VARIOUS SIGNS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 117, 14 November 1939, Page 10

VARIOUS SIGNS

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(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received November 14,.,2.20 p.m.)

NEW YOKKfNovember 13,

The Paris correspondent of the "New York Times" says that the situation created by the Belgian and Dutch initiative, for peace and the British and French replies is undoubtedly an Allied tactical success, placing on Germany the responsibility for the future of the Netherlands. '-'Negotiations'are no longer conducted by exchange of diplomatic notes but with armies in the field. The Allies, who were previously at a disadvantage owing to the fact that the Nazis were prepared to use military means if their demands "were not satisfied, now match the Hitlerian diplomacy with an even greater show of force.

The correspondent adds that it is evident that the opportune moment to attack either Belgium or Holland has passed. It is believed that the Munich explosion incident and the ferocity . with which' the Gestapo is suppressing manifestations of sporadic opposition to the regime are symptomatic of discontent which neutrals declare is openly discussed in all circles.

One of the most curious features of the discontent is that the National Communist and left-wing Nazis are beginning to become very prominent. There is an inevitable reaction among industrialists, landowners, the middle classes, and the military against national Communists^ so that division ■within the Nazi Party is becoming more marked daily.

False hopes of the quick disintegration of the party and the collapse of Herr Hitler's supreme authority are discouraged in France, but hesitation in launching total warfare, the Munich outrage", and neutrals' reports all tend to, prove that uncertainty and division have begun to reign where previously Herr Hitler's clean-cut decisions were everybody's law.