NAZI OBJECTIVES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23688, 21 December 1938, Page 16

NAZI OBJECTIVES

The riddle of the international situation is not to be read fully or accurately yet, remarks “ Janus,” writing in the Spectator. No one knows what further demands, if any, Herr Hitler has to make, or on whom. Meanwhile, I reproduce an estimate of the situation by a very competent—a<id

orthodox Nazi—German According to him, Herr Hitler means what he says when he declares he 'has no further territorial demands in Europe; he has none; countries like Switzerland can sleep easy; and no visible cause of war between Germany and Britain or France exists; the Polish Corridor is to find an ingenious solution; a vast motor road will “ fly-over ” the Corridor, thus connecting East Prussia physically with the rest of the Reich (as a matter of fact, a similar suggestion, but for a railway rather than a

road, was made years ago); Germany of course, must have Southreasterc Europe for her market, and the colonial question must be settled sooner or later by negotiation, as it no doubt can be. If that survey, coming from a German well qualified to voice the policy of the typical Nazi, does in fact represent Nazi policy and Herr Hitler’s, a working accommodation in Europe should not be unattainable. It may not be altogether on the lines we should choose, but, at any rate, it gives no excuse for war.