Evening star., 1941-07-05
BY VINCENT SHEEAN,
Correspondent OF The Star and Nol
American NEWSPAPER Alliance, Inc.

Correspondent OF The Star and North
American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.
LONDON, July 5.-Throughout the
informed part of British public
opinion there appears a tendency
that Russia will fight to the end.
What can this end be?
Germany can advance and advance
for months to come without reach
ing 1t. There is strong probability
that Germany never really can
extricate her army from those i'm
mense spaces, granting every claim
that the fevered brains of the Luft-
waite may make.
What then? There still is more
of Russia and there still are more
Russians.
Adolf Hitler's game is obvious. He
probably can conquer some lmpor-
tant sections of Russia-including
those he has always considered to be
Germany's "Lebensraum"-in two
or three months. He then will turn
upon England and America and
say, What are you arguing about?
l have no further territorial ambi-
tions. Let us make an agreement
and keep the peace forever, with
continental Europe reserved for the
German new order"
Real danger arises in this because,
as everybody with any wide &C
quaintance knows, there are many
people who will fall for it. They
will declare they never did like the
Bolsheviks and since Hitler has pu-
rified Europe of these awful people
he is perhaps not so bad as we used
to think. They will say, as one i'm
portant American industrialist said
to me last winter, I'VE have always
been able to do business with all
nations. Why can't we do it with
the Axis, too?"
May Persuade Some Americans.
This frightful ignorance is what
makes the future so dark. So long
as there are Americans who under
stand so little about the nature Of
Hitler's movement and what it aims
to do there always will be the posi-
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to organize the world on his own
basis for 1000 years.
Supposing he makes that proposal
to England and the United States
in September or october. He will
not have regulated his Russian af-
fair by then, but he may think he
can persuade gullible Americans he
has done so. Supposing they accept
the new order for Europe" and re-
sumo trading with Hitler's empire
as though nothing had happened.
I am Supposing great deal here
because cannot believe the present
British government or even the
present American government would
acquiesce in such an arrangement.
But if it should be so, what would
Hitler do?
Obviously he would build ships as
nobody on earth ever built ships
before, faster and faster, stronger
and stronger, bigger and bigger. At
the present moment the only thing
that keeps him from debating his
will to every inhabitant of this
earth, except the Russians, is his
inability to control the seas.
The Russians have an army. No.
body else has. If he obtains his
breathing spell this autumn nobody
else will have navy either.
The resources of Europe are not
self sufficient, whatever Goebbels
and Funk may say; and German
official statistics do not bear out
their profuse assertions in that re-
gard. Even if Hitler conquers the
whole of European Russia he still
will be without some essential ma
terials for the new order, such as
rubber and tin. You could go on
for long time with a list of things
which always must be obtained from
places outside the continent of
Europe.
How is Hitler to get them? If he
is to transform the industrial
countries, such as France and Bel
gium, into agricultural countries
with Germany as the only industrial
producer, he obviously must have
vast supplies of raw material of all
kinds, and he never can get them
in Europe, even including European
Russia.
He cannot achieve any of his
ultimate objects without sea power.
This he must build because he does
not possess it. He can build it only
by cajoling his essential enemies,
England and the United States, into
thinking he really means to create
. single, landlocked economy In that