Evening star., 1938-09-20
The Bill of Wrongs.

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Hitlers terrorization OF Europe and
the destruction of Czechoslovakia are
the outstanding and immediate effects
Of the incredibly humiliating history
Just written in London and Paris They
are by no means the only effects.
Some Of the others are manifest, the
rest foreshadowed with disconcerting
clearness. Only the Czechs deceived,
deserted and distracted, but unbowed,
are left precariously to uphold the
theory that might is not right.
Meantime these truths seem to be
self-evident:
l. That the unsavory Hoare-Laval
plan to partition Ethiopia has found its
counterpart In the Chamberlain -Daladier
plan to buy peace by selling out Czecho-
slovakia.
2. That Hitler's ancient plan to re-
move France from the ranks OF great
powers has been accomplished No ma
ton that scuttles solemn mutual
assistance pact as the French have
WEIGHED on their Czechoslovak alliance
can any longer aspire to the trust Of
other states, small or large. Paris
henceforth speaks with the authority Of
Monaco. The Maginot Line has become
q rope OF sand.
3. That with humiliation OF Czechoslo-
vakia and degradation Of France, her
protector, the Little Entente, another
French security" device, is blown into
smithereens.
4. That no country or community con-
tanning q. German minority-Poland,
Danzig, Lithuania, Denmark, swit1er-
land. Hungary, Holland, Rumania-is to-
day sure it may not, in Hitler's good time,
suffer Czechoslovakia's fate.
5. That moral influence" of both
Great Britain and the United States, as
the great "Anglo-Saxon" bulwarks OF de-
mocracy, vanishes from Nazi calcula-
tions. Hitler can, and now will, proceed
to carry out his purposes mindless alike
of London realism" and Of Washington
"quarantines," or even Of admonitions
that reciprocal trade agreements are the
truth that shall make men free and
Britain, France and Soviet Russia
leave the sinking Czechoslovak ship, so
also he saw, to his special satisfaction,
the mightiest democracy Of them all,
America, turn from her sisters at mo-
ment when, as the sad annals Of this
week may record, the merest gesture OF
sympathy and good will might have
saved them from despair and surrender.
The U. s. S. r. can plead the out that it
was not obligated to help the Czechs
until the French marched to their aid.
g. That NaI territorial blackmail will
not stop in Central Europe, but rather,
that when Hitler's gains in Austria and
Czechoslovakia have, been consolidated,
he will seek other fields to conquer.
Restoration Of colonial empire in Africa
remains to be achieved. The Monroe
Doctrine has long rated in German eyes
as an intolerable international preten-
sion. Demand for rights" for "our op-
pressed brethren" in the German prov
inces' of Brazil or elsewhere in Latin
America may any day occur to DR..
Goebbels as an idea worth selling to the
NaNs.
In Chapter IA of "Mein Kampf," de-
voted to Eastern Policy" Hitler not only
confesses the hypocrisy Of the theory
that Czechoslovakia must be dismem-
bered, to "liberate" the sudeten Ger
mans but reveals his program for sys-
tematic Central European conquest. He
writes:
We have. ceased to enjoy any posi-
ton comparable with other great
states = " All this must be remedied
by the National Socialist movement,
which must attempt to remove the
disproportion between our population
and our area 1t is the duty of
National Socialists to cling stead
fastly to our aims in foreign policy,
which are to assure to the German
nation the territory due to it on this
earth. This form of action is
the only one which could justify
bloodshed In the eyes of God and of
future German generations. = We
turn our eyes eastward. We
have finished with the pre-war policy
OF colonies and trade and are going
over to the policy of acquiring terri
tory which shall extend the area of
the mother country itself For
Germany the course to be adopted is
clear. She must never allow two
continental powers to arise in Europe
She must regard any attempt to or
ganize a military power on her from
tiers, even though merely in the form
OF state capable of becoming mill
tary. as an aggression against Ger
many, and must consider it not only
right. but duty, to prevent 1t by
every means, even to the extent of
taking up arms. Nothing will
grant us land and life except the
power OF a victorious sword.
That is the ruthless, cold -blooded Ger
man doctrine Of aggrandizement by in
tnaidation and force, to which imperial