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the Pope and international Catholicism but Christianity generally; and
by her attitude towards the Jews, the Church, the established systems
of common justice, and towards real democracy in general, she has
injured the sensibilities of, and alienated, a country which might have
stood her in good stead during her economic and financial difficulties
- the United States.
 
 
 
In the foregoing survey, an endeavor has been made to indicate the
development of National Socialist foreign policy on the basis of
certain major theories, and to leave the conclusions to be drawn from
an outline of the successes and failures of its ambitious and
aggressive program.
 
 
If one might venture a prediction in the face of a mad scramble after
"peace" through heavy armament for "self-defense" on a continent
rendered tense by distrust and abnormal nationalism, it would be to say
that for the immediate future there does not appear to be any vital
force or combination of forces which will materially impede Germany in
the pursuit of her ambitions. However, at least five possibilities must
be considered in this connection.
 
 
First, the very maintenance of high powered hair-triggered armament
everywhere, although it is ostensibly for "peace" control, is in itself
a constant explosive danger. Thus, the situation in