Evening star., 1940-07-17

Neutrality Low
Stotute Termed Barrier to
American Contribution
To Rights Of Man
TO the Editor Of The Star:
A classic witticism Of the past century
which postulates that the French make
war to maneuver and that the English
make war to defeat their enemy seems
to be vindicated by the Gallo surrender
at the instant the British really begin
to fight.
The tide Of war, If not turned, meets
now a spiritual continent in the Eng
lish nation, which, to be conquered,
must be inundated, race that is nearly
stranger to defeat. that does not
deem the loss Of a battle or Of CAM
paign the loss Of the war, and from
whom free peoples, including Ameri-
cans, received the foundation of their
liberty and social justice, the Bill OF
Rights.
Standing alone against power that
proclaims for the earth gospel Of sub.
| jugation by irresponsible force. that re-
| spects no right except that of superior
force, and that boasts Its determina-
ton to Danish freedom from the Europe
whose nations. excepting Russia, and its
collaboration, Italy, are its victims or
its intended prey, England is un-
daunted.
Russia is as mighty as it is disturb
ing factor in the political computation,
and may be the element that is COM
pelling postponement Of the battle of
England, for which the British are pre-
pared. The German proposed duarchy
of Europe, project which excludes Rus
/ sia and England, is so artificial and IL.
logical that 1t could govern Europe only
temporarily and by continuous military
control of the presently occupied lands.
Germany may now be meditating such q
revision Of the continental scheme as to
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Europe triumsirate Of powers whose OBJ
ject would be to reduce the remainder
| Of Europe, including England, to sa-
| trapies
A supreme obstacle to such reorgani-
zation of Europe is Constantinople. With
| Russia unbound, and stalking the Dar-
danelles, Germany might not dare to en-
10 t.
campaign against England while the sit
uations in the Balkans and in the Levant
are underlined Italy probably desires to
expand from Albania to European Tur-
key, If not to Constantinople, and to
acquire as much territory in the Levant
as may be possible. To conciliate Rus
STA. whose interests are endangered,
Germany and Italy may suggest annexa-
ton by Russia Of Persia, thus gaining
access to the warm waters of the Per-
sian Gulf.
Germany probably does not desire
present complications for Russia in the
| Orient; however, in the German econom-
ic vista may be the Dzungarian Gates,
near the frontier Of Mongolia, the open
Ing to the national road from Eastern
| Asia to the Occident in the depression of
an ancient inland sea that crossed Gen.
tral Asia from western China to the Cas-
| plan Sea. Genghis Khan trod this road
in his conquest of Western Asia, and
Germany may plan a military and COM
mercial railroad for the immemorial car
avan and migration road.
II, in the German scheme, Italy is de-
| MED Constantinople, Mussolini may de-
mand an italian protectorate for Egypt,
which would unite Italys African en-
| pire.
Germany, denied commercial access to
the seas by the British blockade, and
with possible famine threatening the Eus
rope it disorganized, must turn inland to
Asia for sustenance and this may not be
except with Russias sanction. The con-
| siderations in this respect are of so vital
a nature that Russia's attitude, if op-
posed to Germany's proposals, might
compel Germany to resign the war
| against the British Isles and propose a
peace to England that would not dis
turb the pre-war possessions Of the Brit
ish Empire, while barring England from
participation in the peace negotiations
with the continental nations.
Germany, which is -Bolshevist,
would thus be In position to oppose
any Russian pretensions to incorporate
Europe in German-Itaian hegemony,
and to propose German British en-
tente with respect to Eastern Asia,
whence Germany trusts to obtain basal
materials for its industries and possibly
territories for its military and economic
exploitation.
The fate of any such proposal, it is
| reasonable to assume, would be deter
mined by the position of the United
States, for except with economic assist
ance from America, England, If it might
not be defeated, could not defeat Ger.
many in the continent, unless the ma
tions, frantic from oppression and
starvation, turned against their cruel
conquerors. Apparently the supreme re-
quirement of England in these months is
tonnage. which only the United States
can supply, and this contribution to the
interests Of world law and the rights Of
| man Is possible only If the neutrality