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Show Germany's New Policy The German government has apparently ap-parently decided that the protection protec-tion given its citizens in foreign countries shall likewise extend to all those of the German race, re-ga.dless re-ga.dless of their citizenship. Of course, this is talk, so far as the United States is concerned, but might mean something to the smaller . nations of central Europe, which have German people within their borders and among their citizens. citi-zens. Dr. Wilhelm Prick declares that "the worldd must know that Germany Ger-many does not intend to tolerate i-e mistreatment of her racial comrades outside the Reich borders" bor-ders" and that "Germany must demand de-mand that her brothers outside her borders be safeguarded in cultural and racial respects." That, he concludes, con-cludes, "is not exclusively a domestic domes-tic matter for the ruling nations but an international question deeply deep-ly touching Ge'.many." By thus injecting such a claim into international affairs the German Ger-man government is apparently laying lay-ing the way for intervention in other countries in favor of German minorities. While the doctrine undoubtedly un-doubtedly is aimed at Czechoslovakia Czechoslo-vakia and ether European nations it w.-.":id also have an application in South A.T.erican countries where Here i o Oe.man citizens. Thus it could provide a pretext for armed intervention in the affairs of any natiTi in the world in which a few German people live. Just how much trouble it can cause in Europe is seen by the fact that the- Ge.man doctrine conflicts A.th the claims of all countries h:vinfe German minorities, including includ-ing Chechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Hung-ary, Yugoslavia and Rumania. It even conflicts with the policy of Germany herself in dealing with minority groups within her own b-.ders. |
