ALIAS HITLER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 5

ALIAS HITLER

SCHICKELGRUBER TOLD OF GRAVE PERIL “AWAKENING THE DEAD” (Elec. Tel Copyright—Uniteil Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 11. The American journalist, Mr. Quentin Reynolds, whose recent broadcast to the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, from London was widely quoted abroad, last night .spoke to Hitler in the same vein. Mr. Reynolds throughout addressed Hitler as Schickelgruber the Fuehrer’s original family name. After saying it might be wise- to change back to the name of Schickelgruber, because “no one can really be angry at anyone named Schickelgruber and so many are really angry at the name Hitler,” Mr. Reynolds made a telling indictment of Mein Karripf. He said: “I find one paragraph in it very interesting. It is your estimate of the value of propaganda. “Your actual words are: ‘By propaganda, with clever and permanent application, even heaven can be palmed off on the people as hell, and, the other way i - ound;' the most - ' wretched life as paradise.’ I wonder if you believe that. “Now let us consider the propaganda you send outside Germany. Honestly it doesn’t fool anyone these days. Oh! It fooled Britain and my country for years. It fooled Belgium, Holland, Czechoslovakia and Norway. It didn’t fool Russia though, did it? Pact With Russia “When you made that pact with Russia in 1939 you declared joyously to the Reichstag: ‘Russia and Germany fought against one another in the World War. That shall not, and will not. happen again.’ “Then, on December 10, 1940, in a broadcast, you paid a high tribute to the people of Russia and you declared: ‘ln the terrible struggle the Russian people rose and freed themselves from the clique of power—thirsty magnates of finance, trade, raw materials and industry.’ “The Russians remembered what you had said years before, on page 538 of Mein Kampf: ‘The present rulers of Russia are bloodstained criminals, the dregs of humanity.’ The silent man ini the Kremlin said nothing, but. he remembered and prepared. “On page 539, you said; ‘Bolshevism is an infamous crime against humanity.’ The silent man in the Kremlin said nothing, but ordered more aeroplanes and more tanks. “No! Your propaganda doesn’t fool the people any more, Mr. Schickelgruber. “Every trick your little gabby man has tried to work in France has failed.' You’ll recall that on June 15 last, in an effort to popularise the oncerespected but now despised Admiral Darlan, he ordered every newspaper in both occupied and unoccupied France to print the likeness of Darlan on'the first page. Darlan and Fifth Column “The order was obeyed, but didn’t your agents notice that somehow most of the pictures in the shop windows happened to fall face downwards? Did your agents tell' you proudly that • every paper in France published Darlan’s picture on page one? But did they add, Mr. Schickelgruber, that almost half of the papers printed the picture in the fifth column?” Mr. Reynolds then dealt with the. new German propaganda campaign which, he said, “starts to-morrow in America.” He said: “You know,' Mr. Schickelgruber, Britain has eyes and ears all over Europe, even in Germany, and here we know all about your new peace offensive. It has died before it was born.” Mr. Reynolds finally told Hitler that his greatest mistake was to “awaken the dead” in England. “When you bombed Plymouth, Francis Drake came out of his legendary past to live once more in the city from which he so often sailed,” said Mr. Reynolds. “And when the slap-happy futile German fusiliers bombed and machine-gunned lightships, do you think that Nelson slept? Once more Nelson was roused and to-day his spirit rides the bridge of every ship that flies the British flag. “It is dangerous to awaken the dead, Mr.. Schickelgruber. Old Soldiers Never Die think then that Wellington slumbers in his grave, or that Allenby sleeps? Old soldiers never die, Mr. Schickelgruber. “Do you notice the thousands of naval officers that wear their caps’ at a jaunty angle, half covering one eye? You know that Admiral Beattylly.es. “It is dangerous to awaken the dead. They live again in the hearts of men, and they know they died not in vain. “They know that this island is as unassailable as truth. These gallant ghosts of the past know that they will be joined soop by thousands of their countrymen and women who are alive to-night. But who in this island fears death if he may then walk with Drake, and Nelson, and Beatty, and the other immortals. It is dangerous to awaken the dead.”