Evening star., 1938-10-02
Berlin
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of peace yesterday resolving on consul
tation Ito deal with any other ques-
tions that may concern our two coun-
tries" caused just as great JOY in Ger
many as did the four power agreement
for cutting off Sudetenland from
Czechoslovakia.
Prime Minister Chamberlain now Is
rated here as in class with Premier
Mussolini as a friend of Germany.
Hopes for Daladier Accord.
With the Hitler Chamberlain declar-
alton as a precedent, official hopes ran
high for achievement Of similar un-
derstanding at an early date with
Premier Daladier. The French Pre-
nlier made a deep impression on Ger
man statesmen.
Reichsfuehrer Hitler from the be-
ginning of his regime left no doubt OF
his dominant desire to come to an
amicable arrangement with the Brit
ish Government. He also began tc
make advances to France.
In his speech September IL closing
the Nazi Party Congress at Nurnbers
he once more held out an olive branch
to the French by reiterating GERMANY
remuneration of all claims upon Alsace-
Lorraine.
He followed this bid with his solemn
assurance in his Berlin Sportspalast
speech September 26 that Czechoslova-
kias Sudetenland constituted Ger
many's last territorial demand in Eu-
rope.
Even as the results of the four-power
conference in Munich were being
awaited, a foreign Office spokesman
told this correspondent:
With this assurance We have of-
Tered Daladier something better than
the system of alliances concluded by
his predecessors"
Date of Next Quest Immaterial.
Just how soon the next quest-for
reacqulsltion of Germanys war-lost
colonles-will be launched is re-
garded as immaterial now.
Germany, after the World War lost
colonies totaling more than 1925 900
square mlles-n1ore than five times the
area OF the new, greater Germany.
Inc matter is under discussion. and,
from certain signs, in fair way toward
a solution satisfactory to GERMANY
Germany's pride was badly hurt
because the treaty Of Versailles in
effect declared Germany unfit to be a
colonial power.
The first step toward the redemp-
ton OF this injustice, as the Ger
mans call it, must be an acknowledge
ment by Germany's former adversaries
that she is fit to be colonial power.
from the satisfaction with which
foreign office spokesman at Munich
told this correspondent that the colo
NAL problem was discussed at the first
session OF the big four" statesmen, it
seemed Germany's claim to be a colo
NAL power must have been recognized
German correspondents went even
1urther in their discussions. Several
German editors asserted they believed
That the colonial problem was being
Solved in a manner satisfactory tn
Germany"
One plan they said was being dis
cussed was for Germany to obtain a.
99-year colonial lease.
They said they believed that by
waiting patiently until the question
was understood fully in the world Hit
Ter would finally get a full title as
signed to him. Meanwhile there is
plenty OF work to do in Europe.
Austria Still Undigested.
Germany has not fully digested AUS
tria AS yet and now, less than seven
months later, Sudetenland begins join
ing her. The new Germany is larger
than Germany proper before the
World War.
1t is not only the administration that
must be taken over-the new popula-
ton must be made over ideologically.
For Nazi-ism is not only political
regime; it is first and foremost a
philosophy of life.
That philosophy includes unques-
tioning acceptance of the point of
view that the nation is everything,
the individual nothing; that all power
Is vested in the leader and his ap-
pointees; that every manifestation of
public and private life must be sub
ordinated to the state; that racial
purity is the inexorable pre-condition
for national greatness.
1t will take some time for these
ideas to become the creed of every
Austrian and every Sudeten German.
Economically the acquisition of Su-
detenland should prove an asset to
Germany, especially from one point
of view-that of bringing foreign ex-
change into the country.