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broad basis, one reads that "the foreign policy of a national state
should secure the existence of the race united in that state by
creating a sound natural relation between the number and the growth of
the people, on the one hand, and the size and quality of the soil, on
the other."* More specifically, one reads that "however, such a soil
policy cannot find its fulfillment for example In the Cameroon, but
today almost exclusively in Europe."** From here, one is led directly
to the point that "if one wanted soil in Europe, this, on the whole,
could only take place at the expense of Russia; then the new Reich
would have to start marching again along the road of the old Teutonic
knights in order to give, by the German sword, the German plow its soil
and the nation its daily bread."***
 
 
The above theory is quite generally presumed to hold good today, and
while no concrete gains along these lines may be noted as yet, one
hears constantly in well-informed circles of developments tending
towards a realization of these ambitions. At one time a plan of attack
against Czechoslovakia with Italian aid is mentioned; at another,
Danzig, the Polish Corridor, or Memel on the basis of a deal, perhaps
forced, with Poland; while the Ukraine, particularly owing to the
 
 
 
*MEIN KAMPF: page 728
** "     " :  "   152
*** "    " :  "   154