THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 24, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
HITLER'S LAST THROW
Hitler is making a de- termined attempt to re- gain the initiative in this war. He held it until last autumn but lost it when his air attacks failed to clear the way for his in- vasion of Britain. He tried to regain it by using Laval to hand over to him the French fleet and French| bases in North Africa This attempt also failed when Marshal Petain dis-j missed Laval and refused) to go beyond the terms of the Franco-German arm- istice.
PETAIN CABINET
Zatia
DOING THE DIRTY WORK
It is significant, there- fore, that his operations' in the Balkans should be: accompanied by increas- ing pressure upon Franc?] and Spain to cooperate; more actively with the Axis. For it means that his present preoccupa- tions in the South-East of Europe do not mean, in- evitably, plans for fur- ther aggression in an eas- terly direction. They may very well mean that the and moulded within the limits of
Historical Background, To The Crisis
The anent world was created Holy Roman Empire uuder. Ger- | Otto's solemn and occasional visits
The Mediterranean Sea, which way Fuehrer has not lost sight:
at the same time the cradle of, of the main sphere of our envalisation. strategy, the only sphere in which final and cisive victory can achieved.
de-
be
Musohn wheming 112 Konie and striking against Greece and Egypt us doubt had in and the seizure of Grrere by ancient Rome
man leadership, which for
hundred
on
three to Italy to Frederick II's perman-
whereas Oth from years
theent residence in Sicily, Great in the middle of the 10th the Germans are already in Italy century fo Frederick Il in the and you know well what it means widd of the 13th century - suc-
when Germany begins to expand.
cceded | 11
itself imposing Europe. With it went two strong German elamus, namely Germany's leadership 10 Europe and
her The Na- tional Socialism of Adolf Hitler has taken up both these clams.
As yet the question re- the round century BC, and right to rule in Italy.
cam-
of Egypt in the tone of Augus- tus. The phenriena reappear al- though the eeumstances change
The subjugation of Greene an antiquated idea. for in the pre-;
Peculiar Legend
Gazed Too Long
Mussolini has gazed too long at the Classical period of Roman history and has forgotten the les- sons of the mediaeval age. The the ancient Roman Empire was work of the tree Roman Nation from century to century, just as the present-day British Empire is the work, from century to cen
mains unanswered whe ther the Balkan paign and the drive_in] Cyrenaica, now effective-
The insistence upon German ly halted, have been un-
of leadership in Europe and in the fury, of the free British Nation,
in Empires are not created dertaken by Hitler merely day world the principle
the freedom of nations and States, world generally was incorporated course activities by either is a leading concept, and the Med-¡ in the bases of National Supialism.j Black or Brown shirts, nor by
as a diversion, under-
By- Stanislaw Stronski,
Pofish Minister of Information
taken for reasons of pres-iterranean Power with its foot in tige, or whether the move, North Africa is not Italy, who to- with its potential threat day is losing all that she bad ae- to the Near East, through quired over several decades,
but Turkey, and Suez, thr-Great Britain, who for centuries. ough Egypt, is intended to has been foremost in building up; pin down British sea and a modern world Empire, air forces in Africa while
In the mediaeval he attempts to strike a creation of the State of Charle- nation of rulers has been work - decisive blow at Britain. magne, which stretched from
world
To this end the peculiar legend of the leading Nordic race and the
the
Atlantic to the Slavonic settle-! The answer to this ques-ments, was an event of great un-to-day in the countries occupied tion may depend upon the port. degree in which Hitler Adolf Hitler's National Socialism fears the increasing help has diligently fastened on to the of the Carolingian given by the United States memories
State, which it arbitarily to the British cause, and Germanic, and present-day Ger- his estimate of the time many revives these memories in justification of her claim to rule likely to elapse before that all Europe, from France to Po- aid can be put to forceful land. practical use.
He cannot wait indefin- itely; and he knows as well
cails
the
slavery and pillage, which arc the distinguishing features of the two dictators' efforts to create Ein- pires, but are created rather by the spiritual force of a free na- tion, bearing in Rself the greatest
at elasticity of civilisation
the time. So Mussolini has not, after all, resurrected the ancient Rom- an Empire, but has lived to see the mediaeval rule of Germany Italy.
Napoleon's Lesson
in
the ed up. This idea of the "Herren- volk, ordained to govern other nations, is applied by Germany
A modern phenomenon of which by her invading hordes with in- one is reminded to-day is Napo- credible arrogance, compared with leon's conquest of Europe from which the pride of the Holy Ro- Scandinavia to the Mediterranean
and from the Atlantic to the man Emperors seems moderate.
bounds of Russia. In those days In the Middle Ages German of universal autocracy oppressing nations, Napoleon brought leadership in Europe based itself all
with him an undoubted breath, of! on ruling in Italy and in Rome.
liberation. None the less, the There was in this, besides a sup- erficial attachment to the Classic idea of the autocratic rule of one Age, also an understandable ten-nation over all others was alien dency to regard the Mediterran- and intolerable to can as the key to the basis of people, world dominion. So Otto I de-
But it must be lighted in residence under Italian skies and Frederick II chose Sicily that, unlike Napoleon,
In the time of Charlemagne was born the iden of the so-called
war
millions of
remembered
Hitler
is
as his permanent place of resid- brings with him only fetters and in six ence.
famine. as President Roosevelt, to win this who justly chides those months-or accept defeat.
This recurring feature in Ger- į If this edifice of slavery begins who swing from the pin- It is our hope that, what man history is now being repeat- to crack, the entire system of sla- come oured once more in Adolf Hitler's very will collapse. Another great nacles of hope to the ever reverses
struggle for German leadership lesson of the Napoleonic era depths of despair on the way, and we must expect and German rule in Europe, even that in those days Great Britain, basis of day to day de-them, we can withstand more clearly and effectively than entirely alone, outlasted the auto- velopments, that his time successfully whatever he in the time of the medieval Holy cratic rule of Europe, and lived to
Rothan Empire. The German Reich see her cause-victorious. is running short. He may do. And then, by is now laying hands on Italy. Sho
Towards that victory she very friendly A knows, as Mr. Churchill swinging the initiative, to is doing so
way. But Olto also entered Italy moving again to-day with power- will upon us a friend and defender. How-ful strides, with the mighty im- knows, that he is engaged impose our
force wings, the to-day on the preliminary him as we imposed it up- ever, to-day it is all happening pulse of sea billows, the mighty
at a much faster tempo; fór in any, beat of her air phases of a gigantic effort on Mussolini in Africa.
case some 250 yours passed from mighty spirit of the nation.
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