AN AFFRONT TO CIVILIZATION

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 146, 16 March 1939, Page 9

AN AFFRONT TO CIVILIZATION

Nazi Guilt Denounced In London

ACT OF UNPROVOKED AGGRESSION

Democracies Need To Look To Own Security (Independent Cable Service.) (Received March 15, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, March- 15. The “Daily Telegraph,” discussing editorially the German occupation of part of Moravia, says: “By this act Germany has made herself guilty of the most flagrant and impudent act of unprovoked aggression that has been witnessed in Europe in modern times.

“Though no moral or legal obligation rests on us to aid the victim of this aggression, we can no. longer have any doubt regarding the character of the Power confronting us in central Europe.

“Germany has perpetrated an affront to the whole civilized world which will not readily be forgotten.”

“The Times’’ says: “For the moment the British and French public can only register their disaprobatiou of the ruthless treatment of a small industrial and friendly nation for the establishment of whose independence their efforts in war were jointly responsible. “Herr Hitler’s influence is dominant in central Europe and is proving itself consistently hostile to political freedom as the western democracies understand it. They, on their part, can only continue with increased energy to look to their own security.” The “News Chronicle” says: “Poland and Hungary will shortly have a common frontier. Germany has advanced much nearer the Black Sea, and the question, now more urgent than ever, is when a halt is going to be called to this triumphant march of aggression.”

BRITISH ATTITUDE Chamberlain’s Statement (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Marell 14. Mr. Chamberlain, replying in the House of Commons to a question by Mr. Attlee in reference to the proposed guarantee to Czechoslovakia, reminded him that it was to have been against unprovoked aggression, and that no such aggression had yet taken place. Mr. Chamberlain described as altogether unwarranted the assumption and the suggestion by Mr. Attlee that the Government was now entirely disinterested in Czechoslovakia. EXTENSIVE PRECAUTIONS BY RUMANIA (Received Marclq.ls, 10.30 p.m.) BUCHAREST, March 15. Rumania is taking extensive military precautions on the Ruthenian frontier.