Evening star., 1938-09-28
Nazi Plans Unmasked.

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Nazi Plans Unmasked.
Prime Minister Chamberlain has gone
Tar to retrieve international respect for
British policy in the European crisis by
his plain speaking yesterday. Britain
had already aligned herself definitely
alongside France and Russia in joint de-
tense Of Czechoslovakia against eventual
German attack. But in his broadcast
to the Empire last night, the statesman
who boldly shouldered the brunt of the
effort to dissuade Hitler from war placed
Britain on record even more emphati.
cally. She is not only ready to oppose
Germany on the present aggressive oc-
casion, but is prepared to resist "any
nation that makes up its mind to DOM
mate the world by fear of force"
In that militant generalization lies the
most devastating indictment Of German
purposes in Czechoslovakia yet to come
from any quarter. 1t implies, and is, of
course, meant to imply, that Na1 aims,
while purporting to concern the plight
Of the allegedly oppressed sudeten prov
inces, are vastly farther nung-that they
actually cloak Germanys plans to con-
quer Central Europe by intimidation, II
possible, by force, If necessary. If the
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the Baltic to the Black Sea under its
military sway-in pursuance OF Hitler's
'Mein Kampf" proclamation that I'VE
turn our eyes eastward"-Mr. Chamber
lain clearly discerns world mastery as
the ultimate Na1 goal. Unchecked in
their advance across Europe, the Ger
mans would be Justified in believing in
their invincibility and In pushing their
conquests literally to the ends Of the
earth. On their way there, they now
know they will encounter the might Of
the British Empire.
In his Berlin address on Monday Hit
ler proclaimed that, with satisfaction Of
her claims in Csechoslovakia, Germany
would seek no further territory "in
Europe" He did not say he covets no
place in the sun outside OF Europe-in
Africa, for instance, where pre-war Ger
many possessed vast, If Improbable,
colonial empire; in Asia, where she had
foothold in China ut Kiau- Chau; in the
Pacific, where she had insular holdings
In midocean and the Samoas. Upon
none Of these regions, now under the
respective hags OF Great Britain, France
and Japan, nominally as inundated ter
rttory, but virtually long since passed
under their sovereignty, did Hitler dis
claim German designs. He pledged him.
self only to commit no more territorial
burglary "in Europe"
The people OF the Western Hemisphere
would have noted with special satisfac-
ton q disavowal Of German ambitions
for aggrandizement in the Americas,
region upon which the Reich, from
William II to Adolf I, has never ceased
to cast covetous eyes. The archives of
the State Department are crammed with
evidence that such longings were never
cherished promoted more inten-
dvely than during the Nazi regime. The
Monroe Doctrine continues, as for q
generation, to be one Of Germany's pet
aversions.
Visions Of Germany's extra European
plans, particularly colonial restoration,
may well have inspired Chamberlain's
ringing pronouncement of British readi-
ness to oppose any modern Napoleonism.
However much one may sympathize with
. small nation confronted by powerful
nation" the Prime Minister said, I'VE
cannot In all circumstances undertake to
involve the whole British Empire in q
war simply on that account.
II we must fight, it must be on larger
Issues than Czechoslovakia."
Those larger issues" Mr.. Chamberlain
minces no words in saying, are Ger
manys palpable plans for world control,
plans which are yelled but not concealed
by Hitler's unreasonable" demands on
C5echoslovakia for immediate and un-
conditional surrender OF Sudetenland.
The Prime Minister, with singular direct
ness, has disclosed the speciousness Of
dermany's case, 50 weakly set forth in
Httler's unconvincing reply to President
Roosevelt's appeal for peaceful settle
ment Of the Czech crisis.
Maryland is like some apologetic peo-
pie at their prevender-"a little diff
Guilty with my bridge-work."
Radio in Wartime.
An anxious world has been listening
recently to q history-making series of
radio broadcasts on the German Czech
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