Show hitler looks to vast ukrainian Uk krain rainia ta euro europe pes last hunting ground vo I 1 SOVIET RUSSIA I 1 I 1 4 As epram ua ZE O CARP ATtiC ienna I 1 UKRAINE 5 I 1 RUMANIA 1 gj I 1 I 1 I 1 N A observers predict new territorial drive may start next month groundwork laid by Auit austrian rian czech coups by JOSEPH W labine when we talk of new lands in Euro europe pew we e are bound t to 0 think of russia and her border states fifteen years ago from his prison cell in munich adolf hitler inscribed that statement in mein kampf only two years year s ago at the nuremberg party conference ahe he spoke again if the urals brals with their incalculable wealth of raw materials the rich forests of siberia and the unending fields of the ukraine lay within germany under national socialist leadership the country would swim shimin in plenty today these forecasts seem more ominous than ever in the brief 12 months of 1938 austria devitalized little czechoslovakia and pummeled eastern europe into economic and political submission the groundwork is already laid sage foreign observers look for his newest campaign almed aimed at creation of 0 a puppet ukrainian republic to start around february 1 potentialities great it Is a fearsome pic picture turi in southern russia poland rumania czechoslovakia and hungary are some ukrainians whose vast lands it if put under one hag flag could constitute Eu ropes greatest and richest nation for years they have sought fie freedom edom some from the prewar pre war austrian lungari an empire others from dussias Rus sias czarist regimes today the russian ukraine which constitutes but 2 per cent of the S soviets actual territory 0 supplies one filth fifth of its wheat one third of its barley and three ot of its sugar beets this land contains coal ironald iron and timber its power plant Is see second in size only to americas boulder dam what hitler would dewith do with this vast territory Is no more than the ukrainians themselves es would do if 11 given a chance he is merely seizing the opportunity to give the movement impetus and strength gua guaranteeing guarantee rantie ing that in return the ukrainian republic will be bis vassal state german interest to in the ukraine is not ne new w it dates back to the russian revolution ot of 1917 when n thi the ukrainians an entirely separate race from the Russians proclaimed their independence and established a capital at historic kiev pressed for food and supplies inuring i during the last year ot of the world war Gerr germany nany recognized thi the n new ea republic at the treaty of brest litovsky in return the ukraine agreed to supply germany with a million tons of food I 1 annually republic already attempted when the republic was overthrown by combined white russian and bolshevik opp opposition i position ion Gerni germany any stepped in to establish i a puppet government at kiev under paul skoro gadski who rho Is today leading the pan ukrainian a agitation n from berlin this government also collapsed and russian ukraine joined in 1919 with the newly organized wistern western ukrainian peoples republic the following year this brave attempt at nationalization collapsed russian ukraine went to the moscow go government and western ukraine to poland every german move of of the past year has been well reasone reasoned d and planned along lines ot logical progression gres sion for the moment the most important fact Is that each bachof of these moves was essential to the ukrainian campaign first came Aus austria austal trl a afi an which i in turn permitted germany to use a 1 play 0 on n czechoslovakia this barrier removed hitler went about his job of Nazif ying the balkans carefully avoiding any indication that this program looked ultimately to the ukraine it was not hot until november that the cat jumped out of the bag quietly through pressure pies pressure sure fro from m perlin berlin I 1 weakened czechoslovakia h had a d granted autonomy to the tar far eastern province of ruthenia which was significantly renamed Car patho ukraine here wa was 3 a bit of actual akra ukrainian 1 nian territory which hitler could control an excellent jumping off place for his campaign the zealousness with which germany protected ukraine when hungary backed by poland sought to annex it it indicated ila that here at last was tle the longemo long eio sought u J and precious niclous path to the east start polish agitation subsequent developments strengthen I 1 this opinion while italy has kept european eyes usell on the mediterranean with her campaign ABOVE the vast ukraine ei spreading reading fp over southern rus rui sia including a third ol of poland and reaching into czechoslovakia hungary and rumania economic political control over this huge area would I 1 I 1 give germany a strangle hold on 0 f E european robein raw materials against france german agents have pa poured d into ukraine other measures r have been directed at poland whose ukrainian districts of Vol hynia and halicz have presented ted I 1 the warsaw parliament with demands for terri territorial torla lauton autonomy although self government demands have been growing for 16 years this is the first time a concrete proposal has hai been presented what whai shape germanys germanas Germ anys ukrainian campaign ca will take can only be I 1 guessed guis sed certainly hitler cannot be so blunt as to march his bis troops into polish or russian territory without a provocation but he may follow the currently popular technique of fostering an incident which would offer ian an excuse tor for marching into foreign territory to safeguard peace since ukraine is the jumping off place a revolt could be planted there very conveniently already czechoslovakia a and fid poland are at swords ends because ukrainian agitation is being fomented on czech soil should germany march in to settle this dispute she she would meet no opposition from subservient czechoslovakia 0 western newspaper 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