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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1938.

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ALGERIA

The Prime Minister recently said: "Mr. Attlee 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 novor 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 vassalof Berlin and Rome the British and French General Staffs would start any war gravely handicapped.

1000

ANSCHLUSS WAS The Map And Its Meaning

INEVITABLE

There was no part of the Treaty

blem.

for

Our

HE true position in necessary to our own.

safety depends on that of Europe is becoming France. clear even to people

ments.

By a Military Observer

of Versailles more patently unjust than the provi- sions it made for the independ-

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 fied by Germany's dramatic Italian Governments, is to give Powers were thus provoked to ufter the Armistice came into only cursorily.

absorption of Austria. The Ger- his masterful ailles a dangerous the point of war we should have uffect, an Austrian National Those who have watched the man Army is now on the Bren- domination in the Mediterranean a markedly favourable defensive

In the military Assembly unanimously declared march of events with closer at- ner.

sense, by securing for them the entire position-much more favourable without whose action eastern seaboard of Spain. than any conceivable strategic the country to be an integral tention already

realise that Rome. part of the newly-born German Great Britain and France are Austria could not have been

On this account there is only position after the Fascist con-

for queat.of Spain. Republic. By all the rules of faced with what is in essence saved, has acquiesced in this

powerful move, The Berlin- one wise course of action not a political but a military pro- Rome axis has been welded into the British and French Govern- self-determination laid down by President Wilson, the wish of the

a military fact. France, at all events, is in no

Without any more delay than Austrian people should have been doubt about this definition. She

Czecho-Slovakia, farther away is technically necessary, they satisfied. But the victors were has onec more given emphatic than ever from France, has now should see that the Government 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 mill-

Meanwhile, the approach to a material resources they require no merely fanciful sense a Great War has already begun. We sense to defend Austria was definitely forbidden tary

that military solution of what is in to prevent a Fascist victory. country's integrity. She realises essence a military situation must

If France and Britain were to arc, in fact, witnessing its first to unite with Germany.

phases, that her own military security be made, if it is to be made at all, decide wholeheartedly on this None the less, local plebiscites makes essential the survival of through Spain. There is little course they could manifestly Manchuria and Abyssinia and

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

outrun the competition of Ger- Spain all represent a new were held in the early days of Slovakia in order to prevent

Franco, at this moment, is many and Italy, since these technique of war by which the 1921 in different parts of the Germany from concentrating her country overwhelmingly demand-military directives in the West nearer victory than he has been Powers would be reduced to Axis Powers are manoeuvring 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 Austrinu Parliament decided un-Central Europe.

Janimously to take the vote of the

whole country on the question.

The movement of 1921, however,

Slovakia is necessary

of mon and

INDEED, in discussing contingent war, risks,

if he now achieves victory mill- upon them of locking up a great stroke. tary experts know that Great accumulation Britain and France, faced with material in a theatre of war 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 at any moment military procedure. It is dea- many and Italy, would be placed navies could was suppressed by the joint to French security it is equally at an incalculable disadvantage. isolate.

cribed and analysed in many theory efforts of Britain, France and

Help by Britain and France text books; and is a on the scale indicated would which Great Britain herself, in. Italy.

WHAT Franco is now mean running a genuine war times past, applied with great In 1981 the German and Aus.

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-

Schuschnigg had only a small minority of Austrians behind it.

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

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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 jed to the credit of the English has burst.

and American judges that they The 1935 Stress "Indepen- voted with the minority. France dence 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 foresee the ultimate his own and the Republic's down-consequences? fall-and the rise of National Ita sources are traceable in one Socialism in Germany,

of the clearest morala history "The in- For the few years since, until has ever 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 1st movement of Vienna was itself its own revenge. May one sternly put down by machine-still retain a desperate hope thal out of the ashor of Vorsailles gun fire-and the Nazis, sup-

there may yet rise again the pressed in every possible way one good thing" the War pro- The Fascist Government of the duced, the League of Nations, Tato Dr. Dollfuss: and Dr. 'with its insistonco on Law?

re-

It is relatively cheap in blood and treasure because it enables

By Lichty the exponents of the strategy to diapose of small potential enemies, one by one with little or no hindrance from the chief potential enemy.

"Humm--in love with her, aren't you?"

Oy

بله

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, however impressive. in itself, can alter such a situa- tion as that towards which Ger- many and Italy aro now propelling Europo. Armamenta without strategy cannot win a war. History has already made it clear that, of themselves; they can never provent a war either.