Evening star., 1939-03-16
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That Hitler today bestrides "Mittel-
Europa" like a Colossus of Rhodes
shocks and stuns the world because
the obliteration of the Czecho-Slovak
state was accomplished in the twin
king of an eye and without warning.
In fact, this cynical remapping of
Central Europe should have occa-
stoned no surprise whatever, except
perhaps as to its timing.
The Fuehrer can plead In extenu-
alton, If he conceived there were any
occasion for 1t, that anybody who
ever took the trouble to read "Mein
Kampf" should be aware that cur
rent land-grabbing is strictly in ac-
cord with the expansion plans laid
down in the volume which is both
the Nazi bible and the official pro-
gram of German aggression. q
On pages 280 and 281 Of the Amer
lean version of that oracular book,
Hitler says:
No nation on earth holds a
square yard of territory by any
right derived from Heaven. From
tiers are made and altered only
by human agency Strength
alone constitutes the right to pos
sess. Therefore, just as our fore
fathers did not receive the land
In which we live as a present from
Heaven, but had to fight with their
lives for it, SO in future nothing
will grant us land and life for our
nation except the power of a VIC
torious sword.
Acquisition Of colonies will not
solve the question of extending the
space which our people are to in
habit In Europe. Nothing, in fact,
will solve it but the gain of terri
tory for settlement, which shall
extend the area of the mother
country itself. We are where we
were six hundred years ago. We
turn our eyes eastward. We have
finished with the pre-war policy
OF colonies and trade and are 60
ing over to the land policy of the
future. When we talk of new lands
in Europe, we are bound to think
first of Russia and her border
states.
Occupation OF Moravia and Bo-
hemia, their reduction to the status
OF German "protectorate," the vas
sal independence" of slovakia, a
Carpatho- Ukraine dominated by
Hungary with Nazi connivance and
acquiescence-all these lightning
like moves assume their real signif1-
canoe when viewed in the light OF the
policy avowed in my Battle" They
are Enthusiastically preliminary to the
bigger and ultimate game that Hitler
is playing-control or possession Of
the Ukraine, either through estab-
lishment Of pseudo-sovereign state
under Nazi tutelage or outright in
corporation in the Reich.
Continually since Munich Europe
has echoed with reports that Hitler's
next step toward the Black Sea would
be to encourage from the EASTERN
most end of CZecho- -Slovakia, viz,
Carpatho- Ukraine, an agitation for
great independent" Ukrainian re-
public, which would embrace all the
oppressed" Ukrainians-1,O 100000 in
Rumania, 100000 in Poland, and
35,000,000 in the Soviet Union. At
Nuremberg in 1886 the Fuehrer pro-
claimed that the timber, oil, mineral
and food resources of the Ukraine
would make Germany rich beyond
the dreams of avarice.
Nor is it to be overlooked that Hit
ler's Drang mach Osten plans, on
which he is now embarking with
seven-league boots, contemplate the
realization Of the Berlin n-to-Baghdad
Pan-German scheme that was
wrecked by the World War. This
grandiose project of a Greater Ger
many revives, too, the upset plans of
the German Army that inspired the
notorious Brest-Litovsk peace i'm
posed upon the Bolshevist masters of
lately Czarist Russia. BY no stretch
Of the imagination can lust for more
room in the Eastern sun be consid-
cred as appeased by the conquest Of