PREPARATION FOR WAR

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 94, 4 April 1934, Page 5

PREPARATION FOR WAR

Urged by German Writer eIWORD LN ITS OWN AGAIN. Mr Ewald Banse, National Socialist geographer and military strategist, writes of “the Great War that will de cide the fate of the German people” >■ a book published recently in America.

“We cannot go on dreaming and building pretty castles in the air. We have to harden our hearts and make the nation the pivot on which all our thinking turns,” he writes in the American edition of a book widely circulated in. Germany. “The sword will come to its own again, and the pen after 14 years of exaggerated prestige, will be put in its place. The sword has lain rusting tn the corner for 14 years in the German countries, while the pen has had the stage to itself; and as a result we have gone to the dogs.” Herr Banse, lecturer in military xcience at the chief educational institutions of National Socialist Germany, M the author of “Wehrwissenschaft” (Military Science), a book banned by tho Reich when it raised a flood of protests from foreign countries after Wesmany left the disarmament conference. His new book, titled “Germany Prepares for War,” outlines a programme of “national defence” calculated to “combine German territory into a unified and therefore more powerful state, whose boundaries will be far wider than those of 1914.” The State is to be composed of "German-speaking Central Europe,

with a present population of 92,000,000.” "Mighty empires are not founded by treachery, deceit, or huckstering; they grow out of the clang of swords. The Third Reich as wo dream of it —from the Flanders Coast to the Raab, from Memel to the Adige and the Rhone—can also only be born in blood and iron. ’ ’