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THE LISTENING POST OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE R.S.S. I.L.A (W.A. BRANCH) REGISTERED AT THE G.P.O., PERTH, FOR TRANSMISSION BY POST AS A NEWSPAPER. VO LUME 18 NO. 7 JULY, 1939 THE LISTE N II'G PosT. I 5th Jrd y, / IJjl) ---wi>ERTH'S FINEST QUALITY -«.;.• ... ,, / ..;. EVENING WEAR FOR MEN! DINNER SUITS Tailored to tlfeasure £7-17-6 AND DRESS SUITS Ta;[ored to tlfeasure £9-17-6 ~ut often do you g,·t the dl,t ll\<' <•I .t D tn n n Sui! fur .t ? / 17/6 and a Dll·,, Suit for £'); 17 o. kt aJ.,,,_. get thc111 tarlorc tl to llll'asurc hy .t H c:~d Cutter who J,.,JJ, tiH· hr~h· ,.,t London Drplorna-. Ye•! \1r Ch.tppl,· " th,· \ny 11 1.111 to etllrll~l yuur th:w E \'l.'llllll-! Sutl to pro\·ah·d. of ,·our;,·. you want the hc't "' -tyk. , ut .tnd t..hrr.- \\'h.•t', t:Hif\:, l3o;111' guar.allh'l.' yo\1 ,t rn t ..:'- ·t fil .s; ·~•ltl~(R~~~hl~~:~ -r s c.l!t , GROUND f'LOOR -=-BOAN ARTHUR J. PU RSLOWE & CO. 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Circulation 9,000 copiaa guaranteed Post Commenta, unleu acknowledged aa aucb, muat not neceaaarily be accepted ae 1tating the official viewpoint GERMANY AND COLONIES "One hears, from time to t1me, that a negro has become a lawyer. teacher, tenor or the light. This is a sin aga1nst all reason. It 1s n iminal lunacy to tram a born semi·ape to become a lawyer. It 1s a sm agamst the Eternal Creator to train H ottentots and Ka[ji rs to mtellecawl professions ... - Herr H1tler ill "Mein Kampf." NoTWITHSTANDING the les..<ons of bst hank has cxagg.:ratcd the p<lSitlun, hut garded in Germany only as the basis for y.:ar, the recent utterances of the Bntish th.: English papers rn-e;tl that there IS in ncgotiattons for a complete reshuffling Pnme Minister and other English puhh.: Engl;tnd ;1 strung hody pf puhltc upimon of all colonial possessions. In plain Eng· men indicate that the fallacy of trylllg which favuurs negotiating w1th L;crm;my !ish, this means that, having recovered tu appease people, who cannot differcn· on columal issues. Th;u hoJ y mcludes her former colonies, Germany and Italy uate between .:ompromis.: and surrender, not only m.:mhcrs l)f the Gowrnment hut will grac10usly be prepared to accept IS hibernating rather than defunct. Even M r. Atlce, the Lc<td<: r of the Oppos1t1on l;trge and important slices of the British when firm declarations that Britain means 111 the House oi Commons. That 111 1t· ;md French Empires, especially those husmcss when her Government talks of se! f i s a tribute tu t he p,·rsistcnt German slices whid1 will give the Axis Powers opposing force by force, ·vague hints have propaganda, wh1dl has now r.:ached a a strategic and ecunom1c stranglehold on hccn thrown out that there are still seats crescendo of fury, <tftcr working silently, their rivals. Surely i t is time for some for the d iCtators at the conference tahle. but none the less msid1ously, for twenty responsible British statesmen to reply tu Why th1s should be so is astounding 111 years. the dictators, if not in the brid cockney· the light of the dictators' growing de· When Hcrr von Ribbcntropp, who had ism that Bernard Shaw made popular, at mands, and the absence of the slightest previously lived in Canada and England, least with the informat iOn that appease· s1gn that they are willing to abandon went to London as German Ambassador ment is not synonynous with suicide, their "smash and grah" poh.:y. It is two years ago, he had secret instructions even at Clivedon on Thames. this looking forward tu resistance and to make suitable contacts and create an backward towards the discredited ap· atmosphere favourable for the considera· Germany's colonial J emands have been peasement policy that has earned for tion of Germany's demands. Unfortu· based on the assumption that she has .in Britain a reputation f or vacillation, 1f not natcly for his cause, Herr von Ribbcn· some unexplained way been cheated out absolute insincerity on the Continent, tropp, ltke most of his race, could not oi the possessions she lost during the while it has lent colour tD the Germ;m resist the temptation to indulge in brag· Great War. While doing everything pos· gibe that Britain will perpetrate anothcr gadoccio. He gave the N azi salute when sihlc to iHcrease her population at home, eleventh-hour back-down rather than he p resented his cred entials tu the King, and even going so far as to correct a fight to honour ha pledgcs to snulkr and he had thc had manners tn lccturc bhour shortahle by repat('iating Germans nations. That 1s why Mr. Chamberlain the British publi.:: on its politics. He frum other countries, Germany whines has had to keep on reaffirming his pledges committed so many so.::ial sins that the for a colonial outlet for her surplus popu· :md why h e h.t" had tP explain almost London tahloids nicknamed him Herr von l<ttion. Actually, she has expanded and in words of one syllabic Britain ·s atti· Brickendrop, and he soon went hack to 1s still expanding in Europe, if n ot out· tude towards the Danzig d ispute. T hat Germany under a cloud. N evertheless, side it. The economic factor has been IS also why the time is over·ripe for Em· he made one achievement. He indl•ced stressed; hut economically, the former pire Governments to make a clear and un· his London friends to send the present German colonies would be unable to meet compromisi ng declaration on the 4uestion Foreign Secretary to Germany to ascer· Germany's requirements in the matter of of the future of Germany·s former col· tain what sort of a colonial settlement raw mato.>rials. Germany has also writhed onies. Germany desired. It has been said in under the stigma that she is not fit to When he was in C eylon recently, Dr. print, and never denied officially, that the have colonies, or to control the destinies Schacht stated 4uitc confidently that the German demands were so outrageous that of the inferior races who inhabit them. return of the colonies to Germany was Mr. Chamberlain durst not publish German's treatment of white racial only a question of time, because there them. Since Munich that theory has minorities in Europe, Austria and Czech· were already many "broadminded" peo· heen confirmed by the Germans them· oslovakia has done nothing to remove plc in England who were willing to ac· selves. Nazi spokesmen have, on several this stigma. Neither has Herr Hitler's cede to Germany's colonial demands. Per· occasions, declared that the return of all attitude towards negroes, which he has haps the former President of the Reichs· the former German colonies is now re· expressed in Mein Kampf, the farrago of ·:~.' ~ Page 4 Tl:II! L ISTI!NI NG PosT, 15th July, I 939 self-advertis.:ment that h;ts lxcomc the Naz.i Bibk. Those who thmk tb.tt the· ..:aus.: uf It Couldn't Happen Here international JUStice anJ p.:a.:c would be served by giving Germany culonial con· British" in a British Dominion. Winni­ cessions would do well tu reaJ two books, Only a f ew years ago one oi Amem:a 's peg's two dailies joined hands in demand· written by t wu men of wtJ cly divergent most eminent novelists, Mr. Sincla1r 111g the suppression of the Nazi organ. type, and pubhshcd l,tst May. One is Lewis, published a novel under the d,> The Canadian Legion has lately been "The 'German Colonial C laun, .. by the risive title, " It Couldn't Happen Here,' trying to impress on the Dominion and Rt. Honourable L. S. Amery, M .P., a in which he showed that through the Provincial Governments the necessity for former Secretary for the Culomes. The apathy of the great body oi the easy· taking steps to curb N azi propaganda, other, '"judgment on German Ainca," going public it is possible <mywherc fDr and the Naz.is have shown resentment . is by Mr. G. L. Stc.:r, the wdl·known u nscrupulous fanatics to seize the reins O ne cx·scrvice man, who p ublicly ex· avtator. M r. Amery gtvL.S a very cum· of Government and run the country posed Naz.i activities in his own district, prehens1v..: rcv1cw of t h.:: strateg1.::, eco· along the Circumscribed lines oi their pet nomic and puliti..:al aSJKd S uf the German "isms..
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