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Another Gateway ? Memel is hardly another Czechoslovakia, says the Christian Science Monitor. But developments there are reminiscent of tho*se which followed National Socialist organisation both in Austria and in the Sudetenlaud— increasing German pressure within, tacit support for that pressure from without, and increased difficulty for the governing State—in this case Lithuania—in maintaining law and order in the politically besieged territory. The ascendancy of National Socialism in Germany has intensified the sense of Grievance among the German people under Lithuanian rule, as it has among whatsoever German minorities may be used as spearheads for Hitler’s programme of territorial expansion in Europe. The Sunday elections, which have recorded further gains for Germans in autonomous Memel’s Landtag, and the increasing Nazification of German leaders in Memel, point to developments which may cause many to remember the story of the Sudetenland and to note that German expansionism looks northward along the Baltic as well as eastward toward the Ukraine
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20730, 14 February 1939, Page 6
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160TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20730, 14 February 1939, Page 6
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