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ENCIRCLEMENT?

but the case seems rather to be that real encirclement. of the Rome-Berlin Powers cannot be said to have begun until the threat of their policies to the in- dependence of other nations has been removed.

this the

If the democracies win "peace," as Germany won "peace of Munich," they will have to press quickly against common enemies of all nations. Political distrust and economic dislocation must be corrected be- fore these again disrupt the work of true appeasement. To win this peace, nations must win one an- other's confidence-on the one hand, confidence in the desire of each to reach fair adjustments by peaceful methods; on the other, confidence in the deter- mination of all to base peace on justice for small and large alike.

Gibraltar

*

Diplomatic currency is rarely tish history, from a non-British An exasperating aspect of Bri- to be accepted at face value.point of view, is the indistinct re- Nevertheless, denial of British lation in it between cause intention to encircle Germany effect.

and! such as has been made by the leader, for example, aspire to a How could any military Prime Minister and Lord Hali-victory over fax-deserves to be taken ser-Waterloo, when the battle ever the British, as at iously.

The alliance forming under been won on the playing fields of before it commenced had already Anglo-French sponsorship is ob- Eton? This reputedly was Wel- viously a defensive one. It cannot lington's explanation of his fairly be termed interference by triumph. those countries in the natural re- lations of Germany with eastern has loomed

Recently another illustration like Gibraltar over Europe. It does not force An-an uncertain sea of events. In glo-French protection on smaller fact, it is Gibraltar. Britain European States. It offers this has been strengthening forces on protection if, when and as asked that Pillar of Hercules because by those states. It does, of of increasing international ten- course, counter proffers of pro- sion. This makes headlines. But tection from quarters which ac-when Gibraltar was added to the company these proffers with veil-symbols of British might, it is ed ultimatums.

safe to say that few, if any, In this light, charges of "en-people in Britain were thinking circlement" call for discriminat- about it. ing attention. They have a kind It happened in the War of the of effectiveness which is impor- Spanish Succession. Britain tant outside. as well as inside appears

to have been less Germany. If the German people interested in acquiring territory can be convinced that they are at the moment than in support being encircled, throttled up, the ing an Austrian claimant to the post-Versailles bitterness on Spanish throne against a French which in part the German people claimant. Balance of power was were unified, can be re-exploited on the British mind. But in the to help prepare them for the risk thought of the commander of the of another war...

British fleet in Spanish waters But such a programme of per-was the fact that the Spanish: suasion inside Germany might mainland presented too much still be of less importance than risk to the implications of German be-since he did not wish to return. an attacker, and that, lief in encirclement can be in to England, without doing some- those smaller states which bor-thing first, he had better have a der Germany. For the leaders of try at Gibraltar. these countries must estimate

Unprepared for the attack, not only German power as they the Spanish lost "the Rock" in. weigh the question of joining the 1704. Afterward, both countries defensive bloc; they must also fought for it, and also offered: gauge the pressure of German terms for its return: Britain re- desperation.

fused a cash offer from Spain;

A Germany convinced of encir- Spain refused British offers to clement might be a more danger-exchange it for Florida and lat ous neighbour than a Germany er for Minorca. Gibraltar is still intent on expansion-because as British. German leaders have remarked

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Whether or not it has lost the past when expansionist much of its military importance steps were delayed, it is possi- is a question even strategists do ble to be patient while obstacles not attempt to answer. are removed. But if a process velopment of long-range guns, of The de- of encirclement is under way a submarines, of airplanes has mo- nation obviously may feel it nedified Gibraltar's impregnability, cessary to strike in time to pre-But to what extent no one can vent its completion.

Whether or not smaller

with the German

mukt figure hat Germa

say, short of trial. Whether the tes trial comes will depend rather on -the strength of British policy ps-than on the strength of Gibral-

ay tar itself.