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...Warlords and Statesmen. The tide of Teutonic conquest had flowed and ebbed for 2,000 years before it caught up with Wilhelm Hohenzollern and left him stranded when it briefly receded. The Warlord of Potsdam, as he talked of history's cry for leaders, must have thought of other German warlords who had ridden the tide of conquest when it flowed. He must have thought, as Adolf Hitler so often thinks, of the fear which has caused other peoples to fight against the tide for 2,000 years of history...
...doctrine is sound. In its favor is the fact that, even in peacetime. Europe is not self-sufficient. Saddled with war, it is short of food and many of the necessities of war, such as oil, steel-hardening metals, rubber. Some of his necessities Hitler has relieved by his conquests to date, and others he may relieve by future conquests, but every conquest adds to his problems of ruling conquered countries and conquered peoples. Franklin Roosevelt had chosen as the cornerstone of his military doctrine that if Hitler is locked up with his victims his revolution will succumb...
...saying, he staked his country's independence in a game of war for Empire. He lost the game. For although the Bullfrog of the Mediterranean might devour lesser organisms (except those, like Greece, that stuck in his throat), he was firmly locked in the alligator-jaws of Nazi conquest. Were he a man to be amused by his own misfortune, he might laugh gutturally at the paradox of his position: If his ally wins the war, Italy may rule an empire of sorts, but Germany will rule Italy. If his enemy wins the war, Italy may at least rule...
...persisted even though France grabbed Tunisia from under Italy's nose in 1881, even though the Ethiopians massacred an Italian Army at Aduwa in 1896. By purchase and painful conquest Italy mastered an area in Africa about twice the size of Pennsylvania, called it Eritrea. In 1911 Italy declared an unprovoked war against the crumbling Ottoman Empire, got Tripoli in the settlement and kept Rhodes and the Dodecanese Islands provisionally...
...this declaration in favor of Lebensraum no man of democracy in favor of just and workable post-Hitler peace could object. Nor could Fascists well object to it. The Pope had taken away from the Nazis one of their most useful slogans, and substituted for a solution by violent conquest, a solution of peace and justice...