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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1988.

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MONDAY, MAY 8, 1938.

ANSCHLUSS WAS INEVITABLE

SPAIN Madrid

Government

SPAINE

GREAT BRITAIN

London

Berlin

GERMANY

Paris

FRANCE

“ÖWITZERLAND

ALGERIA

AATHVANIA

Warraw

POLAND

ĮSLOVAKIA:

U.S.S.R.

HUNGARY

RUMANIA

ITALY

YUGOSLAVIA

BULGARIA

Rome

The Prime Minister recently said: "Mr. Attloe has assumed that the success of General Franco would mean the handing over of Spain to what he calls the Fascist Powers group.

This Government has never taken that view." A glance at this map should convince him of the vital strategic importance of Spain and of the fact that if it becomes a vasual of Berlin and Rome the British and French General Staffs would start any war gravely handicapped.

0000

The Map And Its Meaning

France.

for our

that

of

By a Military Observer

There was no part of the Treaty of Versailles more HE truc position in necessary to our own. patently unjust than the provi-

Europe is becoming safely depends on sions it made for the independ- clear even to people

The problem has been intensi- assistance of the German and main. Even if the two Fascist: [ence' of Austria. Only the day who have studied the map ed by Germany's dramatic Italian Governments, is to give Powers were thus provoked to-

after the Armistice came into only cursorily.

absorption of Austria. The Ger- his masterful allies a dangerous the point of war we should have effect, A Austrian National Those who have watched the man Army is now on the Bren- domination in the Mediterranean a markedly favourable defensive Assembly unanimously declared march of events with closer at. ner. In the military sense, by securing for them the entire position-much more favourable Rome, without whose action eastern seaboard of Spain. than any conceivable strategic Austria could not have been

On this account there is only position after the Fascist saved, has acquiesced in this powerful move. The Berlin- one wise course of action for quest of Spain.

one axis has been welded into the British and French Govern-

blem.

a military fact.

mente.

Without any more delay than is technically necessary, they should see that the Government

con-

INDEED, in discussing contingent war risks,

the country to be an integral [tention already realise that part of the newly-born German Great Britain and France are Republic. By all the rules of faced with what is in essence self-determination laid down by not a political but a military pro- President Wilson, the wish of the

France, at all events, is in no Austrian people should have been doubt about this definition. She

Czecho-Slovakia, Tarther away satisfied. But the victors were has once more given emphatic than ever from France, has,now more intent on crushing Ger-assurances to Czecho-Slovakia, another frontier to defend.

of Spain is suppield with all the it is well to bear in mind that in many than on doing justice, and committing herself in the mili-

Meanwhile, the approach to a material resources they require no merely fanciful sense a Great We defend

War has already- begun. that military solution of what is in to prevent a Fascist victory. country's integrity. She realises essence a military situation must that her own military security be made, if it is to be made at all, decide wholeheartedly on

If France and Britain were to are, in fact, witnessing its first

phases. this

a strong and independent Czecho- or no time to lose.

outrun the competition of Ger- Spain were held in the early days of

all represent 1 new Slovakia in order to prevent 1921 in different parts of the Germany from concentrating her

Franco, at this moment, is many and Italy, since these technique of war by which the Axis Powers are manoeuvring country overwhelmingly demand-military directives in the West nearer victory than he has been Powera would be reduced to

since his advance on Madrid in an inferior strategic position for key positions before they ing the Anschluss, and the without cause for anxiety in the early days of the war; and through the necessity imposed deliver the hoped-for decisive Austrian Parliament decided un-Central Europe.

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The movement of 1921, however,

Rense to

makes essential the survival of through Spain. There is little course they could manifestly Manchuria and Abyssinia and

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stroke.

if he now achieves victory mili- upon them of locking up a great of men and tary experts know that Great accumulation

theatre of war Britain and France, faced with material in a

There is nothing mysterious IF the survival of Czecho the prospect of war with Ger- which the British and

French or even unusual in this purely moment military procedure. It is des- was suppressed by the joint to French security it is equally many and Italy, would be placed navies could at

at an incalculable disadvantage. isolate.

cribed and analysed in many efforts of Britain, France and

Help by Britain and France text books; and is A theory Italy.

on the scale indicated would which Great Britain herself, in

Slovakia is necessary.

Schuschnigg had only a small

any

WHAT Franco is now mean running a genuine war times past, applied with great

In 1931 the German and Aus-minority of Austrians behind it.

trying to do, with risk; but a risk certainly less success in Europe. trian Chancellors proposed at It relied on Italian bayonets, and the greatly increased material than any other that would least a Customs Union between when, thanks to the enfeeble-

their countries. The Permanentment of his country by his ad-

Court of International Justice ventures in Abyssinia and Spain, GRIN AND BEAR IT

decided by a majority of one, for Signor Mussolini was no longer purely political reasons, that able to resist the wishes of the such a union would be a violation infinitely stronger partner in of Versailles. It may be record-[the Berlin-Rome axis, the bubble led to the credit of the English has burst.

and American judges that they The 1935 Stresa "Indepen- voted with the minority. Francedence of Austria" proved the insisted on the dismissal of the hollow mockery it always was. Austrian Chancellor, and Dr. And yet a genuinely independent Brunig, the German Chancellor, and valuable Austria has been

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failure as to prepare the way for Who can forcase the ultimate his own and the Republic's down consequences? fall-and the rise of National Socialism in Germany.

Its sources are traceable in one

of the clearest morals history "The in- For the few years since, until has over revealed. quite lately, Austria has been justice of Versailles," writes entirely under the thumb of Arthur Davies, the League of Italy. The working-class Social Nations expert, has wrought of ist movement of Vienna was itself its own revenge. May one sternly put down by machine-still retain a desperate hope that gun fire-and the Nazis aupthere may yet riso again 'the out of the ashes of Versailles:

preased in every possible way. ono good thing the War pro- The Fasclat Government of the duced, the League of Nations, late Dr. Dollfuss and Dr. with its insistence on Law?

re-

By Lichty the exponents of the strategy to

"Hummin love with her, aren't you?”

It is relatively cheap in blood and treasure because it cunbles

diapose of smail potential enemies one by one with little or no hindrance from the chief potential enemy.

~

WHAT British states-

men should bear in mind is that the Fascist Powers are now within measurable reach of objectives which they hope to secure without any large- scale battle.

Nothing has yet been done to give them pause, and only a short breathing space remains.

Armaments in such a situation as this do not belong to the field of strategy; and no armament | programme, howover Impressive in itself, can altor such a situa- tion as that towards which Gor- many and Italy are now propelling Europe. Armaments without strategy' cannot. win Д war." History has already made it clear that, of themselves, they can never prevent a war elthor.