The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-01

ing to- hear Fitler's address, They may form their
own conclusions from it and the official summary To
Americans his arguments feeble indeed. Poland
is branded the aggressor because mobilization order
answered his demand that negotiator with full
authority be sent to Berlin to settle the quarrel
tween the two nations. With notifications coming
dime dozen in Europe the past year the simple call
ing of troops cannot be looked upon belli.
For months all the nations of Europe have been mo-
bilized more or less completely In this respect the
present conflict differs greatly from that of 1914 when
mobilization 18th hour order Twenty-Five years
ago, in fact mobilization was regarded as synonymous
with The huge and complicated war machines
geared to timetable not of days but one might
say of hours. halfdays advantage in mobilization
might mean the difference between victory and de-
feat Kaiser and Gar if they had their doubts at the
very last moment were helpless before the argument
that the mobilization button had been pressed, the
armies in motion and the march could not be
halted without producing confusion and inviting de-
feat That is why the historians in their studies of
responsibility and guilt in 1914 have gone so
infinitely into the mobilization time table. Who started
modifying first?
The lightning of which people speak today is
not the lightning war; the Knockout blow of 1914 In
that year Germany thought of lightning directed
against her principal enemy France was to be put
out of business in six weeks the model of 1870 with
France out of the way the rest would be hopping up
Today's lightning in the Berlin scheme is not
directed against France Great Britain The light
ming blow is aimed at the hopelessy outclassed victim
of the moment, Poland. There is to be lightning
grab and a digging in Germany's big opponents,
France and Great Britain are to be confronted with
accomplished fact and invited to do their worst
At least that is how Hitler hopes it will work out.
But Britain and France pledged to aid Poland may
be expected to start up little man-nade lightning
of their own
Hitler in his address to the Reichstag took it 10
granted that this to be war between Germany
and Poland alone He counted Russia out of the pic
ture, said he not depending upon active italian
aid and warned the neutrals to remain neutral Such
war, Hitler dreams it, could have but out
come speedy victory for the Reich.
But in 1889 it is fight perish for England and
France. The example of generous captuation which
failed to the peace of the world for year
is fresh in the memory of the democracies.
day or two ago the veteran Walter Duranty
noted that when he was in Paris last year he could
feel that "the French webbing" He sees such
INDIGESTION today. In Britain, Chamberlain who staked
peace upon appeasement, is still in power but the
people in no mood for a second Munich. Writes
correspondent of the New York Times:
THE voter may not about Danzig or Poland,
but he has finally made up his mind that there will
be security for him his children long die
ators able to seize intimdate countries around
them the ordinary voter of this country is aroused
at last to stop Hitler matter what it costs"
1t is such determination, so strong in the
European democraces, that means the war which
began this morning is to be another World War Hit
Ter knew of the determination and of the pledges He
is reapng for the German people the whirlwind of
his and their own folly.