Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-29

mined to exterminate Hitler and the
Hitherto forces.
Should the Germans be willing to over
throw their present regime and agree to
withdraw to their 1914 borders there
seems to be no reason to believe that
Stain, who has not signed the Casa
blanca protocol and has never Endorsed
the unconditional surrender" policy of
his Allies, would hesitate to obtain the
most advantageous peace he can possibly
obtain for his country.
How the views of the Russian govern
ment have changed in the last II months
in regard to the Germans is interesting.
Samples of posters used by Soviet
propaganda in 194l and 1912 told the
Russian people that there is no GOOD
German except dead German. They
urged war of determination of the Ger
man race and the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the
Reich. Nazis. bourgeois and Socialists
were put in the same basket; they were
all earmarked for determination.
The propaganda pamphlets of 1913 are
different. Taking their cue from Stain
himself, they now tell the Russians that
the Germans are good people who have
always been friendly toward the Russians
except in cases when misguided leaders
turned them against their neighbors.
Economically Interdependent.
1t is emphasized that German Army
officers helped organize the Russian
armies and some the armament fac
tories in the days before the advent of
the Nazi monster Hitler. The fact that
the Germans and the Russians are eco
nomically interdependent also is brought
out with good deal Of emphasis. More
over, 1t Is pointed out that Germany has
never attempted to prevent Russia from
obtaining an outlet to the warm seas.
Much is being Emade of the descendant
OF Prince Otto Bismarck, the iron chan
cellor OF the Reich, who is now heading
the Free Germany Committee and
breakfasts several times a week to the
German Army officers He invites them
In the name of the Russian government
to overthrow Hitler and organize them
selves into military democracy in order
to end the war and come to terms with
Russia.
There Is little appeal from Moscow to
the rank and file of the German ARMY
melting the men to mutiny as was the
case in 1918. On the contrary, they are
told that the German armies. led by
their rightful leaders, must remain a
powerful organization to work for the
organization of new Europe. There is no
communistic theology in any of the Rus
sian or Free Germany Committee broad
casts. The accent is now on discipline.
law and order, after Hitler and his CO.
horts have been eliminated from the
German scene.
The political and diplomatic activities
OF Moscow are now confined to telling us
that Russia has been bled white In the
war while the Allies have suffered in
consequential losses; that we formally
promised her a second front in Western
Europe this year and they want us to
Keep our pledge. The Russian armies
are advancing toward the Dnieper In a
grand style.
Proper Moment to Strike.
Consequently, it is the proper moment
to strike at the Germans The Russians
told us few months ago at the food
conference at Hot Springs, Va, that she
could not afford another winter CAM
paign unless we were prepared to feed
her entire population and not the army
alone. This is obviously impossible.
Moscow Is leaving us to draw the neces-
sary conclusions from the failure of the
Allies to synchronize their strategy to
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