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RIDDLES OF
March 7 1941.
What Will Happen To EUROPE'S
1941 NEUTRALS?
-Fifth Article-
W
By W. N. EWER
HAT has this year in store for Europe's remaining neutrals-for Spain and Portugal, for Sweden, for Switzerland, for the anxious countries of the South-East?
Will Hitler try in 1941 to overrun them, as he did so many of their fellows in 19407 Sooner or later he must subdue them if he is to achieve the purpose for which he went to war in 1939.
That purpose was the setting up of the "new order," the reorganisation of all Eu- rope under German control.
Of all Europe. This new order is totali- tarian. It wants all. Nor indeed could there be for long a Continent half-free and half-Nazi ruled."
Were the Germans to win, these still in- dependent fragments of Europe would vanish overnight: they would be forced into
"gleichgeschaltet."
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GERMAN STRENGTH
ONE of the most invidious
lies which has been foisted on
AFRIC
GERMANY
IEPAND
Sweden, a tough Switzerland as well; of marching Into a Spain which may be "Fascist," but which would certainly resent, and probably resist, invasion. Even the much-talked-of occupa- tion of "Vichy. France" is no tempting job.
In war one never knows. Strategic needs change and compel new actions. An Italian collapse might force Hitler to push his own armies to the Mediterranean.
But failing some over-riding x need, I think that these neutrals of Europe can count on reprieve.
He may be forced to go to Marseilles and Toulon, whatever the consequences. He may be forced into the dungerous ven- ture of an invasion of the Bal- kans.
Beyond question, he would rather avoid doing either. Each would mean new effort, new liability, new expenditure of They are to be slaves. That is inferior, very inferior, to Teu man-power and of resources he For beyond doubt this clear enough from the policy tons; but at the same time not wants to conserve.
followed in German-occupied so inferior that they
can be idea of organising the whole Poland.
turned like Slavs into serfs un- To invade Vichy Franco would der German tusk masters. be to risk the rullying of all the of Europe under his own leadership is Hitler's pas- way as an inferior people, a race
French Empire to the side of They cannot be absorbed; they the Allies. To invade the Bul sionate preoccupation. It is of helots, whose mission is to be cannot be enslaved. So Hitler kans would be to strain near for them a different breaking-point his friendship the next step to that final hewers of wood and drawers of proposes goal which Dr Frank, the water for their masters the status. They must acknowledge with Soviet Russin. Nazi Governor of Poland, makes that plain.
Germans. Edict after edict his overlordship and the pre-
declared the other day:
The Poles are treated in every
*
dominance of the Reich in Hitler's Policy
Europe.
"To master the world as The Pole is ousted from the
He would vastly prefer, if it They must accept his guidance can be done, to avoid the use Germans. Adolf Hitler is land to make room for German called upon to be the leader settlers. lle can work for them, in their foreign relations; their of force, to achieve his purpose or go on gang labour into the armed forces must be at his dis- by a mixture of threats, cajol- of the world."
posal
European ery and internal intrigue. supreme Reich, For that he has first to
war-lord. Their economic sys- the world is that of German make himself leader of all
But he must wear a distinc- tems must conform with Ger-
That is his French policy at invincibility. That this lie has Europe. But that is no easy wage and a lower ration than political systems must be totali- Balkan policy. It has already tive badge. He draws a lower many's economic needs. Their the moment. It is also his tended to paralyse self-defensive job.
the German. He must not mix tarian, and supervised by the been successful in Hungary and
in Rumania. measures by the smaller. Last summer he thought socially with the conquerors; Gestapo.
Now he tries it on Bulgariu countries is shown by the unit was practically done. His German farmers have been
severely punished for letting But if they accept that, then happy way in which nation after armies had swept from the their Polish workers feed with they can run their own affairs in and Jugoslavia. But in changed
circumstances. Hungary nation has succumbed to Ger-Vistula to the Pyrenees, Po- them.
their own way, with some mea Rumania joined, the New Order sure of independence. They before the days of the Greek re- man threats, whereas unified land, Denmark, Norway, It is decreed that as quickly can be second-class members of action could long ago have Holland, Belgium, two- as possible all Polish skilled the new European order, subsistance, before the days of the
thirds of France were in his workers shall be replaced by ordinate
North African campaign. to broken this legend of super-
Germany, bul hands.
Germans and degraded to un- neither absorbed nor directly strength.
skilled jobs.
ruled by her. Executive posts-from mana-
The tradition of invincibility has been carefully built up since the last war. In fact, the defeat of the German Army in the field in 1918 has always been denied by the German authorities, for the purpose not only of re- instating the German people in their own estimation na super- men, but also to persuade other
Last Summer....
Hands Full
and
Jugoslavia and Bulgaria are being stiffer than their north- ern neighbours. The pressure on them will doubtless increase. Can they still resist success-
Italy was an obedient ally ger to foreman-professional ce- Vichy France was to be supations, mercantile occupa- made so by Laval Spain the master-race. The Pole is to which Hitler has already forced
This is the "collaboration" fully? tions, are all to be reserved for
Suppose they stand up to out of mingled fear and be denied all but the rudiments upon Mussolini, which he is try diplomatic and economic pres- gratitude would take her of education,
ing to force upon Petain, which gure. Will Hitler order his he would like to force upon armies to march on Belgrade
and Sofia?
allotted place. The Balkans That is the new order in the Franco. could be overrun with ease. East. It is different in the Sweden, Switzerland, Portu- North and West. Here Nazi It all looks as simple as a gal must come to heel. theory, squaring with ordinary blue-print. It is all proving so He will certainly hesitate.
and Norwegians and Establishing the "new order" is
Given everything. I doubt it. He
German It all looked so splendidly Danes prejudice, regards terribly difficult in practice, has already hesitated.
as
lies. The puzzle is how to make them do it. For (apart from
:
nations that Germany is un-simple and so nearly finish- Dutch and Flemings as of Ger- for Hitler now not so much a It may be that the strategic conquerable and predestined to ed. But here is 1941; and manic stocks, as near-Germans.: plan as a brain-racking puzzle, situation will so change that he rule the world. This claim of the job is still to be done.
cannot help himself: that the invincibility has not been sub-
Hitler's policy therefore was, The plan was that the Euro- need for a new advance will be- stantinted, and investigation of Not only does quite a lot of and still is, not to make them pean peoples should co-operate come irresistible. the facts goes to prove the Europe, remain ungrasped, into slaves, but to make them with the Germans either contrary.
but even in the occupied into Germans, and into Nazis. slaves or as partners or as Al-
It All Depends The Germans not only suffer- countries the work of or- ed a series of heavy reverses In
Persuasion
The neutrals owe much to the the last war during the final ganisation goes ill.
tiny "Quisling" groups here steady courage of millions of un- "Battle of the Hundred Days." Just what are the Nazis If these peoples would drop and there) they just decline to known men and women in the but a quarter of the German out to achieve in these coun- their "antiquated" notions about do anything of the kind.
occupied lands, who have al- army was captured the official tries they have already con- national and personal freedom, Poles and Czechs resist stub- ready taught the Germans that... figure for 63 days during the quered and in those they if they would accept Hitler as day the newspapers of the in quer a people.
if they would adopt Nazi ideas, bornly and steadily. Day after to break an army is not to con- 140,476 prisonera-not to men- hope to conquer?.
supreme overlord of all the Gor: vader report executions, impri- As to their final fato-welf tion quantities of guns and Judging by performance, manic peoples, then they would sonments, deportations. The that, like so much else in the material. They were forced to they have not one policy but be treated as race-brothers, as que for peace in order to avoid three.. One for the East, for equal partners, as members of Bet it to meant to intimidate world to-day, depends upon our complete collapse. As General the Slavonic peoples; one Mordacq stated when writing an account of those days and of the for the "Nordics" of Scan- revolution which followed the dinavia and the Low Coun-
last months of the war was
German defeat:
more
- and yet more
.. Numerous other instances are
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[Editor's Note:-Mr Ewer's article was written early Jast month. Bulgaria has since fal- len to Azis pressure, and Ger- man troops have overrun the country German demands that Yugoslavia should adhere to the Axis are also reported to have been made.]
tells that resistance goes war. Their freedom depends upon our victory; and, even when fear or caution compels has been less brutal than in the Norwegians carry on the same
In the West the Dutch and the them to speak otherwise, they these countries German policy Belgians, the Danes and the know that very well. this tries; one for the "Latins” East. Necessity and greed. dagger thrust was no longer of the West and South.
quiet struggle. have driven the Germans to necessary, because the Allies had
plunder. But apart from that The German authorities are already administered it and that
and baffled. These the policy has been one of steady worried straight to the heart."
effort to persuade the conquer equntries which were so easy to In this new Europe the fate ed to co-operate with the con- swallow are proving 50 unex- recorded in which German of the Slavs is quite simple. querors.
pectedly hard to digest. officers and statesmen acknow- ledged defeat, but almost in is largely responsible for their Hence Quisling in Norway And now occupied France, variably these frank confessions fanatical desire to make thom- and Mussert in Holland. Hence recovering from the first shock, were made immediately or soon
selves rulers of the western, the Danish Governmental begins to present still further ofter
for the "occuping the termination of world to-day,
lowed to carry on, with a Social problems
The Gestapo has its hostilities before the doctrine of Japan's statesmen appear to Democrat as Prime Minister, Power." invincibility had again been have swallowed this theory provided that it is respectful and work cut out for it from War-
saw to Bordeaux. built up. This point might be whole-heartedly and are rattling gives no trouble.. considered Irrelevant today,
Nazidom, which wants to en- That, I think, is one reason were it not for the fact that but anner thought must sense slave the Slavs, wants to absorb why the Germans still delay to owing to the negligence of the that there is a "nigger in the the "Nordics."
push their conquests farther. Allies to deny this untruth and wood-pile" and that by im-
They have enough on their hands to give the world the netuni molating the country on the For the South, for France, already. facts, the Germans were able to altar to Nazlism, the prosperity, for Italy, for Spain, for Portu- build up a tradition of invinel-recurity and progress of Japan gal, there is still another plan. They do not relish the pros- bility and race superiority which are being gravely endangered. These "Latins" are, of course, pect of having to subdue a tough'
the sword vigorously as a result;
TO-MORROW
WHAT ARE STALIN'S PLANS ?
By Professor Harold Laski