Evening star., 1934-07-22
Lord Curzou s Work in the British Post o
Minister Of Foreign AtJairs -"Cm-
guest of Tibet" and 'Hitler Over
Europe.

was in Essen one day before the bloody "hquida-
ton" Rosenbergs neo-Bismarckian plan has
been embraced by Hitler, plan for a Nazi-
Germanic union which calls for the acquisition
of the whole Central European plateau, includ-
ing the determinedly neutral countries of Nor
way, Sweden, Finland Holland and Switzer-
land Immediate goals are the isolation Of the
Soviet Union and of France alliance with italy
and Japan, and, "at all costs, the avoidance of
simultaneous conflict with more than one
power" Germany could today win a war;
according to Mr.. Henri, but not one waged
according to hitherto used methods of strategy;
it would be a war of aero-chemistry, according
to the Schlieffer plan.
Goering's picked guards crushed the revolt
of the Storm Troopers, but Goering himself
Is actually Hitlers rival, and the conflict for
supreme power between Hitler and his Prussian
premier is not far of, says Mr.. Henri. Goering
knows nothing but the war of revenge He
sees nothing but his air armada. And he wants
nothing but himself in the role of a German
Bonaparte." Mr. Henri says in addendum
to his book, just issued by his publishers
"The 30th of January, 1888, was the first
stage of the inevitable dynamic of national
Socialism. The 30th of June, 1884, the second.
The third stage will be either the death of
Hitler, and the Socialist revolution, or the
European confagration." Hitler Over Eu-
rope" when recently published in England.
created violent reactions there. Mr.. Henri Is
a well known analyst of present European
affairs. Like John Strachey author of "The
Coming Struggle for Power" he displays ad-
miration for Communism, which seems incom-
patible with his hatred and fear of Fascism.
Both systems are relationships In between
lies real democracy, participated in by all the
people, not merely selected class or an
other. Perhaps Mr.. Henri thinks such democ-
racy is thing of the past and prefers red
to black or brown dictatorship. At any rate
he ends his book with cheer for the Germany
he hopes to see: Long live the new, revolu-
tionary Germany" Does he believe that if
that revolution comes it will bring no suffering
and bloodshed, will stop all warfare and will
give employment and all the good things of
life to every one? Utopia always lies just ahead.
LONDON BRIDGE Is FALLING. BY Philip
Lindsay. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
only a few months ego Philip Lindsay's
~ defense Of the much maligned Richard
III. in his biography The Tragic King" gave
q decidedly new picture of the period of the
Wars of the Roses and the reigns of Henry
VI, the il-starred Edward and Richard I'LL
in the latter half Of the fifteenth century In
his research for that book Mr. Lindsay evil
IDENTIFY collected a vast amount of material
about the social, civic and industrial life of
London during that turbulent period, Seething
with political and personal hatreds, which he
has used in this extraordinarily vivid historical
novel, the climax of which is Cade's rebellion.
Jack Cade, an Irishman, calling himself Nor
timer, led an uprising of Kentishmen for the
purpose of setting right the grievances of the
common people and reforming the government.
The rebels marched on London and seized and
beheaded government minister, but their dis
orderly conduct so reused the Londoners that
they gave battle on London Bridge and scat
tered Cade's army. Cade himself fed back
to Kent. where he was captured and executed.
This was in the reign of the weak and pious
Henry VI in the year 1850
MIR. Lindsay's dramatic tale is primarily Of
all the families who lived and had shops along
both sides Of the length of London Bridge.
Jack Cade appears in person only toward the
end, but as the mysterious Mortimer is an in
spring force in the lives of many of the young
men of the Bridge, under the leadership of
Andrew Picard. from the day when Andrew
returns from a 1o-year absence on the conti-
nent and in Ireland. Andrew is q staggering
gallant proud of his fine clothes and of freely
scattering gold coins, whose source greatly puz-
zles the hard-hsted bridge shopkeepers and
their wives and apprentices After seeking out
his father, between whom and himself strong
tie of hatred has always existed. and throwing
at him handful of gold as rent for room
In the attic above his grocery shop, Andrew
hunts up his old friends and acquaintance,
and wherever he goes, with the intention of
setting things right, he sows envy and discord.
He Is responsible for two tragedies among the
Bridge dwellers. Because he has mentioned to
the distraught Dionysus apprentice of Jordan
the mercer. that at St. Martin 's-le-Grand out
laws may live in sanctuary free from the law.
Dionysus and his bethrothed Hilda, apprentice
TO the cruel church widow" Stikeney,
girdler. attempt to stay away from the Bridge