THE NEW ORDER IN EUROPE

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23493, 22 November 1941, Page 3

THE NEW ORDER IN EUROPE

GERMANS INDICATE PLANS VON INQUART SPEAKS IN COLOGNE (8.0. W.) RUGBY, November 20. An illuminating report has been received of a lecture in Cologne by Seyss von Inquart, Hitler’s representative in the Netherlands, which must cause still further distrust among the neutral countries regarding the fate which befalls any State regarded by the Nazis as fitting in with their plan for the “new order.” He said the reason that no armistice had been concluded with Holland and that the Dutch civilian administration had been taken over by the Reich’s Commissar was that the Dutch be-

longed* to the German brotherhood. He raised the question whether the Dutch were German or not, but did not answer it. Racially, he said, they belonged, like the Frisians, southern Saxons, and Franks, to the German people, but because of many circumstances they had developed along other lines. A readjustment of these developments was possible and necessary. Belgium had signed an armistice with Germany and was subjected to German military rule. For some time official German circles had been speaking no longer of Flemings and Walloons, but of Belgium and Belgians. ‘Norway’s position was similar to that of Holland, so that closer incorporation into the German empire was to be expected. Of Europe, he said it would become a terfitory in which there would be no more independence for anybody, since common representation in the economic system would be necessary. Autonomy would, however, be possible with regard to intellectual and cultural matters. In place of independence and complete autonomy Germany would offer the peoples of Europe equal rights. According to a message received in Zurich from Berlin, official comment on von Inquart’s statement confirms that Hitler has decided that Germany’s new order ih Europe will include the Continental and North Sea coasts as a constant German military zone in order to render impossible any British or American influence in the future.