PAN-GERMAN SCHEMES

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 10, 12 July 1922, Page 3

PAN-GERMAN SCHEMES

Since the armistice, Britain has repeatedly played into the hands of the Pan-Germans and the Bolsheviks, says the Duke of Northumberland in the National Review. Tho Foreign Office has not been blind to the danger, but has been too weak to resist tho Prime Minister. As showing tho use made by the Germans of Bolshevik propaganda, in April, 1919. The Times published a secret discourse of Brockdorff-Rantzau, declaring that "the Bolshevik was an excel lent, article for export by Germany." The Matin, of 22_d April, 1919, reported that a conference, held at Zurioh in that month, consisted of representatives of the German secret service, a Bolshevik agent named Aaron (representing1 Lenin), and a Bulgarian agent, Cohen. A plan was drawn up for German propaganda under a Bolshevik and Pan-Islamic camouflage. Considerable funds placed at the disposal of this organisation, belonged to Germany, Russia, the Young Turk party of Enver Pasha, Komal, etc. This throws light on the Caliphate agitation among British Moslems.

Germany has obtained concessions by playing on tho fears of the Entente statesmen that she would go Bolshevik. The Pan-German plan, says the Duke of Northumberland, is to obtain control over Russia's resources, inducing the other Powers to acquiesce in the false hope of obtaining reparations and trade concessions. Having restored Russia, obtained complete control of her resources, and pursued methods of "penetration" in tho countries of Central Europe, Germany, in time, will find herself in control of Central and Eastern Europe, with the whole of the Continent at her mercy. She is succeeding in isolating France, and may even„ induce Britain to enter into an alliance. The British Prime Minister has said: "The future will bo determined by ancient or new alliances," and France is described by "highbrows" and others as unreasonable and prejudiced. It may be inevitable that Germany should reorganise Russia, and obtain economic control of Central Europe; the prosperity of Germany may be deeirablo from all points of view. But it is not necessary, says tho Duke, to be blind to the obvious dangers, and to walk into Pan-German traps. Tho remedy is to see the dangers and to take steps to avoid them as far as possible. The first Etep is the closest understanding and an alliance with France In comparison with the realities of the foreign situation, many utterances in the British Parliament and at Genoa are regarded by thei Duke as those.of a dream world, utterly out of touch with vital and threatening facts. In a postscript, ho says that the treaty between Germany and Russia—a treaty which is an open defiance of the Alliecf: Powers, and a direct breach of faith on Germany's part—is only anothor Btep in tho Pan-Germanic programme. "It should convince even the Coalition Government of the folly of tho oouibo it has .ursned;'.'