Glebe Collegiate Institute - Lux Glebana Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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Chamberlain: pacing up and down. I suppose you think you have Won? threateningly Well, remember the British Bulldog! The strong silent British character: our utter calm in the face of difficulties! Mussolini: simply. The imbeciles. Daladier: to himself. I shudder to think of the cartoons in Punch over this affair. Hitler: nervously. And what that old pelican George Bernard Shaw will write-Huh! He thinks he can write. I'll bet he knows less' about dictating than I do about writ- ing. Chamberlain: impatiently. Enough of this twaddleg come Daladier. But remember, you-he sputters trying to think of an ea:- pressive word-You two old spiders! the Next time we play, a bid for appeasement is chucked. Exit Chamberlain. Daladier: politely. Good-bye gentlemen. Re- member our next game. It is the African suite, I think. Exit Daladier. Mussolini: Well, Adolph, I guess we won. Hitler: speaking more brusquely now they are alone. Yes of course: I expected to. But don't bother me, I must write another chapter to Mein Kampf ,-a sort of diary I am keeping! ' Once more a terrific noise can be heard from the lawn. Hitler: For heavens sake, Mussolini, will you stop that brat from making such a racket? Mussolini: Why that is little Caesar playing at soldiers-innocently, Just like I do. Hitler: I should know about that. Mussolini grows red, as he realizes the fu-ll meaning of Hitler's words. Finally he stalks out of the room, muttering fiercely to himself. Hitler: At last I am alone.-That reminds me, I must go to Austria tomorrow, to meditate in my old cell-good for my soul.-Well, nothing as stimulating as a good game of cards I always say 5 especially if you win-I hate to think what would have happened if Chamberlain had got that bid, though. I must be careful to deal again in 1940.- Scene closes with Hitler writing in a little black book that looks like a diary. . He grows agitated at what he writes. Finally his actions -reach a feverish pitch of excitement. Sud- LUx GLEBANA de-nly he drops his book and springing to his feet, he raises his right hand in the N azi salute. As the curtain closes he roars out- HEIL HITLER. Curtain. Pk Pls 4- The international Affairs Club N THIS year of what might be termed Perpetual Crisis, when two democracies, Czechoslovakia and Spain, have been lost to the Democratic Front of nations, and the prospect of war brought closer, a situ- ation fraught with fearful Cand tearfulj meaning to all our boys and girls, the Inter- national Affairs Club has had less interest shown in it than in previous years. Per- haps it is because the students have become blase with regard to crises. At any rate it is intended next year to reorganize the me- thod of carrying on the work with the object of inducing a larger number of pupils to take part both in formal public speaking and informal discussion. Not that some good work was not done this year. Besides some outside speakers, among whom were Miss Ruth Ellis, who gave us firsthand information about Aus- trian refugees, and the Rev. I. R. Craig who spoke on Democracy's Greatest Chal- lenge, a number of debates were held. Resolved that a democracy confers more beni- flts on the people under it than does a dic- tatorship was the subject of one. In this debate, Miss Elizabeth Serson and Harold Willis for the affirmative defeated Eric Cowan and Frank Palen. Miss Serson did particularly well. Both with logic and rhetoric she demolished the fiimsy edifice the exponents of dictatorship reared. Miss Ruth Agulnik and George McLean were less successful in convincing the judges, Miss Gilhooly, Mr. MacNamara, and Mr. McHugh, that the Russia's form of govern- ment was preferable to that of Germany's. The officers of the International Affairs Club were: Advisory President-C. J. THOMS President-KEITH MCCAFFERY Vice-President-ELIZABETH DRAYTON Secretary-MURRAY DOBIER Committee-DOROTHY BAKER Page 31

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1 l member-come what may, our motto is 'Play up, play up, and play the game'! Daladier: Still whispering matters unenthusi- astically. Oh yes,-I suppose so. Mussolini: whispering to Hitler. I hope to a pure Aryan that we win. Hitler: reassuringly. Don't worry, we Will. Don't forget I am dealing. Mussolini looks at Hitler with awe and rapture, while cutting the cards. Daladier looks reproachfully at Chamberlain. Hitler deals rapidly-taking his own ha-nd from the bottom of the pack. The four then pick up their cards, and start bidding, starting-for no apparent reason-with Da-ladier. Daladier: I pass. Mussolini: on the principle of the thing. I double!-That is, er, um, I pass too! M ussol-ini looks somewhat embarrassed and shame-faced. Chamberlain: hopefully. I bid an active League of Nations. Hitler: empah-tically. You can have it! I bid a good propaganda campaign. Daladier: I pass. Mussolini: I check. Chamberlain: desperately, Well my hand is good for an honourable settlement, by way of a plan of appeasement. Hitler: Dished again Neville. I bid for the minority rights of Sudetandland, and a future stranglehold on Czecho-Slovakia. And my hand is strong enough to make both bids, too. Chamberlain: Well Adolph, you should know: after all, you dealt. If I was sure you were bluffing I would call you, but- Hitler calmly proceeds to make his bid, having all play in his own hand. Shrieks of joy can be heard from the lawn, M ussolini on hearing them, blushes rosily, and mutters dreamily- Mussolini: My little grandson. He shall be as great as I am. I have nick-named him Little Caesar . Daladier: Tell me frozen-jaw, is that maid really the famous Mme. Benes? Mussolini: with icy dignity. Yes, but she is really nothing. Adolph tells me so. Hitler: as he rakes in a few minor Czech. territories. Yes, as I said before, I am going to have her discharged. -whispering to Mus- Page 30 solini-And pay the new maid out of what we make in this game-eh, Benito? Chamberlain: I say, I wish you wouldn't whisper so. You know jolly well it isn't very polite. Hitler: elated that he has won, and oozing with conjidence. Oh, shut up! What do you think this is, a sewing circle? We're playing at international politics now, and what's more we're playing for keeps! The maid enters with two telegrams ad- dressed to the four of them. She hands them to Daladier who is highly gratified at this mark of attention. He takes them, opens them slowly, and then proceeds to read them in a puzzled voice. Daladier: This one is from Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada. He says: Our parliament is somewhat disturbed at vague rumors of trouble Over Theahf' Please set our minds at rest by cabling immediately, so that we may proceed with pressing business of deciding just what our National Anthem is. Otherwise We may have to get a commission, to decide whether or not we should enlarge our al- ready powerful navy. Signed, Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada. Hitler: sarcastically. Oh, take me away, Benito. I am really quite frightened. Daladier: ignoring the interruption. And the other cable is from President Roosevelt. He declares this game is unconstitutional gidlundemocratic. He demands a New ea . Mussolini: groaning. Somebody give him a hot-foot. Chamberlain: Benito Mussolini! I am shock- ed. Such language! Hitler: Il duce is quite right. We do not Want a new deal: we won! Chamberlain, shaken by such straightforward and undiploma-tic language, clutches his um- brella and prepares to make a jlustered exit. Chamberlain: Come Daladier-let ,us leave. The atmosphere here is intolerable. It is evident that these-ah-er-people, have never associated with the Gentlemen of London. Hitler: ignoring Chamberlain's remarks mut- ters to himself. It is a pity we didn't play for higher stakes, but- LUX GLEBANA

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And It Came to Pass by Ian McPhee AST YEAR I wrote in this magazine some lines concerning world events and how I believe we should meet them. Since then momentous events have occurred which should rouse the indignation of the entire civilized world. These events were brought about by one man-many believe mentally unbalanced-who has built a political machine which has grown almost out of his control, yet which controls the lives and thoughts of some seventy millions of people and sways the rest of the world. He is an uneducated man who possesses a strange pursuasive power and is able to deliver, with uncontrollable emotion speeches astounding in their vehemence, which though they may irk, never precipitate action. The structure of this machine is based on force. It was mob terrorism which elected the Nazis to power and the Hrst step taken by its leader was to regiment the whole nation into vast armies. Although it is based on force, the mainstay of the party is the amazingly efficient propaganda de- partment directed by a fine specimen of Nazi Aryanism-Herr Goebbels. One of the beauties of this fine organization is its al- most unbelievable pliability. To take an example, the German headlines recently screamed that the Poles were committing violent outrage on the German minority and were wantonly destroying German pro- perty. Upon investigation, it was proved that the outrages consisted of boys breaking windows of the schools and that they were being urged on by their German neighbours. Enough of the structural wonders for the moment, because we should take time to look at some of the accomplishments of the Nazi party and, incidentally, its growing threat to our own liberties. 1. The burning of the Reichstag-Nazis elected to power. 2. Return of Saar Basin to Germany. 3. Rhineland re-occupied by German troops. 4. Austria forced to join the third Reich. 5. Sudetenland given to Germany 6. Memel seized by Germany. Page 32 7. Czecho-Slovakia seized by Germany. Let us look at the tragedy of Austria. In 1933, Hitler sent his agents, to whom he gave unlimited credit, into Austria to lay plans for the future. From this point, illegal Nazi parties were formed, composed, as usual, of hired thugs, dope addicts and divers unscrupulous types of people. Un- fortunately, there were men who were better educated than the usual run, but were just as unscrupulous and allowed them- selves to be bought by German money and promises. Among the worst of these trait- ors was a young, mild-mannered lawyer and cabinet minister, Seyss-Inquart who is now Chancellor-President of Austria. To show how well the Nazis were organized in unorganized Austria, a transport system was formed to take Nazi assasins out of Austria into the protection of Germany within hours or even minutes after a bomb throwing or. riot took place. This system was also used to bring in money, arms and propaganda with which to start trouble. When Dolphus was assinated in 1934, his place was taken by Kurt Von Schuschnigg, one of the most courageous and yet one of the blindest statesmen in modern history. He was put in power by the combined support of the clerical party, the farmers' party and the Heimwehr, an organization of returned soldiers. The parties which put him in power could not be consolidated as one. Due mostly to Nazi murders and riots, disorder grew until he had to make himself virtual dictator to keep order. Still he could do but little because of the corruption of his officials and the threats of invasion from Germany. As far back as 1935, the social-democrat party saw the danger from Naziism and wished to combine with Von Schuschinigg, to form a popular front to face the common danger, but Schuschnigg was not interested. Being a staunch catholic he took much of his advice from the church and for this reason was almost as opposed to the social democrats as he was to the Nazis. He blundered by not accepting the offer. This was a pity because together they could have organized the Republican Defence Corps, the Heimwehr and the civil life of Austria, and defeated Nazi aims. Von Schuschnigg saw his mistake at the end and when the crisis which was forced by Hitler came, he joined hands and prepared for plebiscite to decide the future of Austria. As Hitler knew that well over eighty per cent of the people would vote against union with Nazi Germany, he bluntly told Von Schuschnigg to resign or he would order his troops to LUX GLEBANA