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-Fifth Article-

What Will Happen To EUROPE'S NEUTRALS?

By W. N. EWER

HAT has this year in store for Europe's remaining neutrals-for Spain and Portugal, for Sweden, for Switzerland, for the anxious countries of the South-East?

Will Hitler try in 1941 to overrun them, as he did so many of their fellows in 1940? Sooner or later he must subdue them if he is to achieve the purpose for which he went to war in 1939.

That purpose was the setting up of the "new order," the reorganisation of all Eu- rope under German control.

Of all Europe. This new order is totali- tarian. It wants all. Nor indeed could there be for long a Continent half-free and half-Nazi ruled.

Were the Germans to win, these still in- dependent fragments of Europe would vanish overnight: they would be forced into

Hongkong Telegraph. the system: they would, in Nazi jargon, be

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Sweden, a tough Switzerland as well; of marching into a Spain which may be "Fascist," but which would certainly resent, and probably resist, invasion. Even the much-talked-of occupa- tion of "Vichy France" is no tempting job.

In war one never knowa. Strategic needs change and compel new actions. An Italian collapse might force Hitler to push his own armies to the Mediterranean,

But failing some over-riding need, I think that these neutrals of Europe can count on ropriove,

He may be forced to go to Marseilles and Toulon, whatever the consequences. He may be forced into the dangerous ven- ture of an invasion of the Bal- kans.

To invade Vichy France would be to risk the rallying of all the French Empire to the side of

Beyond question, he would rather avoid doing either. Each would mean now effort, new liability, new expenditure of They are to be slaves. That is inferior, very inferior, to Teu- man-power and of resources he For beyond doubt this clear enough from the policy tons; but at the same time not wants to conserve.

followed in German-occupied so inferior that they can be idea of organising the whole Poland.

turned like Slavs into serfs un- der German task masters. of Europe under his own leadership is Hitler's past way as an inferior people, a race

The Poles are treated in every They cannot be absorbed; they the Allies. To invade the Bal sionate preoccupation. It is of helots, whose mission is to be cannot be enslaved. So Hitler kans would be to strain near the next step to that final hewers of wood and drawera of proposes for them a different breaking-point his friendship goal which Dr Frank, the water for their masters the status. They must acknowledge with Soviet Russia.

cdict his overlordship and the pre- Nazi Governor of Poland, Germans.. Edict after

makes that plain.

dominance of the Reich in Hitler's Policy declared the other day:

"To master the world as The Pole is ousted from the Germans. Adolf Hitler is land to make room for German settlers. He can work for them, ONE of the most invidious called upon to be the leader or go on gang labour into the

of the world."

For that he has first to

is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to

under the pravisions of the_Telecommuni-

bears the Indication "UP" is received in

the United Press Associations, who re

either wholly or in part withost previous arrangement

Hongkong on the date of publication by heights and forbid republications.

GERMAN STRENGTH

lies which has been foisted on

Europe.

He would vastly prefer, if it They must accept his guidance can be done, to avoid the use in their foreign relations; their of force, to achieve his purpose armed forces must be at his dis- by a mixture of threats, cajol- posal As Reich.

supreme

European cry and internal intrigue. war-lord. Their economic sys-

That is his French policy at But he must wear a distinc- tems must conform with_Ger-

also his

the world is that of German make himself leader of all tive badge. He draws a lower many's economic needs. Their the moment. It is invincibility. That this lie has Europe. But that is no easy wage and a lower ration than political systems must be totali Balkan policy. It has already tended to paralyse self-defensive job.

the German. He must not mix turian, and supervised by the been successful in Hungary and

in Rumania.. measures by the smaller Last summer he thought socially with the conquerors; Gestapo,

been

Now he tries it on Bulgaria countries is shown by the unit was practically done. His German farmers have

But if they accept that, then and Jugoslavia. But in changed severely punished for letting happy way in which nation after armies had swept from the their Polish workers feed with they can run their own affairs in circumstances. Hungary and nation has succumbed to Ger- Vistula to the Pyrenees, Po- them.

their own way, with some mea- Rumanis joined the New Order sure. of independence. They man threats, whereas unified land, Denmark, Norway, action could long ago have Holland, Belgium, two as possible all Polish skilled the new European order, sub North African campaign.

It is decreed that as quickly can be second-class members of before the days of the Greek re- sistance, before the days of the thirds of France were in his workers shall be replaced by ordinate broken this legend of super-

to Germany, but hands.

Germans and degraded to un- neither absorbed nor directly strength.

skilled jobs.

ruled by her. Executive posts-from mana-

The tradition of invincibility has been carefully built up since the last war-In fact, the defeat

of the German Army in the field

Last Summer....

Hands Full

.

Jugoslavia and Bulgaria are being stiffer than their north- ern neighbours. The pressure on them will doubtless increase, Can they still resist success-

gal must come to heel. German prejudice, regards terribly, difficult in practice has already hesitated.

ля

Italy was an obedient ally: ger to foreman-professional oc- Vichy France was to be cupations, mercantile.--occupa

tions, are all to be reserved for This is the "collaboration" fully?' made so by Laval Spain the master-race. The Pole is to which Hitler has already forced Suppose they stand up to in 1918 has always been denied out of mingled fear and be denied all but the rudiments upon Mussolini, which he is try diplomatic and economic pres- by the German authorities, for gratitude would take her of education.

ing to force upon Petain, which he would like to force upon armies to march on Belgrade sure. Will Hitler order his the purpose not only of re-allotted place. The Balkans That is the new order in the Franco.

and Sofia? instating the German people in could be overrun with ease. East. It is different in the

It all looks as simple ng a Given everything, I doubt it. their own estimation as super- Sweden, Switzerland, Portu- North and West. Here Nazi

theory, squaring with ordinary blue-print. It is all proving so He will certainly hesitate. He mon, but also to persuade other

It all looked so splendidly. Danes and Norwegians and Establishing the "new order" is nations that Germany is un- simple and so nearly finish- Dutch and Flemings as of Ger- for Hitler now not so much a It may be that the strategic conquerable and predestined to ed. But here is 1941; and manic stocks, as near-Germans. plan as a brain-racking puzzle, situation will so change that he rule the world. This claim of the job is still to be done.

The plan was that the Euro- need for a new advance will be- cannot help himself; that the Hitler's policy therefore was, invincibility has not been sub- stantiated, and investigation of Not only does quite a lot of and still is, not to make them pean peoples should co-operate come irresistible. the facts goes to prove the Europe remain ungrasped, into slaves, but to make them with the Germans either contrary.

but even in the occupied into Germans and into Nazis. slaves or as partners or as Al-

It All Depends The Germans not only suffer-countries the work of or-

lies. The puzzle is how to make ed a series of heavy reverses in

them do it. For (apart from The neutrals owe much to the tiny "Quisling" groups here steady courage of millions of un- the last war during the final ganisation goes ill. "Battle of the Hundred Days," Just what are the Nazis If these peoples would drop and there) they just decline to known men and women in the but a quarter of the German out to achieve in these coun- their "antiquated" notions about do anything of the kind.

occupied lands, who have al- army was captured--the official tries they have already con- national and personal freedom, Poles and Czechs resist stub- ready, taught the Germans that Inst months of the war was hope to conquer? figure for 63 days during the quered and in those they if they would adopt Nazi ideas, bornly and steadily. Day after to break an army is not to con-

if they would accept Hitler as day the newspapers of the in- quer a people. 140,476 prisoners--not to men-

supreme overlord.of all the Ger- vader report executions, impri- As to their final fato-well tion quantities of guns and Judging by performance, manic peoples, then they would

sonments, deportations. The that, like so much elso in the material. They were forced to they have not one policy but be treated as race-brothers, as news is meant to intimidate. world to-day, depends upon our sue for peace in order to avoid three. One for the East, for equal partners, as members of But it tells that resistance goes war. Their freedom depends complete collapse. As General the Slavonic peoples; one

the Greater German Reich.

upon our victory; and, even Mordacq stated when writing an

Hence it came about that in

when fear or caution compels account of those days and of the for the "Nordics" of Scan- revolution which followed the dinavia and the Low Coun- has been less brutal than in the Norwegians carry on the same

In the West the Dutch and the them to speak otherwise, they these countries German policy Belgians, the Danes and the know that very well. this tries: one for the "Latins" East. Necessity and greed quiet struggle. dagger thrust was no longer of the West and South. necessary, because the Allies had already administered it and that straight to the heart."

German defeat:

Slavs-Slaves

Persuasion

have driven the Germans to

on,

.

[Editor's Note:-Mr Ewer's article was written carly last month. Bulgaria has since fai- len to Axis pressure, and Ger- man troops have overrun the country. German demands that Yugoslavia should adhere to the Aris are also reported to have been made.]

plunder. But apart from that The German authorities are · the policy has been one of steady worried and baffled. These effort to persuade the conquer countries which were so easy to Numorous other Instances aro

In this new Europe the fate ed to co-operate with the con- swallow are proving so unex- recorded in which German of the Slavs is quite simple, querors.

pectedly hard to digest. officers and statesmen acknow- ledged defent, but almost in- is largely responsible for their Hence Quisling in Norway And now occupied France, variably these frank confessions fanatical desire to make them- and Mussert in Holland. Hence recovering from the first shock, were made immediately or soon sclves rulers of the western the Danish Government-al- begins to present still further after the

lowed to carry on, with a Social problems for the "occuping TO-MORROW tormination of world to-day. hostilities before the doctrine of Japan's statesmen appear to Democrat ns Prime Minister, Power." The Gestapo has its invincibility had again been have swallowed this theory provided that it is respectful and work cut out for it from War- built up. This point might be whole-heartedly and are rattling gives no trouble.

saw to Bordeaux. considered irrelevant to-day, were it not for the fact that owing to the negligence of the Allies to deny this untruth and to give the world the actual facts, the Germans were able to altar to Nazilem, the prosperity, for Italy, for Spain, for Portu- build up a tradition of invinel-security and progress of Japan gal, there is still another plan. bility and race superiority which are being gravaly endangered. These "Lating" are, of course, pect of having to subdue a tough

the sword vigorously as a result; Nazidom, which wants to en- That, I think, is one reason but anner thought must sense slave the Slave, wants to absorb why the Germans still delay to that there is a "nigger in the the "Nordics."

push their conquests farther. wood-pilo" and that by Im-

They have enough on their hands molating the country on the

already.

For the South, for France,

They do not relish the pros-

WHAT ARE STALIN'S PLANS?

By Professor Harold Laski

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