The Washington times., 1938-02-22

ANTHONY EDEN
and his Sunday resignation British Foreign Sec
retary Eden resigned because his boss Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain, has been more and more inclined
to discuss things with Hitler and Mussoln rather than
stand too long British pride.
We think the proper answer to Eden is "Good-by
Anthony: here's your homburg" Chamberlain gave
Anthony that answer, in good many more words.
Anthony's trouble has been that he inter-
nationalist do-gooder of the Woodrow Wison-League
of Nations professional pacifist school.
Only 40 last December, Anthony served in the World
War Captain Kings Royal Rifle Corps) but apparently
he does not remember the in panorama clearly
as Chamberlain does. With Hitler the make and
Mussolin defying British sea power, Anthony has
wanted to be quarrelng self-rghteousy with the die
tators all the time of these quarrels had hurled
great numbers of young Brtshers into the hell of war;
Anthony on form would have felt that that only the
fair price of international righteousness.
Chamberlain is realistic British politician. 1t
doesn't take Disrae to chart the cagy for Cham
taken himself out of the way.
Back 10 HHLeT! Hitler wants Germany's old
African colonies back. These colonies, owned by
Britain, were:
German Southwest Africa s2O,O 600 50. mi: 100000 ma
East Africa now Tanganyika9-3s5OO 900 So mi; 100000
natives oo sa 600 goo So % 100000
Australia grabbed German New Guinea after the
war-93 900 So mi 666 900 natives 5000 Europeans.
Chamberlain can discuss return of these colonies with
Hitler for the next couple of That ought to stave
off war; clear gain of two years. When and if
Britain does blow back, Britain will lose little These
colonies were the tag ends of Africa anyway, the
British would have had them long before the World
War. To give them back to Hitler will enable the
Fuehrer to make African jobs for perhaps $4,000 Ger
and to keep his standing with the home folks
and it will take him ten years to get his colonies
running smoothly. All of which ought to aid peace.
From all this the British profit in various ways.
They may be able to blow the Rome Berlin-Tokyo axis
apart
They suggest to Hitler that speaking of colonies,
Italy after the war redeemed" Trento and Trieste
from Austria, along with 215,OOO Germans in those
nor1 puo,;ooo provinces, and that Mussolini
might be requested to restore
FTOTH 10 bFHGM those provinces to the Father
land. British statesmen likewise remind Hitler
that the Germans had pretty good thing in Shantung,
China, before the war; but after their friend Japan
grabbed it from them-though we made Japan give
Shantung back to China in 1922 Now the Japs
to have it again. They might return it to Germany
And when Hitler does get his colonies back, he will
have to have steamship lines running to and from
them Nobody do much to Germany now; but
those restored German Empire trade routes will be
vulnerable to the British Navy as they were before
and thus England will have Indian sign Germany
such Eden could have negotiated
From the sidelines (where should stay as George
Washington advised), no moral or other
objections to this expected British shift to realist
power politics. France has kept the Germans down
for almost generation which is about the most France
could have hoped for. An oppressed nation frequently
generates the necessary anger and babies to
its oppressor 1t looks if Germany has done lust
that-and as EnQland'S tha foot
in the face and acting them.
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