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SOVIET AND AXIS ALLIANCE
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Britain and in other steps right through the September crisis Herr Hitler continued to cherish the hope of keeping British fav- our. Again in "Mein Kampf" he said:
There was a time when England would have permitted herself to en- gage in discussions such as these, She understood quite well that Ger- many, in consequence of her increase in population, had to look for some way out, and would find this either with England's co-operation in Eu- rope, or without England in the world.
When Mr. Chamberlain in Feb- ruary of 1938 said, "We must not try to delude small, weak nations into thinking that they will be the protected by the League," Berlin press was elated. The ab- sorption of Austria followed quickly, and there are evidences. that National Socialist leaders believed there would be no serious- trouble with Britain over Czecho- Slovakia. They may have sup- posed "Mein Kampf" was not read in London. Or in ruthless diplomatic calculations they may have thought it entirely logical for Britain to confine her inter- est to the West.
Britain's guarantee to Poland and Rumania provided Herr Hit- ler with a shock from which he had far from recovered (it was The military alliance concluded plain) when he made his Reich- at Milan between Germany and stag speech. Even "The Times" Italy has naturally given rise to has been moved to declare: With- a torrent of words on both sides out ceasing to work for a return of the Brenner Pass, in which to the rule of law it (Britain) will "blocs of steel" and "rampants of be unresting and unremitting in at- granite" have figured very large-resistance to any and every ly.
tempt to impose the rule of None of the German
force. newspa- pers (and perhaps this is
If we could be quite sure (and an odd omission) has devoted at-it is Mr. Chamberlain's fault that tention to the admission that the we can not) that the Prime Min- alliance contains; that Herr Hit-ister has ceased to hanker after ler, against his will, has found appeasement, contemplates no himself compelled to break one of mediation which would do for Po- the main Articles of Faith in the land what Munich did for Czech- Nazi bible, "Mein Kampf." Peace slovakia, we could afford to smile lovers will hope and work for at the sudden enthusiasms dis- eventual reconciliation between covered in Rome and Berlin for Britain and a peaceful Germany. the new military and political al-- But the views now crystallising liance. The strange conflict be- on Germany must leave little tween the version of Britain's hope in Berlin for keeping that counter-proposals which was al- British favour for which Herr lowed to carry semi-official sanc- Hitler declared in "Mein Kampf,”tion in London and the actual "no sacrifice should have been too version, boldly published in Mos- great" for pre-war Germany. cow, does nothing to remove; sus-- He very realistically pointed picion. The reluctances concern- out that Germany must haveing association the friendship either of Russia or which the Premier sought to at- Britain. And he clearly indicat-tribute to Rumania and Poland ed his own preference: "If one appear to have been lying much. wanted land and soil in Europe, closer home. The implications, then by and large this could only nevertheless, are so clear as to be have been done at Russia's
too clear to be accepted at their pense.". The Treaty of Brest-face value. For the present, we Litovsk in 1917 which brought all prefer to believe that whatever the eastern areas, including the the Prime Minister's motives, Ukraine, into the Reich, has been there will be no Berchtesgaden, taken as an object lesson in. Ger Godesburg or Munich this time. man ideas along this line, and the seizure of Czecho-Slovakia makes Europe believe the land policy is on the march.
ex-
But consider Herr Hitler's con- dition:
For such a policy, however, there was only one single ally in Europe: England. With England alone, one's back being covered, could one begin
the new Germanic invasion.
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It is an interesting speculation: whether the recent history of Eastern Europe might have been written differently" had certain Englishmen been more ambitious Has that indispensable condi- --or less prudent. No fewer than tion changed to-day? Is Italy a three Britons-the late Lord substitute for England? Or has Headley, Sir Charles Watkin. England, like France, been so im-Hamilton, and the first Lord In- mobilised that her tolerance of a chcape-were offered the throne drive to the east is no longer of Albania, and it was rumoured necessary. The author of "Mein some years ago that a good many Kampf" believed that to obtain Hungarians were prepared to British friendship Germany would nominate Lord Rothermereas [have had to, “renounce colonies their sovereign.
and sea power" and "spare Brit- The first Marquis of Milford ish industry our competition," Haven, when still Prince Louis of but single-mindedly he would Battenberg, was officially offered have made the sacrifice believ- the crown of Bulgaria, and be- ing that the acquisition of new fore Prince George of Denmark soll in Europe proper" was the accepted the throne of Greece only sound policy for Germany. Gladstone was informed that it sathers are many indications could be his "for the lifting of that the naval treaty with an eyebrow.