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The quasi-religious frenzy of the Nazi swastika-worship is emble- matic of the German concept of "kultur," which has been aptly described as "mastery, effort ceaselessly renewed, constant. struggle without final satisfac- tion in principle." The world has heard often enough from the Nazis that this predatory “ideo- logy," in its modern revival, is not for export, only for Germans
in other words that it is not for the regimentation of others. With the outrage committed on the Czech peoples this assurance has now gone the way of the Fue- hrer's other assurances. Her Hit- ler has thrown down the gage to Europe as surely as Napoleon did. There is real purport in the de- inand by speakers in the House of Commons to know what limits
Hong Kong, Wednesday, April 19, 1939. were intended in recent warnings
HITLER CALLS THE
REICHSTAG
to the dictators expressed in the traffic sign Halt! Main road ahead." The line of resistance to the domineering of Europe must be drawn. It was Washing- Herr Hitler has called the ton's conviction that Herr Hitler Reichstag to hear his reply to has crossed his Rubicon, and President Roosevelt's message. committed to his supreme ad- The fact has encouraged hope venture for the uncontrolled mas- that the uncompromising rejec-tery of Europe which led to Pre- tion suggested by the Nazi press sident Roosevelt's intervention. will be subject to official modifica- It presumes to attempt the feat tion. There is no concrete foun-of checking Hitler in his stride. dation for such a hope. Hitler has
spent the last two days visiting Preparation in France troops; forming his own esti-
2
now
mate of the strength of German France has never been serious- resources? He needs opportunity | ly divided about the reality of for a personal discussion with the Gernian threat; and the Fran- General Goering on the results co-German Pact, which is of his visit to Libya and his officially dead, has had a hardly conversations in Rome. No change noticeable existence. It is nat of tone has been detectable in the ural, therefore, since the threat German press. It will be time is now stripped of its last camou- to expect a more accommodating|flage, that France should concen- spirit from Herr Hitler when trate on meeting it. M. Daladier such a change is observed, and recently asked for, and received, not before.
special powers of the widest pos- We should like to feel other-sible nature; from now until wise. But there are far too many | November he and his Cabinet. signs that Herr Hitler to-day is will, be able to order by decree proceeding to translate into action "any measures suitable to main- his long-cherished adoration" of talning or increasing the forces Frederick the Great. Maria Ther-of France." This phrase gives esa of Austria rejected, as the the Prime Minister powers of the proposals of “a mere robber," widest scope; far wider than the Frederick's offer of military as exceptional financial powers sistance in exchange for recog-which were granted to M. Daldier nition of "rights" in Silesia which in April of last year; but the his father and predecessor had need is now correspondingly more expressly disclaimed; whereupon acute. Last year the cry was. Frederick, in the very manner that France should return to which the modern world sup work, whereas now, in M. Dala
that poses to be the latest fashion, in-dier's own words, it is
B: "great vaded Silesia without declaration France shall become of war. Bismarck in the sixties munitions factory." Yet, while of the last century followed a the need for granting the Govern- similar course; and the story of ment the power to take swift and how in order to acquire Aus- drastic decisions can hardly be trian territory (in Holstein), and questioned, the political basis on while preparing to fight Austria; which this power has been as- he first made 2 treaty with sumed is open to criticism. A Vienna recognising Austrian democratic country can only sur- rights to Holstein, holds up the render its fundamental privileges mirror to the Wilhelmstrasse of when there is agreement on to-day. Bismarck's deliberate means as well as on ends, and the duping of the French Emperor composition of the present Gov- in order to prevent his intervén-ernment is far from universally tion is the very model of the cur approved. M. Daladier, it is true, rent Hitler-Ribbentrop procedure, is not so wholly identified, with As Mr. Wickham Steed has re the collapsed policy of Munich as cently pointed out, the racial M. Bonnet-or for that matter "ideology" of Hitler is but the re-as Mr. Chamberlain but it is vival of the philosophies in suc-unusual for a Government which cession of Fichte, Frobel, and must necessarily beiseriously Nietzsche, the foundation of Pan- discredited by the failure of its Germanism to which the Kaiser William also succumbed – for the world-wide advancement of "Kultur."
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foreign policy to dictate in the name of the nation. The desire to see the French Government made more representative is not. It is with this intractable force a monopoly of the Socialists and that we have been striving to Communists; M. Daladier's chief compose a peace. In "Mein opponent in the debate which Kempf Her Hitler has defined secured him his powers. what he means by peace. deputy of the Right, M. de Keril- peace not supported by the tea lis. Should auch BiGovernment ful pacifist lamentations of palm- be found it would only typify the waving females, but founded up-fundamental unity of Franc on the victorious sword of a rul- the face of danger va ing race, bending the world to M. Journaux nënku the service of a higher kultur.” half of the T.G.C.
ön be.