Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-09
MAGAZINES SEE WAR COMING
Findings of p Authoritative Writers Who Have Reached the
Conclusion That Peace Is Impossible at This Point
Are Diaested by Reviewer

YER
coming little more than q yassal
OF Berlin" Both writer's, nonethe-
less, make 1t clear that the tradi-
tional Spanish neutrality can no
longer be counted on. France now
does not face simply on Rhine, mill
tarily speaking. She will also be
obliged to face toward the Pyrenees,
Articles Dealing
With the Near East.
AS for Germany, by all these ar
ticles, her hand is everywhere. and
everywhere concerned with foment-
ing strife. In the July Current His
tory John j. Smertenko writes of the
manner in which the Nazis have in
cited the anti-Semitic feelings of
tne Arabs, placing the blame for the
prevalent rlotlng Squarely on Ger
man agents, The title of the piece
Is Power Politics Over Palestine"
There Is similar story in the JULY
Asia written by Albert Viton; it re-
peats the charges made against Ger
many in Palestine and extends them
to cover Iraq and Syria. Through
out the whole Near East, one gathers.
Nazl organizations are busy dis
trlbutlng arms and creating anti
/ British feeling, and, according TO Mr..
/ Vlton, the German efforts along this
| line have been vastly more success
full than the Italian. The Germans,
ne says, proceed through generous
bribery and place not the slightest
value on Arab sympathy with their
cause . so long as they can get
! the Arabs to riot"
/ The Drang
Mach Osten.
/ AS for Germany's ambitions and
activities in Eastern Europe. there
Is a mastery review of them in For
eign Affairs under the title. The
! 'Drang Mach Osten' Continues" The
author is Elizabeth WiSkemann, au-
/ thor of 'Czechs and Germans" 1t
makes 1t clear that in Hungary,
( YugoSlavla and Rumania a veritable
/ cauldron of Nazi propaganda is
/ Seething and that German penetra-
/ ton of these countries is being fos-
tered by every devlce-laWful or the
| opposite. In all these lands, SAYS the
article, the constant note struck by
| the Nazis is vilifcation of the
/ democracies. In Rumania, Yugo-
slayla and Hungary it tells us, the
press is forbidden to cast any aSper-
slons on Germany or Italy. though
it is free to abuse the Western
powers" And it adds. The humili-
/ alton . at Munich made it easy
for Nazi propaganda to paint them
| as decadent.'
British Quiescence
Is Analyzed.
/ Readers of course have heard of
these efforts in Europe before. Not
, so we'll known are Germany's
schemes in Africa. These are ex-
posed in piece in Foreign Affairs
by Jan H. Hofmeyr, former labor
minister in the Union of South
Africa. He describes the deter
mined efforts being made by Berlin
to create discord in the former Ger
man colonies with the end in view,
as he sees it, to furnish Germany
with a preteXt for intervening, much
as she did in Czecho-Slovakia
In all these articles, as said ear
lier, the theme of German agrees
sion is complemented by that Of
British quiescence. Nom interven-
ton in Spain, appeasement at Mu-
/ Mich, vacillation in the Near East,
/ patience in Africa-these policies
have seriously endangered Britain'S
empire communications. Any one
of them, taken singly, might be JUS
! tilted for its pacific intent. Taken
( as whole. however, they have by
an evil paradox brought the whole
world to the verge of a major ca
. tastrophe.
Russia's Isolation
At an End.
AS for the Bear That Walks Like
/ Man, there Is less about it than
about the other nations of Europe.
/ Current History carries a piece on
/ the subject called Stain on the
| Spot Here the idea is developed
/ that the day of Russia's peaceful
| isolation is at an end and that Die
/ tator Stain must move into one
| or another of the Western European
| camps. The author, Boris Shub,
! prophecies that he will choose the
democracies, making the lineup Of
1914 virtually intact again. But
Mr.. Shub goes farther than this in
| predicting re-enactment of old
history. He says that such an align
| ment. in case of war, would result
in another Russian revolution. As
he sees it, If the Russian people go
into a fight on the side of democ-
racy against totalitarianism they
will end by demanding democracy
at home. And that will be the enc
Of the Man of Steel So Stain Is on
the spot, says Boris Shub.
Articles Dealing
With the Orient.
The following pieces on the Far
Eastern situation are recommend
ed: 1.-The Strategy Of Chang Kali
shek," by Walter H. Mallory in For
eign Affairs; How Japan Feels the
Strain" by Kurt Bloch, and MAX
ing North China Pay" by Nc
Cracker Fisher. both in Asia, and
"China's Last Line" by w. H Cham
berlain, in the Atlantic Monthly. In
all these there is but one theme, and
1t Is, war again-still war.
Ourselves in All
This Trouble.
Finally, Americas role In the
coming imbroglio Is considered In
several articles. In Foreign Affairs
Harvard President Emeritus Lowell
suggests, under the title, Frontiers
Of the United States" that We insist
that the European owners Of such
coastal islands as influence our de-
| Il