Evening star. [volume], December 07, 1938, Page A-6, Image 6

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Nations Rich in Resources
Brought Within Reich"s Orbit §
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Economic Axis Extending From North Sea f
To Black Sea Has Been Created
(In two articles, of which this
is the second, the wing corre
spondent of the Daily News sum
marizes his observations of Ger
man economic penetration in
Central and Eastern Europe. Mr.
Whitaker is now en route to
South America, where he will
study the German efforts to in
troduce the same methods into
\that area.)
By JOHN T. WHITAKER,
Chicago Dally Newi Foreign Writer.
Czechoslovakia once crushed as
the bastion against German expan
sion, Hitler's bayonets cast their
long shadow's today over the whole
of the Balkans.
With the conquest of Austria and
Czecho-Slovakia, the other countries
of Central and Southeastern Europe
—Hungary. Yugoslavia, Bulgaria
and Turkey—have been brought
Into the German orbit.
Germany controls between 40 and,
60 per cent of the trade of these
countries already and with her mili
tary position supreme she proposes
to weld them into a single economic
unit, dependent upon and subser
vient to Hitler.
In the words of Dr. Walther Punk,
the Nazi minister of economics, Ger
many has created an "economic
axis” extending from the North Sea
to the Black Sea. Europe revolves
from now on around a Berlin
Balkan axis.
What the Kaiser dreamed of do
ing and what three-quarters of the
world fought to prevent, Hitler has
achieved in four years of power. The
slogans of the past: German Mit
teleuropa and Drang Nach Osten—
German Central Europe and Ger
man expansion to the east—are the
realities of today.
Needed Resources Now Hera.
Oil, wheat, lignite, timber, iron ore,
bauxite fats—the resources Ger
many has needed to make her the
first military power of the world
are hers and they lie not over the
seas in far-flung colonies, but close
to the fatherland in a contiguous,
Well-knit area.
The vast rearmament which
threatened to bankrupt Germany
because of its “uneconomic” outlay
on "unproductive" enterprise has
been made productive; it is bringing
''In as tribute the raw materials and
foodstuffs of Central and Southeast
ern Europe as truly as if those coun
tries had been conquered by Roman
legions.
Those two great western powers,
Prance and Great Britain, who
served as a check upon Germany's
expansion and lay between her and
hegemony over the continent, have
been reduced to secondary positions
by the BesUn-Balkan axis.
Prance has been stripped of her
eastern allies—Czecho-Slovakia, Ru
mania, Yugoslavia and Poland—
while Great Britain has lost her fleet
an as instrument of power politics
since Germany, with the resources
of the Balkans, is no longer afraid
of naval blockade as Hitler himself
so eloquently boasted.
Not since Napoleon has Europe
fallen so swiftly under a single hand
and, as he builds the greatest eco
nomic unit in modem European his
tory, Hitler laughs at the so-called
democracies because he is confident
that they can challenge him neither
with their wealth nor with their
arms.
Balkan*' Biggest customer.
After an unnatural but astute
campaign, Germany buys from Bal
kan and Southeastern Europe more
than twice the total amount pur
chased by Great Britain, France and
the United States together, and Hit
ler boasts that his totalitarian sys
tem Is "crisis-proof” and safer there
fore for the Balkans than the “lib
eral system” of the democracies.
This is not true. The Germans
are not building a United States of
Europe. Their trade is not benefit
ing the Balkans but impoverishes
them and leads to their further ex
ploitation. Germany does not have
a natural monopoly of the trade of
this area but has doubled her com
merce there by unfair methods. The
Balkans do not look forward opti
mistically to their absorption in the
German orbit but they are trapped
and helpless before the grandest
Strategy in modem power politics.
This stategy was foreshadowed in
"Mein Kampf.” It is based on the
notion that Germany has a spe
cial historical mission and can ac
complish this mission through a
policy of "blood and iron.” Hitler
there lays down the necessity of
a “definitive active settlement with
France in a final decisive struggle”
not as a goal in itself but as a means
toward an end.
“Germany really sees in the de
■traction of France,” Hitler write*,
“merely a means of being able to
give our people at last a possibility
of expansion at another point.”
That point lies to the east. Hitler
is characteristic of his race and In
the stream of the great German ex
pansionists.
When he took Austria he was ex
ecuting Alfred Neumann's scheme
for Mitteleuropa and with the con
quest of Czecho-Slovakla he was
started eastward with the Hohen
sollem scheme of Berlin-Bagdad.
In his tactics, as he plays East
against West, British colonies against
French allies, the Russian Ukraine
against the bombing of London and
Paris, Hitler has perfected the tech
nique of Frederick and Bismarck—
dividing and isolating his foes, de
stroying them singly.
His Balkan axis has world sig
nificance as well. Nasi expansion
is not to be arrested with hegemony
over the European continent. With
southeastern Europe as a vast Ger
man colony Berlin will be strong
enough at last to straggle for
world markets. The Nazi tactics
with which he has won there against
Britain and France will be the same
tactics pursued from now on in Cen
tral and South America against the
United States.
He needed the Berlin-Rome axis
to achieve the Berlin-Balkan axis.
He already has the Japanese fleet
and he may come to terms yet with
the British fleet. He will challenge
the supremacy of the United States
in this hemisphere. It is inevitable.
The Berlin-Balkan axis looks toward
the Berlin-Brazil axis.
(Copyright. 1038, Chicago Dally Newt, Inc.)
Hotel Unit Head Named
In Paralysis Fight
E. C. Eppley, Omaha hotel execu
tive, today became chairman of the
Hotel Council in the "Fight Infantile
Paralysis Campaign,” it was an
nounced by Keith Morgan, commit
tee chairman for the President’s
birthday celebration.
Mr. Eppley will open headquarters
in Omaha next week and will mo
bilize hotel managers .throughout
the country to obtain co-operation
of hotel personnel in the campaign.
Mr. Morgan said the Nation’s ho
tels played a large role in last year’s
drive for funds.
United Slates Seizes
1,000-Ton Cargo
Of Whale Pit
58 Undersized, Nursing
Animals Slaughtered,
Prosecutor Charges
B> Um Amoc1*U4 Frau.
NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Charging
violation of an international treaty
banning the killing of undersized
and nursing whales, the Federal
Government today held 1,000 tons
of whale oil seized from the whaling
vessel Frango.
Assistant United States Attorney
M. C. Cary filed a $150,000 libel
against the cargo.
Cary said the Government acted
after Lt. T. R. Midtlylng, a Coast
Guard officer stationed on the Fran
go, reported that, despite his pro
tests, the crew of 117 had slain 27
nursing cow whales and 31 under
sized whales less than 35 feet long.
Protected by Treaty.
Such whales are protected under
an International treaty to which all
major maritime powers subscribed
in 1936 to save the species from
extinction.
The violations occurred, "Cary said,
off Western Australia last summer
during a hunt in which the Frango
crew slaughtered 900 whales with
harpodns carrying explosive time
bombs.
One of Two American Whalers.
The Government also confiscated
450 tons of oil aboard the Cities
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SARASOTA, Fla., Dec. 7 (4*).—
William H. Gray, 61, died here yes
terday at the apartment where he
and Mrs. Gray were spending the
winter.
Attaches of the funeral home in
charge of arrangements said they
understood he had been ill but one
day.
$10,000 Suit Involves
Fall From Train
Endla Faison of Newark, N. J.,
brought a $10,000 damage suit In
District Court yesterday alleging in
juries in being thrown from a mov
ing train at Union Station.
The woman advised the court she
accompanied her elderly mother to
the train on July 31 and went
aboard to see that she was properly
seated. The mother was traveling
from the National Capital to Rocky
Mount, N. C.
The plaintiff charged she was not
warned to leave, and that while
she was alighting the train started
and she was thrown'to the ground
and severely and permanently in
jured. She suffered a fractured leg
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told.
Attorney Raymond Glttehnan
represents the plaintiff, who brought
suit against the Washington Termi
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and the Atlantic Coast Line Rail
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Pennsylvania College
Alumnae Seek $350,000
Washington and nearby alumnae
of Wilson College in Chambersburg,
Pa., are organising to participate
In the Nation-wide effort to raise
$350,000 for the construction and
endowment of a student-alumnae
building on the campus.
Mrs. Thomas D. McAvoy, 735 Sev
enteenth street N.W., is chairman
of the Potomac division. Local
chairmen are Mrs. Vemer C. Boggs,
3141 Wyoming avenue N.W., chair
man for the District of Columbia;
Mrs. Paul B. Thomas of Baltimore,
chairman for Maryland; Mrs. John
Hugh Wanner of Arlington, Vt.,
chairman for Virginia, and Mrs. H.
B. Sheppard of Wilmington, chair
man for Delaware. Miss Gertruds
Hoyt Parry, secretary of the Wil
son College Association, was a
speaker at a meeting last night.
Baby Giraffe Dies
san Francisco, Dec. 7 ow.—
The giraffe paddock at Fleishhacker
Zoo was a gloomy place yesterday—
the 8-foot 5-inch 135-pound baby
giraffe died less than 48 hours after
birth Sunday.
Veterinarians said death appar
ently was due to malnutrition.
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Coffee Table, #13.25
Grand Rapids made with
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Pouff, #3.95
One of the many colorful
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Pier Cabinet, $13.25
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