Evening star., 1939-10-29
Hitler Held Seeking
World Domination
BIZ Frederic J. Huskin.

Bishop of Winchester that bad peace
is better than what seems to be a good
war, great many people have more
than half hoped that the present Euro
pean conflict will soon come to an end
with the acceptance of Adolf Hitler's
overtures. Presumably that would mean
that Germany would be permitted to
keep what she has taken of Poland as
we'll as the other territories recently
acquired An assumption that this
would insure anything more than tenn
porary respite from German aggression
is grave mistake, according to Ameri-
cans and others who recently have been
in Germany and learned for themselves
the true ambitions of the German Chan
cellor. 1t is asserted that he wants moth
ing short of world conquest.
This does not mean literal German
occupation of the world by German
troops as Roman conquest meant actual
occupation of vast provinces by Roman
leglons, although there would be a large
number of German garrisons as we'll as
German civil officers. 1t does mean Ger
man political, commercial and cultural
domination with all roads leading to
Berlin.
When Prince Bismarck united the
German confederation and erected the
first German Empire after the Franco
Prussian War, he made it clear that he
had finished his course and that his
principal policy was one of peace It
was his ambition to have Germany recog-
nized as a force for peace in the world.
What he had wanted was unified Ger
man people and this he had attained.
Moreover, he and his successors held to
his policy and Europe enjoyed 40 years
OF peace, the most prosperous and pro-
gressive period which had ever been ex-
porienced. 1t was not until the Emperor
Wilhelm had forgotten the policy Of the
pilot he had dropped that Germany be-
came an aggressive military power which
precipitated the first World War.
All that has changed Hitler's anlbi-
ton. according to the fresh analysis in
hand. is as much broader than Bis
marcks as the world Is broad Those
who remember acutelv all the facets of
the first World War will remember that.
even then, there was much talk of Ger
man kultur and the desire of the Ger
mans to impress it on the whole world
for, as they said, the whole worlds good.
Hitler inherited that IDEA, has enlarged
upon it and has been taking progressive
steps to put it into execution.
Hprr Hlt1pr lS
If you like-but. nevertheless convinced,
that Germany is destined to rule the
world and he has gone about the busi-
ness with the coolest deliberation. He
starts with the immediate needs of the
German people He points out that their
home territory is too small for their
numbers and while they could survive
and with fair amount of prosperity in
time of peace, they could not in time of
prolonged war. Therefore, it was imper-
atlve that they have more space. That
was Bismarck's idea, too, but his wishes
were more modest
But Hitler does not stop with this need
OF space. He believes it imperative that
Germany be world power with freedom
ure to tell others what to do. For the
immediate space needs all Hitler wants
is the Ukraine and the territory eastward
to the Caucasus. She must have the
grain Of Hungary and the petroleum of
Rumanla To the westward, Hitler
wants, for immediate needs. the iron of
Northern France and her industrial re-
sources thero and o1Sn
and Belgium so as to have a seacoast.
Later and gradually, he wants not only
the former German colonies but the COL
onies of Holland and Belgium and some
of the French.
Hitler has explained his methods for
the world to hear. He has made no
secret of them. In "Mein Kampf" he
wrote: The shreWd victor will when
possible present his demands piecemeal.
He will be sure that people without
character-and such will be any people
that voluntarily submit-will see no suffi-
clent reason for again going to war over
any one OF his separate encroachments.
The more extortions of this kind are
docilely accepted, the more unjustified
will it seem to people finally to go to war
over new act of oppression, ostensibly
isolated but really recurring; especially
since they all in all have already put up
with so much more and greater abuses
in patient silence"
The manner in which Hitler has fol-
lowed his creed is fascinating. He took
Austria and stopped and gave guarantees
OF no further aggression. Things Gained
down. Then he took Czecho-S -Slovakia
and stopped and things Gained down.
1t was just as if he had said people who
had not gone to war for one isolated
move. would be even slower to 20 to war
on account Of the next This was be-
cause they could not foresee the entire
program Of which each separate move
was but one piece in a mammoth jigsaw
puzzle. His next move was to take Po-
land and he has it and now is ready to
make peace and let things quiet down
again, in accordance with his program,
before his next step. In the light of his
own words, this program is transparent.
The same policy would be followed in
respect to the eastward territories and
then Belgium, Holland and Northern
France.
Hitler has been depending on an old
theory of Western diplomacy that much
can be adjusted by diplomacy and that
should be tried before there is any resort
to arms. What the democracies have