The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-19

By H. r. KNICKERBOCKER,
World Copyright, 1887, Reproduction, In
Whole or Part Strictly Prohibited.
LONDON, July 10 U.N.S).
World democracy, for 20 years
the passive victim Of repeated and
successful assaults by dictatorship,
has this year for the first time
taken up arms to defend itself, and
British rearmament will go down
in history as the opening gun in
the last gigantic struggle for free
dom.
During the last two decades
democracy's triple enemies, Boil
shevism, FasciSm and National
Socialism, have repeatedly and
with reason boosted of the defeat.
first on one front and then on an
other, of the forces of freedom.
First Russia went down in 1913
and today 100000 in the
Soviet Union have only heard OF
liberty in quotation marks, as
something bourgeois" to be
Sneered at.
Italy, Then Germany
Five years later, Italy went
down, and 100000 were added
to the army of those who put
obedience first. In 1888 Germany
with it's 100000 highly literate
population gave up the task OF pre-
serving its liberties, and aban-
doned what Hitler called the
'luxury of democracy"
Since then, first one and then
another of the smaller nations
have surrendered until in all the
world only the United States,
Great Britain and France stand
out as rocks of democracy against
the triumphant tide of what used
to be called tyranny, but today is
politely termed "the totalitarian
state"
All this time Britain. as chief
of the democratic nations in
Europe, simply refused to take
the attacks upon her institutions
seriously. She could hardly, how
ever, mistake the meaning Of Gen.
Eric Ludendorff's recently pub
lished reflections, that "the British
commonwealth of nations is q
Jewish.Free Mason abortion" and
that "the decay of England as a
world power is beginning"
Champion OF Weak
Today Britain, arming to pro-
tect herself, has inevitably become
the champion of democracy,
peace and the status quo. She
counts upon the military support
of France and of Frances allies,
and confidently upon the moral
and economic support OF the
United States.
Around rearming Britain now
cluster the small states OF Europe
like chicks to the mother hen.
Holland, Belgium, Switzerland,
Norway, Denmark, Sweden, the
Baltic states, Czechoslovakia, Yu"
goslavia, even Austria and Hun.
gary, Rumania, Greece, Portugal
and even Poland, some OF them re-
publicS, some monarch1eS, some
democracies and some dictator
ships. and some even allied with
Britain's enemies, but all small and
weak and fearful of the growing
power of one or the other OF the
dictatorship giants, Germany Rus
STA and italy.
Superior in Metals
Britain and her allies have q
substantial superiority in the mas.
ter metals, steel and gold. and
against Germany and Italy. an
Overwhelming advantage in oil, the
modern war fuel. In economic
strength superior and with her al
lies at least equal in man power
to her antagonists, Britain never
theless suffers from the fundamen-
tai inability of democracies to
equal relationships in preparation
for war.
Totalitarian states prepare Tor
war by compelling their citizens
to put the states business OF re-
arming above all other affairs.
Germany claims to have be-
come IS per cent self sufficient
in food. This she has achieved by