Evening star., 1941-06-20

ing a period OF IA years Wnen ne
represented the United States not
only as a commercial attache but as
trade commissioner and delegate to
important international trade con-
ferences. Mr.. Miller tells for the
first time the inside story of how
Nazis operated commercially and
what is in store for American buSl-
ness and agriculture not only inside
this country but in Latin America II
the Nazis should come out OF the
present war victorious.
Mr.. Miller tells an amazing story
OF Nazi pressure methods and his
books leaves one with feeling that
a Nazi victory would bring America
TO her knees before Hitler CONNER
cially throughout the world and
that this will mean an invasion OF
Latin American markets with con-
sequent political control of most of
the countries near the Panama
Canal.
Sees Victory for U. S.
Mr.. Miller foresees, on the other
hand, Hitler defeat if America
enters the war. He writes:
every German at heart thinks
OF three things as inseparably
Joined together-war, defeat and In
fation. The day we declare war will
be the day the Nazis know they are
beaten. They will continue to put
up a strong resistance, but their
hope of world dominion will be
gone. Every one of them will Sc
eretly endeavor to escape the final
defeat with as little personal loss
and suffering as he can.
I'VE can win, but not IN the
hah-hearted way we are now fol-
ipwfng.
"I have known literally thousands
Of Germans IN government and pri-
vass circles. I never met one who
was fully confident Of the success
OF the Nazi experiment. never
met one except Hitler himself who
gave me the impression that he was
loyal TO the Third Reich that he
would cheerfully give up his life in
tts defense. The German people
are stin obedient, but not enthu-
Eiastic. They will follow Hitler as
long as he seems victorious, but
With their fingers crossed. II dis
ester comes, If they face defeat,
Then the latent hidden distrust will
Ytse quickly to the surface"
Must Reconstruct Europe.
Envisaging IAN American VIC
tpry"-for Mr.. Miller thinks Amer
ea will participate in the war &C.
tively-the former American official
says the trouble with the United
States In the 1920s was that it
didn't assist aggressively enough in
postwar reconstruction and that ii
must be prepared next time to Use
It's vast money and resources to
reconstruct Europe as customer
for our products.
I'VE must adopt as Nation" he
writes. "the philosophy OF our sue
cessful businessmen. They under
stand how to take risks, how to
cut losses and then forget them
They do not cherish grudges against
dead-beat customers. They write
them off their books, charge 1t to
profit and loss and go after more
business. We had the right idea in
our postwar expansion in the boom
years, only we loaned too quickly
boo Unfortunately and without
supervision and control. Then when
things began to look black in 1929
we stopped loaning and wanted our
money back. That was just the
time when we should have put In
more money.
"Some people still begrudge the
loans that we made to the outside
world from 1921 to 1929, but re-
member we had eight years of pros
perity. We increased our own pro-
duction and our national income
many times more during this period
than the total amount we lost.
Must Act to Save Ourselves.
Eight years of prosperity were
worth much more than all our de-
faulted loans together The
main thing Is to keep the machinery
turning, keep the level of production
end consumption high We
must not worry lest some foreign
nation gain proportionately more
than we do from postwar recon
struction The more difficult
task Is for us to make up our minds
what kind of postwar world WI
wish 10 see, and how we are COINS
10 create 1t. No one is going t.
prevent us: we shall be elected tt
this task by unanimous ballot. WI
must perform it-not to save thu
world but to save ourselves"
Mr.. Miller paints a picture o.
present Europe enslaved. He give
details of the reign of terror ane
cruelty that is going on in subju
gated countries. He thinks Ger.
many may attack Russia. He say
the Russian Army Is lacking il
training and leadership and woult
be an easy target for Hitler. Th'
Miller book is full of intimate de
tails of inside Germany and th'
quotations given above with th'
permission of the publishers, Little
Brown e. Co., of Boston hardly d.
Justice to the wealth of information
presented in fascinating style b,
the man who saw at close range tn
actual development of the Hitle
regime.
tReproduetion Eishts Eeserved)