NAZI MENACE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 April 1940, Page 5

NAZI MENACE

AWAKENING OF NEUTRAL NATIONS HITLER LIKELY TO STRIKE ELSEWHERE. SAFEGUARDING MEASURES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 21. The Sunday newspapers are much preoccupied with the degree to which the growing menace to neutrals of a Germany governed by Nazi doctrines is being realised by those States exposed to Nazi aggression which have so lai' escaped actual violence. There is a feeling that recent events must have served to bring home in many quarters warnings which British statesmen have repeatedly given to neutrals that until Nazi lawlessness has been defeated there is no security for any State. Dispatches from newspapers’ own correspondents in neutral capitals indicate that in nearly every case vigorous measures are being taken or planned against the Nazi technique of penetration, which has been so strikingly illustrated by events in Denmark and Norway.

The “Sunday Times” writes: “Ever since April 9, when Germany suddenly invaded without provocation two neutral States, completely overwhelming one and seizing the capital of the other, all the rest of the European neutrals have seen where they stand. With the temporary exceptions of Russia and Italy, they know they may be in imminent danger. They know, too, that its source is Germany alone. “Even Russia and Italy—though for the time being they feel safe and though Germany at the moment is pressing them to become her partners in a new crime, as Russia has already been in the crime against Polandmust be aware that their security would be gone if Germany were finally victorious.

“In Holland a state of siege has been proclaimed over the entire country. In Yugoslavia Dr Stoyadinovitch, so long and recently the pro-Nazi Premier, has been interned. Sweden, Belgium Hungary, Rumania, and Turkey, have alike taken safe-guarding measures. “There is a widespread feeling that whatever happens in Norway Hitler is likely soon to strike elsewhere—in one event to exploit his success, and in the other to divert attention from his failure. Incandescent java can be seen brimming on the lip of the volcano. Men ask only in which direction it will overflow.”