Evening star., 1938-03-27

butter, but not without guns" the phrase
passed into the regular vocabulary Of con-
temporary political oratory, as former For
eign Secretary Eden made it the theme Of
a speech in the British Parliament. The
barbed arrows Of his malicious wit con-
stantly whang home through chinks in his
opponents armor. German pastors
spokesman says that they deal with the
things Of the next world. whereas the Nazis
deal with the things of this world "A very
nice division OF work." retorts Goebbels in
stantly. I'VE don't quarrel with it,"
Policies Toward the Jews.
He attacked the Jews tirelessly. But
when the soft-pedal order came from Hitler,
he executed a fanking movement. No one
they should not stay where they were not
wanted. Loyal Germans should use a
hearty and healthy humor in dealing with
them. Whenever any German saw Jew in
street car or any other public place, he
should say to him: What! Haven't you
emigrated yet?" A little Of that might 60
long way.
I'VE know who sapped our front line
during the war-the Socialists and the
Jews" That line, exploding in the tortured
Germanic mind, gave the Nazis their great
est victory. Goebbels, recognizing the
tribes psychic need for scapegoat, de-
vised it. and kept chart measurements of its
effect on the mass mind Strokes of genius
like this have earned him the title of "the
party brain"
1t may be that his own feelings are en-
tangled in this pathological obsession. His
wife, refugee from Belgium during the
war, found shelter with a Jewish family in
Berlin; they brought the girl up. Goebbels
Is her second husband.
Magda Goebbels is young. beautiful, dec
orative, with light-gray eyes and bright
geld hair. The propaganda minister made
her minister of fashion" It was her lob
to lead German women away from athletic
pastimes, careers and French style fashions.
and back to kitchen-nursery ideas and
styles, presumably suited to Hitler's idea Of
the ideal woman as child-bearer for a
lusty soldier The fashion ministry lasted
three months. Then Frau Goebbels re-
signed. It was Goebbels' only failure.
The Berliners have enough Goebbels-
Goering stories to fill q new Decameron.
Theirs Is the antipathy of two opposite
physical and mental types, leavened by
caste feelings. Goering, son OF q German
satrap, belongs to the upper social strata:
Goebbels comes from peasant stock.
Takes Pleasure in Batting Goering.
Goebbels is sure of Hitler, who feels more
at home in the Goebbels Berlin apartment,
with Frau Goehbels and her two children
and music, than he does in the opulent
Goering palace. The Fuehrer can do with
out a Goering, but not without Goebbels.
Goebbels knows this-and bats Goering.
Staying at Hitler's Bavarian chalet,
Goering got the local village bowmaker,
who is also an ace archer, to coach him.
But the archer could not cure some basic
fault in the Prussian premier's shooting.
At last Goering playfully told him that he
would have him shot at dawn if he did
not find way to make the Reich Hunting
Master shoot straight with the bow and
arrow. The luckless peasant began to
stammer.
We'll, your Excellency, you see, it's
your right foot"
What about it?"
''Well-er-Excellency should check to
see that It is placed straight in line with
Excellency's bow arm"
He means" laughed Goebbels, who was