Evening star., 1941-12-02
By HENRY ]. TAYLOR.
By Wireless to The Star and North Amer
lean Newspaper Alliance.

BY wireless TO Inc StaT ana NOEtn amer
lean Newspaper Alliance.
LONDON. Dec. al have just
reached London after a European
tour which took me to Stockholm,
Helsinki, Berlin, Bern, Paris, Vichy,
Madrid. Gibraltar and Lisbon. This
is the first point from which I have
been able to send this dispatch. 1t
was refused lin principle" bv the
censors in Vichy and I considered 1t
inadvisable to send it from Span.
The overwhelming fact in Ger
many is that Hitler knows that he
mental German point of view Hit
ler's basic conception is that there
are two wars raging in Europe at
the present time 1t is of the utmost
Importance that this be realized.
The first is the great civil war
of Europe which started in Spain
and is now at the climax of its mil
itary phase in the action between
Germany and Russia. This great
civil war is the only war that Ger
many planned This is the war the
Reich believed she could win and
Hitler believes that he has already
done so.
The other war is the inter
ocean" war which Germany did
not plan and always was determined
to avoid and can only lose.
Had the Reich been able to COM
plete her original strategy which
was to seize, organize and exploit
the continent of Europe through
the force of her political arm, using
a compact and highly mobile CEN
tral army to back it up, she would
have validated the economic. social
and racial promises with which Ma
I tional Socialism lured the German
people.
People Sense Futility.
But despite the fact that their
generals have supplied them with
the most dramatic succession of
military victories ever known in
history. the German people are apa-
thetlc. They sense that these VIC
tories have no value. They sense a
futlllty in the overall result.
The German people, of course, do
not know it, but the additional
"lnterOcean' war and the failure
to have the occupied countries en-
brace National Socialism-both Of
which came as profound surprise
to the Nazi acknowledgements
the most towering miscalculation of
modern times.
From the outset of her civil war
program. Germany depended on
British reaction toward continental
Europe similar to England'S non-
intervention policy toward Spain,
which was. in effect, an interven-
ZIONIST policy in favor of change
But with the fall of France and the
retreat from Dunkerque, Hitler did
not attempt to invade England. This
is fact which still puzzles most of
the British people. Hitler never in
! tended 10 invade England and was
not prepared to do so after Dun
kerque.
In addition to the fact that the
success OF such an invasion was
uouotluI, tneTe was no place Tor an
invasion of the British Isles in the
Reich concept of the European civil
war. Furthermore, an invasion at
tempt would have made the inter
ocean war certain and irrevocable.
In accordance with his usual Gus
tom, Hitler advertised an attack he
did not intend to make. The full
power Of the Nazi propaganda ma
chine was called into play to shout
We march against England in a
strategic move to stalemate the Brit
lsh on their island domain and thus
facilitate Hitler's conquest of France.
which then looked as though IT
might be harder than it later proved
to be.
The civil war unfolded as MANNED