Hitler may not know it, but he has been preparing a new book. The work she did was to make his famous or infamous speeches. They have now been collated and edited by Raoul de Roussy de Sales, and published by Reynall & Hitchcock, New York, under the title "My new order." It is a stupendous volume of over 1,000 pages, but efficient indexing makes all the points with which Hitler deals in his many soap-box orations easily accessible. The result is that the reader can readily see for himself, by comating what Hitler said with what he is doing, 9 what an unmitigated liar the man really is. Take for example Germany's relations with Russia. The war.had started when he made the speech at Danzig in September, 1939, in which he boasted of the results to be achieved by the signing of the non-aggression pact With the Soviets. In it is to be found the following passage:
We intend henceforth to' look afer our interests ourselves, and we have found that we best have been able to look after them when two of the largest peoples and States reconcile each other. And this is made simpler by the fact that the British assertion as to the unlimited character of German foreign policy is a lie. I am happy now, to be able to refute this lie for British statesmen.
British statesmen who continually maintain that Germany intends to dominate Europe to the Urals now will be pleased to learn the limits of German political intentions.
Only a few days later, October 6, 1939, speaking in the Reichstag he said:—Months ago. I stated in the Reichsta that the conclusion of the German-Russian nonaggression pact marked the, turning point in the whole German foreign policy. The new pact of friendship and mutual interest since signed between Germany and the Soviet Union will ensure not only peace, but a constant satisfactory cooperation for both States German-Russian agreements should prove immensely comforting to these worried sponsors of universal liberty, for do they not show most emphatically that their assertions as to Germany's aiming at domination of the Urals, the Ukraine, Rumiania, etc, are only excrescences of their own, unhealthy warlord fantasy Then again in the Sportspalast, Berlin, on January 30, 1940, he said:—
The pious and Bible-believing Mr. Chanfberlain tried hard last year to conclude an alliance with Russia, but he did not succeed. Now, I understand very well how furious the British are that I have done what Mr. Chamberlain tried to do, and I also understand that what in Mr. Chamberlain would have been a God-pleasing action is a godless one on my part. But the Almighty will be pleased, I am sure, that in one large area at least a senseless struggle has been avoided.
What was Hitler up to with all these lying assertions? He was endeavouring to lull M. Stalin into a false sense of security. That he admits in his proclamation follówing the onslaught on Russia. "I considered myself entitled," he said, "to assume responsibility before my own conscience and before the history of the German people not only of assuring these countries or their governments of the falseness of British assertions, but also of setting the strongest Power in the east, by especially solemn declarations, at rest concerning the limits of our interests." He lied by means of "especially solemn declarations," and, what is more, he has admitted it. That is probably the only time in his career of vulgarity and turgid emotionalist that he has ever told the truth. He always had war with Russia in mind. He always meant to seize European Russia up to the Urals, and the Caucasian oilfields if he could, and the whole of his policy was devoted to preparing the ground for just such another act of treachery as all those which he had committed before.
The foregoing is but one of the many revelations of the criminal mentality of the man. The long list of' pacts and treaties which he negotiated and then broke was topped by the perfidy of his attack on Russia. Throwing millions of men into slaughter for the purpose of satisfying his insane ambitions, Hitler paved the way by resort to the lie in a manner which surpasses anything which Machiavelli ever conceived. But it must be admitted that at least he is consistent. He has repeatedly declared his admiration for the big bold lie, and his speeches and his actions clearly prove that his policy has all along included the deliberate untruth as his chief weapon. What fools British statesmen would have been if they had accepted that friendship with Hitlerian Germany which was so often preferred! How much easier would it have been for-him to pick nation, after nation off in Europe if Britain could only be persuaded by a lie! And how much more complete would his preparations have been for a final onslaught on the British Empire! This latest book, prepared by Hitler, unconscious of what he was actually doing, contains every possible reason, why Hitlerism must be destroyed and faith and honour restored to the dealings between nations,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.