The Archive · 1941

Fully Determined

"also met Hines, late of the Hongkong Post OMice. "How is the war woing on? Well, by the time this reaches you whatever news I may ne lose ioday will be old and stale, various news services and the BBC. give you daily all you require, 1 may say this, that we ave determin= ed not fo lay down the sword till Nazism is beaten t9 pulp, "Lately there has been a lot of talk about Japan and her intentions, 1 anna conceive what Japan "can expect from throwing in her lot with the Axis powers. Italy again proved a wash-out. However brave her soldiers may be, none of them had the very least Intention of laying down their lives for Adolph the Twister. They simply will not Aght, and who can blame them? When invading Greece, they thought they. were out for a victory parade on the lines of their "glorious" entry into Nice after nee had collapsed. When, however, they found they had to fight they said Nothing doing." "Their navy has shown no inclination to fight and even if German officers are placed in charge of the Italian Navy and so forth....it wilt make no difference, "Wien 1 was in Italy in April 193 T became convinced that the Italians would not be of any use to Hitler. This view was strengthened when visited Ialy again in December of the same year when on my way from Shanghai to London. sons of the last war? Right up to July 1918 it seemed as if Germany must win—but then? She has certain-Ty overrun most of Europe, But this means keeping large armies of occupa-Hon in countries seething with hatred for the invader and his breed. Clever Allied propaganda managed in the Jast war to make most nations hate and despise the Germans. Now we heed no propaganda. There need be no lies. The horrors she has perpetrated and is daily perpetrating on Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Poland, ete,, ery to the heavens above. Germans living in Portugal and Spain talk English or French in public to escape the stigma attached to being a German.. They hate to acknowledge that they belong to that loathed and despised nation.

"The very minute things began to go bad for Hitler the oppressed nations will rise. They are waiting for the signal,

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