HITLER’S WEAKNESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1941, Page 6

HITLER’S WEAKNESS

DANGER FROM MORAL FORCES. The truth is that a succession of brilliant military triumphs, prepared and exploited with consummate politic cal skill, have so far concealed the political weakness of Hitler’s longrange schemes, says the “Round Table.” It seems certain that he hirm self combines real military insight with his political genius. He also has the gift of choosing men; he has found daring and skilful soldiers 1 to wield his military machine, and no truthful estimate of his power should underrate the soldierly virtue and capacity of the German race. The staff-work of his enterprises, the dash and daring of his plans, the endurance of his troops are all alike remarkable. He | has emulated Napoleon for suddeni ness and rapidity in the strokes of I war, and he has surpassed Napoleon in i the process of intimidating and disintegrating his opponents before the blow falls. He has thus welded Germany into a swift but massive engine of war, and has used that engine to establish in the course of a few months a military dominion as great as Napoleon’s. This might remain proof against all counter-attack if the method and purpose of German rule were as praiseworthy as German military skill. The fact, however, is that no pervert more Satanic than Hitler in method and purpose has ever afflicted mankind. The fact also is that Germans are capable of playing the part ui ocnencent, tactful and therefore acceptable p.verlqrds, for which they are incongruously designed in Hitler’s creams. We believe, in consequence, that in spite of the moral ascendancy which Hitler now enjoys, moral forces of a very different order, springing from revulsion in the countries he has overrun, w>h rise to overwhelm him when the oceanic alliance of free peoples is seen to be mastering him in strength of arm.