TECHNIQUE FAILS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1939, Page 9

TECHNIQUE FAILS

HITLER'S PECULIAR SYSTEM. Though Hitler's war is yet very young, his peculiar system of policy has already collapsed, declares Dr Moritz Bonn, of London University, and formerly a leading educationist in Berlin, writing in the "Spectator. ’ It might best be designated as "pseudopeaceful change." It consists of a ;how of force so cleverly planned as to make Hie use of force superfluous. In order to operate it successfully one had to be strong or appear to be strong and it could be applied only against those who either were weak or felt weak, oi' were unwilling to use their strength. Suddenly the dream of empire-making has faded. Hitlei did not get Danzig and the Corridor by mere threats to Poland and hollow promises to the West. He had to fight for them. He had sold out to Stalin, in order to avoid this war. He failed. He has been able to trample down Poland successfully at a price to his aimy relatively negligible, and he has done for Bolshevism as much as Ludendorff did. when he sent Lenin in a sealed car to Moscow; he has opened to it a gate to the West. His method has ceased to work. He cannot secure for the German people the lordship of the universe by a few cheap lies or the loss of a few lives in some well-staged border riots. They wilt have to pay a terrific price foi' having believed in hi' promises of miracles. Only a rapid defeat in the West can save them from Bolshevik domination.