Evening star., 1938-10-16
Pan>German Dream Is Realized,
But Can Hitler Perpetuate 1t!
He Has Remade Map of Europe to Create an
Empire From Baltic to Black Sea, but
His Work Is Not Yet Secure
Rv S0ufinp RrOnp
Bv Constantine Br0wn.

On October /, Germany took possession
of the "bastion of Europe"-Czechoslovak
The carcass OF that republic, after Ger
many, Hungary and Poland have carved
for themselves the juciest pieces, will re-
main within Hitler's reach.
BY the end of this year the Czech nation
will be small state which has to dance
to the tune of Berlin. Its President and
government will be chosen from people
sympathetic to the Nazi regime; its police
force-for that is all that will be left of
the formidable l,l50,00O men constituting
the Czechoslovak Army-will dovetail with
the German forces; and economically, it
will seek a customs union with the Reich
because most of the raw materials necessary
to the industries remaining in the Czecho-
slovak republic are in the possession of
Germany. The hops for Pilsen and Bud
weiss beer and the iron for the Brno and
Pisen industries are no longer controlled
by Prague
The map of Europe can be traced as fol-
lows: large island in the Atlantic
Great Britain with worldwide interests.
Great Britain has never been an exclusively
European state. 1t became more so after
the World War when succeeding govern
ments found the economic, especially the
financial interests, of the country closely
linked up with the continent For 20 years
Britain played its age-old policy of balanc-
ing power in Europe-with turbulent results.
Sometimes it pitted France against Ger
many; at other times Germany against
France, and Italy against both In the
end it managed to be the unwilling con-
tributor to the formation of two dominating
totalitaran states-Germany and Italy.
Britain is Hopeful.
Great Britain is hopeful of recovering its
position as power with worldwide in
teresss. 1t will endeavor to consolidate its
interests in Asia. Africa and the Pacific in
the hope that through such a consolidation
it will once more become the umpire of
Europe. Its commitments on the continent
are, for the time being at least, reduced to
guaranteeing-with certain restrictions
French territorial integrity on the Rhine.
Western Europe extends as far as the
Rhine and Switzerland. France has become
what some of her statesmen advocated i'm
mediately after the war-a- wealthy and
important country with no commitments
except to her own nationals. The alliances
she has formed since 1918 to surround
Germany with a ring of steel" have COL
lapsed. They have cost the French people
many billions of dollars French gold built
up the armies of Poland Rumana, Yugo-
s!avia and Czechoslovakia. The famous
Bohemian mountain fortificatians, reputedly
stronger even than the impenetrable Magi-
not line, are now in German hands. They
cost the Czechoslovak government. that is
to say the French treasury no less than
s35O,0oo,o0O. All these expenditures have
been written off as total loss and credited
to the chapter experience France now
has no allies but condescending Great Brit
ain, which remains pledged to come to the
rescue only in the event of an actual
attack
East of the Rhine and the Alps there are
two totalitarian states dominating the rest
Of Europe without opposition. Hitler has
added this year some $4,000 square miles
and almost II 100000 people to the empire.
But this physical expansion is of less sig
nificance than the unparalleled prestige
which that empire has gained from the
bloodless victories at Berchtesgaden and
Godesberg. victories which ended with the
pact of Munich.
German Dream Comes True.
The dream of all an-Germanists-an
empire extending from the Baltic to the
Black Sea-has finally come true. The ex-
pense was approximately $4,000 900, ,0oo-
the cost of Germany's rearmament
The map east of the Rhine is now as fol-
lows: The Germanic Empire. extending
from the Baltic and the North Sea to the
Hungarian and Italian borders in the south
and to Poland in the east. South and east
OF these physical borders are kingdoms and
republics now subservient to Berlin Poland
has deep feeling of gratitude because it
was through Hitler's pounding of the table
that she obtained the Teschen district.
Hungary, which the narroW-sighted states
men at Trianon had dismembered, will
probably obtain its 100000 nationals in
corporated into Czechoslovaka after the
World War. This merely because Hitler
and Mussolini have said, 1T must be
DONE The regent of Hungary, Admiral
Horthy, remembers that for many years
Hungary's diplomats, hat in hand, visited
the French foreign Office asking for re-
vision of the Trianon treaty on the basis
of the Versailles treaty itself. And he also
remembers how Poincare told the Hun
garian statesman, Count Apponyi, in an in
terview in Paris Monsieur lie comte, vous
m'ennuiez' Count you annoy me) Not
only fear but gratitude will throw Hungary
into the arms of Germany.
Carol Trying to Be Cagey.
Rumania, with its dictator King Carol,
has been trying to play cagey game. 1t
was the last member of the Little Entente
to cling to its faith in Frances ability to
cover her chicks" During the weeks which
followed the June elections in Czechoslo-
vakia Carol refused to commit himself on
either side. But he personally, and through
his diplomats abroad let the French know
that Rumania's soul was with her ally. He
left a door open, however, by taking no
official stand.
Now under the pressure of Germanys
victory Carol will be compelled to fall in
step with Berlin. Rumania has no terri
torial ambitions but does not wish to return
to Hungary the Maqyar minorities incor.