Such a harnessing of the Polish nation with its. 35. million membi (othe German political chariot could jead under the conditions of Poland's geo-political situation to the realization of German dreams of hegemony over Europe. To make Poland! dependent on the Reich would virtually automatically bring about German hegemony over the Baltic States, the Scandinavian countries, Rumania and the Balkan lands. such Wise, "Great Germany" would really number not 86,000,000 but 18 (000,000 Inhabitants: it would make no essential difference whether the above countries would be annexed (as Bohemia and Moravia) or fully sub-Jected to German hegemony in the ceonomie, political and military fields Although leaving them the mirage of 1 paper independence, attempt will now be' made to define the nature of the threat which would in stich ease hang over the heads of the other countries as an outcome of the theoretical possibility fof Danzig being Incorporated within the Reich and of Poland being sub-Jected by the latter in the economic and military sense, Lot us begin with Rumania, It must first of all be clearly reali that the Polish-Rumanian alli by no means a fiction, nor the fruit of such oF other transient situation, This alliance ix simply the outer, political expression of the indissoluble Hiex of a Reo-political nature which vind the two countries together—countries which really constitute the two great components of the Baltic-Black Sea Axis, a modest copy, of the great axis stretching from the North Sea to the Mediterran
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