GERMAN BOOK

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1933, Page 8

GERMAN BOOK

PLANS .ANOTHER WAR

AN .INVASION.OF ENGLAND

; “Will Hitler, now,, ban Banse’s book “Territory-and Peoples in the Great Wax,” published last year, in. which he outlines a plan for the invasion of England?” aks the News Chronicle, in emphasising that Banse’s “Military Science” has been banned because it had been used .abroad to discount Ger-. many’s peacefulness. The newspaper adds that Bmse, the post-wjar Bernhardi, like his pre-war prototype, preaches 1 that war is moral and ennobling. The book is casing misgivings among the Dutch, Belgians, Danes, Swiss and French, as Banse’s “desirable military frontiers” either dissect or absorb those countries. He says that Germany must stretch from Memel to the Adige and the Rhone, and from Flanders to Gyor, in Hungary. Then, with possession of Belgium, Holland and the North of France, and a fleet capable of coping with .the British Navy, the invaders could easily hold Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex ; while, if the British Fleet were annilihated or occupied elsewhere, a second invasion, uiiino the Irish Free State as a base, could invade the Midland and Scottish industrial areas Thus London and the wealthy southern avea a could be "pinched out.” t Banse says that the English workers, spoiled by too high living, would be unable to endure the hardship of ® blockade. This would result in an immediate demand for peace at any price, by which Britain could be forced to surrender her overseas Empire, “which is already decrepit.”