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for a five days' visit. Commanded by Admiral Admiral Graf Spee," a cruiser, six submarines, a tan- Photo shows crowds ashore watching the berthing amidships.
Y ETIENNE Į, FORMER MINISTER
a
Crisis STYLE and COMFORT!
government. Under a democra- tic and parliamentary regime, Germany acted in exactly the same way as the totalitarian Germany of the Fuehrer, and the views held by Stresse- mann with regard to the unila- teral repudiation were just the same as those of Hitler.
It
there were a new world war,
in which Germany would doubtless be defeated, the Ger- man people would probably be- come communist. A communist nation of 80 million souls. But the communist regime, if one goes by the Russian example, excludes neither armies nor arms. And an imperialism bas- ed upon the victory of universal revolution would easily be sub- stituted for that of the national socialists, which has succeeded that of William II and Frederick II and the emperors of the Holy German Empire.
But a people cannot be des- troyed, and the present problem is not that of the potential co- existence of the totalitarian re- gimes, with those of the demo- cratic Powers, but that of the relations between Germany and the other States and, more generally, of the predatory peo- ples with the others.
be reconstituted? Is there a de- finite or indefinite idea of gra- dually reorganising league between the nations who would be disposed to consent to com- plete mutual assistance to guar- antee their collective security? Has it finally been understood that the contemporary struc- ture of international life im- plies, more than ever economic solidarity in addition to politi- cal agreement? And, if break to this end. The extraordin-
n of method is one that has a definite sense. speaks of the en- Germany, he errs There is, in pt of this kind, directed against aggression. A as so difficult to hd which
But I raise them, in view of achieved on the the fact that the peoples may once more be committed-to-in- of ternational war without the ob-
would
blem that is to maintenance
ing with the past, it is propos- ed to institute a new interna tional order, what will it be? I raise these questions without presuming to answer them.
cannot be If this problem solved otherwise than by war every twenty years, it is pos- sible to predict with certainty that it will mean the end of the present era of civilisation. But could not another solution found if the substance of problem were examined?
be the
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ary military efforts accomplish- ed by Great Britain and France have dispelled the inferiority of their position at the moment of the Munich Conference. Poland, with her effective military back- ing, has changed camps
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The
on a footing of equality. deeplying desire for peace is proved by the fact that, in Ger- many and Italy, the propaganda departments try to convince the peoples that their existence is menaced by the democracies,
while the British and French peoples remain convinced that their independence and liberty ND I wish, finally, to draw are threatened by the totalitar-
cement as to sub- A the attention of readers to ians. Thus, once again in his-
s it admitted that ins of the Treaty is henceforth in- t to be said that
a few fundamental facts.
Certain nations, like individ- uals, wish instinctively to dom- inate. This is a fundamental reflex in some nations, what-
destroyed should ever the political system of
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tory, the peoples would be led to imagine that, on each side, they are fighting for peace.
Further, no one denies that Europe cannot live in the pre- sent state of economic and poli- tical geography, and that by arms or by negotiations, a new statute must be created to put an end to the armaments race and economic war,
the present crisis continues, Revolution will come. The democratic Powers, formerly weakened by the revolutionary parties, have regained their force, This force must hence- forth be utilised for the great and indispensable effort to re construct Europe and the world on a pacific basis. The greater their love, of freedom, the more they must seek to avoid war; for war has always been the. negation of freedom.
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