¶ The "Index of General Articles" - that means articles, published anonymously - is missing in the digital copy of Volume 6 (July until December 1933). Titles in bold letters are candidates for forwarding (No. 1) or authorship (No. II-VI). Kurt Wagenseil claimed in his reparation trial files, that he had written articles for the "New Statesman" in 1934, probably anonymously. Contributions by correspondents from f.e. Vienna or Saarbrücken are excluded. Kurt should have - as known - a Berlin or Munich perspective. The text "Persecution" is excluded, because it's by a Bavarian Catholic.
Abb. Advertisment for Robert Dell: "Germany Unmasked", London: Hopkinson 1934, "The New Statesman and Nation", Vol. 8, Issue 183, "August 25, 1934", p. 243.
Vol. 7
Admiralty and the Sedition Bill, The (Issue 170, "May 26").
[All Quiet on the Spanish front?; Issue 159, "March 10", p. 334: "From a correspondent in Madrid"].
[Anti-Cooperative Stunt, The; Issue 159, "March 10"].
Are We Going Back to Gold? (Issue 155, "February 10").
Arms and the Chinaman (Issue 168, "May 12", p. 702f.: "G.H.").
Austria - Whose Revolt? (Issue 157, "February 24", p. 257ff.: "From a correspondent in Vienna", "The shocking story of the past week is that of the final consolidation of a counter-revolution by force of arms. The cause of democracy and Socialism was lost last March").
Austrian Inferno, The (Issue 156, "Februrary 17").
Austrian Tragedy, The (Issue 162, "March 31", p. 477f.: "From a correspondent", "Vienna, March 25th").
Bath-water (Issue 174, "June 23").
B.B.C. and its Critics, The (Issue 162, "March 31").
[Bishop in Partibus, A; Issue 159, "March 10"].
Black Army, The (Issue 173, "June 16", p. 904f.: "The Olympia meeting [...]").
Bleeding Wafer, The (Issue 175, "June 30").
Bluff of the Corporate State, The (Issue 160, "March 17").
Budget Surplus, The (Issue 163, "April 7").
Building the Character (Issue 153, "January 27").
Canoeing in England: Some English Rivers
Case of Sir Stafford Cripps, The (Issue 154, "February 3").
Chaos in the Air (Issue 164, "April 14").
Cow in the Kitchen, The (Issue 154, "February 3").
Dangerous Measure, A (Issue 165, "April 21", p. 590f.: "Nothing in the speeches of the Law Officers of the crown will qiuet the doubts of those who view with grave concern the new Incitement to Disaffection Bill").
Draw, The (Issue 172, "June 9").
Eye, The (Issue 162, "March 31").
Fascism and Mr. Shaw (Issue 157, "February 24", p. 256f.: "The immediate test of the sincerity of our ruling class is provided by the question of private armies").
Future of Money, The - I. The Probable (Issue 170, "May 26") - II. The Immediately Possible (Issue 171, "June 2").
Future of Television, The (Issue 175, "June 30").
German-Polish Pact, The (Issue 154, "February 3", p. 145: "From a sceptical correspondent").
Gramophone Notes (regulary).
Great Wen, The (Issue 160, "March 17").
Guide, The (Issue 152, "January 20").
Happy New Year (Issue 150, "January 6").
Hatters All (Issue 173, "June 16").
Heretics (Issue 151, "January 13").
Insurances for the Speculator (?).
Is It Peace? (Issue 154, "February 3", p. 144: "The map of the greater Germany which is to be one for the Teutonic race is plastered all over Germany and impressed on the mind of every German school child. [...] But, as those, who had read the early chapters of Mein Kampf are arware, Hitler has profited by the Kaiser's errors and has no intension of becoming involved in a quarrel with England on the sea").
Japan's Monroe Doctrine (Issue 166, "April 28").
Limitations of Monetary Reform, The (Issue 174, "June 23").
Limits of Sedition, The (Issue 168, "May 12").
Lion and the Sheep, The (Issue 171, "June 2, 1934", p. 842f.: about a sentence from Benito Mussolini).
Looking Up and Looking Down (Issue 163, "April 7").
Managing on the Dole (Issue 162, "March 31", p. 478f.: "The writer is the wife of an unemployed man with three children").
Methods of Self-encouragement (Issue 168, "May 12").
"Mittel-Europa" (Issue 168, "May 12", p. 701f.: "The defeat of the Austrian Social Democrats in February was, from every point of view, an international event", "E.W.").
[Muddle, Muddle, Toil and Trouble; Issue 159, "March 10", p. 332: "Mr. Eden has returned from his travels"].
Note on the "Family Income" Policy (?).
Notes from a Hampshire Hillside (Issue 167, "May 5").
1914-1934 (Issue 170, "May 26").
Old Prison, The (Issue 165, "April 21", p. 592f.: "It may be contented that we could acquire a great amount of this knowledge without ever going outside London").
On Being Disinterested (Issue 156, "Februrary 17").
On Holding the Tongue (Issue 160, "March 17").
Other, The (Issue 169, "May 19").
Our Ancestors (?).
Pass the Bucks to America (Issue 169, "May 19", p. 757f: "By an American correspondent").
Patriots and Poses (Issue 151, "January 13").
Persecution (Issue 171, "June 2", p. 837f: "From a correspondent recently in Bavaria", "National Socialism has discarded humans for race values. It extols ruthlessness over compassion, the Germanic over other races. National Socialism is therefore in inevitable conflict with the Christian Churches [...] The Nazis are now in command of a Germany which they, al least administratively, have united as it was never united before. But while they govern from Berlin they keep their party headquarters at the Brown House at Munich, and it is there, that the more violent Nazis formulate the policy which the administrators in Berlin water down. [...] It is quite impossible to discover how many priests have been sent to Dachau, but rumour said two came in a every day for a time. [...] Against the formidable Nazi machine how do the Bavarian Catholics defend themselves? [...]").
Pinching (Issue 167, "May 5").
[Place of Money in a Planned Economy, The; Issue 175, "June 30"].
Plays and Pictures (regulary).
Problem of the Saar, The (Issue 151, "January 13", "From a Correspondent in the Saar").
Prime Minister and the Archbishop, The (?).
Pronunciation (Issue 150, "January 6").
Questions about Happiness (Issue 155, "February 10").
Realistic Debtor, The (Issue 172, "June 9").
III. Respectable Hitler?, A (Issue 174, "June 23", p. 936f: "Europe is dogged by memories [...]. What was the meaning, then, of Hitler's visit to Venice? [...] Some guess that [Franz von] Papen dared to speak, because he knew that [Paul von] Hindenburg, and therefore the professional army, were behind him. [...] Peace by the device of a European balance of power would be as precarious as it was in 1914. It would be precarious because the experts are fallible in their measurement of forces; they overvalued Russia then, they undervalue her now. It would be precarious also because it omits Japan. It can at best win some years of delay. But peace can be one only by a sweeping international reconstruction. For that it is not enough that tyrants turn respectable; they must disappear").
Revolutionary Middle Class, The (Issue 167, "May 5", p. 664f.: "It has served the interest of British capitalism [...]").
Rich Man, Poor Man (Issue 165, "April 21", p. 588: "Out of an estimated surplus of £29,000,000, Mr. Chamberlain has presented the payers of income tax with £20,500,000 - or with £24,000,000 in a full year").
Russian Plan, The (Issue 171, "June 2").
Safeguards of Peace, The (Issue 169, "May 19", p. 756f.: "The Disarmament Conference, said Mr. Duff Cooper in a speech this week, is at its last gasp").
Saving the Rates (Issue 158, ""March 3").
II. Second Spring, The (Issue 166, "April 28", p. 630f.: "From our correspondent in Germany", "The Mystery of Hitlerism becomes increasingly obscure. By now the outside world demands to be told whether the Nazi experience can hope for economic success, whether National Socialism has really won Germany's heart, whether it is in fact to be controlled from the Right or from the Left, whether it must be regarded as the herald of peace or of war. Yet he who attempts to answer these questions 'yes' or 'no' is guilty of an over-simplification which is full of danger. [...] The atmosphere in Germany to-day is strangely reminescent of the later days of William II, an atmosphere of nervous threats and personal intrigue. [...] Yet by playing with the fantasy of war, does not the Third Reich show the very signs of suicidal mania which marked the Reich of Wilhelm II?").
Sects (Issue 161, "March 24").
Sin of Impatience, The (Issue 166, "April 28", p. 632f.: "[...] House of Commons [...]").
Somerset Maugham (Issue 150, "January 6").
Strange Man, The (?).
Struggle in the Saar, The (Issue 174, "June 23", p. 937f: "From a correspondent", "Saarbrücken, June 18th").
I. Terror Continues, The ([candidate not for authorship, but forwarding] Issue 152, "January 20").
Test Match, The (Issue 175, "June 30").
This Button Business (Issue 170, "May 26").
This England (regulary).
Thousand and One "Middles," A (Issue 164, "April 14": "Retrospect").
Top Hats (Issue 157, "February 24").
Town Planning in Practice (Issue 155, "February 10").
Webbs and the New Statesman, The (Issue 164, "April 14": "Retrospect").
Week-end Competitions (regulary).
Week-end Crossword (regulary).
Week in the City, The (regulary).
Weekly Reviews, The (regulary).
What Does Sir Hilton Young Mean? (Issue 161, "March 24").
Where No Water Is (Issue 166, "April 28", p. 629: "On April 12th two bills were read a second time in the House of Commons", "J.B.").
Wrongs of Man, The (Issue 159, "March 10").
Vol. 8
Activities (Issue 181, "August 11").
VI. After Hindenburg (Issue 181, "August 11", p. 172f.: "While [Paul von] Hindenburg lived, there was theoretically the hope of rescue; he had behind him an irrestible army that would obey him and a nation that revered him; he and no other could have removed the Führer without the risk of a destructive civil war. The hope is gone. There is no one left in Germany who has the right, or the prestige, or the power to check the actions of the most absolute ruler Europe has ever known. In the same moment this nation loses its link with the past, and sees its destinies in the unchecked hands of a madman. That word may sound far-fetched. When one listens to the Führer's oratory one knows that one is in the presence of a diseased mind. The events of last June compel us to class him as a dangerous victim of the mania of persecution and the folie des grandeurs*. This, one reflects, was the first massacre; it will not be the last. [...]").
Amsterdam Riots, The (Issue 177, "July 14").
Arms Inquiry? An (Issue 193, "November 3").
Arms Scandal, The (Issue 187, "September 22", p. 348f.: "'The inquiry has barely scratched the surface', said Senator Clark, after a fortnight's work in the United States Senate munitions inquiry").
Austria Since July (Issue 186, "September 15", p. 317f.: "From a correspondent in Vienna").
Austrian Problem, The (Issue 180, "August 4").
Behaviour (Issue 182, "August 18").
Children's Plays (Issue 177, "July 14").
Christmas Cards (?).
Class War in Ireland (Issue 184, "September 1").
Conversation between Wells and Stalin, A (Issue 192, "October 27": "Supplement", p. 601-6: "The following is the verbatim record of the conversation between Stalin and H.G. Wells during the latter's recent visit to Moscow"; p. 606: H.G. Wells: "Note upon freedom in Russia").
Coroners (Issue 185, "September 8", p. 289f.: "This country spent £92,652 upon Coroners' salaries in 1932, the latest year for which statistics are available", "Solicitor").
Defence of Curiosity, A (Issue 178, "July 21").
Economic Imperialism (Issue 192, "October 27", p. 576f.: "Whether the exuberant welcome given to the F.B.I. mission on its arrival in Japan is responsible for Sir Charles Seligmann's remarkable frank statement, we do not know").
England's Beauty (Issue 186, "September 15").
Examinations (Issue 184, "September 1", p. 261f.: "R.P.").
Fatigue in the Mine (Issue 194, "November 10", p. 658: "A doctor").
Food (Issue 197, "December 1", p. 781f.: "The noble art of inducing scarcity has many votaries in these days [...]").
Good News (Issue 196, "November 24").
Great Britain and the Economic Outlook (Issue 183, "August 25").
IV. Hitler's "Purge" (Issue 176, "July 7", p. 4f.: "Hitler's 'Purge', as Nazi Propaganda calls it, is officially stated to have been greeted in Germany with 'unprecidented enthusiasm'. That must be regarded as - to put it mildly - a rhetorical exaggeration. The great majority of Germans had, and still have, but a hazy notion of the massacre of last week-end and of what lay behind it. [...] 'So they've started putting each other against the wall now, have they?' was one street comment in Berlin. The tale of the shootings - which by a Cabinet degree on Tuesday was legalised into 'executions' - is horrible enough, and tzhe list of the victims is not yet complete. It range from the Radical Storm Troop Chiefs, [Ernst] Röhm, [Karl Gustav] Ernst and [Edmund] Heines - base fellows whom few will regret - to Dr. [Erich] Klausener, the Catholic Action leader, [Carl Fedor Eduard Herbert von] Bose, the personal secretary of Herr [Franz] von Papen, and the ex-Chancellor General [Kurt] von Schleicher and his wife. [...] In the first place, the horse in now mounted on is plainly the Reichswehr, and the Reichswehr is a dark horse. [...] There has been from the outset a real, if subdued, antagonism between the Nazi movement and the Reichswehr, and it was the ambition of some of the Nazi leaders, and [Ernst] Röhm in particular, to end this by the absorption of the S.A.s in the Reichswehr. [...] The sinister Hitler that we have known may attempt to transform himself into a respectable despot; we predicted such a process in these columns a week or two ago, though we did not expect it to be begun with a blood bath").
Hunger no Guarantee for Peace (Issue 196, "November 24", p. 745f.: "The following article is an examination by a German economist of the food factors which must be in the minds of her new rulers").
Hungry Child, The (Issue 198, "December 8").
Hyde Park (Issue 185, "September 8").
Indian Prince, The (Issue 184, "September 1", p. 256f.: "To the progressive Englishman who no longer wishes to dominate India, the Indian Rajah seems an anachronism", "A humble member of a fallen order").
Indifference (Issue 199, "December 15").
Labour Policy and War (Issue 186, "September 15", "A letter from B.A. Betts").
Labour Programme, The (Issue 188, "September 29").
Labour's Municipal Policy (Issue 194, "November 10").
Last of the Hansoms, The (?).
Leisured Life, The (Issue 198, "December 8").
Liberty and 'Marxism' (Issue 182, "August 18", p. 200f.: "Have the younger among us who 'toy with Marxism' a right to stand in line with 'liberals' in the battle to defend liberty of opinion? Since Mr. [John Maynard] Keynes raised this provocative but important question in his letter on the case of Professor Laski in our issue of Juli 21st, numerous correspondents have taken up his challange. [...] Society must be classless if it is to be free.").
Liking Dogs (Issue 191, "October 20").
Little Doubt About Human Nature, A (Issue 176, "July 7").
Luxury (Issue 179, "July 28").
Marseilles Murders, The (Issue 190, "October 13").
"Mercy Pays" (Issue 184, "September 1", p. 260f.: "From a correspondent recently in U.S.A.").
My Year in the Scrubs (Issue 186, "September 15", p. 320f.: "In a recent article in The New Statesman and Nation Dr. Harry Roberts referred to a friend of his who was undergoing a sentence in Wormwood Scrubs Prison", "Number '11341'").
Naughty Boy, The (?).
Naval Balance of Power, The (Issue 191, "October 20").
New Entente, A (Issue 176, "July 7").
1934-35 (Issue 201, "December 29").
Norman Blood (Issue 177, "July 14").
Old Moore's World Almanac for 1935 (Issue 200, "December 22").
Old Subject, The (Issue 200, "December 22").
One's Habits (Issue 190, "October 13").
Plays and Pictures (regulary).
Politics and Air Transport (Issue 178, "July 21", p. 81: "From an air correspondent").
Possessive (Issue 192, "October 27").
Prison (?).
Programme of Action?, A (Issue 179, "July 28").
Prosperity and Strife in Palestine ([Arthur Koestler?], Issue 182, "August 18", p. 201f.: "The annual Memorandum of the Jewish Agency in the development of the Jewish National Home, which was submitted through the Permanent Mandates Commission in June, is full of figures of progress").
Rebuilding of Britain, The (Issue 178, "July 21").
Repercussions in Austria (Issue 177, "July 14").
Revolt in Spain (Issue 190, "October 13").
Riddle of the Saar, The (Issue 199, "December 15").
Schleicher's Political Dream (Issue 176, "July 7", p. 6f., "From a correspondent who has been in close personal touch with General [Kurt] von Schleicher", "I am no German").
Schoolchildren as Writers (Issue 182, "August 18", p. 204f.: "J.H.H.").
Schoolgirl in Germany, A (Issue 188, "September 29", p. 389f.: "From an English teacher formerly in Germany").
Science and Welfare (Issue 185, "September 8", p. 287f.: "At the British Association meeting of 1932 Sir Alfred Ewing showed that even eminent scientists were beginning to wonder if science as it has been applied had not ceased to be an unmixed blessing. Last year Sir Gowland Hopkins, the President of the Royal Society, made a plea for a closer relation between science and human welfare", "Scientific worker").
Screen Morals (Issue 195, "November 17").
Sedition Bill Now, The (Issue 177, "July 14").
Sham (Issue 180, "August 4").
Simon Says (Issue 197, "December 1", p. 780f.: "The spectacle of a Cabinet Minister eating his words with a fry smile [...]").
Spy, The: An Appreciation (Issue 194, "November 10", p. 657f.: "In the early months of the war there was probably no belligerent country that had not its spy scare").
Storm of Asia (Issue 183, "August 25").
Strike and the New Deal, The (Issue 185, "September 8").
Struggle for the Saar, The (Issue 189, "October 6").
Sweets (Issue 184, "September 1").
This Cricket (Issue 183, "August 25").
This England (regulary).
Tips (Issue 189, "October 6").
Towards a Classless Education (Issue 180, "August 4").
Trick Questioner, The (Issue 197, "December 1").
Trouble in the Sugar Paradise (Issue 181, "August 11", p. 173f: "From a correspondent").
Two Hours in an Italian University (Issue 182, "August 18").
Ukrainians in Poland (Issue 187, "September 22").
Unrelieved Depression (Issue 195, "November 17", p. 708f.: "Everyone knew that in South Wales, in Cumberland [...]").
Voluntary Hospitals (Issue 188, "September 29").
Water London (Issue 178, "July 21").
Week-end Competitions (regulary).
Week-end Crossword (regulary).
Week in the City, The (regulary).
What Does It Matter? (Issue 193, "November 3").
What is our Economic Policy? (Issue 189, "October 6").
Where does the Labour Party Stand Now? (Issue 199, "December 15").
V. "Will of the Führer has the Force of the Law, The" (Issue 178, "July 21", p. 83f.: "From a correspondent in Germany", "[...] And, in so far as the Reichswehr stands for the Germany of 1914, as opposed to the corrupt pseudo-socialism of [Ernst] Röhm, the Chancellor took his stand side by side with reaction. It is interesting, also, that in defence to the Right and to [Paul von] Hindenburg he expressly exonerated the Hohenzollern Princes who can scarcely be innocent of attending functions where a change of regime is discussed. Vice-Chancellor [Franz] von Papen, conspicious by his absence from the Reichstag, was also pronounced to be a good boy. Yet it was he who delivered the speech at Marburg on June 17th which protested against despotism**, and [Edgar Julius] Jung, that man who wrote that speech, had been murdered with the rest. It is impossible, that is to say, to get a definite reply as to his fate, but the Propaganda Ministry thinks he is 'dead all right' - 'er wird schon tot sein'").
Word Magic (Issue 201, "December 29").
[ Anmerkungen. annotations. remarques ]
* Siehe Dr. Israel Rubin: "Personenkultus der Gegenwart", Fanal 1928.
** Konrad Heiden: "Adolf Hitler. Das Zeitalter der Verantwortungslosigkeit. Eine Biographie", Zürich: Europa-Verlag 1936, S. 423: "Die Lage sei ernst, sagt er, die Gesetze hätten Mängel, das Volk spüre die Wirtschaftsnot, Gewalt und Unrecht würden geübt, man höre auf mit der falschen Schönfärberei! [Franz von] Papen geißelte die Ablenkung der Unzufriedenheit auf 'hilflose Volksteile'. Auch dürfe man das Volk nicht unausgesetzt bevormunden. Das alles ging gegen [Joseph] Goebbels. Doktrinäre Fanatiker müßten verstummen - dies ein Hieb gegen [Alfred] Rosenberg. Das Schärfste aber war: Falscher Personenkult sei unpreußisch. Große Männer würden nicht durch Propaganda gemacht. Byzantinismus täusche nicht darüber hinweg. Und nun ganz schneidend: wer von Preußentum spreche, solle zunächst an stillen und unpersönlichen Dienst, aber erst zuletzt, am besten gar nicht, an Lohn und Anerkennung denken. Ein Peitschenhieb gegen [Hermann] Göring. Fast nach jedem Satz Beifallssalven. Die Rede war Deutschland aus dem Herzen gesprochen. [...] Die Rede stellte die Männer um Hitler und diesen selbst vor dem ganzen Volke bloß."
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