The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-26
Editorial Comment
REDISTRIBUTION OF THE WORLD
N w Herald Tribune

Herr Won Ribbentrop ended his four-day con-
versations in Rome yesterday and departed
for Berlin, travelling in the luxuriously appoint
ed armored train, complete with every con-
venience, including a bomb-proof steel root
and a fully manned anti-aircraft battery at
either end. which SO wildly symbolzes me
comfort, peas and security of the new Eu-
rope. Nothing is announced, and the trained
seals of the axis press are very rich about the
colossal decisions in which the PROSPECTIVE
masters of the earth have again been privately
determining what is good for it. But IT the
new plans are not yet ripe for revelation
(some evidences, indeed, indicate that there
may even have been a hitch in them) there
are plenty of hints as to what was under dis
cussion.
Greece appears to have figured prominently
in the consideration of the immediate future;
and Nazi newspapers are now omihously dis
covering the same sort of criminality in that
country as they discerned in Norway on the
eve of the invasion. 1t lends color to the idea
of a big Mediterranean drive in prospect
But the conferees did not stop with immediate
detectives. All Europe, Africa, Asia and the
Americas were under discussion. Vague ru-
mors as to the conclusions are put about-the
whole of northern and eastern Africa to Italy,
except perhaps for a bit Of Algeria to be left
as a sop to the Vichy government If it is good;
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and southern Africa to be retained by Hitler.
Less is rumored about Egypt, Turkey and the
Arab world; those areas can be left to be di-
vided up after the war, since there is still
hope of their cooperation in winning it. The
United States, we are told, caused no concern;
even the bombing of London has not warned
this country to intervene in the war, and
Goering's own newspaper tells its readers how
readily the United States can be dealt with
by economic means after the war is over.
So this country's future, like that of every
other area of the earth, is solemnly decided
in secret conference by half a dozen men;
who will inform the millions whose lives are
to be affected only when it seems good to
them. One recalls a passage from Rausch.
ming:
That which is growing up with Germany
Is not an imperialism of the style of the
end Of the nineteenth century. The COM
ing order will be an upheaval Of dimen-
sions at present inconceivable. . The
new hegemony of the leading world power
has nothing to do with the ideas of a
liberal imperialism based on economic ex-
ploitation. ct will be) something different,
something deeply in earnest, something
demonic and impelling now underlying the
favorite slogans Of the right to a redis-
tribution of the world, of Germany's mis-
sion. The creative will now intervening
manifests a harshness in its ends and
means that Europe has not seen for Gen.
turtles.
1t seemed ''inconceivable'' when Rauschning
wrote. Here it is in action. Here is what is
before us. This country can accept it if it
likes. If not, there is but one answer to it
force. Here is the redistribution of the
world" and it can be stopped in but one way
by artillery and a readiness to use it. These
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can be translated into victory on the ground.
and Ribbentrop's armored train is its remind
er of how far the axis is from victory, so long
as Britain stands. But with victory achieved,
the decisions will be realities over night. Here
it is. Americans can take their choice. l