The Munich Four Power Pact has failed. That can be the only interpretation to be ven of the dramatic strokes whereby choslovakia has been swallowed up by the German Re The statement made last October that Herr Hitler had no further territorial ambitions in Europe has been found in the final event to be untrue, and that goodwill upon which Mr. Neville Cha berlain founded his policy of appeasement las been shown to be non-existent. It follows his policy has received another reverse, and one from which it may not rever, fg it is quite obvious that a policy based upon a faulty premise cannot be ex pected ong io survive the exposure of its falsity. That is not to admit that Mr. Chamberlain was wrong when he went to Muni n an/endeavour to prevent a world catasophe. His success in that direction is sufficient justification for what he did, but eviewed in the light of all that has happened since, it is quite clear that, while he thought something had been the wreck of C: entirely of another opi to be incorporated into the while certain sections of i certain amount of local aut the fa remains that Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, ud probably Ruthenia hi passed under german control. In their passing they have provided the first denial of Herr Hitler's cotrine of racism, for he has absorbed ra which cannot by any stretch of the imagina ion be described as German, and the first indication has been given of the rashness of believing that any of the principles which ne has laid down "Mei mpf" have about them any abiding qi "rom now onwards to place any reliance upon the good leith upon which Mr. Chambe has depended will be to commit a blunder of gravest magnitude. The world at large as now been duly warned that the commission delimiting Czechoslovakia's new boundaries was nothing but a solemn farce. Those boundaries were never destined by at ast two parties to that commission to be manent.
The technique ihe same as that employed t ina and Czechoslovakia st r, and it other of the Central European European ates furiously to at, the world will ask, will come r The way to Rumania is now open, the Black Sca may y well be the next goal, or Memel, or or Poland itself. It is even hat the time is coming for Ger-and Italy to open their attack on the m demo cie though it is possible chat that will wait for the time being whil Germany takes all the steps necess "refect herself against the effect of a blockade which would inevitably be put into operation upon the commencement of any such neeuvre. With the weal Rumania d the Ukraine, Germany ci dat blockade indefinitely, and it is, po ps because of the realization that the idea of the short sharp war may have to give place to the conception of a long-drawn-out one, that Germany i: seeking to secure sources of supplies which she doss not at present have in sufficient quantities: c impera-five in the event of any prolonged struggle. It will be seen that th this latest development the perfection of a better under st: ing between the democracies, and those other countries which being threatened is hi coming increasingly necessary, and the recognition of a need for common defence against aggression may be the next important step calculated to thwart those nations whose present policy is one of crypta-aggression which may very quickly be transformed into overt, It is impossible to over-emphasize the gravity of the situation. It is such that in Great Britain Mr. Chamberlain may find himself no longer able to exert the control he has up to the present. It may be that the demand for the formation of a National Government embracing representation of all parties will prove in the not too distant future something which he cannot afford to disregard, for it must be very apparent to him that the factor most likely to contribute to his own downfall is the man in whom he has displayed such touching faith,—Herr Hitler.
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