petti coat parade-s-of Brownies may have, since we allow others to acquire merit in their own way, even if this way consists of a democratic game I IQ

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of Am azons. Wh a t d oes it matter to us if Engli sh women hurl th emselves into u niforms and march as stiffly as possibl e, in full wa r-paint a nd drip ping with swea t, across a barrack square ? We simp ly pi ty th em. Let oth ers take this as a rep roach . We kno w th a t wom en on ly become manly wh en an d where men are effemina te.

Different People, Differen: Customs! Small wonder, however, that women take to barra ck squa res wh en th e sa me m en who talk so loud a bout a preven tive war, who do so much war-mongerin g, pr efer to lead a comfortable life as heroes of fashi on a nd ri vals to film stars in th e true tr adition of thrice-holy English comfort . At all events th e women officers of th e Auxiliar y R eserve wou ld do well no t to model th emselves on a Mr. Ed en or a Mr. D uff Coo per. Speaking for ou rselves, we Germans h ave a di fferent idea, or rather an opposite idea of th ese women's battalion s. We do not think that womanly ch arm, beauty and gentleness should be stifled on parade grounds. Women are n ot, and never will bec ome, men. If we do not ask the "Oh ! so perfect" En glish to share our op inion, we would call attention with all befitting modesty, wh ich is nati ve to us Nazi barbaria ns, to the following: O n Nazi parade grounds and b ar rack squares onl y men march. I n Germany it is no t necessary for women to beco me men-women. H ere no girls stamp ou t a militar y m arch, her e th ere is no Lieutenant Mary Agatha Sm ith, here wom en do not stand to attention, a nd here women are not subjected to th e tender m ercies of dr ill sergeant s.

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PLUTO-DEMOCRACY SIGNS of an approac hing election are becoming increasingly evid ent. A struggle has broken out over the nomination of candida tes in local constituencies. Sometimes a dissatisfied voice spills the beans and maliciously betrays some of the secret rule s govern ing England's much pri zed model democracy. A Conservative candida te, who has repeat edly failed to be elected, has distributed a broadsheet to Parli ament and the Press, which states clearly an d simply that in ord er to become a Conservative M.P. all that is required is the necessary money, ability being of quite secondary importance. This enfant terrible simultaneously published a detailed bud get of what a Conservati ve candidate must be prep ared to spend. According to him , candida tes fall into thr ee categori es. First, the rich candida te (with therefore the best prospects) pa ys £1 ,200 towards his expen ses, and an ann ua l subscription of about £1 ,000 towards party fund s. Secondl y, there ar e the candidates with " fair prospects." These pay about half their expenses a nd contribute about £400 annually to party funds. Thirdly, th ere ar e the " paupers," who are only asked £ 100, and who as a result h ave pra ctically no prospects of being put up as serious can didates, or even if they are put up of being elected . A big Con servative evening pap er published th ese facts under the sensational headline, "What does it cost to become an M.P.?" It is, of course, no news to us that in the democracies in general, and in Engla nd in particular, only well-to-do people can afford the luxury of a share in political life. An M .P. is paid a salary of £ 600 per year, of which £400 must be given to the part y. The candidate in the first category in fact, must dive deeply into his own pocket 11 3

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for the privilege of putting th e coveted letters M.P. after his name. But it is entirely new for cr iticism of "plutocratic" conditions to find expression in the Conservative Party. The leader s of th e party have now introduced reforms to enab le gift ed ca nd idates to en ter the House of Commons indep endent of th eir finan cial position. But nothing much is likely to come of this sin ce in a democracy th e r ich will always be a ble to p reserve their influence and th eir power in the face of a ll " re forms."

H akenkreuebanner, 13 January 1939.

W HEN J OH N BU L L IS DRUNK.

" O ne migh t-hie- send all th e J ewish scum to German East Africa ; th at might perhaps-hie-cure Germany of her appetite for it. " Flammenzeichen. 114

M R . C HAMBER LA IN'S U MBR ELLA MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S famous u mbrella is mo re th an a mere attribute, more than Mr . Ede n's black hat, or M. D al ad iers cigar. It is symbolical of a policy which ca nnot do without an emblem of simplicity an d honesty, in order to convince th e world of its oste nsible un selfishness. VOlkischer Beobachter, IS J anu ary 1939.

AN EVENTFUL BREAKFAST

" Five bombs ioent off, dreadful, my dear! Old E ngland nearly choked with fear. JJ

SCOTLAND YARD is looking feverishly for clues to th e mysterious authors of an outrage in which five bombs in all exploded in various places in London and in Manches ter. As all the bombs exploded simultaneously, it is presumed 'th at th is is a case of a premedi tat ed and car efull y-pl anned attemp t. Wh en th e over fed English m an at his breakfast table heard thi s news he dropped his bcefsteak from his fork in horror. Der AT/griff, 18J anuary 1939.

GOOD NER VES-BUT ONLY WHERE OTHERS AR E CONCER NED

"Why such excitements over these littl e pranks,J ohn Bull? Surely you are used to sterner stuff than that !! " (T he bomb is inscribed " Bomb Scar e in England." Und er the gallows is written " British ac tion aga inst Arabs. ") Der Miueldeutsch«:

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IN the English oppo sition camp it is held that the activities of the mysterious terrorists, which are holdin g England in suspense, are directed against the interests of world democracy. They have, it is suggested , enab led Chamberlain to distr act attention from the Spa nish catastrophe. The Prim e Minister and his suppo rters are alleged purposely to have exaggera ted the ter rori st mena ce in order to hamper " the mobilization of the forces of demo cracy for the protection of Government Spain and World Democracy." 116

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Mr. E d en h imself is p ar ticul arly full of indignation, and is rep roachi ng th e my ster iou s terrorists with sabotage. H e is n ow preparing a special campaign of his own aga inst them. O n the other hand, and this is p articul arl y significant, h e is said to be co ntemplating a tour of Ireland with th e obj ect of inviting the I rish revolu tio na ries to j oin h is oppositi on group and m ake comm on cau se against Chamberl ain. I t is rumoured th at h e has promi sed to reward th em -in th e eve n t of hi s com ing to p ower. Berliner Borsen-Zeitung , 23 J a nu ar y 1939.

" I'd like to give you this ni ce pi ece of cak e-particularly as it d oesn ' t belon g to me." (T he" cake " bears the legend : "Germa n Ea st Africa. )

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ENGLISH PROPAGANDA ENGLISH pr opagand a is not restric ted to high politics. Every Englishm an is his own propagandist. In conversation Englishm en without exception instinctively try to divide against th emselves th ose with whom they converse. Every Eng lish child is made awar e of its superiority in its earliest yout h. In eating and drink ing, in manners and dressing, in its goings and comings, in its actions and thoughts, it is tau ght everywhere to distin guish itself as superior to all others. English morality is a morality such as no othe r people possesses. English clothes have th eir own particular qualiti es. The flat tepid English beer has its own secret merit for the connoisseur. Na tura lly, English practical Christianity is also qu ite unique. Na tur ally, English democracy is based on political idealism wh ile Engli sh false teeth, to which three-quarters or more of the entire English popul at ion is condemn ed after its forti eth year, ar e self-righteously considered th e epitome of civilized progress! We cannot and will not enter into a discussion of this philosophy. But it must be remembered that it masks a conviction of iron might, and a policy of self-interest that sticks at nothing. T here is never for a single moment the slight est desire for impartiality or objec tivity or, ind eed, reason. English mind s automatically distor t every accepted value. When a Germ an poin ts out his own achievements, he is accused of propaganda. But En glish propaganda is simply a service to humanity. That is to say, onl y that which serves English inter ests merits the name good. Everything else is bad. There are Germans who think they have reason to contradict this belief because, here 118

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and there, they h ave read praise of this or th at Germ an ach ievement in some English newspa per or periodical. They should know that such things must be read as a who le and in their proper context. He who praises has also a right to blame, and the Englishman makes full use of this privilege. Wh eth er a pr ivate individual or a state sman, every Englishman believes that he possesses the divine right of criticizing other nations or their repre sent atives. But criticism of him is regarded as an insult. If a foreign er pr aises him, he blandly accepts praise and flattery in unlimited qu antities, at once as a tribute and as a confirmation of the opinion which he has formed of him self all along. It may be asked wheth er it is at least possible to enter into reason abl e priv ate discussions or intelligent conversations with ind ividu al English people. For the present the answer is in th e negative. English self-righteousness is still so inordinate th at it is cap able of producing excellent and imp enetrable armour plating for battle ships, but not of providing a ba sis for understanding.

Berliner Lokal Anzeiger, 15 J anuary 1939·

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BRITAI N'S SPAN ISH I NT EREST S IN order to understan d Britain's attitude in the Spanish war, the following important background mus t be borne in mind . The Republican revolution of 193 1, which ended in the abdication of the K ing and was brought about with the help of France and perhaps also of Ru ssia, was followed by the conclu sion of certain agreements. Th e newly formed Republican Government in Madrid and the French Government concluded an agreement by which the latter was empow ered to use the Spanish ra ilways to tran sport coloured French troo ps from Africa to France. It is fairly certain that this treat y is still in existence. T he obstinacy with which Fra nce and Britain continue to maintain that the Spanish R ed Government is the legal Govern ment of the country is probably explained by their wish to uphold the legality uf this agreement. London is well aware what this treaty is worth. Th e British Governm ent has no illusions as to the extent to which French military striking power in Europe is dependent on her ability to secure rapid reinforcements of black troops from Africa. O f course the English public has no inkling of all th is. Official circles alone ar e in the know. Th ey know just how important these blac k troops are as a factor in Eur opean politics. I t is possible even to assume that the whole trend of Eng land's policy in the Mediterranean, and equally in Spain, is primarily conditioned by her anxiety to secure this " black" line of communications in the Mediterra nea n. If the need arises, England wants to be able to defend herself with coloured troops on the Rhine. This may serve to explain the Brit ish int erest in the Spanish war. It also explains why English policy has 120

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an extraordinarily praiseworthy role as th e defend ers of civilization and of Christian faith a nd morals! AIl the se interests a re centred in Ca ta lonia, a nd part icularly in Barcelona. Barcelona was probably destined as the landing place of what might be called England 's " Black Exp editionary Force." For England's sea power is entirely responsible for the protection of th ese " black II communications by sea. It would be interesting to know when the British Government proposes to enlighten English public opinion, totally ignorant and un suspecting as it is, concerning the real underl ying cau ses of England 's non-intervention poli cy, and in particular England 's vital int erests in employing these " civilizing" black forces in Europe. Berliner Lokal AIl;:eiger, 2 1 J anuary 1939.

NEGUS, EDE N, BEN ES & eo. Voi ce of Ncgrin telephoning; "Please wait a momen t, I will be with you in a second ." Schlesische T ageszeitung. 12 2

DEFENSIVE PROPAGANDA WHEN we defend ourselves against such agitators as Mr. Duff Cooper, Mr. Eden, Mr . Churchill or Mr. Ickes and the rest, our action is denounced as an encroachment on the sacred rights of the democracies. I need hardly assure you that as long as the German Reich continues to be a sovereign sta te, no English or American politic ian will be able to forbid our Government to reply to such attacks. Actually one would prefer to pass over in silence the incessant agitations of certain British war -mongers. Bu t we must not forget this: I . Owing to the political structure of these de mocratic States it is possible that in a few months' time these warmongers may themselves be in the Government. 2. We therefore owe it to the security of the Rcich to bring home to the German people in good time the truth about these men. The German nation has no feeling of hatred towards England, America or France. Bu t these other nations are continually being stirred up to hatred of Germany and the German people by J ewish and nonJ ewish agitators. And so, should the war-mongers ach ieve what they are aiming at, our own people would be landed in a situation for which they would be psychologically quite unprepared and which they would thus fail to grasp. I therefore consider it necessary that from now on our propaganda and our press should always make a point of answering these attacks, and above all br ing them to the notice of the Germ an people. T he German nation must know who the men are who want to bring about a war by hook or by crook. H ERR HITLER at Berlin, 30 January 1939.

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THE UMBRELLA some time there has been talk in the papers about a certain umbrella. It is the umbrella whi ch Mr. Chamberlain, the British Prime Mini ster, is supposed to have carri ed at the Munich meetin g. The umbrella seems ready to rival the flying powers of th e do ve of peace . Very probably Mr. Chamberlain did carry an umbrella at Munich, although I and many oth er j ourn alists who saw him at very close ran ge did not no tice it. During those rainy days many people carr ied umbrellas, and will continue to do so in futur e. H ow does it come about then th at it is just Chamberlain's " peace umbrella" which survives the period of bad weather, without one drop of the general rain of arma ments, including the British, making a hole in its cover? Since Muni ch British world pr op aganda has been opera ting ra ther skilfu lly with Chamberlai n's efforts on behalf of peace. The umbrella is very well ada p ted to vague talk without coming to the point. I t is impossible to open it without Chamberlain a t Munich becoming visible because there is not roo m for four under a single umbrella of peace . . . thu s Mr. Chambe rla in mar ches into contemporary history, umbrella in hand, as the Munich man of peace. It is splendid mat erial for the ent ire British Press. But why must German pap ers continue to dr ag thi s umbrella through their columns?

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Miss Brita nnia , the old Govern ess, has made a monopoly of the worl d's morals. H er humani tar ian activities have fully ent itled her to this-for example she prot ected the India ns, a nd took the Irish und er her wing.

She mad e a clean sweep in South Africa and came to th e a id of the Boers, and established order in Canada, Egy p t, Palestine, a nd many other corn ers of the globe. Amid general rej oicing, Britannia's umbrella cropped up again a t Mun ich with new cont ributions to peace. But it was all a fraud , for in London the shape of the umbrella has since a ltered a littl e. Simplicissimus. 12 5

A SILESIAN VALLEY IN AFRICA

Love ofHome in Foreign Lands T HE " Silcsian Valley" of which we writ e to-day is the home of a genuine Silesian from the district of Breslau, who has settled at the foot of the K ilimanj ar o and called his farm " Silesian Valley." Part y Comrade Oswald G. Uberril ck h as spent years in Africa. As a schoolboy he rea d a book abo ut Africa which excited him so much that he eventually j oined the Colonial forces and when his tim e was up sett led a t a spot about 3,300 feet above sea level. Th e Great War came and, despite Lettow-Vorbeck's heroic resistance, everything Germa n was elimina ted from the colony. Our Silesian friend, too, was expro pr iated. After a number of years a t home, however, he succeeded in retu rnin g to Africa an d was allowed to take over part of the farm, which meanwhile had become less prosperous owing to bad managemen t. It s pr esent extent is abo ut 260 acres a nd coffee is the chief crop. Th e farm has 65,000 trees. Eac h tree bears on an average about half a pound of raw coffee. The coffee is sent to Hamburg, where it fetches a bett er pric e than that paid for foreign brands. In this way th e plant er is given practical help by his newly strengthened fatherla nd. Th e chief trouble of Ger man farmers, sho rtage of labour, is not known in Africa. Pa rty Comrade Uberrilck reports tha t he can have all the lab our he needs. If one of his labourers tires of work there are plenty of applicants for the vacancy. It ma y here be mention ed that the British administra tion is not popular with the bla cks, because it is not abov e inflicting heavy mon ey fines in

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"My Lord , why don't Britain and Fra nce simply ret urn the German colonies if they do not belong to them ? " "That is the point, my Lad y, we can't dispose of something which is not our prop erty." Kladderadalsch. 12 7

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case of any delinquency. There is also the punishment of forced labour, which is even more u npopular; a negro only car es to work until he ha s the absolute minimum required for living. Party Comrade Ubcrru ck furth er reports that all Germ ans in Africa take the closest int erest in events at home. They feel quite clearly that to-day Ger many enjoys a very different sta nding am ong the nations than was the case a few years ago. Quite com monly it happ ens that even English people tell him : " We rea lly envy you this AdolfHitler." Man y of ou r country men in Africa are party members, and all listen in with enthusiasm when th e Fu hrer speaks. I t goes more or less without saying that they play their part in the grea t work done by the Winter Help. Although for the most part th ey do not live in affluence, they insist on contributing th eir share ; last winter they subscribed no less than £ 1, 800 , a fine testimony to th eir united support for the Fuhrer . Their on e lon ging now is that the Fuhrer may soon succeed in restoring the colonies to the Reich; then the Silesian Valley in Africa will also witness a new prosperity.

Schlesische Tageszeitung, 2 2 February 1939.

GOOD ADVICE English know-all , whale-b one-collared au nts, would be bett er employed in turning their lorgnett es on the far from idyllic conditions in India than in p roph esying tha t the lack of whippe d cream in Germa ny must lead to a horr ible famine.

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Westdeutscher Beobachter, 27 128

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H OW THE LONDON WORKER LIVES WHEN we reached Lavender Street in London the smell was nothing like lavender. The ascending odours were varied but commonplace. The domestic smell of boiled cabbage and roast meat mingled with that of horse-dung and rancid fat. It was a dim street. The clothing and persons of most of the inhabitants whom we met emitted a smell of sta le sweat. From the windows of the houses you could only see a narrow strip of sky, the gloomy window- sills of the houses opposite and the grey slat es. Most of the male inhabitants were dock labourers. The street and hou ses were permanently full of squalling groups of street urchins all screaming together. A number of extremely dirty an d no less noisy boys were continually playing footba ll in the road. O nly ten minutes ago we had halted on Hungerford Bridge, and had leaned over the iron railings. We saw the river and the greatest eity of Europe in the splendour of its strength and mystery. London had seemed particularly beautiful-a city of civic majesty floating gently upon the curve of the Thames. Here on the other hand was sounded a note of toil and poverty . I n fact, Lavender Street is a long way from Camden Town, the real factory centre and working quarter, and from the East End proper with Whitechapcl, which is the true centre of poverty and of the worst London distress. Lavender Street is an intermediate workman's street. At No. 13 we met William YouhilI. His dwelling, bedroom, kitchen-sitting-room, and sitting-roo m with bed for a guest was up un der the roo f. I n the blue-black gloom we could see from his sitting-roo m th e distant lights and the vague dom e of St. Paul 's, hu ge and fant astic palaces, ancient and glim mering towers. Close before our 13 0

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eyes th er e ro se every kind of roo f and chimney in faded red and grey a nd brown. Willi am 's home was clean, and th e beds h ad whi te covers, though the furniture had lost a leg and mo st of its paint. Willi am You hill was short an d fat ; he wore a dark suit (it was Su nday) and had a grey beard. H e looked exac tly what he was-an old English dock lab ourer living on brandy an d m u tto n like hundreds of thousands in London . When we told him why we were calling on him he said in a voice saturated with friendl y sensibility : " I a m th e Chairman of the U nion in our district. I can tell you everything or nothing at all. I would prefer you to ask m y son . H e'll be in in h alf an hour. " Mrs. You hill gave us tea. She was a woman of fifty, lean and sinewy, with b rown eyes that were rather hard and hungr y. H er nose, with its bloodshot tip and network of tiny blood- vessels, for me d a red trian gle; but probably she h ad a heart of gold, like so many English women of her age. William had been a dock lab ourer for thir ty years. H e h ad becom e a foreman and was earn ing as much as 40/- to 50/- per week . The work was hard and severe. He received no money for his work as Chairm an of the Union. In a mon th his earnings ca me to about £10, bu t th e wre tched every-day realities of the English working man 's struggle for existence buzzed around him daily like so many flies. His sim ple budget was as follows: R ent Food , pl us brand y Building subscription Clothing, taxes and Trade Union Savings

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was building himself a hou se. La ter he wou ld be allowed to live free with him in exchange. "£10 per month," said William. "You would think that was pretty mon ey. But when it has to be divided like this there's nothing left over. Before the war we were earning £ 3 a month as dock labour ers and it went further. I ask you " - his face reddened, and he began to open his heart- " why can' t the London working men get out of their slums? Man y earn less than 1. After thirty year s' work I have reached the highest stage in our Union, and if others earn less than I it is all the U nion's fault." We looked at him in sur prise. For years he had fought like a gladiator in the tr ad e union arena. "Yes," he continued , " it is all a struggle. You have to keep on your feet and fight, and not let th em get you down. T hank God I am old. O ur boys will perh aps have a better chance in life than we. I n Eng land we don't have to love our neighbour, but we have to keep him from getting us down . I don 't suppose it is better in other countries, except, of course, in Germany. H ere we have to bargain with a weap on in our hand ." So he sat, WilIiam Youhill -an old man by the side of his old wife. A sudden wholesome candour had arisen in him. He had laid his soul bare before his guests.

The Man Provides the T rousseau Meanwhil e Edward, the onl y son, had come into the room. He was twenty-seven years old and a bricklayer, i.e., a member of the best-paid gro up of manual workers. Building activity is consid erable in England, and accordingly bricklayers are among the best-paid wor kmen in the Empire. With all his overtime Edward earned- it is no exaggeratio n, he showed us his pay envelo pes- £ IS per month. He was unmarried and living with his parents. He stood before us tall and slim, a gentleman. His 13 2

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nerves were better th an the average, and he had the steely resolution of th e Englishmen of his class which fits them so well for minor undertakings. Accordingly he had d ecid ed to build a house in Croydon where he and his paren ts we re going to live. H e pays £10 per month , and in five years it will be his property. That still left him £5 for himself. Dinner and supp er he had free at hom e : all he had to get himself was clothing. Part of the money wen t for spo rt, which occupi ed all his spare time unless he h ap pe ned to be re ading. T axes, health insurance, unem ploym ent insur anc e, tr ad e un ion contributio ns and fares took £1 per month. The rest he saved. " T hat will be for later on," he explained. " Some day I wan t to ma rry, and then I have to pr ovide the tr ousseau, as is usual in Eng land." Ed ward was well off, he had no worries. He was full of life, was six feet tall and stood squa rely on his feet. H e radiated youth a nd stre ngth . " T he British working man 's position is good and bad," he said, whe n our conversation passed to genera l condition s. " I t would not be fair to say that it is better tha n th at of your working men. On the whole it is no worse. Perhap s there is more distress in our towns, bu t then there is also m ore wealth . T hings are more settl ed with you. If we we re to come to hat e you some day we should still always envy and admire you. There is something beautiful about y ou, an inuincible courage, something that cannot be expressed in words, that cannot be weighed or measured. It is the mental attitude of the German working man. . . ." We left th e flat and the house together. T he domestic smell of boiled cabbage and roast meat still hun g about the stair case . Arm in arm we walked down Lavend er Street , united by a sudden understand ing, an open and tender sym pa th y. Berliner Lokal ATzzeiger, I March 1939. 133

QUESTIONS TO ENGLAND speech of the Prime Minister in Birmingham and the continued insolence of Eng lish and French newspapers constitute a mass of provocations and insults to Germ any and her Fuhrcr. We do not feci inclin ed to acquiesce in silence. We are compelled to deny to states who preach from so hypocritical a pulpit, states whose guilt of crime against the worl d is so mon strou s, the right to vent thus their raving hate of Germ an y. I t must not be forgotten that the struggle waged by the Reich for life, justice and existence has its historical origin in the shameful Dictate of Vcrsailles. Germ any in self-defence was compelled to liquidat e Versailles. But the victor powers have not mad e nearly enough am ends for what they did to us in their mad lust for destruction. Th e democracies of the West have no right because of wha t has happened in Bohemia and Moravia to stir up against us their peoples and the rest of the world in so und erhand a fashion. England in parti cular has every reason to mind her own business. When she declares that tiny Czechei was no danger to the great R eich we cannot help asking whether a rising in Waziri stan or in some corner or other in India is a danger to the security of the mighty Empire. Why does England repr ess these risings with knout and sword ? For this procedure there is no other word but abysmal Phariseeism and immoral double dealing, both of which are seen in their finest flower. For this reason, too, it is blatant hypo crisy for England to concern herself with the genuin eness of the German standpoint on race. An Empire which has und er its protection Zulu s and Bushmen, and which time and again has mocked at the German racial laws, has no right to play the part of a protector 134

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of rac es. Hypocritical sympathy with poor slaves doesn't tally with Englan d's own record. Germany must reject the interference of the 'Western democracies, for what the Fuh rer did last week is a purely German domestic concern . Bohemia and Mor avia form a German living space in which we do not recognize foreign interests. We have

Third man missing. ... " For 2 0 years we had been playing together so nicely." (T he empty chair is labelled : Czechs.) B.Z. am Mittag. never meddled in English affairs. Great Britain is concerned about the fate of political prisoners and J ews in what used to be Czechoslovakia. She has not much troubled about th e fate of those millions of people who perished in her imperialist wars of conquest. Nor did the agony of the hundreds of thousands who were tortured in the cells of the Cheka dist urb in the slightest these pious

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English. The miseries and torm ents of the Span ish Nationalist prisoners, th e murder and torture of Spanish priests and nu ns never touched the hearts of th ese snobs. On th e other side of the Channel no one ever sheds tears

THE WORLD 'S GO VERN ESS

" T he peoples of the world enjoy liberty only und er British domination, for we arc the trust ees of justice, Christianity an d humani ty. Der Angriff.

except when shedding them seems to be useful for political ends-eertainly never for humanitarian ones. Besides, it canno t be often enough repea ted th at it was the wish of the Czech people to lay confidently in the hand s of the R eich its fat e and its futu re. When Mr. 136

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Chamberlain spoke of "suppressed liberty" and of .. sangu inary force of arms" he might well have thought of the d ays when Grea t Britain attacked the tiny Boa States and subdued them with fire and sword. In the days when Germany showed her sympathy for the raped Boers England made it plain to the Reich that the fate of the Beers was solely her own concern and had nothing whatever to do with us. In th is war with the Boers, a war waged with the most savage meth ods conceiva ble, England kept imprisoned in concentration camps-inciden tally concentration camps are not a Germ an invention, the patent being entirely English- well over a hundred thousand men, women and children , of whom in one month alone 2,956 died. In Bohemia an d Mora via, however, not a shot was fired and no one was tort ured to dea th. Similar ly Albion murdered, plundered and enslaved the Irish people. And has Great Britain perhaps asked the French Can adi ans whether they want to live out their lives miserabl y in a n English colony? No one in the world ever heard Chamberlain , with all these methods of conquest and oppression, acts of terr or and tyranny before him , raise a war ning voice or seek to rouse the English conscience. Yet it was the lowest lust for power and gold that incited En gland to these crimes. With horror, an ger and revulsion, moreover, we rem emb er the time when En gland and the democratic West allowed Senegalese negroes to strike German women and child ren in the Rhineland and the Ruhr with rifle butts a nd riding whips. In those days the English didn't car e when Fren ch officers struck honourab le and proud people simply because they didn' t salute their opp ressors, nor did they protest when brutal negro soldiers were sta tioned here on our Rhine bridges, negrees to whom we had to show our passes before we could cross, who sneered at us with cruel spite, who raped our wives, tortured our brothers and violated our children.

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Where was th e horror of the demo cratic world then? Where was the racial con science of Chamberla in and Clemenceau? Not one fraction of this dishonour done to our people has yet been mad e good or atoned for. The crim es and cruelt ies of the hunger blockad e, maintain ed against innocent German m oth ers a nd childre n after th e war , were so monstrous th at no expiat ion could ever atone for them . Yet we do not desire revenge, we do not wish to repay in kind, although ou r right to do so is a tho usand times j ustified . All we ask is j ustice. If we are refused that, we must take it for ourselves. The screams of protest at th e Third R eich's desire for conquest and for the crea tion of a hegemony over Europe are the resu lt of th e sa me lying spirit and the same bad conscience. For which nation is it that has assured herself by robbery, plunder, arson, murder and oppression, of the greatest world hegemony ever seen? T he answer is Engla nd. It is not Germany that owns a qu arter of the globe and r ules a th ird of mankind, but Albi on. Her lust for worl d dominion assured her possession of the world's riches, while Ger many by painful struggle and hard work has still to-day to fight for her existence. You are mistaken, Mr. Ch amberlain ! It isn't you who ough t to be disillusioned and angry with Germany and its leader, bu t it is we who have every reason to be disillusioned with En gland and her sta tesmen. Our colonies were stolen from us. So far there has not been the sligh test sign th at you are willing to return them. The cri minals of Versailles and th eir successors, if they had any sense of sha me, ough t to blush even to-da y at the wr ong which th ey did , and by which they degraded a nat ion which had been civilized for twent y centuries. At all tim es Germany respected England's interests. We were sufficiently generous to negotiat e the Naval Agreement on a basis which left England supreme at sea. No one in the world could have pr evented us from building 138

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a fleet as strong as, or stronger than , England's. Did G ermany interven e o fficia lly agains t England whe n the poor tortured A r ab p eople were m owed down b y

Th is caricature, published in a French newspaper at the time of the Boer War, has lost nothing in topical va lue. O ne only has to replace the skeletons by Arab corpses, which serve as Christmas-tree decorations for Great Britain's festive table. The gentleman representing England in the picture is Lord Chamberlain. Westfdlische Landeszeitung.

England' s machine-guns, their fa r ms a nd huts burned down a n d blown up, a n d Arabs w ho love freed om and honour humiliated, tortured and ou tr aged ? Wc are disappointed in you and your m ethods, Mr.

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Chamberlain! Not we, but you and your democratic henchm en are in th e dock. The hypocritical and treacherous mentality of your Western democra cies makes the goddess ofj ustice veil her face. The dem ocracies have tried long enoug h to tell th e world that Germany, the victim not th e assassin, is respo nsible for th e unrest in Europe. Awake ned Europe, and especially awa kened Greate r Germ any, has smashed this rickety struc ture raised by political gangsterdom. We are sober eno ugh to be able to take the proper steps against the lat est political manceuvres and all the ir conseque nces. We have tried for years to make friends with Engla nd. Fr om th e experience of the last few days it seems necessary to revise that desire. Hakenkreuzbanner, 2 I March 1939.

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