Of the many topical fallacies which dim the public mind,
there is one which I have met with this week and which leaves me aghast. There appears to be a legend,, creeping as a wisp of fog throughout the country, that in some manner Nazi diplomacy in this war has proved itself more successful than our own. I cannot trace the origins of this quaint belief. It i true, of course, that the Axis Powers, by the menace of bomb and tank, have frequently been able to force some rabbit country to surrender without fighting to their venom embrace. Yet even then they failed in Yugoslavia, as they failed in Greece. The fact remains that there were thrw absolutely vital objectives which Nazi diplomacy ought to have attained. It was essential to maintain good relations with Russia and to avoid a war on two fronts. It was essential to prevent North and South America from becoming closeiy asio. dated with Great Britain. It was essential to induce the pop lations of the occupied countries to acquiesce in German rule They have utterly failed even to approach these three majoc objectives. And what diplomatic achievements can they show comparable to the Atlantic Charter, the Russo-Polish agra ment, or the Allied Resolution of September 24th?
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