The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. MONDAY, SEPT. 25th, 1939. HITLER AS PACIFIST

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 66, 25 September 1939, Page 4

The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. MONDAY, SEPT. 25th, 1939. HITLER AS PACIFIST

THE fate cf Poland, for the time being at any rate, may be taken as having been definitely decided. As an independent State she has gone from the map of Europe. Whether she will, within reasonable time, be restored to it lies very much in the lap of the gods, though it may be noted that, probably at M. Stalin's instance, there is talk of preserving a central Polish area with some sort of government of its own,; to act as a buffer between Nazi Germany and Communist Russia,. Subservient and all as this must necessarily be, there is still some chance that it may serve as a nucleus around which an independent Poland may yet be rebuilt. Meanwhile it is left for the two dictators to work their will upon her, but it will be in no friendly spirit that they will have 'set about the division of the spoils. As between them there cannot be expected to exist even the honour that is supposed to hold among thieves, and it may be that Poland will yet .prove a bone of contention that: will set them at one another's throats. As matters stand at present, Herr Hitler can scarcely but feel aggrieved that M. Stalin has virtually used him to pluck Russia's chestnuts from the fire for her, including the valuable Ukraine area on whose acquisition the Fuehrer has long set his heart. Herr Hitler's present purpose, however, is to use the subjugation of Poland as a basis upon which to call for the cessation of hostilities on the western front. His argument is that the salvation of Poland which was the ostensible object of Anglo-French intervention, being now hopeless, there is no good reason why the war should be continued. This is, of course, merely a diplomatic pose for the delusion of neutrals, for he has been left in no possible doubt as to the ultimate purpose the western democracies have in view—the removal of himself and his predatory crew from a position of domination which, if allowed to continue, must prove a standing menace to the peace of the world.