HITLER'S DILEMMA

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 38, 8 November 1937, Page 10

HITLER'S DILEMMA

"Fight or Go Down" Are His Alternatives "CONFRONTEDT BY RUIN" LONPON, Oct. 30. Herr Hitler's "basio fiilemma" is that be must go on to war or abdicate, says a Sydney professpr. After studying Nazi-ism in Germany for a year, Erofessor ' S. H. Roberts, professor of modern history at the University of bydney, has written a book, "The Houso That Hitler B.uilt.'' In it be writes: "lf Hery Hitler persists in tbe policies ennnciated be will i piunge Europe into war. lf he abandons them be can no longer maintam bis position witbin Germany. "Logically, the sucqess or failure of Hitlerism brings war iu its train. War is inevitab]© unless -Herr Hitler modiiies bis teachings and methods or unless tkere is a peaceful transition to another regime. . "Herr Hitler has worked Germany up to such a state that tbe people are ready to accept war at any moment. That is wbat' makes -tbe German position so tragie. Tbe nation has been duped, in tbe sense that it.bas been launcbed aiong a road that can lead only to disaster unless it learns the habit of political and economic collaboration in international matters. It is a nation confronted by ultimate ruin and disillusionment." Professor Roberts adds that it is not too far-fetched to imagine a Germany m jvbicb tbe army would take over control and retain . Herr Hitler as a willing figurebead. He tbinks that Germany' s colouial olaims have no economic basis-; it is* a matter of pride and prestige. The label of unwortbiness, wbether .true or. untrue, is a slur which will have to be removed. The nation will never submit to carry such a verdict. "Australia," he writes, "probably does not feel sufiiciently strongly about New Guinea to fight for it, although it is always easy to raise an alarmist cry in Australia about the colony being a base for enemy aerbplanes." "