Looking back over the six years singe the events recorded, one can see with what a sure Aghting instinct Goebbels has put emphasis upon the Sturm Abteilung (Storm Troops), upon the need for complete control of the press, the theatre, the radio, The livid hatred toward the Jew shows a constant crescendo from the beginning of January 1982 up to the last entries, where on April 25, 1033, a law censuring the Jews was Dassed by Hitler's cabinet, During the cam~ paigns of 1932 communism and the Dourgeols Reichstag were objects of Goebbels' anger, but the Jews provide constant target against which the Vigour of his placards and. speeches pay be busied. ne sees in this book: the eamon for the anti-Jewish activity since 1993.
One of the interesting points in the diary is the building up of the Hitler legend. The Leader's "unerring Instinet™ and "invariably sound judgments" form a refrain. The picture of the Leader is quite secondary to that of Goebbels himself, as one might expect in a personal diary, yet there no minimizing the enormous pre-stage of Hiller in every phase of activity. Tu the light of recent construction projects begun in Germany'
Interesting to notice that in the midst of a hard-fought campaign Sit Februnry of 1982, Dr. Goebbels writes, The Leader occupies his, tetsure with plans for a new Party. building ud" vith schemes for_a vast Tenovac {ion "of Berlin, "Ha. has "ihe project Feady, and it is astounding what Bert imowledge'he can bring 10: bear the problems involved.
Peycholory of Attack Dr. Goebbels may rightly be eon-sidered one of the most eMiclent organizers of domestic propaganda any nation has ever had. As such his psychology of attack might well form a separate study. "We shall resent the government with accomplished fact." "It's no good to bark unless you bite" "A National Sodalist only feels himself when he is "Tomorrow. we shall seize the houses of the Trade Unions. There will be hardly any resistance anywhere. The struggle is going on!"
In his preface Dr. Goebbels characterizes his diary as 8 monument to the Party in its great struggle, and to the Sturm Abteilung. "It offers more to the world thab could be gathered from any erection of stone or marble." True that is. One can see in this book the microcosm of German history of the past six years, serts for the purpose of Proving jy innocence, in which he is ulimaut successful All the necessary inured ents for a really mysterious story fo be found, and to some xis their appearance and the manner Which they are used is remark ay old-fashioned, Secret panels. lead to subterranean tunnels coming under monuments in baronial past mysterious helicopters and. "ai strange aircraft, together with "yf climations of a sinister gang operat behind an enthusiastic if misyutget pacifist, all united in _proviaitt through the medium of Capt, Pat Jard's very facile bena. please) evening's reading—ne-c, New Fiction Mrs. Belloc Lowndes' book "Mott Giutchinson, London. 7/6) opens with a murder, Sir Thomas Clarkson. is discovered with halt his head shot, away and Chase Bigland is convicted of murder on the rather flimsy grounds that he is in love with Sir Thomas's wife and was at a shooting arly fifteen miles away when the murder was committed. At the last minute the real murderer confesses and then commits suicide, and the police shield his reputation with the kindly fiction that the real criminal has escaped abroad. The characters are poor. Doris Klint is the most interesting. She is a widow of uncertain age and magnetic charm, for two men fall in love with her in three days, One Is murdered and the other refuses fo marry her when he hears that Doris is not all that she should be, which is tough on Doris because she bad been looking for a husband for ten years, and, passionately as she had loved Sir Thomas, three days after his death she is even more passion ately in love with Dr. Raven, the coroner at the inquest. Dr. Raven is not above reproach himself, for when Doris confesses after a discreet dinner d deux that she has withheld important evidence at the inquest, he sends it to Scotland Yard in an anonymous letter to save Doris embarrassment. Then there are the three big-hearted boys: Chase Big-land, who refuses to testify in his own defence lest the breath of scandal should sully the pure name of Lady Flora Clarkson; Sir Joseph Molloy, eminent K. C., whose joints are stiff with age but who yet manages to fall on his knees with tears in his eyes to tell Lady Flora that her lover has been released; and Col. Wroxton, biggest hearted of the three because, world-famous sportsman as he is, he shoots Sir Thomas -to end Flora's unhappy married life, It is an incredible book which makes one thine that the only thing that may. reasonably deter ur all from writing books and publishing them is the actual physical labour of typing out some 300 pages of manuseript—a.t, Capt. A. O. Pollard certainly knows how to write thrillers centred round aviation. In "Black Out" (Hutehine London. 7/6) he deals with a young flying officer who is suspected of murder and who, in effect, de-
After struggling through the late, of Mr, L. F. Hay's novels, "No Incas Tartar" "<aiutchinson, London, jab {his critic came to the conclusion the publishers had done themselves more harm than good by accepting such tripe—it really is dimeult to thing of a kelter word, Two hundred riy sixty-four pages in Tength,- one to got to page 184 before' the story begins to open and an. insight ven as to what the author is at tempting to arrive at. And then when the plot is revealed and one; interest 1s slightly stimulated, the Anal chapter is reached and the yarn comes to an abrupt and di. Unetly disappointing conclusion Squads of bulbous-nosed "Armenias; take up most of the space in a seri, of rambling escapades in Essex, bit none of the characters are cotvin elngly drawn, the plot, if such it may called, has no continuity and almost puerile, while the action slow that it is remarkable how the story was ever finished. "It any readers. suffer from insomnia ant desire a little well-needed sleep, the: beg, borrow or steal "No Mean Tartar." "Half-a-dozen pages will be sumicient to do the trick!~
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