Evening star., 1936-09-10
New Menace to Peace.

Within q few hours after Secretary
Hull addressed to the Third World Power
Conference at Washington his uncon-
monty earnest plea for banishment OF
war psychology and assailed the "sel-
fish ambitions of unscrupulous persons"
inspired by hope of national aggrandize.
ment," fresh European developments
threw lurid light upon the chronic
dangers to peace. At Nuremberg the
annual congress of the German National
Socialist party publicly pilloried bolshe-
vism as World Enemy No. l." indicating
that rigorous opposition to the Soviet
Union is one of the new keynotes OF
German policy. The Moscow govern
ment took prompt cognizance Of the
trend of events in the Reich by
inaugurating elaborate military ma
neuvers of three army corps on Russias
western border contiguous to Germany.
The operations embrace the Ukraine,
the great Soviet agricultural province on
which Nal expansionist eyes are
covetously riveted. Coincident with the
maneuvers, the Soviet government
controlled press issues ominous warnings
that the "specter of war is approach
ing nearer and nearer"
Chancellor Hitler lost no time at
Nuremberg in breathing the martial
spirit inseparable from these annual
occasions. In his first remarks to the
myriads of his adherents, the Fuehrer
recalled that since they were last
assembled he had weathered the most
difficult period of his life by restoring
full arms sovereignty to the nation" On
Wednesday Hitler seized the opportu-
nifty of formal address to proclaim his
next objective. 1t is four-year pro-
gram, which embraces as its outstanding
feature aggressive colonial demands.
They are motivated, the dictator set
forth, by the necessity to make the
Reich independent in respect OF indis-
pensable raw materials and to fortify
| her in the battle for world trade. Incl
dentally, Hitler announced that he has
signed economic DEGREES providing for
planned production of all industrial and
AGRICULTURAL commodities. Contending
that realization Of these purposes Is
"only a question Of our energy and de-
termination" he explained that the
colonial demands are part and parcel
Of the program"
BY exactly what methods and at whose
cost Hitler purposes to re-establish the
Reich as q colonial power he failed to
elucidate. The revelation Of his scheme
is voiced in tones that foreshadow
strenuous prosecution Of 1t. England,
France and Japan, among which the
former German overseas domain was
principally divided, as well as other
nations with land worth grabbing, will
learn of Nad ambitions with mixed
emotions. None of them hitherto has
evinced the slightest readiness either to
consider REIMBURSEMENT of territory now
administered by them under mandate,
or otherwise to appease German terri
torial hunger. Having pitchforked the
colonial empire issue into the arena OF
international discussion, the Germans
may be depended upon to foment it with
no less insistence and diplomatic cum
ming than characterized their successive
and triumphant demands for abolition
of reparations and for remilitarization.
World craftsmanship in consequence is
face to face with yet another situation
that does not augur promisingly for
peace, as Hitlerism, militant and for
midably armed, clears for action to re-
gain Germany's place in the sun.