Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
BY EDGAR ANsEL MOWRER,

by EDGAh ANSEL MOWhEh,
CHICAGO Daily News FOREIGN Correspondent.
The consolidation of the new
world order at Anglo-Saxon expense
and the effort to persuade the
American people into acceptance
of such Hitler-led world-these
are the twin aims of the intense
German. diplomatic activity of the
last four weeks, as successive de-
tails complete the picture traced
on the leading minds of the Amcri-
can administration.
A German master people" sitting
In the midst of host of serfs and
vassals. some of whom may appear
to have the status Of allies, this is
the new world order as it begins
to emerge from the schemes and
conquests of Adolph Hitler. And
naturally, the primary task is that
of realizing the great design, beside
which the ''United. Europe" of Henry
w of France and his minister, Sully,
look almost timid.
To this realization are two chief
remaining obstacles, the first being
the British Empire, the second, the
United States. In Hitler's idea,
the first is to be smashed to bits
and some of the pieces incorporated
In the new order" while the second,
actually only half hostile, is to be
persuaded, bribed and inundated.
And on this account it is believed
that conflict on new battlefields
is likely to fame high in the i'm
mediate future, unless the Fuehrer's
diplomats can repeat the bloodless
victories scored over Rumania and
Hungary in several places.
French Must Participate.
No new order" in Europe can be
really effective without French par
ticipation, if only because of the
key geographical positions held by
France and its African possessions.
This demands first, that the French
people, and not merely the transient
French rulers, accept the idea of
more or less permanent German
leadership. The French government
accepts this all right: the pathetic
figures of Bordeaux and Vichy swal-
lowed that bitter pill when they
chose capitulation to union with
Great Britain and further resis-
lance. But the stunned and misled
people are gradually recovering their
full consciousness and their critical
sense.
Recent reports to Washington
speak of a 80 per cent desire for
British victory and some belief that
1t may be achieved. One hears of
thousands of individuals and groups
listening passionately to radio
broadcasts from London of Free
France" badges worn by many, of
general dissatisfaction with the
curved spines of the rulers before the
conquerors. The French people seem
ever less likely to accept the new
order" and the French government
is believed to be opening a new
propaganda drive to induce them
to do so.
German ambition demands equal
" the right to utilize the air and
water bases of French North Africa
and the cooperation of the French
fleet. For, with these, an attack
upon the British becomes twice as
easy. Neither the French leader,
Marshal Petain, the French generals,
or the French admirals, are as yet
willing to lend the Germans military
cooperation, still less to give them
the use of French colonies in Africa.
Italy Against "Condominium."
The exodus of the French feet
from Toulon to Bizerta is evidence.
To sugar their pill, the Germans
invented the notion of con-
dominium" over the French African
possessions. And there they struck
two other snags. Fascist Italy. first
wife in the Berlin Fuebrer's political
harem, did not at all relish the idea
of admitting France, lest the charms
of the newcomer prove irresistible
to the master. And Fascist Italy
wanted Tunisia, not as a condomini-
UNI with France, but as an outright
conquest.
Therefore, the Duce, to prove both
his manliness and his indispen-
stability to the axis, launched his ILL
fated, in-prepared Greek offensive,
with the results that have been
registered.
Franco Spain, the second wife, was
also against the condominium idea,
this time in French Morocco. II
Spain were to lend even passive
assistance to the Germans in cap
turing Gibraltar, then the Spaniards
wanted a large slice of French
Morocco, and especially its Atlantic