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ee UT if the Fiehrer leads B them in war," said Alice doubtfully, "I don’t quite see what they want a FieldMarshal for at all." "Perfectly simple," said the Red Queen, with a pronounced sniff. "It’s all been thought out beforehand. The Fiiehrer leads them to war and the Field-Mar-shal leads them to peace." "But isn’t that the wrong way round?" suggested Alice timidly. "Of course it is," said the Red Queen, heartily. "But then they are the wrong way round, you see -otherwise they wouldn’t be Hitlerites. So the Fiiehrer goes off to the front and the Field-Marshal comes home and talks for two hours in Berlin." "In a bathing costume?" asked Alice. "Not yet-they haven’t got one big enough. Besides, he wouldn’t have room for all his medals on it. And the FieldMarshal must have his medals on in
order to keep himself all worked up for telling Mr. Chamberlain how nice it would be if only everybody (except the Poles) would sit down and talk peace with the Hitlerites." "But Mr. Chamberlain wouldn’t do anything of the kind, would he?" inquired Alice anxiously. "Tf you ask me,’ said the Red Queen, "I think it’s gone a bit beyond Mr. Chamberlain by this time. Anyway, the immediate result of talking peace for two hours to Mr. Chamberlain was an announcement by return of ether from the British Cabinet that the FieldMarshal had better get ready for three years’ war. So that makes five for the Hitlerites to be going on with." "Why five?" asked Alice, The Red Queen smiled tolerantly. "Three and two make five, don’t they, stupid?" The Hitlerites have been
blockading themselves for two years — and now they’re going to be blockaded by somebody else for another three." "But why did they blockade themselves?" inquired Alice, now thoroughly confused, "Tt’s called autarky," said the Red Queen, "or the Four-year Plan. But I doubt whether you would really understand it. It’s like giving yourself a flying start into misery in order to improve your morale. The result is real self-sufficiency, "Tt sounds very odd to me," said Alice, . "But nothing Jike so odd as it must sound to the unfortunate German people," said the Red Queen, firmly. From " The Manchester Guardian"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 23, 1 December 1939, Page 55
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