Evening star., 1938-02-04
Imperial Confusions
British Tories Are Swallowing Bait of Fascist Natons
Writer Asserts.
Writer Asserts,

trolled by Germans-must be included
In an enormous autarchial unit, or
ganised under military state socialism,
combining in itself al the necessary
resources and industrial equipment for
. self-sustaining conseries Of allied
states, and in . position therefore to
dictate to an ever-increasing territory
Of the whole globe.
The Italian dream, q expressed
time and again quite openly. and not
only In words but in action, Il to erect
= great Mediterranean Empire On the
corpse of the British Empire In Africa
and Asia Minor.
Ambition u japanese.
And the Japanese dream u to oust
the white man, and notably tho Brit
ish. out Of the Far East.
Now these are imperialistic dreams
directed against the greatest existing
world empire. But these aims are fur
thered, in the first line, by revolu-
tionary propaganda. The collabora-
ton between the new imperialisms
is not in the form Of . military
alliance but In the form Of an anti
Communist pact, and the first assault
Is not with gas bombs but with word
bombs. 1t Is directed at the ruling
classes in the countries which the new
imperialisms wish to break, and its
object Is to give them the jitters and
convince them that the new imperial
isms are their saviors from Commun-
Ism. The propaganda Is so obvious and
so naive, its object is 30 childishly ap-
parent. that one Is amazed that any
one can be taken in by it. But not
only are people taken in, the so-called
very best people are taken in. And the
Joker In the whole thing Is that these
new imperialisms posing as the bulwark
against communism, and by inference,
IS the defenders Of capitalism, are
openly and avowedly anti-capitalist!
They are military states in which
capitalism Is rigidly subjected to mill
tary aims. Unless they fail utterly,
they must, by their very nature, be-
come increasingly anti-capitalist, for
the whole conception OF capitalism is
incompatible with the totalitarian and
autarchial state. National Socialism
is national socialism. Its socialism,
as 1t happens, Is the socialism Of an
army. but an army Is not q capitalist
organization!
And, nevertheless. you see in Great
Britain today q group Of Tories, who
represent British imperialism and Brit
ish capitalism. swallowing the Ger.
man-Italian-Japanese bait with avid
ity.
This group is afraid OF An alliance
with Soviet Russia. They are afraid
Of the French-Soviet pact. They would
Like to see the French-soviet pact
broken. The London Times says more
effectively than the Voelkischer Beo-
bachter that it Is not OF interest to
Britain whether Germany takes Aus
tria and Czechoslovakia, eventually
controls Central Europe and goes to
war to conquer Russia.
But II Germany merely should get
Austria and Central Europe am will
ing to venture = prophecy-she won't
have to 60 to war to get what she
wants
Russia is already permeated with
German propaganda and German
| agents provocateur. The Germans
have always known Russia better than
ANY other European country does. The
German army and the Soviet army
collaborated closely well into the re-
gime Of Hitler.
Challenge 70 Democratic World.
Russia has no conception either of
Western democracy or Western cap
italism, and never has had.
And q united Germany, Central Eu-
rope and Russia Is the one combina-
ton that would represent . terrific
challenge not only to British imperial
ism, but to the whole liberal. capital
istic, democratic and Christian world.
They seem to forget that pre-Hitler
Germany also menaced Europe for
years with just the same threat. What
| Austen Chamberlain was afraid Of.
what horrifled the British at Genoa,