U.S.A. WATCHING ANXIOUSLY

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 9

U.S.A. WATCHING ANXIOUSLY

Victories Of The “Dry Napoleon”

PUBLIC MARVELS AT HITLER’S FEATS

Fears For Fate Of Racial Minorities

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received March 16, 10.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 16.

Herr Plitler’s march on Bohemia is being followed by America with anxious attention but no surprise. Such matters as American investments in Czechoslovakia, the reciprocal trade treaty, under which much international trade is carried on, and the Czech bonded debts of 169,000,000 dollars held in America gave the developments a practical aspect of immediate nature to the United States of America, but these are overshadowed, momentarily at least, from the popular viewpoint. The victories of the “dry” Napoleon, as Herr Hitler is called because he conquers bloodlessly, exert an unmistakable fascination upon the man in the street who perhaps, without admiring Germany’s conquests, marvels over their periodicity and continuation. It is a game to follow and to wonder whether it will ever end, >or what forces will end it.

The various German American Bund headquarters held victory celebrations yesterday and today, and the police had to rally to support a meeting of the so-called Racial Tolerance Society at Philadelphia, which was broken up by Nazi hoodlums. Fate Of Minorities. Such events have concentrated attention on certain other aspects of the Czechoslovakian situation, namely, the fate of racial, religious or intellectual minorities, and at least one newspaper influential in New York, the “Daily News,” advises the United States of America “to relax the immigration laws and allow into the United States as large a proportion of these people as we can fairly bo called on to receive, if not larger . . . for plain human decency.” The announcement that Argentina has just concluded an enormous barter deal with Germany has added another detail concerning the part which the United States must play in combatting the totalitarian States. Under this deal Germany is to take 55,125,000 bushels of wheat valued at £7,000,000 and Argentina will receive in return motor-vehicles, railway equipment and other machinery. '