WARNING FROM PAST

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 102, 2 May 1944, Page 6

WARNING FROM PAST

GERMANY PLANS

"Know Thine Enemy" is a sound axiom of modern military training, but the need for such knowledge does not end with hostilities (writes an English electrical journal). The last peace went largely in Germany's favour, mainly because the victorious Allies failed ,to remember and take into account characteristics peculiar to - the German people. The journal reproduces from "The Synchroscope" the following item which should serve as a warning against making the same mistake again:— "Another kind of Post-War Planning.—A recent advertisement in a New York newspaper called attention to a prediction (evidently based on inside knowledge) made by a German staff officer to an American correspondent in 1915. At that time, Germany was winning, yet the German capacity for thoroughness had eventhen envisioned the possibility of reverses. In such case, predicted the officer: "(1) An armistice will come before any hostile army crosses Germany's frontier. "(2) There will be no scars on the Fatherland from this war." "3. The immediate competitors in the economic and commercial world will be so crippled that . . . Germans will be outselling them in the markets of the world long before they can get on their feet. ... "4. Following the war there will be economic hell, industrial revolution. We will set class against class ... until1 the nations will have pretty much all they can attend to at home. ... "5. If need be, the Fatherland may disassemble into component parts, and reassemble at the strategic time. "He concluded with a glowing vision of" German propaganda separating the Allies until they were at each other's throats, leaving France without aid. "You remember how it all 'happen-, ed after 1918. The 'master race,' like* the leopard, does not change its spots. It might be well to keep our past experience in mind when writing the new peace." National War Savings quotas were attained last week at 198 towns, the same number as in the preceding week. In each of the eighteen postal districts the full district quota was reached, and of the eighteen principal centres sixteen succeeded in obtaining their