一外交重于军事虽然是在烽火连天鼙鼓动的今日,外交工作依然要比军事工作重要的多。军事不但不是决定战局的唯一因素,而且有时它本身不能不依存于外交活动。这在过去一年的欧战中,是有无数的例子的。谁都得承认,英法在战争初期的失败,绝不是军事的失败,而是外交的失败。英法苏谈判的拖延而至于破裂,这一件事注定了日后德国在东欧战场迅速获得胜利,乃至注定了法国的惨败与投降。本年四月间德国迅速占领丹麦挪威,实际上是由苏芬战争幕后的列强外交所招致的。 Diplomacy is still more important than military work in spite of the fact that diplomacy is heavier than that of military affairs today. Not only is the military the only factor that determines the outcome of the war, but it can not but itself depend on diplomatic activities. This is a myriad example of the European war of the past year. Everyone has to admit that the failure of Britain and France in the early stages of the war was by no means a failure of the military but a failure of diplomacy. The delaying of the negotiations between Britain, France and the Soviet Union led to the rupture. This thing was doomed to a rapid victory by Germany in the battlefields of East Europe in the future, and even destined to France’s fiasco and surrender. Germany’s rapid occupation of Denmark and Norway in April this year was in fact caused by the foreign powers behind the Sufism war.