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this subject be forgotten, but we are having a demonstration of the fact that it cannot and will not be forgot- ten-either in Poland or in Czecho- slovakia.
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In Poland the Germans and the Russians may remove the danger of trouble between themselves by changing nationals, but that is only a small portion of the bitter minority problem.-"Manila Bulletin."
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This renewed activity recalls that Reichsfuhrer Hitler, when he was writing "Mein Kampf," declared Rus- sia could be no suitable ally for Ger- many and adduced these reasons:
war
Considered purely militarily, in the event of a German-Russian against Western Europe, which would probably, however, mean against the entire rest of the world, the relations would be simply catastrophic. The struggle would proceed not on Russian but on German soil, without Germany being able to get from Russia even the slightest effective sup- port. Situations are
Mr. Lloyd George has reaffirmed his view that to accept Hitler's terms on this point would disgrace us. Sur- render, he said, would "cover Britain and her Empire with dishonour and drench them with the contempt the world." How then does he propose to bridge the gulf between what Hitler demands and what he himself thinks tolerable? The second. question con- cerns Mr. Lloyd George's idea of a
HUGGING THE BEAR conference. He says "there is still So many of the forecasts made by time to revive Russia's February pro- Adolf Hitler in his early writings ject of a conference of the five Pow- have come to pass that it is interest- ers, with the addition of the United ing to consult his estimate then of States." It is difficult to understand to developments which are taking place what precisely Mr. Lloyd George here now. One such event is the announce- refers. In March of this year, in re- ment that Berlin will tighten its ties ply to overtures from us, Russia pro-
with Russia as one answer to the posed a conference. But it was to be Anglo-French-Turkish pact. a conference to consider means of resisting German aggression. The Powers to take part in it were to be Turkey, Rumania, Poland, France, Great Britain, and Russia. That was a most sensible proposal, and its re-
ish, but Mr. Lloyd George contem- plates a very different conference, a conference not to organise resistance to Germany but a conference to make peace and to resettle Europe. This conference is to consist of five Great Powers, one of them Germany her- self, with the addition of the United States. Hitler would attend the con- ference with immense power at his back; he would have not only his armed machine but all the prestige of his character for unscrupulous vio- lence and daring. What a field for bargains and intri- gues! Would that 'conference last? Would it break down because these Great Powers could not reconcile their several ambitions? Would the United States find itself able either to en- ter such a confer- ence at all or to persevere in it and use its power with effect? When the handled Europe in handed Europe in 1815 they nearly animal or vegetable oils and fats came to blows among themselves have fallen off in the last On one occasion Great Britain and five years to less than a fourth Austra made a secret alliance with of what they were. It may be France, the defeated enemy, in order that these and some other imports can to overrule Russia and Prussia. How be increased, but a great deal will de- could the rest of Europe be expected pend upon what the Soviet Union to put its liberties into the hands of wishes to give up. With its own huge such a conference? "Manchester mechanised army in motion, it ob- Guardian."
viously will not have a great sur- plus of gasoline and lubricants.
THE ANSWER
During the Napoleonic War the Allies were careful to draw a dis- tinction between France and Bonapartism. When the war end- ed with the fall of Bonaparte they were therefore able to offer Yat generous terms to France. throughout that war Bonaparte was just as strongly supported by the French as Hitler is to-day by the Germans.
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This surely Is an answer those people who are so eager to prove to us that we are fighting not only Nazism (1.e., a curable neurotic Infection), but the (pre- sumably incurable) German people. Rather than carry on the war in that frame of mind It would be better to end it at once, seeing that all our sacrifices will be useless.—Gerald Brenan.
MINORITIES
If the German and Russian govern- ments had the confidence in each other that they ought to have as allies there should be no reason for the clearing out of the nationals of each from the territory of the other. If they both had removed their nationals from Po- land there would have been no occa- sion for the war.
somewhat changed now. The Reichs- fuhrer's Westwall makes him pos- sibly less concern- ed about what may happen to the Industrial heart of Germany. But the opinion of outside experts tends to confirm his doubts in the economic sphere.
A tabulation by the United States Department of Commerce shows that German im- ports from Russia of such critically needed commodi- ties as petroleum products and
And can the German Reich expect military aid from its new friend on the north when Comrade Stalin is em- ploying his army on his own missions?
"Christian Science Monitor."
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THREE QUESTIONS Whether Germany wins this war de- pends upon three unanswered ques-
tions:
1. The capacity of the German air force to destroy the British fleet or merchant marine.
2. The capacity of Germany to or- ganise enough raw materials in Cen- tral Europe and Russia to escape the effects of the British blockade.
Exactly what is going on in Czecho- slovakia cannot be determined because of the close limits on news allowed out, but it is apparent that the situa- tion is serious. The trouble results from friction between two sets of na- tionals, those of the occupying power
3. The respective nerves of the and those of the country occupied. Allies versus the Germans. If Allied The trouble here concerns the same morale can stand up longer than Ger- point which the German and Russian man morale, Britain and France have authorities had in mlad in planning a good chance of winning. But even if the exchange of nationals in Poland. they succeed in their object to over- But there is one essential difference- throw Hitlerism, there is a danger there is no place to which to transfer that Germany will turn to Commun- the ones of which Germany would ism as the alternative. have to rid herself to have smooth Although Hitler rose to power on. sailing in the exercise of control, no an anti-Communist platform, his place to dump the millions of Czechs diplomacy has brought the Russian who are ready to take advantage of danger to the heart of Europe much the first opportunity to reassert their closer than ever before. One of the rights.
questions of the future is whether the Before Czechoslovakia was taken German middle class, taking the Com- over we heard, much about the rights munism danger seriously, will over- of the German minorities. Now the throw Hitler before the war lasts very, Nazi authorities would prefer that long."Washington Post,”