Evening star., 1934-07-22
BRITAIN SOUNDS WARNING
AS HITLER MENACE CROWS
Resolved Germany Shall Have No
Excuse for Repeating Blunder
She Made i'm 1914.


prophecy. Conceiyably, the army
must still wait until the disintegra-
ton in the National Socialist ranks
proceeds q little further
That means that there may be
another blood bath" II also means.
as ] have said. thst the end may be
preceded by desperate attempt 10
plunge Germany and Europe into war
Henceforth the danger lies there As
10 the war itself It Is hardly likely
nov TO have anything of the peril It
might have had a few months ago.
For then behind Hitler was the driv-
ing power Of a nation still hypnotized
by his eloquence and Stlll dominated
by a desperation. due 70 its conviction
that II was the victim OF a world wide
conspiracy designed 10 destroy the
German people.
II was this conviction Of the reso-
luton Of monarchial Europe TO de-
stroy the republic that supplied the
French Revolution with its driving
force in l792 and launched the great
offensive which carried French armies
to MOSCOW and Madrid before the in
ewtable end arrived But no one can
read present dispatches from Berlin
without perceiying that the unity Of
the German people has been de-
Stroyed Faith in the Hitler move
ment has been shattered and there
fore the moment OF resolution has
ended No longer could Hitler lead
a united nation into war, at most
he could only maneuver a confused
and divided people into a conflict
which could have but one end and
that certain TO come shortly.
In the next critical weeks and
months. however. nothing is so neces-
Sary as the existence of a united
front between Britain and France.
Agreement between these nations in
Sures that there will also be Joined
to them not only the nations OF the
little entente with Belgium and even
the Soviet Union, but the neutrals OF
the last war as we'll, for all OF whom
an end OF the present situation in
Germany has become a question of
national security. In the face of what
is coming there must be not a divided
Out united Europe.
Europe Awaits Explosion.
Meantime, all forms OF international
eo-operation-economic, financial and
polItical-to establish and consolidate
world order must be postponed. Moth
ing can now be done until the pres
ent German situation is cleared up
and the existing regime falls. Every
thing in Europe is now contingent
upon the form the explosion in Ger
many takes and the fashion in which
the present bloody and brutal regime
is swept out of power. Every form
of international contract must have
an earthquake clause" written into
it. All governments must relapse to
the old Asquithian policy of wait
and see"
Depressing as is the immediate out
look, however, it seems to me that
the moment of greatest danger has
already passed. 1t was the offensive
of united Germany led by a dema-
gogue whose frenzied nationalism had
fred a desperate people to action
which constituted the real peril on
the morrow of Hitler's arrival. The
program OF the National Socialists
made any form of cooperation with
them impossible; the spirit of the
leaders made a new war a constant
possibility. Peace became a question
of a race between Hitler and the
fate that was bound to overtake a
movement based upon a combination
of purposes all of which belonged to
the inmates of lunatic asylum.
In the shattered and divided Eu-
rope of the present time the existence
OF such force, the control of a great
country by such leaders. constituted
by far the gravest danger of the post
war period. In fact, the Germany of
Hitler was danger beyond anything
Europe or the world has known in
many centuries. Even the Commu-
nistic threat of the SovietS never had
the same direct and deadly challenge
to all that one calls Western civili-
zation as did the National Socialist
movement with its combination of
paganism, barbariSm and the me-
chanical efficiency of modern Ger
many.
Parliamentary System Preferable.
Today events in Germany have
served enormously to close the breach
in popular confidence in democracy
postwar events had opened. The
National Socialist blood bath Of June
80 demonstrated clearly the alterna-
tive which German FaSciSm offered TO
the democratic system of the West.
With that episode the clamor for a
strong man in the several democracieS
stopped automatically. With all its
weaknesses and limitations the par
liamentary system is still preferable
to dictatorship founded upon the
firing squad. Having survived the
original attack of Communism there
is now ground to hope that democ-
rscy will also outlast the even more
dagerous attack of FaSciSm.
Meantime there is every reason to
believe that the world will be con-
demned to watch a new tragedy,
Within the walls of their own making
that encircle them. the German peo-
pie are now almost ineScapably con-
demned to endure new miseries and
suffer fresh agonies- The twentieth
anniversary of the outbreak of the
World War will see the once great
and prosperous German empire still
sinking in the scale. again faceo with
the immediate problem of actual ex-
iStence. once more confronted bv the
ultimate problem of national regener-
alton. still isolated both morally and
materially But at least one must
hope that the preSent Hitler episode
Will constitute the final CONFUSION of
the World War and the ultimate pref
ace to peace for the German people
whose SutteringS, still unended. have
certainly exceeded those of all other
peoples in the past two decades.
tCopyright. l934l
ManchukuO DRAWING