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But behind this massive hoaxing of the German people, an elaborate machine of the utmost competence was at work. Nazi journalists, diplomats, politicians, teachers were trained intensively at the Geopolitical Institute. Haushofer's agents traveled to the corners of the earth assembling data on the nature, living conditions, cultural influences and conflicting opinions of the peoples of the world. Haushofer himself became president of 3,000 clubs devoted to Nazi propaganda in foreign lands.
After Haushofer What? In the years before World War II Haushofer watched Britain's dominions loosen their ties with the Motherland: he felt this to be contemptible weakness on Britain's part. He believed firmly that there was no real friendship between the U.S. and Britain; and by carefully avoiding references to Nazi designs on the U.S. (while propagandizing furiously against the U.S. in South America) he hoped to see a neutral U.S. in World War II. Today, somewhere in Germany, 73-year-old General Haushofer must watch with growing anxiety the United Nations' inroads on his plans for German hegemony.
In his retreat in a secluded Dorsetshire garden ("the quiet is broken only from time to time by the R.A.F. crossing overhead") 81-year-old, walrus-mustached Sir Halford Mackinder recently admitted he was "hard of hearing," but commented with disdainful sarcasm on Disciple Haushofer's theories.
"My up-to-date views on geopolitics?" asked Mackinder. "As I understand that word, which I myself never employ, it is the name given by Germans to a political theory which, by exploiting the geographical pattern of the globe, will lead to a world, empire under German control. I have always felt, and am still of the opinion, that the grouping of lands and seas is such as to lend itself to the growth of empires and, in the end, to a single empire. If I'm right, it is the duty of the Allied nations to take this threat seriously."
Says Author Whittlesey: "First should come a vast increase in factual information about all parts of the earth. . . . [We] may be [able] to work out an organization . . . not based on domination by any group. . . . It might well take the form of some degree of federation."
Says Author Horrabin: "A New European Order must be based on larger economic units than the twenty-odd sovereign states of the Europe of 1918-39. ... It cannot permit . . . the domination by any one (or two or three) nations. . . . That means the end of all empires—British and French, as well as German. . . . National sovereignty must go.''