Evening star., 1943-01-02

another adventure by way Of the
West Indies Islands where he might
establish bases for bombers and
troop transport planes.
Nor should we ever lose sight Of
the need for impressing upon our
neighbors in Central and South
America that unless they actively
resist Hitler they will become en-
slaved.
Hitler Is Losing His Grip.
We can count on constantly
lessening strength of Italy as fac
tor in the war. The italian people
as such never were Fundamentally
in the war. They are not allies Of
Germany. There is no such thing
as an ally of Germany-only slaves.
The same is true of conquered
France.
And we can look to increasing un-
rest and dissatisfaction with Hitler
among the real German people. I
know the stock. I lived among
them when was student in Ger
many many years ago They are
just like friendly families down in
Maine.
Hitler Is losing his grip. The
surprising thing to me is that some
of the German generals haven't got
together and assassinated him. One
factor may be that Hitler has en-
gendered such deceit and distrust
among his people that the generals
can't even trust one another.
My predictions about Russia
through the years have happily held
true. When most of the world was
pointing to Russo-German pacts
and saying Hitler and Stain would
always share the same bread basket,
1 held to the belief that Russia al
ways would be stumbling block to
Germany's aims of conquest.
But if Russia is victorious, as I
confidently feel she will be, she may
want new territory, and no one can
foresee how far the Russians would
go toward taking possession of
Canada if it remained a dominion
of war-weary Britain, or even be-
came independent.
That is why 1 say the United
States should seek to annex Canada
so as to be In better position to
protect the country beyond it's
frontier not only from Russia which
might have legitimate postwar
aims, but even from a reborn and
ambitious Germany.
U. S. Must Take Lead.
And on the point OF a reborn Ger
many the United States can help
prevent reborn Germany from be-
coming remilitarized Germany if
this country takes the lead in shap-
ing the postwar peace.
If we're realistic we must admit
that the peace after the first World
War failed because Germany was
trampled on to the extent that the
embers of unrest among the people
were easily famed into flame by
Hitler.
Let the United States take the lead
in calling a world congress of ma
tions at which all the countries
the victorious and the vanquished-
will have their say.
1 don't say that Germany and
Japan should be patted on the back
for starting all this trouble, but 1
do say that after the military lead
ers are properly chastised the coun-
tries themselves should not be rele-
gated to the slave column.
Territory that is known to be Ger
man speaking and German trained
should be left to Germany, and ter
ritory that Japan had legitimately
before she launched on her war ad-
ventures should be left to her.
Territorial expansion by any ma
tion-except for protective purposes
as I have outlined in the case of
Canada-should not be a factor In
the postwar peace. The accent
should be on restoration OF interna-
tional trade and world wide devel-
opment of free, liberal government.
I don't say that monarchies should
become thing Of the past. but do
say that the United States, after
spending money and lives to lead to
victory, should not play q part in
putting kings on thrones who would
seek to expand their own territories
needlessly.