NAZI AIMS AT DOMINATION

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 155, 27 March 1939, Page 9

NAZI AIMS AT DOMINATION

Serious View Taken In Britain ANOTHER TRADE PACT SIGNED (Independent Cable Service.) (Received March 26, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 26.

Both political and commercial circles in London take a most serious view of the trade pact between Rumania and Germany, believing that Rumania has now passed into the orbit of Germany, which henceforth will dominate her completely, despite Rumania’s maintaining a semblance of independence.

It is generally regarded as a very big move in the drive eastward, which possibly will have a catastrophic effect on the plans for a peace front, as it may influence other Balkan countries to throw in their lot with Herr Hitler. Meanwhile, substantiating this point of view, reports from Holland, Yugoslavia, and Belgium indicate that the Nazi drive is to be intensified.

It is officially stated that a German-Dutch trade pact has been signed. It will be effective from April 1 till December 31, 1940. It is declared it will increase the volume of trade, and its long duration shows the mutual confidence of the two nations in the stability of their economic relations.

It is reported from Belg-rude that Yugoslav members of the permanent German and Yugoslav Economic Committee have been invited to Berlin next month. It is believed that Germany expects to gel a trade agreement as favourable as the Rumanian pact. It is also staled that Herr Hiller may try to take a baud in the Croat autonomist movement with the object of gaining control of an Adriatic port.

From Brussels comes a report that a travelling agreement, has been signed between Germany and Belgium in order to encourage reciprocal tourist traffic. This is the favourite opening gambit of Germany’s infill ra I ion policy. Messages from Paris report that, it is authoritatively stated that the trade treaty between Germany and Rumania gives Germany oil rightsonly in respect, of new wells ami that France retains her rights to the old wells under the treaty of J!l3.>. LITHUANIA “NOT AFRAID” (Received March 26, 7.30 p.m.) KAUNAS. March 25. General Rastikis. Comma nder-in-Cbief of the Lithuanian Army, in a message of encouragement to the army today said: ‘ We are not afraid for our independence. Should our present soil be endangered or our independence attacked we will not relinquish it without a fight.”