Evening star., 1937-09-08
The "Haye Nots" Alliance.

ne Have NOtS Alliance,
Surprises are part of the stock in
trade Of relationships Adolf Hitler runs
true 10 form by electrifying the opening
NJ the Nuremberg Nazi party congress
with the promugation OF a new triple
alliance OF Germany Italy and Japan.
Its declared purpose of establishing
united front against Communist con-
fusion" in the East and the West is of
course. political Subterfuge OF almost
transparent insincerity. The Fascist
powers, which rank Japan has just as
sumed through seizure of totalitarian
economic, financial and military su-
thority in the name of the Chinese war
emergency, are leagued in fact for the
promotion of VIGOROUSLY common in
ternationsl ambitions 1t is dreibund
of the have not" nations II links three
peoples each and all OF which are ami
mated bv The need for more territory for
sirplus populations, for more raw ma
terials and foodstuffs. TO sustain their
industries and the workers engaged in
them and for more markets in which
to sell manufactured products. 1t is a
punderbund.
Der Fuehrer's proclamation dwels on
the urgency of a defensive" fight against
Communism. and pledges that Germany
will stand by both Japan and Italy in
yaging IT, Had Herr Hitler launched
his thunderbolt under different condi-
hons than those which this week hold
the world in the grip of war fear nn-
snualed since 1914, protestations that
the n-Italia lian-Japsne nese alliance is
motivated by the red peril might COM
mand credence. Sprung in the circum-
stances OF the moment, it takes on
~astlv more sinister meaning 1t de-
notes. as far as the Asiatic conflict ia
concerned, that Germany and Italv are
souarely behind Japsn's program to sub
fueate and absorb China As for Europe.
r. not only signals that Fascist power
continues to be modified against the
Communist" foes OF insureent Spain.
hut that it Is bent upon keeping Europe
primarily Great Britain and France
20 preoccupied with perlous possibilities
on this side of the world that japan can
work her will unmolested on the other
s,de
President Roosevelt the other day at
EuT pa pE
national stuation-its Far Eastern sec
tor in particulsr-"sn awful mess"
Events at Nuremberg make it "messier"
than ever. The current effort of the
Western European powers to put an end
10 submarine piracy in the Mediter-
ranean further complicst tes matters tt
NAV have been directly coniributorv
factor In evoking the new alliance. for
Soviet Russia, pa pably embodened 10
reassert itself in Europe by Japsn's ab-
sorption with China. has Just addressed
an imperious protest 10 italy against
alleged sinking OF two Russian freiehters
IN Spanish waters. Mussolni and Hitler
NAV well have thought the moment op-
porrlne 10 rebuke such red arrogs nee by
showing Moscow triple row of teeth
extending all the way from Toxic TO the
r1ber nv wsv OF the Spree
Rpt the world will mistake The real
import of this new and formids BILE ar
rev NJ military might and Identical
ioeoogv II II fails 10 see in IL a union Of
'hsve MOI" forces linked. some day, in
soue usv. TO require the have" peoples
like the British French and Dutch EN-
p1res, Russia The United States and
China 10 stand and deliver 1t is China's
turn now. Whose will come next? Hit
Ter Eliminates that me attitude Of other
powers toward Germsnys demand for
return Of her colonies is "incompre-
hensible" What will be equally incom-
prehenSible will be democratic ciyiiza
mons inability or unwillineneSS TO read
the handwriting placed on the wall al
Nuremberg on September :. II is plain
as = pkeStaff and il is menscing in every
jot and little