Evening star., 1939-08-13
Germany Parades Armed Might
On Eve of the Polish Crisis
Permits London and Paris to Get Figures on Huge
Concentrations in Effort to Achieve
Bloodless Victory
Rv Constantine Rrocu
By Constantine Brown.

the Nazi Congress which assemblies at
Nuremberg in September another 're-
lntegration of the Reich" has been
strengthened lately by the anxiety of
Premier Chamberlain to get rid of his
parliament, which was of the opinion
that Britain could not allow the Axis to
perpetrate the same kind of triumphs
as in September, 1885,
View of Might Invited.
The spectacular concentration of Ger
man forces of the Axis is seen as intended
to act as black jack to force the gov
ernments of London, Paris and Warsaw
into submission. 1t is for this reason
that the German general staff allows
foreign observers and agents of the
British and French intelligence services
to have thorough look at Germany s
war preparations. 1t, is recalled in mill
tary quarters that in July, 1898, the head
OF the French air forces, Gen. Vuillemin,
was received in Berlin with unexpected
cordiality by Field Marshal Goering, who
showed everything that could be shown
in connection with German aviation. The
French general was so impressed by what
the Reich had done in the air that he
wrote most pessimistic report which
contributed to great extent to the
Munich surrender. Now the leaders of
the Reich permit official and unofficial
foreign observers to have glimpses of the
entire German military machine-tanks
artillery foot and mechanical forces, ETC.
German diplomacy has learned since
last year how to play on the frail nerves
OF the democratic" nations. They be-
lieve that if they keep up their terroristic
methods they conceivably may obtain
Danzig, the Corridor, and the solution of
the colonial problem without having to
use their military machinery
And there are sufficient indications that
the nerves of the British cabinet are
reaching the point where they will be
willing to talk appeasement once more.
The latest suggestion made in London to
the German Minister of National Econ
omy Wohlthat was interesting, though
not acceptable. The Germans were told
unoff1clally that if peaceful settlement
OF the present outstanding problems
could be reached, Britain would be pre-
pared to allow Germany a $4,000 600 Ooo
credit IN raw materials, payable in manu-
factured products which Britain would
undertake to see placed advantageously
IN the world markets.
Polish Nut Tougher.
Hitler sees in the offer of the British
a clear sign that little more pressure,
little more terrorism, might bring forth
the desired response from Peace-loying
Premier Chamberlain. Of course, it is
realized in Berlin that the Polish nut will
be more difficult to crack than was the
Czecho-Slovak. The Poles, after having
obtained the unrestricted promise of help
from Great Britain and France, intend
to make these two powers live up to their
engagements. They say that their people
are quite willing to sacrifice themselves
and bear the brunt of blitzkrieg 0ieht-
ming war; in order to give the necessary
Time to the British and the French to
prepare themselves thoroughly for an ef-
fective attack against the Reich.
The Polish government went so far as
to suggest compromise of the difficult
problem OF Russias participation in the
stop-Hltler bloc. They proposed that
Russlas participation be confined to al
lowing the eventually crushed Polish
troops to withdraw to the U. S. S. R. ter
rltory in order to reform their units and
start the war afresh. This suggestion has
been turned down by the Russians, with
the observation that the Soviet govern
ment does not want to play the boarding
house mamma to troublesome non-paying
guests.
Japan Involved in Threat.
Because of the determination of the
Poles to fight it out rather than surren-
der, Hitler has decided it is necessary to
bring to bear on the British Empire more
pressure than last year. Hence the talk
about the alliance with Japan-an al
lance, it is intimated from Berlin, which
automatically would bring the Nipponese
Empire into any war in which the Reich
and Italy were engaged.
The admission of Chamberlain, in the
House OF Commons on August 4, that
Britain had no means of defending her
Pacific possessions and her interests in
China while the European situation con-
tinued to be critical was exactly what
Hit ar expected to hear in order to press
As demands for an immediate solution
OF all the outstanding problems. He be-
lieves that the spectacular massing of
forces three times stronger than last
year on the eve of Munich will force the
Western European powers into submis-
sion. This is why such accurate and de-
tailed statistical data regarding the pres
ent strength of the Italian-German
armies are being made available to all
and sundry.