Evening star., 1941-06-02

prevent the Germans from accom-
plishing this task except a failure
to recognize that the capture of the
road to world conquest leads ovei
the waterways"
At present the waterways are po-
Iced by the British Navy. In order
to wreSt that control out of Brit
aims hands, Germany must defeat
the British Navy. 1t would there
fore have seemed logical, at first
glance, for Germany to have poured
ali her energy and wealth in the
creation of a fleet powerful enough
to challenge the British. That is,
in fact what the Kaiser did. He
built so strong a navy that his uncle
in England, King Edward VII,
warned him that Britain would not
countenance so mighty a rival in
the Atlantic
When the test came, the Kaiser's
navy proved no match for British
power. The English turned the
tables on Wilhelm, and with
their Allies launched armies that
marched overland and forced the
German Navy to surrender.
Learn from Mistakes.
Hitler-or, rather, the geopoliti-
cians-did not fail to learn from
the mistakes of the Kaiser. The
Nazis did not build new feet to
take the place of the ships which
went down to the bottom of Scapa
Flow in 1919.
A study of Hitler's foreign policy
up to the Spanish civil" war gives
evidence that the geopolitical insti-
tute wavered between a pro-English
policy, leading to partnership,
and a pro-French policy aiming to
isolate England. This indecision
was due to the difficulty the insti-
tute, under Gen. Haushofer, was
experiencing in evolving program
to overcome the weakness of the
German Navy. But when Hitler's
planning body presented him with
the new tactics, he no longer
courted British favor.
What Is this new plan that Hitler
is now so skillfully executing?
1t is the march around the
oceans" Hitler's armies are driving
to those shores from which the
shipping lanes of the world can be
dominated. In the present battle
the German Army is being pitted
against the British Navy. And the
way things have been going this
year, it appears that Hitler will
win the battle of the Pacific, as
we'll as the battle of the Atlantic,
without invading the British. Isles.
The American peoples eyes are
riveted on the Atlantic, and they are
made to see nothing worse than the
sinking of British ships, whose
faster or slower disappearance
serves as a sort of barometer by
which they gauge the stability of
British staying power on the be-
leaguered island. Hitler, mean
while, proceeds to surround the
waters of the earth's surface and to
drive British ships from their
harbors and bases.
Navies Would Become Useless.
OF what use will navies be, If
they have nowhere to land, nowhere
to take on ammunition. nowhere to
60 for repairs? They will become
useless, and will be forced either to
sail into enemy's hands to be sur
rendered, or scuttled at sea.
The first step Germany had to
take, in her attempt to gain control
of the Eastern Hemisphere, was to
break the link connecting the various
parts of the British, French and
Dutch empires, by attacking the
Mediterranean. Long ago the
Geopolitical Institute prescribed the
following preparatory moves for the
conquest OF the Mediterranean
basin:
l. An alliance with Italy.
2. Control of the coasts of Spain.
8. Control of Albania.
4, Control over France.
5. Control over Spanish Morocco,
French Morocco, Algiers and Tunis
s. Control over Libya and Egypt.
7. The establishment of at least
two continuous overland routes from
Germany to the shores of the old
worlds sea; for instance, through
France and Spain, through Yugo-
slavia and Greece or through Turkey
and Palestine.
Once these points are established,
there follows the mere formality of
closing the two exits at Suez and