Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-23
Nazis Seen
-Encirrclinq
Themselves
No AEF' Needed to End
Hitler. MaOon Says,
BY PAUL MALLON

W Ter is throwing every war
energy into Russia as if that
were his only front. But the
items of news slipping out from
the other European quarters
suggest his greatest obstacle to
ultimate success lies in other
directions.
A Nazi general is killed in
the streets in France. An upris-
ing in Greece provokes slaughter
that cannot be concealed. The
news that the Italians are forti-
flying the Bremen Pass has now
been officially confirmed.
These and similar develop
ments disclose the fact that Hit
Ter in his successes has brought
on the condition he most dreaded
and desired most to escape-en-
circlement.
The Nazi system depel-
oped new methods of bringing
reluctant nations. peoples and
forces to its own service. The
idea of holding the French army
in prison to force the co-opera-
ton of the French government
and people, is an example.
QUT Hitler is finding that
- oppression and conquest cam
not be maintained successfully
through fear and force. There
comes time when conquered
peoples will resent and fight
oppression more than any pun
ishment that can be brought to
bear against them.
The breaking point is reached
when their enslaved condition
becomes so unbearable, that they
are willing to risk their lives and
safety to express their resist
ance.
Thus the battle line which the
Nazis face has been extended in
every direction. To survive and
maintain a living German nation.
Hitler cannot get along without
the voluntary cooperation of
the nations he has conquered.
LIE CANNOT get oil from
II Rumania, iron from Norway
and grain from the Ukraine in
quantities he requires on the
basis of fear and force that he
has established.
Sabotage cannot be stamped
out by this method and it is
bound to expand and undermine
his military conquests.
These obvious conditions belle
the new line of propaganda that
several public men including
Admiral Byrd and Interior
Secretary Ickes have been shift
ing into lately, namely. that Hit
Ter must be defeated on the field
of battle. The truth seems to
be he is defeating himself.
THERE are no battlefields
Il upon which new AEF
could venture with any reason
able expectations of success.
The problem of transportation
alone would prevent us from
attempting to throw an army
in behind the Russians. for
example.
The same difficulty has thus
far prevented and will no doubt
continue to prevent any Ameri-
can move to establish a base for
aggressive action in Africa or in
Europe.
Hitler has made his real
battlefield, a political and eco
nomic battlefield at every point
OF conquest and there is where
he will be defeated.
Napoleon also failed from too
many victories. He could con-
quer but be could not manage
his conquests. His system was to
establish relatives or authorities
securely bound to his interests
to exert his will over conquered
peoples.
DUT neither he, Hitler nor any
- one else has ever found, nor
ever will find. a way TO maintain
a successful dominating control
over reluctant people for the
long run.
The only possible way in
which control might be exerted
successfully, is to establish a
voluntary desire for cooperation
among them. 1t could be done.
For instance, if Hitler could Gre
ate a prosperity beyond that
which the conquered people pre-
viously have known.
He could do il if he could offer
conditions of living which they
would consider. more desirable
than what they have known.
Then he could draw from them
the spirit and cooperation nec-
essary to make his system oper-
ate successfully.
That is impossible now. He
has taken the opposite course.
He has ch o sen 10 dominate
rather than rule by reason. Thus
by his own tactics is der fuehrer
gradually defeating himself.
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