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BLITZPOLITIK'S WORLD MAP SURVEY
THE REDRAFTING of the world map by "the dynamic have-nots” undertaken in the midst of a war against "the static, saturated and senile world plutocracies".. such is the acknowledged aim of the tripartite pact of the Reich, Italy and Japan, signed in Berlin, reports the "New York Times.” The technique of the pact's conclusion was itself a striking example of the new; totalitarian Blitz-" politik worthy diplomatic corollary of the mili tary Blitzkrieg which once before startled the world by the conclusion of the Hitler-Stalin pact of August, 1939.
One of Hollywood's out- standing heavies, Brian Donlevy plays the role of the brutal Foreign Legion ser. geant, Markoff," described by his men 26. a "human hyena." in the now "Beau Geste," which will have its. local screening at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres.
Indies, derived from cccupation of the motherland, appears now pre- mature speculation.
Japanese Designs On Philippines
A similar, uncertainty prevails regarding the Philippines, but it will be a safe guess that Axis-en- ese plans in the Philippine Islands couragement for eventual Japan
will depend on the degree of German-American tension in the war.
!
Free from the traditions and inhibitions of old- pencil lines over both hemispheres, dividing. the style diplomacy, the pact's signatories boldly drew
world into four major Grossraeume, namely, Western Europe with Africa, the Soviet Union, Great East Asia and the Americas. Two of these "large spaces" - the European-African space dom- inated by the Axis powers and the Asiatic dominated by Japan are forthwith to form one bloc united by political and military alliance. This bloc of two Grossraeume faces the two remain- ing continental "spaces," the Soviet Union and the Americas, disunited geographically and politically.
The boldness of the conceptions | theoretically both Germany and of the new pact for world division Italy claim political and economic causes the German press to re-influence in this part of Europe. call the only precedent of similar It will be safe to say that the historic magnitude, when in 1494 actual influence of each country in Pope Alexander Vi drew over the south-eastern Europe will be de- globe a line
delimitating the termined by the power balance spheres of the Spanish and Portu- between them and that in present- guese colonial empires.
circumstances Berlin will have at Where asked what is the com- least the say in all matters per- mon denominator of the three out-taining to the Balkans, with the wardly so different partners in the possible exception of Greece, as new pact, Germans point to their predominantly Mediterranean "youth," high birth rates and state. density of population rather than the questionable affinity between Nazism and Fascism on the one hand and Japanese' Shintoism on the other. The term "youth," con- the Asiatics, justifying the plans The ideological slogan "Asia for
That the pact's spearhead is stantly used as a common charac-for Japan's domination of
East directed against the United States teristic of Germans, Italians and Asia, finds no parallel in a similar is undenied in Berlin despite the Japanese in public documents and formula of "Africa for the Afri-fact that America is not mention- addresses of leading statesmen, cans." Moreover, explicitly, ored in the pact's text. Nevertheless, sounds strange considering that at implicitly. Africa is considered a officially Germans acknowledge Jeast two of these peoples are mere appendage of an Axis-do-theoretically the validity of the looking back on a history of thou-minated Europe. sands of years. The answer to such secretiveness of totalitarian disert it is violated-in practice by. doubts is that the term youth must plomacy has prevented any leak the United States "intervention be interpreted spiritually s
reliable information re-in European affairs in England's age of meaning youthful aggressiveness of old peoples who have awakened Africa's division recently discuss-
garding the Berlin-Rome plans for support.
Likewise the United States' to a new life.
No "Africa For The
Africans"
The most important implica. tion of the Berlin pact în regard to the Far East is that it virtual- ly. gives Japan carte blanche in dealing with European and American Interests in that part of the globe, and the Axis pow: ers will have equally little or no means of checking or moderating Japanese Far. Eastern, policy, in regard to European, Including German and Italian interests, as Britain or France,in the present state of the world.
The air-tight Monroe Doctrine and merely as-
ed by Foreign Minister von Rib-right to the economic organisation The world's future map as re-bentrop and Premier Mussolini in of the western hemisphere is:: drafted in Berlin still leaves sonic Rome, but it is generally assumed theoretically not questioned and spots as undistributed no-man's in neutral Berlin circles that the often is even regarded as copying land among the four great politico-Italian partner will have first choi- the Reich's own Grossraum con- economic blocs, but its most signice and the main influence inceptions, but practically the Ger- ficant and most ominous feature is Northern Africa, including Egypt, man press constantly points out the disappearance of wide spaces while the Reich's aspirations are that South America economically. and small dots spread over both for a colonial empire in Central is tied up with Europe, since the hemispheres and painted in the Africa stretching from the Atlantic United States is unable to absorb colours of the British Empire. It to the Indian Ocean and embracing export surpluses: Also warnings is a timely reminder that realisa-a part of the former German co- were sounded recently in the Ger tion of the new world plan is con-lonies, the Belgian Congo and man press lest the United States [tingent on the destruction of “an
should try to góin-control of Bri- former. British territories.^. unorganic agglomerate of lands
The Soviet Union's "Leben-tain's "world monopolies" of war and territories, based on centuries sraum," which the signatories of materials; whose destruction often of conquests and depredations, the Berlin pact have undertaken has been described as the prin- completely unjustified geographi to respect in Article V, seems more cipal war aim of the totalitariun cally and economically," as the difficult to define, Finland in the States. Nazi and Fascist press usually north, and Outer Mongolia, with characterises the far-flung British the possible, addition of Chinese Empire.
Turkestan, probably, belong indis- "power
Room For Speculation putably to Russia's
While the world's division in four great blocs is clearly, stated or implied."in the pact - and the accompanying speeches of the Axis and Japanese statesmen, a more precise delimitation of their respective interest spheres-or, using the new term instead of the old - diplomatic parlance, “power spheresis lacking in the pub- Ushed documents and therefore left to the imagination and specu-i lation of neutral observers.
sphere."
NAZI WHO
LED RECENT
RAIDS
The Soviet Union's interest in the Balkans, and possibly the Straits, the Bosphorus, and the Dardanelles, is the most delicate, point in a situation characterised politically and militarily, by the The leader of the German air- fact that Moscow must now feel menzin a number of recent, raids as a reality on its Western and on, England is a veteran pilot ex- Eastern borders the pincers of tremely well known at British the German Japanese military civilian airports before the war, ́'alliance.
who has been specially selected The pact, in defending Japan's for the job owing to his know- "power sphere," uses the am- ledge of London, says the "Daily This lack of definition, whe-biguous term "Great East Asiatic Telegraph."?
When war broke out, he was ther intentional or not, is parti-space." Its ambiguity is further cularly noticeable regarding Ja-enhanced by the Japanese states-commercial pilot for the German pan's future "power sphere. No men and press using the still more airline with which Imperial Air- doubt is left that continental indefinite term "Great Aslatic ways linked up at Berlin for Europe west of the Soviet Union space." Manchoukuo, the greater and the greater part of Africa is to form the "power sphere" of the Axis powere, the Rolah and Italy, Regarding the delimitation, be- tween the Nazi Itelch and the Ita llan empire there can be little
-- Each squadron-leader has on doubt that Scandinavia, the Low hers....
one occasion almost got him, “but Countries and France are expected Japanese economic interests in both times. he got clear by what to follow Berlin's orbit, while, the the Netherlands Indies probably is described as "a really brilliant Mediterranean, with the possible also are recognised by Berlin and piece of flyingélisme f inclusion of Spain, Is, considered Rome, but whether the Reich The squadron eventually suc the Italian domain. The position tends in case of a victorious tercessful, in accounting for him will the Balkan countries ismination of the war to present to be entertained at dinner by theis, mora, ambiguous inasmuch as Japan its political, claims on the riv
of
part of China, whether at present conquered by the Japanese or not, Indo-China and Thailand (Slam); ug the only important independent state of south-eastern Asin, pro- bably belong to the Japanese sphere us seen by the Axls part
Vienna and South-Eastern Europe,
Two R.A.F. fighter squadrons. on the South-East Coast have a wager as to which shall be the first to "down" the German. As Afar as possible, they try to tacklo
him in turn.