Patea & Waverley Press. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1939 A DANGEROUS MAN

Patea Mail, 17 November 1939, Page 2

Patea & Waverley Press. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1939 A DANGEROUS MAN

SINCE llio time o£- Judas XHuriot there has probably never been a man more universally hated, despised and feared than the present Cl email Dictator, Adult Hiller. A murderer ou a wholesale scale as shown by ihe numerous people whom he got r;d of on June 30til 1934, a liar oil liars, one who broke his pledged word whenever it suited him to do so. There is no wonder Dial lie is despised the world over. One aider another he has eliminated, t hose who helped him to uadi Ids present goal. Captain Roehni. t\c founder ot the-Brown iShirts, at one time Hitler’s closest friend, is dead, arrested personally by Hitler and afterwards shot. Genera) Von Schleicher was shot in his home. He was completely unaware that &jiy action against him impended. Ho Ad -in fact talking to a friend op jip H]ephonc when Hitler’s emissaries arrived. He said into ihe telephone: “Excuse mo just a moment, someone is in the room.’

jie turned and .saw Jiis execution* MX' They opened fire and lie dropp!(] dead. His wile, hearing the shots rushed in. to . the room. h>hiu •i.yas immediately killed so that them v/pjdd be no witness to her husband's denth, The murders occurred mostly on !he night of June JO. Hitler, i/i his speech justifying the cxcc ufions, admitted to seventyseven stub 1 ! 1 This was, of course,, an under-estimate. The full toll will probably Jjover be known .• Probably it reached two bund red and fifty, possibly three hundred. Tim attempt on his iife which took place recently, showed that even the people of (termany realise that he is leadjug them to ruin, and it would apjxar that before long the Avovds nf Shakespeare that “The man that mice did sell the lion’s skin, while the boast lived, was killed while bunting him.” According to John ft until or. Hitler’s schooling Avas very brief. By no stretch of imagination could he he called a person of culture.

He is not nearly so cultivated or so interested in intellectual affairs as Mussolini, and lu; reads almost nothing. Lie lias never travelled and speaks no language but ids own. In fact he is an uncultured megalomaniac who should not under any circumstances be allowed to be at large, for lie is undoubtedly the most dangerous man in the world today. “How long will Germany’s Greet illusion, Adolf .Hiller, last ?” asks Arthur iMce.. It won't! seem that already there arc (■racks appealing in the feet of the idol. He himself made one when lie threw the bomb of an alliance with Russia among the Gorman people who had heard him throughout Ids career denouncing Russia as the vile enemy who sowed her poison of Communism among the German people. But he started a bigger crack when, after saying thus was a bid for peace, he at once set out to war. The Germans are rather like sheep. They like to follow a leader, but sooner or later they must know where he is going. They are beginning to learn already, and the ration card is more illuminating than any leaflet or any propaganda. They are strained and woiried and not 100 well fed after four years of butter for guns before the war began. They are not in good trim for further trials. They have been promised supplies from Russia, but Russia’s “bursting corn bins” are another illusion, and Russia’s oil is far away. Russia is not a benevolent uncle, and Germany will got nothing cheap from her. The mass of Germans may put such doubts aside for a ring?-, but Germans can. read, and are as intelligenl as any other people in Europe. The more intelligent of them cannot be fooled all the time. They will tell the rest, and thou the cracks in the feet, of the Hitler God will spread. Whenever he used to speak it -was to the humble German. like the voice of a prophet or nr; archangel, But the voice is growing hoarse; the prophecies are belied by events which speak louder than words. It is reported that he would he willing to have back some of the Jews he threw out. lie has pawned Germany’s credit. Mexico is refusing to honour German bills. The Moslem world is up in arms against her; and that is a handicap no people, not. even the stubborn, brave, and patient Germans, can endure for long. How long? It is probably just as long as they take to find that Hiller is the cruellest man and the greatest mountebank in the world.