Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 10 May 1939, Page 4

Timely Topics

“Herr Funk,” says the “Sunday Times,” “is regarded' with particular apprehension by the great Capitalists whom he used to

INVERTED BOLSHEVISM.

serve. Their fate has indeed grown curi-

, ous. It was they, ; largely, who brought Herr Hitler into ■power. They financed him when he ■ had no money, and supplied the ! wherewithal for his party's mush- | room expansion in 1930-32. But, once ■ he attained office, they were soon ex- . eluded from his councils; and now 'they watch helplessly while the very ' system of Socialistic controls, which [they dreaded from Bolshevism and [paid Herr Hitler to avert, is riveted [ upon them by Herr Hitler’s party. For these fields it is indeed the case [ that Nazism is an ‘inverted Bolshevism’; and that, while the two forms ? of dictatorship continue to denounce ? e'ach other, the resemblances between j the methods which they employ grow ? constantly closer and more striking.” I ,® is ». a | “With the breakdown of collec- | five security the British .Navjy, as | much the most formidable force' bh i the, l world’s jeeans, cohtinlo d to preserve | a fraction of I world order on the old basis (says | the “Hound Table"). f “In this last great crisis, people in | countries like Australia, New Zea|land, or South Africa felt secure, arid, | therefore, able to choose at their lei- > sure their attitude towards a possible European outbreak, because the British Navy still held command of the seas in which they lay, aided by its indispensable adjuncts, the Air Force and the Army. No one would suggest

SEA POWER:AND ] THE DOMINIONS, i

that this power position Should be abandoned in order to teach the Dominions a lesson in responsibility. It will continue as long as Great Britain can preserve it, whatever may be its consequences in p'olitic&l immaturity among other members of the Commonwealth. But it is as Will that the Dominions should realise the trite position that they are in. The question is not one of the direct weakness of British sea power; for the potential hostility' of Japan, replacing the; old alliance, is probably matched by the immensely increased pow'er of’ a friendly United States, hobbled though her policy is by isolationism.’’