HITLER ON INDIA
Srx,—It is interesting to read today sorne words from Hitler's Mein Kampf. "I remember well the childish and incomprehensible hopes which arose suddenly in nationalist circles in the years 1920-21 to the
effect that England was just nearing its downfall in India. . . A few Asiatic mountebanks . . . succeeded in inspiring otherwise Quite reasonable people with the fixed notion that the British World
Empire, which had its pivot in India, was just about to collapse there. . . . It is right down puerile to suppose that in England itself the importance of India for the British Empire was not adequately appreciated by those who had the direction of British history in their hands. And it is a proof of having learned nothing from the world war, and of thoroughly misunderstanding or knowing nothing about Anglo-Saxon determination, when they imagine that England could lose India without having put forth the last ounce of her strength in the struggle to hold it. . . . England will never lose India unless she admits racial disruption in the machinery of her administration . . . or unless she is overcome by the sword of some powerful enemy. But Indian risings will never bring this about. We Germans have had sufficient experience to know how hard it is to coerce England."
Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.
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