

     THE UPEI SUN, Thursday, October 9,1980, page 10 
     
    
     ON THE UNIVERSITY RIGHT  or‘  ? 
     
    
     by Joseph Sanlei 
     
    
     Helrmit Schmidt, the 
     
     Chancellor of West Germany 
     
     made an analogy a few 
     
     months ago Which began a 
     
     trend among the very 
     
     trendy segments of poli— 
     
     tical discourse. The 
     
     Chancellor stated that 
     
     in his astute, if hardly 
     
     humble, opinion the world 
     
     of 1980 was not much 
     
     different than that of 
     
     1914, with political 
     
     combatants hopelessly 
     
     drifting toward each 
     
     other impelled by forces 
     
     beyond their control. The 
     
     study of geo-politics, a 
     
     trend which cotmenced 
     
     before the Secmd World 
     
     War in popular fonm, seams 
     
     to substantiate Herr 
     
     Schmidt's assessment as 
     
     the powers extend their 
     
     influence over vast dis- 
     
     tances and sundry "stra- 
     
     tegic locals" around the 
     
     globe. If this analogy 
     
     were to be accepted then 
     
     the Soviet Union and 
     
     Communist Block is no 
     
     more at fault fdr the 
     
     present world crisis than 
     
     anyone else as they too 
     
     are only following a pre- 
     
     determined course of action, 
     
    
     control. . 
     
     The destiny of humankind 
     
     might as well be written 
     
    
     on. the stars. . rrrr _ ti 
     
     ' The 1914 analogy when it ‘ 
     
    
     was originally published in 
     
     the winter issue of 
     
     Foreiﬂ Affairs (the very 
     
     same publication through 
     
     which misinterpretation 
     
     gave us "containmen " in 
     
     the 'l950's) by Prof. Miles 
     
     Kahler of Princeton, would 
     
     probably have ended up in 
     
     the grealt dustbin of 
     
     history had not the Federal 
     
     German leader gone to such 
     
     brilliantly composed and 
     
     great lengths to publicize 
     
     its thesis. That Prof. 
     
     Kahler's article was 
     
    
     well decumented concerning 
     
     the anti-bellum period of 
     
     World War One is beyond 
     
     contention. Only in the 
     
     transmission of the reality 
     
     of 1914 to the conjecture 
     
     of 1980 does one find holes 
     
    
     large enough for an elephant A 
     
    
     to walk through. For if one 
     
     accepts the premise upon 
     
     which this conjecture has 
     
     been predicated then the 
     
     role of World—Communism is 
     
     only as such as has been 
     
     stated - one of destiny! 
     
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     I 
     
    
     like Prof. Kahler, like 
     
    
     to draw upon history to 
     
     fit it into contemporary 
     
     patterns the good professor 
     
     might be forgiven for his 
     
     passionate moments in 
     
     writing. Also bearing in 
     
     mind Chancellor Schmidt's 
     
    
     y political problems of the V 
     
    
     last year domestically from 
     
     the Strauss Christian Demo- 
     
     cratic Right and even from 
     
     the left of his own ranks 
     
     of Social Democrates, it is 
     
     also possible to excuse his 
     
     seizing upon the "issue" of!“ 
     
     1914 in 1980 out of- poli- 
     
     oal need. However, it would 
     
     be absolutely unforgivable 
     
     for Free World leaders to 
     
     incorporate the 1914 formula 
     
     into their foreign policy. 
     
     For Canada, the Federal 
     
     Republic of Germany,. the 
     
     United States and other 
     
     Western Derocracies to 
     
    
     accept the "inevatability" 7 N 
     
    
     of world war with the 
     
     Communist World’would not 
     
     only be foolish, but self- 
     
     destructive and would and 
     
     either in thermo-nuclear 
     
     hell or surrender to 
     
     ’ totalitarianism without 
     
     the firing of a shot. 
     
     Itvwould be a lie to Say 
     
    
     that the world is not in 
     
     mortal danger of war at, 
     
     this time, but no less a 
     
     lie than to say that it 
     
    
     is inevitable and irrep- 
     
    
     ' Soviet Union of 1980 as 
     
    
     ‘SincethentheRedshave 
     
    
     ressable. For if an 
     
     can be drawn perhaps 1938 
     
     would provide a more suit 
     
     able year -to examinepas 
     
     Prime Minister Thatcher 
     
     of theU.K. seems to ' 
     
    
     In this analogy (1938) 
     
    
     the role of Nazi Germany 
     
     Imperial Japan in the las 
     
     world war, rather than' 
     
     Austria-Hungary or Edward 
     
     Grey's England of the war 
     
     before that. Remember 
     
     it Was with the blessings 
     
     of Hitler that Stalin 
     
     the Red Armies first off 
     
     move into Poland, a ooun 
     
     they still occupy, in 19 
     
    
     peated their scenario of 
     
     brutal conquest in the r 
     
     of Eastern Europe and 
     
     recently in Africa, Asia 
     
     Iatin America as well. 
     
    
     The lesson of 1938, _ 
     
     the myriad of "lessons" 
     
     from 1914, is clear: ~ 
     
    
     the world, bit by bloody— 
     
     bit, this is a lesson the 
     
     Free World must quickly 
     
     learn. As Herr Schmidt's 
     
     "bit" is on the very door 
     
     step of the foe it surpri 
     
     me that he hasnot alr 
     
     learned it; we can only 
     
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