Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-31
The Same Old Stuff


dozenth time that 'it will now be
the turn OF England and France to
see what war is like" and that Ger
many is conducting an invincible
struggle forced upon her by those
bent upon her full destruction,
Chancellor Hitler celebrated the
seventh anniversary of his accession
to power by another characteristic
diatribe against the Reichs foes. 1t
has the ring of Illustration about it.
The Sports Palace address last
night was accompanied by the usual
protestations of Germany's blame
lessness for the grim contest she is
now Waging for the mastery of
Europe.
Hitler's harangue, which boils
down to "Gott strafe England" out
burst of familiar ferocity is thus only
the latest example of the dialectics
to which he has accustomed his sub
servient and fanatical Nazi followers.
1t will be searched in vain for new
idea, except perhaps the grotesque
charge that 1.-The true aim of old Mr..
Chamberlain is the complete destruc-
ton of the German Reich" The
speech reeks with threadbare dam
nations of "the fruits of Versailles"
and describes Germany as "a nation
of have-nots surrounded by those
who have all, but refuse to surrender
what is vital to U.s."
Adolf Hitler knows perhaps better
than any other man in Europe that
this is bare-faced untruth. He knows
that British and French statesmen
repeatedly, in one form or another,
have offered to reconsider the I'M
statesmanlike peace" imposed upon
Germany in 1919, and even to discuss
colonial restoration. But he also
knows that the allied powers are
unwilling to discuss a new deal with
a Germany which comes to the con-
ference table with pistols pointed at
allied heads.
The western powers are not unfa-
miliar with "Mein Kampf." They
have read there that the avoWed
purpose of Nazi Germany is to take
by force what she cannot obtain
throughs the peaceful processes of
international intercourse. They have
seen Hitlerized Reich which brazen-
ly and Systematically has nodded
its policy along that line, beginning
with the remilitarization of the
Rhineland. They have not forgotten
that Hitler Numbered to his puppet
Reichstag last September that Ger
many had spent ninety billions of
marks in military, naval and air
preparations during his six years
in office. The allies know that during
the year and a half ended in Sep
TENDER, 1899, this colossal war
machine had enabled the Germans
in turn to annex Austria, Czecho-
Slovakia, Memel and Poland. Who
could doubt that other victims were
next on the NaZl uSC!
But what the allies realize most of
all is that Germany's repeated pledges
of peaceful intent and territorial
safety long since came to be worth
neither the paper on which they
were written northe breath in which
they were uttered. Prime Minister
Chamberlain had the evidence Of
demonstrable fact on his side when
he said, the day Britain declared
war on Germany over the Polish
invasion, that "no word of Hitler's
can be trusted" 1t is because Britain
is resolved to finish the intolerable
situation" which Nazi-ism has Gre
ated by it's tactics of aggression and
untrustworthiness and not because
she Graves the full destruction of
Germany" that the British Empires
people are now prepared to give their
last.
One wonders what Moscow thinks
of Hitler's allusion to the "atheistic
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over his success in coming to an
understanding with the Soviet Union
where the English failed. Hitler says
that in consequence he mo longer
has anything to worry about from
that direction" Is he perhaps re-
ferring to Finland's achievement in
showing UP the Red Army to be moth
ing but "a lath painted to look like
iron?"
Through the whole Sports Palace
speech runs an uncomfortable note of
blasted hopes-the hope of separat-
ing France from Britain not being
the least Of them-and a realization
that it is no longer the spirit of the
Munich surrender that pervades Lon
don and Paris, but a will and a power
to thwart German purposes to ter
rorize even powerful neighbors into
submission.
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