HERMANN THE HEARTY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1941, Page 6

HERMANN THE HEARTY

INCARCERATION STORY. There may be nothing at all in the tale, but it is none the less gratifying to hear once more of Nazi chieftains consigned to the cooler for having fallen out with their semi-divine Fuehrer, says a “Manchester Guardian” writer. The Moscow wireless story — derived from “well-informed Stockholm circles” —is that Goering has now had a terrible set-to with Hitler over the damage done to the Luftwaffe, that Hermann the Hearty is no longer on speaking terms with Adolf the AllRight, and that Himmler has insisted on putting Hermann under lock and key. Truthful Joe seems entitled to one of his sardonic smiles; there was a time round about the beginning of the war when he himself, according to those invariably “well-informed circles” in neutral capitals, used to be in and out of the cooler about every ten days. Since then there has been a slight slump in the lock-up treatment for dissenting Nazi chieftains; about the only one who certainly is in custody is Bonny Prince Rudolph, the Hessian Hope of his Side in the matter of private and confidential peace parleys. It was about time that Goering got into trouble of some sort. And seeing how signally he has failed to keep his promise to the Germans about obliterating London while protecting the soil of the happy Fatherland from the descent of even a single bomb, there must be this time be a good many Germans who would regard him as a most promising candidate for a concentration camp. But on this side of the North Sea we shall not build any great hopes in that direction on tales from Stockholm. We shall only feel sure that Hermann the Hearty is under close arrest when we have got him, like Hess, for our very Own.