TOPICS OF THE TIMES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4747, 17 September 1935, Page 4

TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Herr Hitler's "Best Seller."

July 17 was the tenth anniversary of the publication of Herr Hitler's autobiography and political manifesto, "Mein Kampf," of which 1,930,000 copies have been sold in Germany alone. The royalties from "Mein Kampf" and Herr Hitler's interests in the publishing house have made the Chancellor a rich man, notes the Berlin correspondent of the Morning Post. The Lokal Anzeiger observes pertinently to-day that "no one who has not read Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf knows what National Socialism is and what National Socialism wants'." As the successive editions of "Mein Kampf" have come out, Herr Hitler has introduced several small changes into the text, but he has not altered the following sentence: 4 'One must be quite clear that the lost territories will not be won back by solemn appeals to the Lord God 'or pious hopes in a League of Nations, but only by force of arms."

"If War Breaks Out." "This I believe to be certain: If war breaks out, if the armies march, if the primitive troops of Abyssinia are mown down by Italian machine-guns, if aeroplanes bomb and destroy the villages, then, whatever our own Government may do or may 'not do, there ! will be a spontaneous outburst among the British people of indignation and resentment that a blow should have been struck against the common effort of civilised mankind that has been proceeding during this generation to provide some better method than war for the settlement of disputes or of conflicting interests between nations; resentment that a blow should have been struck against the effort to ensure that the future history of mankind shall not be merely a repetition of its past history — described by Gibbon as nothing more than a register of crimes, the errors, and the follies of mankind—but shall be a sustained effort to secure a peaceful and ordered progress."—Sir Herbert Samuel. '