NAZI SEIZURE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 March 1939, Page 5

NAZI SEIZURE

EUROPE DRIVEN BACK UPON STARK FORCE GERMANY MISREADS SIGNS. REACTION TO RECENT MOVES SPONTANEOUS. LONDON, March 20. “The Times,” commenting on the situation, says that the Germans are misreading the signs of the times when they attribute the present collapse of international confidence to the other I. nations' Machiavellian calculations and hidden motives for aggression. The ■ seizure of Czechoslovakia, says the paper, is the sole cause for despair of a peaceful settlement, which, with its accompanying maltreatment is more disastrous because-the perpetrator was one of four who undertook to preserve Czechoslovakia in its new form. Europe is driven back upon stark force. Nothing else counts. It was not a happy moment for Herr Hitler to offer a guarantee to Rumania in exchange for all her produce. She instantly manned her frontiers. All the smaller countries fear German protection. The suppression of Bohemia’s liberties is a crime. Germany totally misunderstands the British, American, French and. Russian refusal to recognise it as expansion. National Socialism means tyranny, cruelty, and paganism. The reaction to such a move is spontaneous. Britain has opposed encircling Germany, but Germany's methods have made encirclement inevitable. HUNGARY’S CLAIMS PREMIER THANKS GERMANY. FOR UNDERSTANDING SHOWN. BERLIN. March 20. The Hungarian Premier, Count Teleki. has sent a telegram to the German Foreign Minister, Herr von Ribbentrop, thanking him for the understanding shown by Germany to Hungary's claims and for his co-operation in repairing the injustice of Versailles. He added that a further step had been taken in the interests of the peaceful existence together of the central European peoples.