FURTHER DRIVE EXPECTED

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

FURTHER DRIVE EXPECTED

“Until Hitler’s Aims Are Realized” PESSIMISTIC VIEW IN U.S.A. American Aloofness Partly Blamed By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received March 15, 11.30 p.m-) WASHINGTON, Mar. 15. Administration officials expect a further German drive eastward soon. Painful dissatisfaction is expressed in some quarters with the silent and unprotesting acquiescence of Britain and France. It is feared that the latest German success will dissipate the recent strengthening of the smaller European countries. Senator Pittman, chairman ot the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, predicted that Herr Hitler would advance eastward “till his ambition is satisfied,” adding that his threats have shattered any possible combination against him. Senator Pittman said that Japan was moving in the.same way toward the southern Pacific, albeit slowly. Senator Borah placed on Britain and France the responsibility, through Munich, for empowering Herr Hitler to encroach on Central Europe. He predicted that there would be no general war “so long as there are enough small nations for the large ones to divide up.’ Czech Bonds Break Up. A New York message states that, while Czechoslovak bonds are breaking up, financial circles there are of the opinion that the Nazis’ main object is to secure the Czechoslovak Central Bank’s 83,000,000 'dollars of gold. The 46,000,000 .dollars seized from Austria is believed to.be exhausted. It did not appear in a statement setting out the condition of the Reichsbank and bankers in New York state that it was withheld from Dr. Schacht, the then director of the Reichsbank, and that the Nazi Party used it to buy materials abroad. The "New York Times” comments that it is understandable that Britain an'd France, having determined that it is beyond their power to resist the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, should look resolutely elsewhere. “It is also understandable that many Americans, remembering the United States’ big part in the formation of Czechoslovakia, should feel that American aloofness from the work of postwar reconstruction was one of the early influences in a series of events that have ended in the final act of degradation. The paper adds: "Herr Hitler has been demanding colonics, an'd Slovakia is as much a colony as Togoland. It is clear that the old German dream of a “Mittel Europa” dominated by Berlin is closer- to realization than ever before. This is the twilight of liberty in central Europe.”