APRIL 26, 1939.
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"MEIN KAMPF"
ILLED.-Hitler inspecting a guard of honour after pation of Memel,
M STEED THE STIAN
on the
of Prague. Another warning came à few weeks ago. It was to the effect that Rumania would be put operating table. Whether or not this warning will be justified, I know that it is in full accordance with recommenda- tions made to the military and econo- mic authorities in Berlin by the Ger- man economic representative in Mos- cow early in 1986. These recommenda- tions were that a direct attack upon Russia would be folly unless Germany had already cleared away in central Europe obstacles to its control of Ru- manian oil, timber, and food supplies. With Rumania and the Black Sea coast as base, Germany (so ran these recom- mendations) might strike successfully at Southern Russia and might hope to paralyse Russia by cutting off oil supplies from Baku.
even
So we shall see what we shall see. Everything may not go according to plan. Two months back, Herr Hitler was undecided whether to strike at Czecho-Slovakia, or in conjunction with Italy to invade Switzerland as a means of striking at France, or to occupy Holland in order to compel Great Bri- ⚫tain to negotiate for the cession of the Dutch colonial empire or of the Belgian Congo, The German general staff were given orders to prepare in detail for the sudden occupation of Holland.
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If now, for reasons unknown to me, Herr Hitler has decided to go east for the present, when he thinks he has removed any chance of serious inter- turn ference from the cast he may west. If he turns west it will be be- cause he thinks that the western demo- cracies will negotiate rather than fight,
The
Bulgaria were to "Raum und Volk in Weltkrieg," which han the spring of appeared in Germany in 1933 and fore- shadowed, among other details, a con- 1941 the Russian quest of England. Professor Banse was ith France, Swit- and is a leading representative of the Holland, Belgium German school of “political geography" also to be within (of geopolitik), of which Herr Rudolf 18 England, Portu- Hess. Herr Hitler's deputy, is an out- and because he believes. that effects of his progapanda will have disintegrated pain, Scandinavia, standing member,
Swiss, Belgian, Dutch, French or Bri- Russia, with the Once more these forecasts were not tish public opinion from within.
entirely new. A map entitled "Der technique of moral disintegration from Grossdeutsche Bund und Mitteleuropa within is invariably employed before um das Jahr 1950" ("The Great German Herr Hitler strikes from without. League and Central Europe about the year 1950"), which was published in a
As far as the west of Europe is con-. Pan-German pamphlet and in a Ger- cerned, there would seem to be only man atlas during 1899, covered an area one valid safeguard against aggression. less extensive than that claimed by the It is to promote a complete and resolute school of "political geography" though similar in character. These publications cohesion between the western democra- and maps were familiar to Herr Hitler cies and to support that cohesion both in his youth, when he came under the by a firm policy of resistance, publicly declared, and by a maximum degree of Austrian Pan-German
As regards the armed preparedness. influence of leaders Schoenerer and Wolf, and when he absorbed likewise the ideas of east of Europe, the countries most im- mediately threatened are Poland, Ru- "Aryan" supremacy which were propa- gated at the same time by Houston mania, and Soviet Russia with Turkey in background. Here again a policy of firm cohesion might give pause to Herr Hitler and his programme. The posi- tion would be improved if there could be co-ordination and co-operation be-- tween Herr Hitler's prospective victimm The point of present interest is that in east and west. The "shock" which Herr Hitler now. disposes of powerful Herr Hitler's operation against Czecho- armed forces in the service of these Slovakia has given in various quarters, ideas and that he is not afraid to use. where for one reason, or another his those forces very astutely as a means, present action was "unexpected," may Where prove to have been salutary should it of intimidation and pressure. there nothing new will pressure next be applied? It may open these persons' minds to reality s? Partly because be put on Rumania or on Poland or on and to the deadly seriousness of Na-
Socialist purpose, which d some of the older Hungary. Two months ago I, and I tional of the nineteenth suppose many others, were warned that nothing less than to achieve dominance
because they were Herr Hitler would make a "lightning in the world.
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Minor, were like Stewart Chamberlain in "The Founda-
ander German con- Italy was central Spain, southern
a, Corsica, Greece,
Minor.
tions of the Nineteenth Century.'
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nse
in his book, 1939. That night he slept in the Castle
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