Evening star., 1941-09-28
By H. q. WELLS.

in this planetary war drama is distinc-
tive and unique. Lord Vansittart has
done the world great service in remind
ing Us Of the power and per-i3tence of
that tradition. 1t has made Germany
country of invincible uniforms. In most
civilized countries the fool of the family
went into the army; under that German
tradition the army had the pick of the
national brains. So it is small wonder
that if we look at things merely from the
point OF view of soldering, the Germans
can represent the last two years as IN
almost unbroken succession of victories.
Eut these victories have taken them no
Whcre at-sn.
With infinite reluctance, the great
world outside the glamour OF the German
tradition has had to turn from its essen
tial ta5i of a liberal adjustment to the
now conditions of lie that the abolition
of distance. the release of mechanical
power and chronological unemployment
have necessitated. 1t was already
world in labor, staggering everywhere
tow2rd a profound social reconstruction,
when the German mentality asserted its
prediction for war. Germany behaved
like a man who tries to simplify dis
pute, already confused and angry. by
drawing a revolver and firing lcc-c. So
that now, as a matter of lmmedl1te
urgency, we have all of us to think war.
serve war and make war until that re-
volver is out of action.
Eut that does not mean that world
revolution stops. 1t is greater process
than the war. 1t may even he Quickered
by war. The Germans. because Of their
belligerent obseSsions. do not realize this.
They try to make the revolution their
instrument. whereas it is their master.
Everything. they think can be used as
weapon. They tried 10 use revolution
as weapon in 1917. when they smuge,cd
Lenin back TO Russia. Today they are
reaping the harvest OF BreSt-LitoVSK.
Everywhere, because of their insistence
on mere aimless conquest, they are eX-
posing their friends. the reactionaries,
to the gathering fury Of the masses.
Everywhere, we who are really fighting
for world peace and world order realize
that he who is not with us is against us.
Now we know them. Let Ireland. let
Japan and Frances friends everywhere
ponder that.
Problems of Germans.
I have always insisted that Germany
cannot possibly win this war. I have
always believed, and found no reason in
anything that has happened, to doubt
that man for man, the German infantry
is not patch on the disciplined cannon
fodder of the Hohenzollern regime. 1t is
accustomed to advance under the shelter
of tanks and airplanes and that is only
one degree less enervating than trusting
to entrenchment.
The quality is lower, and what of the
quantity2 The Germans may be running
short of oil and war material, but still
more rapidly must they be running short
of trained men. This war, as war, is
becoming a war of exhaustion and the
Germans are being exhausted.
Germans are being used up in every
country they now occupy as conquerors.
I follow Liddell Hart in realizing the
immense possibilities of auxiliary in
surrection at every point at which we
may counter-attack. 1t is inconceivable
that our intelligence services are not in
close contact with the latent elements
of revolt from Murmansk TO Central
Africa
Decisive Striking Power.
Today we have command of the sea,
we have the submarine problem we'll in
hand, and we have mastery of the air.
That means a more or less complete
blockade is possible. But it means some
thing far more effective than that. 1t
means immense and decisive striking
power. The German conqueror today
for it is Vansittart's militarist Germany
I am thinking about and not its poor
demented and occasionally very en-
barrassing mascot Hitler-is in an al
most precisely parallel position to Ma
poleon at his elimination. He has spread
himself out on an immense frontage
exposed to our attack and he cannot