Evening star., 1940-10-06
Only Reuctionory War and Foreign Offices
Stand in Way Of Victory, H. 9. Wells Says

; VICTORY n. y.
have of wriggling out of the
struggle before the growing war
WEAKNESS of it's own people be-
comes effective.
And we British also will be
growing war-weary. Make no
mistake about that. To most
human beings war becomes very
speedily an overpoWering bore.
We did not want this war and
it bores us far more than it hurts
us. That is why we make peace
so easily. Anything at last to get
out of it, we say!
military Warfare Out of Date.
The ordinary Britisher is still
able to make his voice more
audible than his German equiva-
lent, and.he is likely to presently
be demanding not finish up the
war at any price tQuisling read
ers. please note that but oh!
Finish up these internal Ger
mans!' In other words, he is 60
ing to ask most emphatically for
that conclusive counter offensive
that neither air raids nor block
ade alone can give.
Two primary considerations we
have to bear in mind. One is
the traditional foreign policy of
Great Britain. from which we
have drifted in the last quarter
century, and the other is the
fact that military warfare
if Col. Blimp will forgive me-is
out of date
Take foreign policy first Since
the days of Joan of Arc Britain
has never fought alone on the
continent. but always with allies.
as part of larger belligerent
scheme. Since the Napoleonic
cataclysm Great Britain has al
ways assumed the role of the
liberator. She has been, until
recently. the asylum Of the polit-
ical refugee and the ally and
protector of every one who
seemed to stand for release and
freedom. In the great days of
Palmerston. Canning and Mel
bourne she had friends and allies
among the oppressed and con-
quered in every country in Eu-
rope
Fascist Sabotage Charged.
Plainly, if she is to make an
effective counterattack on Ger
many she must return to that
splendid tradition. In an excel
lent little pamphlet, "A Hundred
Thousand Allies If We Choose"
"Scipio" has insisted very ably
on this, and in companion pub
lication entitled "Anderson's
Prisoners" by "Judex,' the very
grave question is raised whether
Sir John Anderson, overworked,
possibly ill-advised and with hab-
its of mind acquired in India.
did not allow considerable
amount Of Fascist sabotage to
creep into the work of his de-
partment. He may have been
misled by his subordinates. just
as Stain, in his conception of
our western system of thought
and motive. is influenced by
Ogpu sabotage.
The scandalous ill-treatment
of anti-Nazi aliens who are only
too eager to fight, which is still
going on. is holding up the Brit
ish counterattack very seriously
and may cripple it altogether. 1t
is certain to lead to a consider
able alienation of American
sympathy. I believe that at the
core of this folly is deliberate
Fascist sabotage.
Hits mo RecriminatiOns.
At present a competent or
ganization is at work accumu-
lating mass of irrefutable evi-
dence against these reasonable
activities and as soon as possible.
for the good name of Britain
and the due prosecution of our
war. this network has to be ex-
posed and punished Much of it
can be easily traced, given any
thing like loyalty in official
quarters.
Some little time ago phrase
was circulated in the interests of
culpable officials. There were to
be mo recriminations." No re-
examinations! This when hum
dreds of people are being killed
daily and the national outlook
iInperilled through the needless
prolongation of the present in
decisive phase of the war! When
the reasonable work is still going
on briskly! These British Fas-
cists, I say, are being traced, and
at the very earliest moment they
must be hauled out and dealt
with. The more clearly they re-
alize this, the better for them.
As we'll might a burglar caught
with the goods upon him or a
killer with blood on his hands
plead mo recriminations."
War a Changing Process.
And next it has to be under
stood that military operations
are out of date in this war. This
may sound a hard saying. But
war is a process that changes
continually. and the military"
mind is a mind trained for a Ger
tain type of warfare that devel-
oped in Europe between the ma
tion states of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries and Is now
completely out Of date. As Mr..