is alarming enough), in that it is no more than natural to believe that
the broad policies of any political group are subject to change and
interpretation to meet conditions arising through the passage of time,
especially if those policies were evolved prior to rise to power.
Furthermore, there appears to have been a great tendency on the part of
other European statesmen to place, in the face of Germany's growth,
faith and reliance in the sanctity of enforced treaty provisions, the
power of the League, and the French formula of collective security in
spite of the probable warnings of alert general staffs against the
military diplomacy of a new Germany revivified after the supposedly
crushing defeat of the World War only a comparatively few years ago.
But there is little reason for surprise if one is able to refer to MEIN
KAMPF and therein to note that the
principle for every developmental step was carefully and publicly
outlined long since. Of even more impotrance, perhaps, is the point
that there is but
little reason to believe that in future foreign relations there will be
any great deviation from the fundamentals therein laid down, regardless
of the tragedy which may thereby be brought down upon an already
overburdened Europe. There is even less reason for guessing at what the
National Socialist government has in mind for the future.