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when he pleads that he was only a small unit on the base
led to the top .
could despite my low rank . " Eichmann is on dangerous ground
intimate knowledge of every link in the chain of command that
at the apex . In examination he betrayed an expert and
of the triangle that led to Hitler , Himmler , Hess and Goering
meticulous comprehension that could only have come from a man
selves and feel a sense of righteousness when their hands are
who used the system - and used it with power and authority .
The appalling thing about the Germans is that they can kid them-
He understood the whole apparatus with an exact and
red with blood .
believed in the moral superiority of " The New
they really believed Hitler when he screamed at
Czechoslovakia , Poland , Holland , Belgium and France
was an iniquitous injustice . When they burst into
thus : " Whether nations live in prosperity or starve
need them as slaves to # our Kultur ; otherwise
to death like cattle interests me only in so far as we
it is of no interest to me .
They really believed that the Treaty of Versailles
Order " which Himmler on October 4 , 1943 , expressed
them that they were being " encircled . " They really
invasion of our islands all the " able-bodied
General Brauchitsch signed a directive
This concept of slavery included Britain .
Continent . " The Baltic States were
ruling , be interned and dispatched to the
local situation calls for an exceptional
ordering that after the successful
seventeen and forty-five will , unless the
to have been our destination .
male population between the ages of
Poland , had the Germans begun with such a
evil word . THE Inland Revenue people have a
themselves less disliked by their attitude
to their customers - who incidentally
of Eichmann would have been as good as their
In no other conquered country , not even
thankless task . But they do not make
pay their salaries .
drastic step . There is no doubt that the compatriots
heard a good example of their officious efficiency .
hectoring , out-of-date language , but in spite of all
net while they are bullying the minnows . I have just
a bean for the next twenty-one days .
A young chap I know got his first job last week . He
their bluster , they let many a big fish through the
is paid monthly in arrears and will not get
Their demands are invariably couched in
of " Abou Ben Adhem . "
come through the sugary sentiments
upbringing and a possible reprieve might
ness . I may well have felt that I was
guilty interest in the devilment busi-
It was called " Abou Ben Adhem and the
flection , it might be that I took a
hell-bound under a strict Presbyterian
impressed with this poem but , on re-
Angel . " I don't know why I was so
of German rearmament , in opposition , to France . "
Later that year he warned that Britain knew
building bombers , and added :
the German ambassador in London was dictating
SOME 17 years ago , in the early summer of 1934 ,
a secret report to his chief von Papen , in Berlin .
Germany was breaking the agreement to stop
" Britain is uncomfortable in her role of champion
providing the cloak for Germany to build an
Hoesch's reports , along with other nazi documents ,
clear . At nazi Germany's request , Britain was
ment in the air would be jeopardised . " When
" Without Britain's tolerance German rearma-
pattern of British Government connivance became
air force bigger than that of France .
were captured and published after the war the
Yesterday West German Defence Minister ,
United States' principal Nato ally . "
the " strongest militarily in Europe and the
militarists are advancing their rearmament .
that his policy was to make his country
are another stage in the cloak operation ,
Herr Strauss told the Daily Mail last October
1961 variety , by which the West German
Defence Minister , Mr. Watkinson . Their talks
Herr Strauss , started talks with the British
the argument with Mr. Watkinson which he had in public at a
His job is to build up the military apparatus which
Europe through the Common Market . He continued this week
Nato council meeting last year over the question : do we
will back West Germany's economic domination of Western
fight a 30-day war or a 90-day war ?
agreed to give similar " facilities "
In the past year West Germany
German armed forces ( within Nato
A 90-day war , the West German
bases all over Western Europe .
" facilities " in France , Holland and
view , provides the pretext for huge
Belgium . After much bargaining