WORLD AFFRONTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 March 1939, Page 7

WORLD AFFRONTED

FLAGRANT & UNPROVOKED AGGRESSION NAZI ACTION DENOUNCED IN LONDON. DEMOCRACIES MUST LOOK TO THEIR SECURITY. LONDON, March 15. The “Daily Telegraph,” discussing editorially the German occupation of part of Moravia, says: “By this act Germany has made herself guilty of the most flagrant and impudent act of unprovoked aggression that has been witnessed in Europe in modern times. "Though no moral or legal obligation rests on us to aid the victim of this aggression, we can no longer have any doubt regarding the character of the Power confronting us in central Europe. "Germany has perpetrated an affront t:> the whole civilised world which will not readily be forgotten." "The Times” says: "For the moment the British and French public can only register their disaprobation of the ruthless treatment of a small industrial and friendly nation for the establishment of whose independence their efforts in war were jointly responsible.

"Herr Hitler’s influence is dominant in central Europe and is proving itself consistently hostile to political freedom as the western democracies understand it. They, on their part, can only continue with increased energy to look to their own security.” The “News-Chronicle" says: “Poland and Hungary will shortly have a common frontier. Germany has ad-> vanced much nearer the Black Sea. and the question, now more urgent than ever, is when a halt is going to be called to this triumphant march of aggression.”