It Germany were to attack France to-day, France could be certain of Belgium and Czechoslovakia, "coun-
"It all depends on Hitler," ig the phrase that, expressed or implied, summarizes what men who head the states of Europe say when asked about war or peace. 1s this generally true?
true, why does it "all depend on Hire, Here in Geneva, seat of the League of Nations, the answer may be found. Tt could be sought in the crowded bureaus of the League, and the admirable, intelligent and helpful seeretariat, civil servants of the League, could supply a ten-foot shelf of doc: lamented discussion of the topic. "A simpler, cheaper answer hangs in the window of a Geneva bookshop.
It costs twenty-five cents. It is a map. It is entitled; "Sprachenkarte Von Mitteleuropa," and it shows, according to its German publisher that there "are 85,263,000 "Germans in Europe, most of them bordering upon the German Reich with its 65, 000,000, Confirmation of the German version costs another twenty-five cents. tries whose very existence" depend is map, by a French publi-and believes itself capable of bringing into the fold within the predictable future.
But the Germans or German speak: {ing peoples living just across the Ger-Jman frontiers are obviously the most interesting to Pan-Germany. Working Jaround the map of Germany counterclockwise, from the North-East cor ner, one may find these groups of Germans in Memel, belonging to Lithuania; Danzig, West Prussia and Upper Silesia, belonging to Poland; a wide belt all' the way around inside ithe northern, western and southern borders of "Czechoslovakia; all of a fringe of Hungary next to fringe of Jugosiavia; the South Tyrol in Northern Italy; all of zig. tiny Lichtenstein; two-thirds of Switzerland; Alsace-Lorraine, the one time "Lost Provinces" of France; the Saar; Luxemburg as a whole; Eupen-Malmady in Belgium: the Maastrich istrict of Holland and North Scheleswig in Denmark.
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