Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1939 — Page 6

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Many Germans live in these Baltic’ states .. ,, , and a drive 1 northeast to Leningrad has long been rumored as a pet dream of German generals. |

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fast bombin plane. ; 40 g ee live upwards of 7, 000,000 peo- : : ’ { : 7 1 | ings ple, industrious and productive but / : 4 : oo’ compelled to import food and vital raw A : o materials. This necessity explains the |i 7 7 Vv famous “drive to the east.” To see how QERMANS Po Hitler is bringing that drive to success, read the captions numbered one, two

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AS 1938—year of Munich—ends, Central Europe, more | ‘risen in Czechoslovakian Carpatho-Ruthenia for the estab- | the days of Napoleon I—and it was in Russia that Bona- | attack Poland for 10 years, but Danzige than any other part of the world, holds the key to | lishment of an independent Ukraine. parte’ s downfall began. . der the protection of the League of Nations. world neace. | Such a movement, which would be at the expense of With less oppesition but still at the risk of a war, Danzig was taken from Germany to serve as a r At Bercitengaden almost in the middle of Europe, | Russia, Poland, Rumania and Czechoslovakia if all Ukrain- | Hitler might turn his ambitions toward the Baltic, where | for Poland, but the Poles, fearing German seizure of ti i sits Hitler—the actual key to the whole situation. The | ians were included, could only be successful if strongly | the Posen area, the Corridor, Danis and Meme were city, built a Polish city, Gdynia, in their own territa : Ukraine is known to be his goal and now—after the parti- | backed by Reichswehr bayonets. In his autobiography, pared from Germany, by. the hated an : 1 is semiautonomous part of thuania Neri i tion of Czechoslovakia at Munich, he controls both gate- | “Mein Kampf,” Herr Hitler declared that the control of the 2st © h Sil al | nicipal gov : aways across the mountains toward the rich Ukrainian Ukraine was his last and greatest goal. 36 ‘would make heatfields, Agitation, apparently German-inspired, has