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...CEGER AND MARCK...

...After- all, it was almost a century after the French Revolution before Trance became permanently committed to the republican idea...

...perhaps wars* than at any time since the Thirty Years War that turned great areas of Germany and Central Europe into a depopulated waste...

...For an independent, free, prosperous Europe is an indispensable condition of a sound new world...

...Hate will brood over the wreckage of Europe, along With hunger and pestilence...

...the North, by the Japanese in Eastern Siberia...

...But they refuse to join the chorus of ignorant.hnte-moiuxers and pseudo-scientific war propagandists and draw up a blanket indictment against the whale German people...

...for three and n half months...

...Finland held the Soviet armies at bay...

...Great ehies will have been laid waste on a scale impossible during the last war...

...Yet, even though the outlook for Europe is dark, I do not think it should be abandoned as altogether hopeless...

...Such a Europe would be only a cockpit for the preparation of new wars...

...For the good of Europe and for the future of...

...A totalitarian powerdjloc of that type would be a threat to world peace ami stability quite comparable with what the 'I nnil Reich would have been if Hitler had realised his wildcat dreams of conquest...

...stable world relations one must hope that the second alternative will prevail...

...If this war aim could lie hammered home to the German people, as it unfortunately has not been up to the present time, there would be every prospect of driving a wedge Iretwcen the Nazi ruling clique and the German masses...

...f a «tmngrr and more wecessfal Weimar Republic, purged of militarism ana wining to cooperate with other European countries on a basis of peace and mutual respect...

...There are good reasons for believing that a second tier-man Republic would be more successful than the fiist One of the main weaknesses of the Wolrour Republic was the absence of staunch republicans outside the ranks of the labor movement...

...This time the Nasi concentration camps will have put iron into the will of the men who will come into poWer in the post-war non-Nazi Germany, and the flabbiness and weakness that wen-all too characteristic of the...

...their own land, worst on foreign soil...

...The answer to this question is important not only to Germany, but 10 Europe and the world...

...And future genensthsns in the United Nations may not regard as the highest achievement' of...

...They rightly point to the achievement* of the best-period ef the Weimar Republic, from, 1934 until 1929...

...Weimai¦ icgime in Us dealings with reaction will...

...A firm insistence by the American .and -JarJasah governments that tj»e principles of the Atlantic Charter and "the Moscow Declaration .are just a* applicable to the Soviet Union and to Eastern Europe as to any other great power.and .any other part or the world will clear the atmosphere ami leave the peoples of Europe, after the fitat agonies ef war and reconRtrtietton have been overcome, free to decide their own destiny...

...But is it Wise, or courageous or even necessary to assume Russian political 'omnipotence at the end of the war...

...No informed and realistic observer can deny that the outlook tor Europe, after being ravaged by this second convulsion of criminal madness within a generation, is extremely dark, much darker than it was after the last war...

...THE speech by Marshal Smuts, discussed in this column last week, is nothing short of a sentence of doom on the European continent...

...0 * * *fl?HE witty British King Oniric* H «nee brushed ' " a-iae tb« a«rg«stion of .his brother James that he take ssare as-eeeetlpn* against assassination wiMi the wisecrack: "The...

...They--are right in maintaining that one failure to establish republicanism in Germany under extremely difikult external conditions cannot rea«onnhly be j««ranle»l as proof of eternal German incapacity for free government...

...of the crimes which Hitler and his gangsters have committed first against the decent democratic elements among the German people, later against the peoples ot the countries- which the Nasi armies invaded -and pillaged and oppressed...

...It may be argued that the Soviet regime has placed a veto on the regional federation idea...

...Almost inciedibly naive is the viewpoint expressed by some well meaning American liberals that it might be a good thing if Stalin should take ever Germany...

...He brushes into indefinite or permanent oblivion the countries that have figured as major powers in the past—Germany, France, Italy...

...COR Europe there is leally only one long-range * alternative: subjugation under the Anglo-Russian condominium or federation, first on a regional, later on a European basis...

...As Seger and Marck say: "We can only raise the question...

...as a necessary consequence of this process of wholesale obliteration, he foresees Russian domination of the continent, balanced, as he hopes, by an association of the smaller democracies of Western Europe with the British Empire...

...The oUl continent »ill emerge from the present conflict bleeding from many wounds, moral ami physical...

...Who shall dominate Germany: the democratic West or the dictatorial East...

...as proof that "the Germar people will eventually be- able to govern themselves...

...Of course, a policy of supine capitulation to every demand of Stalin would, if carried to its logical extreme lead to a Europe dominated -by and from Moscow...

...wke statesmanship a war and post-war policy that would so completely pulverize Burope and...

...It is significant, ami hopeful, that Russians under" all regime* have fought best in defense of...

...written by two German Social Ueateerats who are new ia this eeasitrv, Gefkart H Seger a ad Siegfried K. March, end lust pukHefcsd by the wCjUMsf l^wa4e^n0k e^s*a*Meww Segrr has been in a Nasi concentration camp, and Merck was driven from his university post and later deprived- of ' (terman citizen ship by-the- Hitlerite regime.' Both men havo the keenest sense...

...The idea of dividing up Europe into spheres of influence donuinii.-d l>y two *x\ru European Bower* -the Soviet Union aisl <o*at Britain—is hot only unjust ami immoral in itself, but will almost certainly prove unwoi kable in the long run...

...The fate «# the countries in Eastern Europe that lie in the pathway ot the Red Army advance is uncertain...

...people will never kill me, James, to make mm King...

...Something like nu internal war of mutual extermination has been and is going on in Yugoslavia...

...Tthiiik...

...not the -territorial dismemberment of Germany, not the di.smantlimr at German industry not- the dragging off of millions of German* ta slave labor, but the promotion, in wVe^'^iiWhslf...

...Along with the general batted for the Nasi oppressors, there will be fierce factional feuds in many of the liberated countries...

...The original Red Army fought successfully against foreign intervention by the French and British in the South and...

...point the way to an intelligent United BafJama policy toward G»--many.now anil after the Nazi defeat A reasonable aim in this eounection would be...

...But.it collapsed, not xinly for military reasorisr- wheu Lenin tried the experiment of promoting world revolution by driving into Poland hi 1920...

...A ia a» to leave the Soviet Union undisputed master of both cunt incuts Every scheme for the reconstruction- mi Europe, as the last analysis, revolves are and Germany, because Germsay, by reason «f population, geographical location and industrial and line achievement, must'be an influential power ia laatpiaSiat Kaii—i, A w*ry m~*4mi ***** te Utsinrgent thinking shoal post-war Gerssany is a • book, - "Germany: To Be er Not te Be...

...there is good reason to believe, be eliminated...

...and the labor movement was divided and disorganized by the intrigues of Moscow...