NAZI PLANS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1940, Page 3

NAZI PLANS

FOR THE EXPLOITATION OF EUROPE

GIVING RISE TO GROWING DISILLUSIONMENT. EVEN THE IRON GUARD REVOLTS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. August 7. Growing disillusionment in the countries immediately concerned in Hitler's plans for reorganising Europe is reflected in dispatches from newspaper correspondents in these and other neutral countries. "The Times" says: "Hitler's ostentatious undertaking to square the Balkan circle has so far only made more confused the pattern of politics in that part of Europe and rendered less se- 1 cure l the position of his latest protege.) King Carol.

"His own special disciples, the Iron Guard—the Nazis of Rumania —have issued a rousing manifesto certainly not pro-German and aclually jnlroducing a pro-British note into its battle-cry. The Rumanian leaders wiio went to Berchtesgaden see their supporters slipping and hear their silenced, critics once more raising their voices' while eminent Transylvanians who had parted company have united to oppose the concessions recommended by Hitler.

“While Rumanian resistance is stiffening, the Hungarian demands are apparently rising. It seems, in any case, that Hungary expects very substantial territorial concessions to be made, and Rumania is going to find it difficult to yield any territory at all in Transylvania. DOBRUJA SOLUTION. “In regard to the Bulgarian claims in Dobruja, the way to a settlement is clearer. There never was much justification for the seizure of this territory by Rumania and. according io our Balkans correspondent, the Buchaest Government has agreed in principle to return its southern portion to Bulgaria. Britain has already indicated that she considers a fair solution could bo reached on these lines, and it may be confidently predicted that Britain is not in the least likely, when victory has been won, to wish to upset I any settlements which have been ami- i cably reached between Rumania and! her neighbours in the south-east or I north-west.

"It is believed in the Balkan capitals that the German view impressed upon Rumanians, Hungarians, Yugoslavs and Bulgarians alike is that the whole region is destined by nature and the will of the Fuehrer to become a purveyor of primary products, particularly food, oil and minerals, to the Reich. It must, therefore, so the theory goes, be economically reorganised as a German Lebensraum.

CONTROL FROM BERLIN. “Since economic organisation could never be satisfactory unless directed from central headquarters, it follows that, general political control must also emanate from Berlin. Consequently the countries of south-eastern Europe are not expected to have independent foreign policies at all. These dependent States must, moreover, maintain a certain balance between themselves. None must dominate others, for all alike must be dominated by the Reich. "Of this German plan it may be said at once that it is completely vitiated by the over-riding presumption that all is to be done for the benefit of Germany’ rather than the States immediately concerned." HITLER’S ‘COLONIAL" AIMS. The “Manchester Guardian" says: I “Hitler is fond of emphasising his sense of responsibility to Europe and■ contrasting with it. the selfishness of the western Rowers. He is the leader; of a people which, it is represented. :s

to direct not only its own destinies, but those of the smaller peoples belonging Io its living space. “Europe is to be turned into a continent of colonial peoples all math’ sub-

•serviont to the interest of the responsible leader. France is to return to agriculture, the Balkans must grow and produce just what the Germans find convenient and all the economic life of the Slates that are subdued is to be crushed into the German system, feeding' Germany’s industries and consuming Germany's products. "The German order for Europe is a plan under which the different peoples would lose their liberty and obtain in exchange not a higher standard of economic life but distress and economic servitude.

"The spectacle presented by the British Commonwealth today is the most dramatic answer to Hitler's claim that his plan is generous, whereas our use of power has been entirely unscrupulous and selfish. The truth is that our i experience gives us a qualification for leadership that the German lacks, fori we have learnt that to give freedom is ! Io gain strength, whereas Germany still trusts to force as the secret of power."

NEW GAULEITERS ALSACE. LORRAINE AND LUXEMBURG. BERLIN. August 8. | Decrees place the entire administra-i lion of Alsace, Lorraine and Luxemburg under civil authorities under Hit- I ler’s direct orders. Herr Bucrckel relinquishes the gov-I ernorship of Austria and is appointed i Gauleiter of Lorraine. Robert Wagner I is appointed Gauleiter of Alsace and I; Gustavo Simon is appointed Gauleiter , of Luxemburg.