Show GENERAL AZ HUGH S JOHNSON lV washington ashington 1 0 Itt VOLT UNDER HITLER napoleon conquered a large part of europe ho he had some iden of n sort of united states of that continent semi sovereign states united in n loose league ho he allowed the conquered countries a good deal of leeway perhaps his further idea of putting his own people family or follow soldiers on the thrones of several of these states had something to do with his liberality whatever the reason ho he ex cx erciso a close enough control to keep some of them conquered in prussia scharnhorst and stein effectually evaded ills his disarmament decrees by using the permitted small prussian army in a now new concept not as a fixed regular establishment lish ment but as a n military training school through which they rushed yearly classes of recruits as rapidly as possible in this way they forged the forces which finally sent napoleon first to elba and later after waterloo to st helena napoleon just tough enough we do a good deal of talking about our great liberal free union ot of semi sovereign states state 1 the united states of america but we frequently forget that so far as the states stalls of the old southern confederacy are concerned there was nothing free or liberal about it we forced the them m to remain in tile the union nt at the points of bayonets it is worth remembering because after the treaty of versailles tile the allies especially england and france made exactly the same mistake that napoleon had made and made it with exactly the same warlike people the germans there was never a time up to 1030 1936 at least when with the controls at their command they have stopped littler hitler as winston churchill continuously urged that they should do they As napoleon had done earlier and as tile the north did not do after the civil war they permitted the conquered country to build up an overwhelming military superiority under their very noses now the situation Is reversed littler hitler sits astride most of europe ile ho has disarmed it and made its vast military booty part of his own forces ile he like napoleon also contemplates some kind of compulsory united states of europe some observers reverting to the napoleonic failure say that it cant be done that his conquest will collapse through counterrevolution counter revolution caused by a combination of interior strains and stresses with outside pressure will it napoleon himself fre said that all empires of conquest die of indigestion from overeating and referred to the crackups crac kups of the empires of alexander the romans khan charlemagne and the caliphates Calip hates of baghdad and cordova on all the evidence to date littler hitler is not likely to repent repeat the blunders of napoleon and the allies through any lack of toughness efficiency or cold blooded cruelty lets no not kid ourselves too far from realism 0 |