The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-02-24
How War Will End

" WV W.
Charles Willis Thompson, veteran New York news.
Sun gives an interesting and revealing discussion OF what
the future holds for Russia, England, France and the United
States when victory is won and peace comes.
in Washington and New York for more than forty years.
views ne a snd 0 predicsion nsss on things i'm u1 to % eome haV M1 been anna amazingly
accurate in the six years we have known and read nm. Mr..
Thompson says:
"The shape of things to come in this war begins at
last to De Visible be. after . tour our ana hat 2 nan t years Ti fs na'T Russia q
and Germany, which duel Russian is undeniably. winning
without England or America, who are on the sidelines, and
which nothing can stop her from winning all by herseif.
Victorious Russia will be the first modern nation ever to
become solitary master Of the whole European continent.
This is one of the worlds greatest revolutions. Russia,
defeating Germany, is to dominate Europe-and Asia, east
ward to the border of Japan-as the Roman Empire once
dominated all Europe, the western fringe of Asia, and all OF
Africa that was not wilderness. So much is clearly appar..
ent in 1914; curious outcome OF q war begun by England
to preserve that balance of power in Europe which such an
outcome destroys forever, and q war in which Russia was
not involved until Hitler committed the catastrophe blunder
of attacking her.
Looking into the future, Russian domination of the
world (for that is what it will be) will be a good thing for
that world, in certainly one aspect, bad in another: 1t is well
that any country should become the whole thing in Europe
becausethat will automatically end the constant slaughter
of incessant wars every quarter-century or so;This is not
guesswork, for it is what happened when the Roman En-
pire was the whole thing. There was no one left to fight
with, and the Roman Peace lasted 500 years.
What caused the substitution of constant wars for con-
slant peace was the splitting OF the Roman Empire among
barbarian tribes, who then began making war on each other
and have kept it up to the present moment, for the bar
barian tribes were our European ancestors and became
nations instead of tribes. Those nations are the european
nations of today. This constant, senseless, useless slaughter
must go on forever every twenty or thirty years, unless
like the Roman Empire, some one central power absorbs
the whole helPs broth and rules it.
Russia's ultimate victory over Germany, with or with
out English or American help is now assured and she is
is already beginning the work OF assembling the European
countries in what is to be the new Roman Empire. Poland
is the one there is the most newspaper chatter about, but
Russia has already gone far in iaehtrating the Balkans
and has served notice, in Stains usual blunt manner, that
Finland, the Baltic States and Roumania are next on his
agenda. The rest will follow. Stain does not deceive or
hornswoggle anybody, and as to Germany's fate, they have
already organized a puppet German government, calling it
a "committe. He is a refreshing change from the tangie
of weasel words and postwar" sucker-bait which Amer
leans hear from their wet-nurses. There is nothing Wiki
esh or Wallaceish in Stain.
Hitler's sombre speech on Jan. 80, for the first time
admitting possible defeat, included this: "One thing is Ger
tain. In this struggle there can be only one victor and that
Will be either Germany or Russia. Germanys victory means
the preservation of Europe and Russias victory it's destruct-
ion." Partly true, in a different sense. Russia's victory
will mean the destruction of the old, war-torn, chaotic
Europe which was the legacy of the barbarian tribes 1,5Oo
years ago, and that would be a blessing. Another Roman
Peace is all that can ever end the bloody chaos in which our
barbarian ancestors have plunged us for the last 1,5Oo
years, including 1914.
How about England and the United States? England
will be shorn of her greatness, though Russia would leave
her intact. She would lose as much of her overseas empire
asRussia wants to take, which is only in it's Asiatic part.
Russia, the greater part of which is in Asia, is an Asiatlc
power even more than European one. She's always resented
England's grabbing parts of Russia's geographic sphere,
and the two countries had one war over it and have been
on the verge Of war over it for nearly 100 years. If un-
supported, England would be unable even to put up a short
skirmish against the Coliseum of New Europe, and would
not try. Only a greatly shrunken British Empire, consisting
of not much more than colonies of overseas Englishmen like
Canada and Australia, will remain
England, being a little island with a small population,
hitherto has always avoided defeat by her balance-of-
power policy. That policy is for England to tie up with
some other European power, or powers ii one was not
enough. and make war Jointly on any nation that became
Strouupr than she a That was the cause OF this war ana
the last one, as of so many wars in the past $50 years. But
with the downfall of France she lost the last European
power strong enough to be of any use to her; the balance-of-
power policy is gone, and the British island left naked
to her foes. This is why she would not, single-handed,
oppose the al-Europe colossus that this war is creating.
She could not.
Field Marshal SHUTS candid and revealing speech In
London last November painted a postwar world in which
France now being gone forever Qt is forever), England Will
find herself alone, poverty-stricken and vastly weakened,
facing a Russia now master of the world. Though he did
not say it, her only chance of fighting Russia would be to
drag the United States in. 1t just happened that when
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