The Archive · 1941

Conditions Not Applicable

Consider a Nazi mass meeting held today, Ask yourselves which of the three' conditions I have mentioned are present? You wil) find that the answer is, none of them.

"The speaker cannot tell his audience things they want to hear, for what they want to hear is that o unaccountably prolonged Blitzkrie; has succeeded. They want to hear that the end is in sight. They want to hear that they themselves need expect to suffer no rore, and t they need not fear another winter of hardship. poverty and death. What do they hear? The only conquest he mentions are those on the Continent of Europe the value of which they have learned to discount, As far os the end is concerned Hitler hag even given up acclaiming each year as the year of victory. As far bs suffering is concerned, he m censor the outgoing reports, but he cannot censor the suffering of those who have to endure it Then what of the impression of irresistible force that achieved such miracles of conformity? So little was needed to shake that feeling and s much has occurred Not only has a hostile A appeared in the skies that wer leged to be inviolable but they have

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