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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?

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Will Hitler try in 1941 to overrun them,

All unlis of $1,500 and over in value 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.

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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.

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 "Fnacist," but which would certainly resent, and probably resist, invasion. Even the much-talked-of occupa tion of "Vichy Trance" is no tempting job.

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

But falling some over-riding need, I think that these neutrals of Europe can count on reprieve.

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..

Beyond question, he would rather avoid doing either. Each would mean now effort, new liability, new expenditure of

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

"gleichgeschaltet."

They are to be slaves. That is inferior, very inferior, to Teu- man-power and of resources he clear enough from the policy tons; but at the same time not wants to conserve. For beyond doubt this followed in German-occupied so inferior that they

can be idea of organising the whole Poland.

turned like Slavs into serfs un- To invade Vichy France would of Europe under his own

der German task masters. be to risk-the rallying of all the

French Empire to the side of.. They cannot be absorbed; they the Allies. To invade the Bal-

leadership is Hitler's pas way as an inferior people, a race The Poles are treated in every

indicate news which is frictly Hopyrighssionate preoccupation. It is of helots, whose mission is to be cannot be enslaved. So Hitler kans would be to strain near callons Urdinance, 1916. Suck was the next step to that final hewers, of wood and drawers of proposes for them a different breaking-point his friendship Hongkong on the date of publication by goal which Dr Frank, the water for their masters the status. They must acknowledge with Soviet Russia.

edict his overlordship and the pre- serve all rigitte and forbid republications, Nazi Governor of Poland, Germans. Edict after

dominance of the Reich in makes that plain.

Hitler's Policy declared the other day:

Europe, "To master the world as The Pole is ousted from the

He would vastly prefer, if it Germans. Adolf Hitler is land to make room for German They must accept his guidance can be done, to avoid the use Bettlers. He can work for them, 'in their foreign relations; their of force, to achieve his purpose ONE of the most invidious called upon to be the leader or go on gang labour into the armed forces must be at his dis-by a mixture of threats, cajol- lies which has been foisted on.

of the world."

*Reich.

posal as supreme European ery and internal intrigue. -war-lord. For that he has first, to

Their-economic sys- the world is that of 'German

But he must wear: a distinc-tems must conform with Ger-

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

the German. He must not mix tarian, and supervised by the been successful in Hungary and measures by the smaller Last summer he thought socially with the conquerors; Gestapo.

in Rumania, countries is shown by the un-it was practically done. His German farmers have been

Now he tries it on Bulgaria 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 severely punished for letting. But if they accept that, then and Jugoslavia. But in changed nation has succumbed to Ger- Vistula to the Pyrenees, Po- them.

their own way, with some mea- Rumania joined the New Order threats, whereas unified land, Denmark, Norway,

It is decreed that as quickly can be second-class members of sistance, before the days of the sure of independence. They before the days of the Greek re- action could long ago have Holland, Belgium, two- as possible all Polish skilled the new European order, sub- North African campaign.

thirds of France were in his workers shall be replaced by ordinate to Germany, *but hands.

Germans and degraded to un- neither absorbed nor directly skilled jobs. The tradition of invincibility

ruled by her.. Executive posts-from mana- has been carefully built up since

ger to foreman-professional oc- Italy was an obedient ally: the last war. In fact, the defeat Vichy France was to be cupations, mercantile occupa of the German Army in the field made so by Laval, Spain the master-race.

tions, are all to be reserved for This is the "collaboration" The Pole is to which Hitler has already forced in 1918. has always been denied out of mingled fear and be denied all but the rudiments upon Mussolini, which he is try-

Suppose they stand up to by the German authorities, for gratitude would take her of education.

ing to force upon Petain, which diplomatic and economic pres- 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. instating the German people in could be overrun with ease. East. It is different in the

and Sofia? their own estimation as super- Sweden, Switzerland, Portu- North and West. Here Nazi it all looks as simple as a

theory, squaring with ordinary blue-print. It is all proving so. He will certainly hesitate.

Given everything, I doubt it. men, but also to persuade other gal must come to heel,

It all looked so splendidly Danes

German

He prejudice, regards terribly difficult in practice. has already hesitated. nations that Germany is un-

and Norwegians and Establishing the "new order" is 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. Hitler's policy therefore was, The plan was that the Euro- need for a new advance will be- cannot help himself: that the 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 efther as contrary.

The Germans not only suffer- ed a series of heavy reverses in the last war during the final "Battle of the Hundred Days," but a quarter of the German

Last Summer....

countries the work of or- but even in the occupied into Germans and into Nazis. ganisation goes ill.

Persuasion

Hands Full

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

fully?

It All. Depends

slaves or as partners or as Al- lies. The puzzle is how to make them do it. For (apart from

The neutrals owe much to the tiny "Quisling" groups here steady courage of millions of un- Just what are the Nazis If these peoples would drop and there) they just decline to known men and women in the out to achieve in these coun- their “antiquated" notions about do anything of the kind. army was captured the official tries they have already con- if they would adopt Nazi ideas, boruly and steadily. Day after to break an army is not to con- occupied lands, who have al- national and personal freedom, figure for 68 days during the quered and in those they if they would accept Hitler as day the newspapers of the in- quer a people.

Poles and Czechs resist stub- ready taught the Germans that

140,476 prisoners--not to men- hope to conquer?

last months of the war was

supreme overlord of all the. Ger-

on,

:

tion quantities of guns and Judging by performance, manic peoples, then they would vader report executions, impri-As to their anal fate--well material. They were forced to they have not one policy but be treated as race-brothers, a news is meant to Intimidate. world to-day, depends upon our sonments, deportations. The that, like so much else in the 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, bever Mordacq stated when writing an

Hence it came about that in In the West the Dutch and the them to speak otherwise, they when fear or caution compels revolution which followed the dinavia and the Low Coun- has been less brutal than in the-Norwegians carry on the same account of those days and of the for the "Nordics" of Scan-

these countries German policy Belgians, the Danes and the know that very well. this tries; one for the "Latins" East. Necessity ⚫ and 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

greed

have driven the Germans to quiet struggle. 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

Numerous other instances aro recorded in which German of the Slavs is quite simple, querors.

In this new Europe the fato ed to. co-operate with the con- swallow jare proving so unex- officers and statesmen acknow-

pectedly hard to digest.

! [Editor's Note:-Mr Ewer's article was written early fast month. Bulgaria has since fat- In to is pressure, and Ger than troops have overrun the country. German! demands that Yugoslavia should adhere to the Aristare also reported to have been made.]

ledged defeat, 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. Henco "récovering from the first shock, were made immediately or soon selves rulers of the western the Danish Government-al-begius to- present still further -after the termination of world today,

lowed to carry on, with a Social problems for the urls TO-MORROW hostilities before the doctrine of Japan's statesmen appear to Democratas 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, the sword vigorously as a result; were it not for the fact that but saner thought must sense slave the Sinva, wants to absorb why the Germans still delay to Nazidom, which wants to en- That, I think, is one reason owing to the negligence of the that there is a "nigger in the the "Nordics." Ailles, to deny this untruth and wood-pile" and that by im-

push their conquesta farther. For the South, for France, already.

They have enough on their hands to give the world the actual molating the country on the facts, the Germans were able to altar to Nazilam, the prosperity, for Italy, for Spain, for Portu- build up a tradition, of 'invinci... | security and progress of Japan gal, there is still another plan. They do not relish the pros- bility and race superiority which are being, gravely endangered. These "Latins" are, of course, pect of having to subdue a tough

WHAT ARE STALIN'S PLANS ?

By Professor Harold -Laski