Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1936, Page 38

“arca 3 is THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 1936, SPANISH OUTBREAK : % ' WOODWARD & LOTHROP Pronxe DIsmicz 5300 OFAD TOHTLER Events Used to “Justify” |pies War Moves of Germany, Expert Asserts International repercussions of the Spanish civil war, especially as they Dear on the outlook for peace or war in Europe, are examined here in the first of three dispatches by a famous writer and foreign corre- spondent who has just reached Paris after traveling several weeks in Spain and recording his impres- sions of under-surjace conditions there. BY WALTER DURANTY, By Wireless to The Star. PARIS, September 25 (N.AN.A).— Prom the international viewpoint, the most important feature of Spanish events is not only that they bring war nearer, but that they are tending to change in favor of the potential aggressors the basis—or, one might call it, the ostensible causes—on which ‘war would be promoted, That the war danger is vastly increased by the Spanish struggle needs no demonstration—the facts are plain, and there is already war on European soil. If the Litvinov theory of the indivisibility of peace, which Premier Blum, echoed in a recent radio speech, is correct, the European war already has begun, because, according to that theory, one war means & general war—sooner or later. Perhaps a civil war like this may prove the exception, but the acuteness and imminence of the danger hardly can be exaggerated. Europe today is an armed camp with open powder magazines, and the risk of sparks flying from the Spanish conflagration 15 all too evident. No unbiased observer of European affairs can deny that the chief danger to ‘peace lies in the German determination, frankly and freely expressed by Nazi leaders, to recover what Germany lost in the World War. " For this purpose, the Nazis bullt up a colossal army and military equipment. Hitherto, however, the Germans faced the difficulty that their ultimate aims and aspirations could be obtained only by & war of revenge and territorial aggression, which once more would condemn Germany before world opin- fon—a moral factor whose salient importance was demonstrated in the years 1914-1918, Called Godsend to Hitler. ‘To Hitler, the Spanish civil war was a perfect Godsend, and his speeches and those of his associates at the Nurnberg Congress show he has taken full advantage of the oppor- tunity it offers of giving an appear- ance of noble and altruistic motive to the German plans for revenge. It matters little to Hitler that he is merely piling one fallacy upon an- other—he has learned by successfal experience that lies are as effective as truths if repeated loud enough and often enough. Superficially, events in Spain ap- pear to be a justification for the Nazi platform in Germany. If the Nazis had not seized power, says Hitler, there would have been a civil war in Germany, as in Spain today. It is an unwarranted assumption, first, be- cause the “bolshevik-Jewish” menace, from which Hitler professed to save Germany, never really existed, and, second, because the Spanish revolution * would not have occurred without the militarist coup d’etat. The facts of Hitler’s rise to power @re clear enough, and so aré the That is what I mean by saying that Spanish events are of fundamental importance, because they permit the transfer of the ostensible causes of the coming European war from the national and, territorial to the social and theoretical plane. In other words ~—instead of Germany making a blunt attempt to recover what it lost in the World War, it now can pose as the champion of civilization, property and religion, with a fair probability of finding support, not only throughout the world, but even in France itself, which is, in the final instance—as Europe’s history proves—Germany’s real adversary. Aids Hitler Basic Thesis. Spain has given an appearance of factual truth to Hitler's basic thesis that democracy must be abolished since it offers possibilities for bolshe- vism—in his Nurnberg speech, Hitler went further and declared democracy was the channel by which the bolshe- vik poison was conveyed. If any douf®t is possible on this point, it is cleared up by Hitler’s ref- erence in the same speech to “the deplorable discord between state fron- tlers” (imposed by the Versailles treaty) and the frontiers of European peoples.” What is this but & brutal reminder of the Leit motif, repeated throughout “Mein Kampf,” that Hit- ler intends to reunite with the Reich the peoples of German blood, cut off by the Versailles treaty, in Alsace- Lorraine, Poland and Czechoslovakia, not to mention Austria. (Copyright, 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) A new, miracle powder dissolves all stains, tartar and foul deposits from ylnt_e without brushing! Givesteeth a live) atural appearance. Just puta little Polident in_ water with your plate. You can actually see it polish and purify—in 5 to 15 minutes it looks like new.’And Polident is absolutely har our dentist will recom- mend it highly. 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