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Poland is to be crushed in four weeks, he will for an indefinite period Exactly how far German militarists be short of meat, short of clothes, were responsible for the last war is a without any soap, and that is the best question still debated by historians, which the regime can promise him. be ex- About this war there can be no dis- What the performance may

has already sug- pute. What need to employ the pro- perience in peace

The voice of an heir con-- pagandists, of whom the Nazis com- gested.

the ruler's plain, when German leaders, as ex fident of the triumph of emplified in another part of Field- policy is not heard in Field-Marshal Marshal Goering's speech, are at such Goering's protestations "We shall de- pains to convict themselves of the fend our frontiers, we shall not at- most brutal and cynical disregard of tack," "we have never harmed British every right save that conferred by interests." Most revealing of all are might? Nothing is more illuminat- the nervous sentences offering peace ing than the continual references of to Britain, but "peace at the price of Hitler and Goering to the smallness of our Fuehrer is not to be thought of." neighbouring States, as if that in itself It is clear that the British challenge Someone has were enough to invalidate their rights. has been disturbing.

it, and thinking Cet animal est tres mechant: quand been thinking over

Germany on l'attaque, il se defend.

dangerously. Someone in

If the consequences were not so has remembered that "the last battle appalling for the victims, and so full Britain always wins."

ONCE BEFORE

of menace for those whose turn has Telegraph." not yet come, there would be some- thing irresistibly comic in Goering's rage against a "little State," a "com- mon State," which has dared to de- fend itself against the cruellest ag- gression. One can imagine the polish- ge's "War Memoirs":--

Voltaire would

"Daily

It is interesting to reprint the fol- lowing passage from Mr. Lloyd Geor

A notorious memorandum

ATTRITION?

Perhaps we shall see develop. ing another war of attrition," though this time it may be one designed to break down moral and to exhaust the economic rather than the human resources of Germany. Should Germany eventually attempt offerisive operations in the West and vlo- late neutral territory, then, of course, the character of the war might change. Maj. Gen. Tem- perley.

written

ed irony with which

by Colonel von have dealt with his

Haeften on June 3, thesis that Hitler

1918, which is the friend of

Ludendorff for- peace, the mildest mannered

warded to the Im- tyrant

perial Chancellor who ever scuttled

with the strongest unoffending States.

possible recom- We shot an unfor-

mendation.' ad- tunate admiral,

vocated a Peace said Voltaire, to

Offensive-not as a encourage the

sincere effort to others. Whethed Byng's colleagues

secure peace, but to delude the enemies were in fact

of Germany into encouraged is

thinking she was uncertain; but that

ready-to-make the experience of

and

now peace. This, it was suggested, would Austria, Czecho-Slovakia Poland has ́encouraged the will to rally pacifist sentiment, make war more vocal, and rouse resist in other States is beyond doubt. weariness In the last war the issues were suf- opinion in Britain against the Govern- ficiently obscure to divide the sym- ment-especially to the point of dis- world. placing its Prime Minister whom von- pathies of Europe and the Now there is not a small State in Haeften honoured by regarding him Europe, or out of it, which does not as the main obstacle in the path of a see the issues clearly, which does not peace that would fulfil the ambitions militarists. And realise that a triumph for Nazism of the Prussian would be the beginning of a mon- strous regime of "over-men" with all other races as "sub-men" permitted to feed and clothe their masters. the logic of events were not con- vincing enough, there is the evidence of Herr Hitler himself, set out for all to read in "Mein Kampf." shire Post.”

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'when the English front breaks down, we should have to expect the moral collapse of France and Italy also. Ger- many would be left victorious, able to impose her terms.

The answer of the Allies to the peace feelers of 1918 was best express- ed in the words of President Wilson, whose indictment of the Gov- ernments of 'the Central Em- pires applies with equal force to-day to the Reich. It is probable that when Mr. Chamberlain comes to reply to Herr Hitler, it will be along similar lines to that adopted by the

American President:-

sustain the struggle to the overthrow of Nazism and the liberation of Europe. The certainty that however We are all agreed that there can be long the task may take it will be ac- no peace obtained by any kind of complished, ringing across the Con- bargain or compromise with the Gov- Pair tinent and round the world, hearten- ernments of the Central Empires, be- ing to all free nations, will hardly be cause we have dealt with them already kept by the worst brutality of the and have seen them deal with other Gestapo from the knowledge of the Governments that were parties to this German people. Through the: bom-, struggle, at Brest-Litovsk and at bast of Field Marshal Goering's Bucharest. They have convinced us speech, its strange amalgam of brag that they are without honour, and do and whing may be read doubt, dis- not intend justice. They observe no traction and fear. Whatever Herr covenants, accept no principle but Hitler's monomaniac faith in his star, force and their own interest. his heir apparent has clearly, become cannot come to terms with them. uncomfortable about it. Field-Mar-. They have made it impossible. The shal Goering is unable to conceal his German people, must by, this time be qualma about the enterprise into fully aware that we cannot accept the which

hrer has plunged. It word of those who forced this war the German, man upon us. We do not think the same however dulled by pro- thoughts, or speak the same language

be learns that though

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