Evening star., 1939-10-06

has read that article and can re-
member it later on.
He will then probably box the
ears Of these military soothsayers.
But, unfortunately, that will be i'm
possible, since these people never
will put their theories on inferority
of the German infantry to a per-
sonal test on the battlefields, but
will merely describe these qualities
from their editorial sanctums.
PrOpagandistS Have
No knowledge of Realities.
Six weeks-let us say IA days--of
concentrated shellfire and these war
propagandists would soon think diff
ferently. They always are talking
of the necessities of world politics,
but they have no knowledge of
military realities.
I do know them and for that rea-
son I consider it my duty to speak
here, even at risk of the warmonger
again seeing in my speech evidence
of my anxiety and symptoms of the
degree of my despair.
Why should this war in the
west be fought? For restoration of
Poland? Poland of the Versailles
treaty will never rise again. This
is guaranteed by two of the largest
states in the world. Final reor-
ganization of this territory and the
question of establishment of the
Polish state are problems which will
not be solved by war in the west,
but exclusively by Russia on the
one hand and Germany on the
other. Furthermore, the elimina-
ton of the influence of these two
powers within the territories con-
cerned would not produce a new
state, but utter chaos.
The problems awaiting solution
there will never be solved either
at the conference table or in edi-
torial offices, but by the work of
decades. 1t is not enough that
few statesmen who are not really
concerned with the fate of the peo-
pie affected get together and pass
resolutions. 1t is necessary that
some one who has himself a share
in the life of these territories takes
over the task of restoring really
enduring conditions there. The
ability of the Western democracies
to restore such ordered conditions
has at least in recent times not
been proved.
Germany Has Laid
EO,Ind q finn for prncnors<y
The example of Palestine shows
it would be better to concentrate on
the tasks at hand and solve these
in reasonable manner instead of
meddling with problems which lie
within the vital spheres of interest
OF other nations and could certainly
be better solved by them. At any
rate, Germany has in her protecto-
rate OF Bohemia and Moravia not
only established peace and order,
but, above all. has laid the founda-
ton for a new economic prosperity
and increasing understanding be-
tween the two nations. England
still has much to accomplish before
she can point to similar results in
her protectorate in Palestine.
One realizes that it would be
senseless to annihilate millions of
men and to destroy property worth
millions in order to reconstruct
state which at its very birth was
termed an abortion by all those not
of Polish extraction. What other
reason exists? Has Germany made
any demands of England which
might threaten. the British Empire
or endanger its existence? On the
contrary, Germany has made no
such demands of either France or
England.
But if this war is really to be
waged only in order to give Ger
many a new regime, that is to say.
in order to destroy the present
Reich once more and thus to create
a new treaty of Versailles, then mil
lions of human lives will be sacri-
feed in vain. for neither will the
German Reich 60 to pieces nor will
a second treaty of Versailles be
made. And even should this come
to pass after three, four or even
eight years of war, then this Sec
ond Versailles would once more be-
come the source of fresh conflict
in the future.
In any event, a settlement of the
worlds problems carried out with
out consideration of the vital in
terests of its most powerful nations
could not possibly, after the lapse
of from 5 to 10 years, end in any
other way than that attempt made