continent was in an uproar. While a number of countries directly affected by this move immediately began
various military and diplomatic preparations after the
first effects of the stunning blow had worn off, it
was not six months after the event that arguments were
heard even in the camps of the former Allies that per-
haps after all there had been certain Justification
in Germany's action. The severity of Versailles was
apparently a contributory cause to its own downfall.
At present, after various other sections of the
treaties have been similarly handled, the inviolability of Versailles is scarcely ever brought up in
connection with Germany's growth and power.  Then
there is a decidedly important trend of thought in
Europe away from 19th Century democracy and this
trend has been extremely helpful, in the furtherance
of her ambitions, to a Germany well adapted to the
new autocracy of the era.
 
 
 The aim of all National Socialist foreign policy
is power and prestige with the ultimate objective of
expansion both economic and territorial. Borne out
by MEIN KAMPH , official pronouncements, and past
achievements, certain outstanding tenets of Nazi
doctrine are seen to be the premises and guides of
this policy, as follows:
 
 
 1. power, and its correlative prestige, requires a strong army and navy, sufficient