Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-01-03

natural. boundaries 10 west
and south--the establish
"A ment of permanent peace
might not require such extraordinary
safeguards. But, Germany lying
where she does and her people being
what they are, the futgre of Europe
depends on enc thing--the reconstrrc-
i;on of Poland"
The speaker was no less a person
Than Roman Dmowski for twenty
years leader of the submerged west
ern Slavs in their aspiration toward
q renewed national tife, long the rep
resentative of the city of Warsaw in
the Russian duma; today, by virtue Of
his position MS president Of the FOL
ish national committee. recognized by
the governments OF Great Britain
France. italy and the United States
es the official representative and
spokesman of thirty-five millions OF
people.
ITO take up the German-ness Of Ger
mans first" he went on in the course
&c an interview with Rowland Ttom"s
appearing in the New York World
they are people capable of talking
about their drang mach osten-their
expanslveness toward the east--as II
II were something scientifically inev-
liable and sacred. like the law af gray
itation or the budding of trees in
Springtime. No such peculiar ard spe-
eific force. of course. now exists. Mt
ture no more drove the Germans to
fine expansive eastward than up or
down In any other direction. What
lid drive them was an allurIng oppur-
funity. Whereupon they invented Il
mystical focce which was sunp ,sed TO
be above even their own Ideas and
emotlOnS-just as they later invented
n special and sacred kultur when they
felt the need of iustifylng overween-
ing ambition in their own ewes and
ihe sight of the world. and still later
eonjured up an ancient German Gott
10 make expedieney and morality anu
tuaily self-supporting.
"Such worship oS mental straw ihen
AlAn NVAiiuNiiiE VI lOi iHut1E WIN
forces. the sound of words with veri.
ties. excuIpations with justifications--
is the natural refuge of sentimental
fists who shrink from looking their
own impulses in the face.
by n special drang mach osten,
then. Germans have sanctifed for
themse IS their cupidity of territory
and trade in certain directions. Many
such canonized phrases will confront
and trouble me peace builders in their
coming work. for an orthodox formula
may he a deadly thing. Witness what
was justified in revolutionary France
by the cry OF liberty. equality and fra
ternity-wkat is happening under the
same watchword now In bolshevstie
Russia. To guard the future against
the force Of the ancient and haloed
dogma of a drang mach osten IS there
fore vitality necessary.
Would Safeguard Future.
And interpolated Mr.. Dmowski, n
faint smile lowering ahoht his flrm-set
lips, IF Il certain step is taken the
future will be effectualy guarded.
Germans hereafter viii have to take
their drang zach osten out In plain
drang-ing. They viii find themselves
butting their heads against wall, 20
he colloqual And that wall viii be
Poland-the strong Poland which cnn
and must be constructed, not easilv.
perhaps, but surely and firmly, IL sui.
ficiently intelligent and foreseelng
craftsmanship is used at this time.
"That brings us TO the second stnnd.
ing menace to permanent peace In Ell
rope-the fact that Germany for gen
srations has had no natural eastern
boundaries, tina; tantallzlngIy easy
way to aggression and conquest has
latin always open before her--and now
that Russia is chaos is easter than
ever before
'It this were not the case II Ger
many faced to the east some well.
defined physical obstacle, as she faces
che Rhine gorge, the Alps, the Bohe-
milan and Carpathian highlands TO the
west and south, the potentiaIitieS
might not be so grave. But as II is,
Asia, through Prussia. lies omen, un.
guarded and dangerously inviting ia
Germany's thwarted ambitions.
LET us not in this exhilarating mo
ment of victory permit ourselves Ia
become unduly optimistic or 100 cred
nious. National psychologists do not
British Monarch's Position.