Evening star., 1938-02-21
Hitler Warns the World.

Hitler Warns the World.
1t is the implications rather than the
actual phraseology of Chancellor Hitlers
grandiloquent account of Nazi achieve
ments and yelled aspirations that clothe
the three-hour address to his puppet
parliament alike with significance and
menace. Though the speech is devoid
OF anticipated categorical avowals of
further German aggrandizement in
Central Europe, typified by the Austrian
coup, it contains ample indication that
Nazi dreams Of augmented power, both
in Europe and overseas, are far from
gratified. De Fuehrer, on the contrary,
gives half-a dozen different govern
ments fair warning that he has impor-
tant accounts to settle with them on
that score, and that the Reich, might
conscious because of its own strength
and its ties with nations of kindred
1deology, envisions reckoning COM
mensurate with Germanys economic
necessities and racial conceptions. If
there is single strain that runs through
Hitler's language like a Wagnerian
motif, it is the thought voiced in "Mein
Kampf.' wherein, foreshadowing the
return of Austria to the German mother
hood" the future Fuehrer affirmed that
common blood belongs in common
Reich"
Hitler harped emphatically on that
theme Sunday. He spoke of the ten
million people of Germanic blood living
under alien flags, and, ominously enough,
for the countries concerned, suggested
that the swastika must one day enfold
them. Abiding to these temporarily
lost tribes as martyrs, he obviously had
chiefly in mind Czechoslovakia's three
million Sudeten Germans, on whose be-
half Berlin is next expected to move as it
has just moved to Nazify Austria. Every
government in Europe today, with a Ger
man minority problem on its hands, has
reason to shudder afresh over Hitler's
claim that Germans everywhere belong"
to Germany. Poland, Rumania, Hum
gary, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Dam
zig, Russia-eVen axis-linked Italy
once again on notice that within their
territorial boundaries are bleeding
borders" which the Nazis some day mean
to wipe out.
After devoting the opening portion of
his speech to detailed -gloriflcation of
Nazi accomplishments in the social, no.
litical and humanitarian realms-aboli-
tlon OF unemployment, raising of the
birth rate, removal of the shackles of the
Treaty of Versailles, rearmament, and
re-establishment of Germany as a world
power-the Chancellor dealt in broad
outline with those international issues
which have filled the world with new
alarm since Austria was harnessed to
the Nazi chariot. AS was to be expected,
Hitler reamrmed his love of peace"
though, he qualified, peace without
either weak resignation or dishonor-
able cowardice." AS was no less to be
expected. he thundered of the forts
and guns" ready to protect the Ger
man people" and, in the same saber
rattllng connection, digressed to declare
that despite the late purge of army and
foreign office, the government the ma
ton, the party and the defense establish
ment remain one and indivisible.
To Great Britain, France, the Soviet
Union and the League of Nations in
turn, the Nazi autocrat spoke plainly, if
neither sensationally nor especially pro-
vocatively. With the British. Germany
has only" the colonial question to ad-
Just, clear enough hint that its solu-
ton will be pressed. De Fuehrer re-
minded London that it is not such
crumbs as credits" which Germany
Graves from the rich Englishman's ia
BILE. From France the Reich will make
no further territorial demands-'in Eu-
rope" That disposes OF any designs on
Alsace-Lorraine, but it does not exclude
Algiers. Tunis, Morocco and the French
Congo from the orbit of Nazi have-not
hopes. The League is warned that Ger
many will never return to Geneva be-
cause it represents in Hitlerian eyes
merely machinery for perpetuation of the
"injustices" of Versailles.
Nor does the Reichstag illumination
produce any surprises for Russia. Hitler
is ready to cooperate with all nations
except the Soviet. 1t remains the Na1
paramount and irreconcilable aversion,
because Bolshevist ideas and doctrines
aim at poisoning the minds of the rest
Of humanity" and "hurling it into chaos"
Because he fears international Com
munization the Chancellor reafiirms the
desire Of Germany and Italy to see
Franco triumphant in Spain and Japan
victorious in China. Der Fuehrer thinks
Japanese defeat in the Far East would
not advantage either Europe or Amer
lea, but solely Soviet Russia" The
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