TACTICS OF BULLY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20033, 4 September 1939, Page 9

TACTICS OF BULLY

DEMANDS ON POLAND TERMS OF HITLER NOTE ]NTOLER ALT jE CONDITIONS LONDON PRESS COMMENT (Eire. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Sept.. 2. The promptitude with which the Government published the texts ot the notes exchanged with Herr Hitler is warmly commended in the press. The newspapers, in their comment, note the abrupt nature of the check to a continuance of the exchanges which occurred when on August 29, on the model of the interview of the former Austrian Chancellor, Dr. K. VonJSchuschnigg, with Herr Hitler at Berchtesgaden, a demand was made that a Polish emissary was to be produced in Berlin before midnight on August 30, armed with full powers, not" to negotiate but to conclude "negotiations” on terms which Germany herself would draw up and present. Reviewing the- whole correspondence, The Times says that for bullying, chicanery and bad manners it would be difficult to find anything worse even In the record of the Nazi Government. ' The Daily Telegraph says that the correspondence reveals the stages by which Herr Hitler, impelled by an overmastering desire to bring off a single-handed coup! came to abandon aIL he had pretended to concede to the principle of reasonable negotiation, hoping to confront Poland with dictates in Berlin presented under an intolerable time limit.