The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-03
Hitler Master Of Western
 Europe
By JOSEPH W. GREGG. JR.

United Press Staff Correspondent Berlin, Sept. 3 (UP)-At 445 A. Berlin, Sept. 3--(UP)-At 4:45 A. Sept. l, exactly a year ago. Ger man bomber squadrons on the order to Hitler swept eastward across the Polish frontier to cripple Po- lands air force in a single lightning blow and launched what millions throughout the world now speak of as ''World War IT."
 In the intervening 12 months Hitler's armed forces have conquer ed seven countries with popula- tion totaling 85,00O,0OO persons and stand poised today on g great semi circular front stretching from the North Cape to the Bay of Biscay waiting to deal a final blow against the single foe remaining = Great Britain.
 l When that blow will come and how it will fall is the great enigma as the two principal belligerentS enter their second year of war. Attack Preparations Ready The known facts of the prepara- tions for this blow are:
 | That German armies of un- revealed but immense strength are massed in northern France, Bel girm, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway.
 2-Concealed and camouflaged by wheat fields, woods and other make shift means, hundreds of airf1elds in northern France and the other points of this immense front are packed with fleets of German bom- bers ready to take of for raids on British harborS, airdromeS, indus trial centers and factories.
 3-Huge coastal batteries are in- stalled along the Channel coast and have already shelled English towns and shipping conveys.
 4EGerman submarines and swift torpedo-carrying motorboats based on French, Netherland and Scan- dinavian harbors speed out daily to strike at Britain's vital shipping ; Whether Adolf Hitler has plan- l ned these preparations as a pre- . Jude to a huge scare invasion of Britain itself or is seeking to batter and starve Britain into submission 1 in a longer war is a question still unanswered here.
 To the German man in the street 12 months of this kind of warfare has brought readiness to believe in miracles. It has also brought him other things: food tickets. clothing cards, weak skinned milk, blackouts, air raid alarms, heavier and multiple taxes, skimpy res- taurant menus, badly heated homes. And it has taken away others: tea. coffee, candy, cream, cocoa, and hot bath, to mention only few.
 German Pride High
 But within 12 months he has seen Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxem- t bourg, Holland, Belgium and France capitulate to Hitler's armed forces | AS Germany enters the second year of war he is firmly convinced s that Hitler will do it once more this time against Britain. AnC s he hopes it will be over quickly.
 Whether the war will end witl a lightning victory in a few weeks or develop into weary, prolonged , struggle, Germany today faces the task of feeding itse1 fand nearly 50,000,000 conquered populations l this winter.
 The Nazis say that despite the blockade and the bitter winter ot last year, neither the Reich nol the conquered countries need feaI starvation. Germany, under Grand Marshal Hermann Goering's rigic economic regime, has accumulated vast stores of grain, meat and other foodstuffs, according to the Nazis Belgium and northern France ad- mittedly present the chief problems for this winter, but German quar- ters, while rejecting any obligation , to feed them, state that the Reich will, if absolutely necessary, give assistance.
 Balkans Still Problem
 Politically, the two greatest prob- lems which confront a continent : dominating Germany now are the administration of the conquered ter Iritories and establishment of stabil- ity in the Balkans.
 Conquered Poland has been part. ly annexed outright and partly es- tablished with government gen. eral" under a governor general which the Germans declare will bt the final status of the country. Other conquered nations, how. ever, are governed partly by polit. !, ical commissars appointed by Hit !. Ter, partly by military governors Alsace Lorraine and Luxembourg for example, are now governed by German political heads with g status in many ways parallel to that of German gauleiters. German GUS. toms posts have been moved for. ward to include these areas.
 Tn the Balkans, Germany sees z great field for economic expansion and its chief worry is that tht l centuries-old political animosities rivalries and jealousies there do no 3 flare up again into warfare tha would threaten this development
 For the time being at least Ger
 many has reached a loose under : standing with the other two coun
 tries interested in this same arei
 Russia and Italy = under whici
 Russian claims to Bessarabia hav
 been recognized and satisfied ant '' Germanys paramount economic 9 interest has been accepted by al
 three.