Dec. 10.
The Allies—and this term may be taken in this connection to include the United States and China—may be accused by hist forians of this world-wide conflict of having failed to use the maximum forces at their disposal in winning this war. The accusation will not be justified when the mobiliza~ tion of man-power and industry is urily considered; but the accusers will look at things from a'Tonger point of view than is at present common, and charge that spiritual and psychological' forees were allowed to go shamefully to waste. In particular might this charge be justified in connection with the objects of this war. It is admitted that ders of the Allied countries are eor= it ambitions to what is to say, in trating on winning the war, with all the powers which have been put at their nether these powers bel ori At me time it would be foresight and confidence in uthoritics of the Allies, were to appoint an expert commi to determine what are the which they may be prepared to future resettlement of the world. of course, the complete dimi powers of Ihateed w in contro in Gem m_which are There must om the sphere of pure specu one hand there is the will to destruc will toa chy of nihilism, and a frame of mind which is anti-everything and pro-noth-{ing but on the other there is yet nebttlous desire for return to freedom, Fs in which the world which lias been per policies into the both moral, and the physical' side concerned, there is only one course to iie—to beat the wielders of the rubber and this side is er the other deserves.
There can be nothing but sympathy for the statesmen of the Allied powers who are called upon from time to time at this stage to make detailed pronouncements upon the Allied war aims. At present these aims can be expressed only in or tions: first, to con quer the subversive influences which have over swept a large part of the world; and second, to build up en order which will make recurrence of this upheaval for ever impossible. In the second aim, it will be observed that the world fought for a similar the object between 1914 andi018, inthe "war end wars" but which in the end did much to provoke the present conflict. The errors Which resulted in this tragedy were largely enemy bases, aerodromes, railways, asvem- the outcome of unpreparedness for peace by! Ep. Gralam-Barrow ae producer and actor, th Allies of 1914 and 1918. To begin, with, lids have been they fought to preserve a status quo ante, but during the course of the war it was borne upon everybody that the status quo ante was not good enough—that most of the necessary ingredients had been destroyed. The victor~ ious powers sat round the peace conference table without having properly worked out the ideas upon which permanent peace should be based.
If there is the danger of a ornis take being made in this war, it must inevitably result in an increased reluctance neutral powers to assist the cause which they instinctively know to be theirs also. Why should the United States expend vast resources to perpetuate a condition which will result in international explosions every quarter of a century? Why should they exert every effort to oid the British -Empire to survive this extremity, when they may be called upon to do precisely the same thing all over again before another generation has had time to mature? It is in the second of the Allied war aims that the world may have hope—to make recur rence of this upheaval for ever impossible. But how is this to be done? Not by beating. the enemy to their knees: that was done last time, and what has been the result? I is by producing a concrete and construe: tive alternative to the "new order" which has been proposed by the destroyers of the Present system, and by showing to the humblest of the world's inhabitants that this alternative will provide the—longed-for In the concentration on self-preservation which has been enforced upon the nations threatened by Nazi aggression, the im= mediate aim of survival may obscure the longer aim of founding & world in which the threat to survival cannot recur. The Nazis have a definite plan before them; they are prepared to modify this plan as cireumstances permit, so long as they get the great~ est advantage out of it. In the main, however, it is the establishment of a ' world hegemony, with Germany as the dominating power and the rest of the world as a girdle of subsidiary peoples, deprived of the ability to resist their masters and of the economic possibility to do anything but what they are told. The plan has been outlined in great detail by Haushofer, the philosopher and theoretical guide of the Nazi movement. What is the alternative offered at present the opponents of the Nazi terror? It seems to be purely negative. To overthrow the authors of the threat, without producing any organized plan to take the place of the destruction they have caused, seems the limit at the moment. Yet the opponents of barbarism, of pagan' terror, have at their disposal the best brains of Europe, among them the geniuses which have been driven out of the countries where the Nazi bight has been worst. Surely at this time an unoicial, international commission might be assembled, composed of men of the true scientific turn, of the real objective frame of mind, who can subordinate purely national causes to those of world importance, world which must inevitably rise from the ashes of that which is now being destroyed.
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