Evening star., 1945-02-17
Library Established
As Center for Study
OF Germany's Aims
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD.

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party will
not rid the world of the danger of
Germany's lust for conquest, a COM
mittee of four prominent Americans
today announced the establishment
of a Germanic library in Columbia
University, where first-hand evi-
dence of the Reich's long-term i'm
perial planning can be studied.
The sponsors expressed the hope
that statesmen, historians and writ
ers would use the material to warn
the American public of the dangers
inherent in long embedded German
geopolitics.
Sponsoring the library-much OF
which was gathered in Germany by
anti Hitlerites-is a committee con-
sisting of Robert Woods Bliss, for
mer United States Ambassador to
Argentina and now State Depart
ment official; A. Perry Osborn OF
New York, acting president of the
American Museum of Natural His
tory: George Rublee, Washington,
international lawyer and one-tin1e
diplomat, and Charles S. Bird, Bos-
ton industrialist.
The group has set a budget OF
$4,000 a year to add material to
the nucleus already established and
is accepting contributions from in
terested persons.
Peril Held Unrealized.
can incomplete knowledge of the
Pan menace" the spon-
soring group said in a statement
"has led many people to believe
that eliminating Hitler and Naziism
will suffice to remove the danger.
Despite complete military defeat,
Germany may well be nearer her
goal of world dominion in the next
20 years unless realization of this
danger is followed by effective
methods for Americas protection.
Twice within Is years Germany
has disturbed the peace of the world
and stopped at nothing to accom-
plish her final aim to enslave it by
force.
I'm 1918 the mistake was made
of thinking the elimination of the
Kaiser would secure lasting peace
and peace was lost within 25 years.
Despite the Weimar Republic and
behind its democratic facade, secret
rearmament' began Immediately
after the armistice in 1918.
Schemes May Succeed Again.
UNLESS the nature of the danger
Is thoroughly understood similar
maneuvers and subterfuges will sue
ceed again. The forces behind Hit
ler-which are the same forces that
stood behind Wilhelm II and pre-
viously behind Bismarck-are ready
to set up another false front and to
carry on their fight for world con-
quest.
THE resurrection of militant
Germany after World War I was
due in large measure to the sys-
tematic activities of powerful pro-
German groups in America which
have exerted growing influence
on the political, economic and cul-
tural life of the United States since
the end of the last century. But
for these groups Germany would
not have been able to prepare so
thoroughly for World War II. These
forces are now at work in our
midst.
knowledge of the swift under
currents of Germanys predatory
expansionism and the current de-
velopments of the Pan-German
movement is essential for the pro-
lection of American freedom"
Bliss Served In Berlin.
Mr. Bliss. one of the sponsors,
was counsellor of the American
Embassy in Berlin shortly before the
World War and was acquainted
with the activities of the great
German general staff. The conclu-
sion that German plans for conquest
are inherent in the German mill
tary political system is supported
by Sumner Welles, former Under
secretary of State, who advances
the same idea in his recent book,
The Time for Decision"
A large part of the material being
placed in the Columbia University
Library was gathered by T. H.
Tetens. German newspaperman
who was sent to a concentration
camp by the Nazis but escaped in
1884. The collection consists of
books. pamphlets, newspaper arti-
cles and other documents showing
the continuing nature of German
geopolitical planning since 1860. He
and DR.. F. w. Forester, former pro-
fessor of philosophy and pedagogy
at the Universities of Vienna and
Munich, are on the staff which has
charge of the material.
nl. ~L.T