Examples of Nazi double dealing with neutrals are piling up to mountainous proportions. Recently, Spain had a taste of what she may expect from that quarter. Not long ago the Spanish Government placed an order for the printing of banknotes with the Germans. The order was filled and the banknotes delivered, but the Nazis had printed a complete duplicate set of these thousand peseta notes (each note about two pounds), which they kept for their own use and, until Spain was forced to cancel the whole issue, used for propaganda purposes in Spain, and to pay for espionage and other consular activities. It should not be forgotten that this barefaced act of robbery was committed against a people with whom the Nazis profess to be friends, and against a government which the Nazis and the Fascists assisted into power. It would seem that it is as dangerous to be friendly to the Nazis as it is to be their enemy. There seems to be a danger that neutral nations are forgetting Hitler's statement—"our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself." When Ko madè that statement he was talking about a country which was at peace with Germany and wished to remain so, but has now fallen a victim to Nazi treachery. In this connection considerable concern has been expressed by friends of Japan lest a process of Nazi undermining is going on in that country. While German diplomats in Tokyo have been emphasizing the common ties which they say bind Germany and Japan as partners. in the axis, an official spokesman of the German embassy in China has been emphasizing the friendly relations existing between China and Germany and pointing out the military assistance given by Germany to China during the Sino-Japanese hostilities. The spokesman is reported by the leading Chinese dailies to have said that five of the former German military advisers to General Chiang Kai-shek are at present highly valued military experts in his own country. One of them is editor-in-chief of the German military organ "Militaer Wochendletl"; another is occupying an important post in the Foreign Office in Berlin; yet an. other has died; a fourth is one of the most gallant of the German military leaders; and the fifth is a military strategist who is believed to have been responsible for the Chinese victory in the battle of Taierchwang and who is now in an important position in Holland, This revelation will doubtless have been noted by the Japanese, who are too clever to miss its implications: that while Nazis in Japan are protesting their friendship with the island empire, Nazis in China are boasting of the part they played in a Japanese defeat.
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