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THE CORRIGAN PRESS
Ururkarl'u WaMilngton IHqt’M
Peace Bought by Pieces of Nation
Likely to Last Only for ‘A While’
Much in Situation in Central Europe Has Not Been Told;
Roosevelt and Hull Handled Affair With Fine Ability;
Versailles Treaty Blamed for Trouble.
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON.—It appears that
the world is going to be spared a
general European war for a while,
and yet it should be recognized that
the period of peace that has been
bought with pieces of a nation is
likely to be only "a while.” From
all of the information available in
Washington’s diplomatic corners
combined with the judgment of men
who know European politics—and
European human nature—it seems
that the balance is so delicate as to
permit a powder keg being fired by
an inconsequential firecracker.
Nevertheless, there is much that
has not been told about the situation.
Little has been said, for instance,
about the basic problem in the cen-
ter of Europe, nor has there been
real frankness about the part which
American representatives had in the
original setting of the present day
grief. American political conditions
—domestic politics—obviously con-
stitute one reason why there has
been only infrequent references to
the underlying causes of the trouble.
A more important reason, however,
is that if there had been much talk
about our original interest, there
would have been many more sug-
gestions from abroad that Uncle
Sam should come in and act as
arbiter. Surely, there was no one
in this country willing that Presi-
dent Roosevelt should do that. Mr.
Roosevelt foresaw that possibility
early; so he confined American ef-
forts to earnest pleas for avoidance
of war, for use of common sense
methods of settlement.
I think that Mr. Roosevelt and
Secretary Hull of the state depart-
ment handled the extremely deli-
cate situation with fine ability. The
pleas which went out to contending
forces carefully avoided possibility
of entanglements; yet, even the bull-
headed Hitler must have felt the
pressure that was represented by
them, pressure on whatever ma-
chinery within him that he calls his
mind and heart. More than that,
public appeal by the United States
certainly gave added courage to the
Europeans who were trying to solve
the problem without paying ten mil-
lion lives and billions in money.
Root of All the Trouble
Lies in VerBailies Treaty
But let us quit kidding ourselves
about the European situation. Why
dodge around the bush concerning
the underlying facts and the blame
that attaches, including such blame
as belongs to us?
We must recognize these facts:
1. The root of all the trouble is im-
bedded in the Treaty of Versailles.
In that treaty, written in 1919, there
were injustices that could only lead
eventually to a head-on collision. It
was in the Versailles peace negotia-
tions after the World war that Presi-
dent Wilson coined the phrase, “self
determination of peoples.” It was in
those negotiations, too, that Lloyd-
George of England, Clemenceau of
France, and Orlando of Italy, traded
Mr. Wilson out of everything be-
fore they would ageee to his ideal-
ism, founding of the League of Na-
tions., No one can say that Woodrow
Wilson lacked sincerity; and it was
this deep sincerity, ironically, that
was preyed upon by the other three
victorious nations. Mr. Wilson yield-
ed when a majority of Americans
knew at the time that he was being
trapped.
2. Europe has been made, by fate,
the abiding place of many racial
and human types. They are races
and types which have characteris-
tics and traits, training and tradi-
tion that never have mixed, and
never will mix. Central Europe is
a melting pot whore nothing ever
has melted. “Self determination of
peoples” would mean the segrega-
tion of each and every type and
race. It is a possibility, of course, to
segregate them as Mr. Wilson the-
orized, but it is not at all probable.
Mr. Wilson supplied those people
with a new idea and then allowed
the “big three” of the Versailles
conference to capitalize on his aims.
There has been some measure of
fighting about it ever since.
Greed and Vengeance
Short-Sighted Policy
3. The greed of the allied powers
and the vengeance which they
sought to wreak on Germany now
is proved, as it was charged in 1919,
to have been a short-sighted policy,
capable of establishing peace only
until Germany recuperated and re-
gained some strength. Of course,
the victors were determined to pre-
vent Germany ever again from at-
tempting to destroy the world and
promote her own selfishness, but
their efforts in that direction dis-
played only the tendencies of hate,
none of the indications of caution or
far vision. Even though it be an-
other generation and new leaders,
no virile nation, including our own,
would fail to fight back if the op-
portunity ever presented. Germany
has been seeking, therefore, only a
restoration of some kind. It ap-
pears that the buried hate among
them has been exhumed and made
to live again in the demagoguery
of Hitler. He has used it for his
selfish ends, to maintain his own
power, to satisfy an ego that some
folks regard as approaching an un-
balanced mentality.
4. The German people have been
and continue to be a people requir-
ing inflexible leadership. Hitler sup-
plies it. He promised them new
life, and he apparently has made
good on just enough of his promises
to provide him with continued pow-
er. Most people who have been able
to study Hitler’s programs at close
range declare the whole house of
cards eventually will collapse. But
for the moment, there is “action,”
and the hope and the desires and
the expectations of the German peo-
ple provide fertile ground for the
dogmas and the demagoguery of a
dictator. They will not be “subju-
gated.”
la Hitler Through With
Demands? Is the Queetion
5. We must not be too confident
about the purity of purpose of those
who guided the affairs of Czecho-
slovakia. The glory that was Czech-
oslovakia was stained more, I am
afraid, than most of us Americans j
know. It is hard to believe all of \
the things, all of the methods of op-
pression, charged against the 1
Czechs. Information concerning
their treatment of the Sudeten Ger- 1
mans in Czechoslovakia was distort- j
ed by th$ Germans. There can be i
no doubt of that, because the propa- i
ganda machine of Dr. Goebbels was ;
working overtime. There was
enough leaked through, however, to j
show that the Prague government
was guilty of some harshness. It
may have been that the Sudetens,
themselves, brought it on. Of that,
there can be only a guess. On the
other hand, we have seen enough of
the pulling and snarling, the sniping
and trickery of other minorities to I
have a reasonably good idea of what i
could have gone on within the con- i
fines of Czechoslovakia during its
20 years of life.
What of the settlement? Is Hitler
through with his demands? Are
there other underlying motives and
conditions yet to be dealt with and
outside of the desires of the German
minority to get back to the Reich?
The answers to these questions
explain why I said at the outset that
the peace appeared only for “a
while.” The Czechs probably have
been “sold down the river’’ to save
the continent of Europe. I have no
faith in the man, Hitler; almost as
little faith in Mussolini, the other
dictator. The Czechs are going to
be unhappy a long time; they will
be resentful, and maybe they will
start something. Hitler doubtless
still wants the German colonies tak-
en away by the Versailles treaty. It
would be strange, likewise, if he did
not want “the Polish corridor” re-
stored to Germany. Each ambition
constitutes a festering sore.
Hitler Plans to Make
Germany Self-Sufficient
Underneath all of the problem,
too, lies Hitler’s program to make
Germany self-sufficient, to make the
nation independent of foreign
sources of supply. The Rumanian
oil fields, rich and productive, are
coveted by more than one nation.
England and English oil interests
maintain a rather definite control,
but it is a control that can be broken
easily. On the other side of Ruma-
nia is the dictator, Mussolini, who
displayed the true character of his
soul by his rape of Ethiopia. Put
these things together and draw your
own conclusion, mindful always that
to the north lies a great Russian
bear, governed by an individual with
different concepts, ruled by a steel
boot, a people who can be fired with
hatred for the Hitler type of govern-
ment. Some say even that Stalin is
only awaiting an opportunity to jump
astride Hitler’s neck. Anyway, just
remember that Stalin is over there,
too.
Finally, in Britain and in France,
there are differing groups. Prime
Minister Chamberlain. Daladier. I
wonder if two men, especially, with
regard to Chamberlain, ever carried
a greater burden when they went to
meet Hitler; when they were seek-
ing to prevent a catastrophe by what
the Czech partisans called, “selling
the Czechs down the river?” Politi-
cally, both Chamberlain and Dala-
dier will have to fight for their lives
within their respective nations of
England and France. One or both
may sink into oblivion as a result of
the courage shown. And who knows
what underlying motives existed in
addition to a fear of a general war?
Their trip to Munich on September
29 was a fateful trip, one which we
in the United States may have to
wait several years fully to under-
stand.
And so, the final question is: can
Hitler bring his own people back
from the brink of war, from the fer-
vor of war preparation, to the life
and economy of peace? That is a
very real problem.
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