Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1939 — Page 3

.O. Is brandishing Peace Weapons as Challenge to Nazis America Suspends Mail

Service to Czechs; Hitler Snubbed.

Protests to Berlin; Act to ‘Stop Hitler’

chief of a German economic mise: sion sent to Bucharest, presented the following proposals to the Rue manian Government in the name of Nazi Germany: 1. That Rumania gradually cease all efforts to build up her national industry, gradually close down ex= isting factories, and thus make here self an agricultural country only. 2. That Rumania’s exports of grain, oil, lumber, cattle and foodstuffs, all vital to Germany economy, go only to Germany. 3 3. That if Rumania agreed to these terms Germany was ready to

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. MEMEL AREA . German-inhabited strip of Lithuania, adjacent to East Prussia, may ; be “liberated” by Germany, fur- \ | thering Nazi progress along Baltic.

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Powers. Refuse to Recognize Czechoslovak Absorption as Legal.

UKRAINE Coveted by Hitler. “Bread basket”| of Soviet. Rich in wheat, coal and factories. ; ;

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(Continued from Page One) GERMANY (Continued from Page One)

By LEE G. MILLER : ‘times Special Writer WASHINGTON, March 18.—Many of those “methods short of war” which President Roosevelt brandished at the dictators on Jan. 4, in his annual message to Congress, have now taken form. Others may be

BAKU If Germany could isolate or capture oil wells here, Russia’s industry {| and war machine, especially her air fleet, would be

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that Rumania is 'in grave danger of German aggréssion and his determination to fight instead of submitting to any loss of territory.

Carol Seeks Allies

duties, following yesterday’s action, thus established Germany more firmly at the top of this country's trade “black list.” Ameri trade with Germany, - already gomplicated by severe ex-

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change restrictions in the Reich, will be even more rigidly restricted, #6 was believed. The American note will be dispatched to the German Foreign Oce in reply to a communication to the United States from Berlin giving ocial notification of Nazi occupation of the former Czechoslovak provinces of Bohemia and Mo- . Travia, Mr. Welles said that the United States’ reply to this message is now being prepared and that the texts of both notes will be made public, probably early next week. His announcement with the new duties emphasized the swift consolidation of U. S. Government action in protest against the Czech situation. . It came after the Treasry had withdrawn trade treaty concessions from the former Czechoslovak area and imposed the official German tariffs on the region—the highest duties prevailing on goods imported into the United States. Trade Treaty Studied - Mr. Welles declared that. the United States is studying all phases of the reciprocal trade treaty and tariff situation arising out of the German action. One point which must be determined is whether benefits given to other nations by the Czech trade treaty under mostfavored nation clauses will continue in effect. For the time being, he indicated, the benefits wil continue since the only action thus far was the Treasury application of full tariff rates to Bohemian, Moravian and Slovakian goods. ‘Plans which had been formulated to return United States Ambassador Wilson to his post in Berlin were set aside. The three Czechoslovakian provinces overrun by Nazi troops, went on the United States trade “black list” at 11:01 p. m. (Indianapolis Time). ; Mail Service Suspended Mail service to what was Czechoslovakia was suspended to permit letter writers to retrieve communications they might not want submitted. to the examination of Nazi police. Soon after the State Department notified the Treasury Department that it did not recognize “any legal basis for the assumption of socalled “protection” over this territory, Great Britain and France instructed their ambassadors in Berlin to notify the German Government that they did not recognize ' Herr Hitler’s protectorate. Relations were strained further between Washington and Berlin but there was no threat from either side to rupture diplomatic relations.

U. S. to Train 3000 More Flying Cadets

WASHINGTON, March 18 (U. P.). —The War Depdrtment today announced plans to start at once training some 3000 additional flying cadets to man the new airplanes to be obtained under the enlarged Army Air Corps program. :

The Army will recruit flying|

cadets among college students who graduate in June. Several boards of Army officers have been appointed to-fly to the various states, visit colleges and universities, and interview prospective candidates. The plan is to start training®of the candidates in 15 selected commercial air schools in various paris of the country. ° After courses of three months in those schools, the graduating candidates will be sent to the air corps primary training school at Randolph Field, Tex., for three months and then for another three months

on the way. / In his message, the President discussed specifically only two such methods “of bringing home to aggres. sor governments the aggregate sentiments of our own people.” These were expansion of our national defenses and revision of the neufrality act. ’ The national-defense program is moving through Congress with little opposition. On neutrality, no legislative progress has been made, although a beginning is now in sight. But various other events have implemented the Presidential warning. These include: 1. The ' bristling statements of Under Secretary of State Welles, Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Secretary of the Interior Ickes. (Mr. Ickes, not content with words, blocked the export of helium to the Nazis). : 2. The official encouragement of the French plane purchases. 3. Innumerable tariff reductions, applicable to goods imported from any nation save blacklisted Germany, under the reciprocal trade agreements.

Wilson Remains Here

4. The continued failure to return Ambassador Hugh Wilson to his Berlin Post. 5. Nonrecognition, to date, of the Fascist-sponsored Franco regime in Spain. 6. T h e Administration-backed Pittman resolution to permit the manufacture of warships in this country for Latin America. To these might be added, as a footnote, the recent report of ‘the Gallup Poll that 69 per cent of a nation-wide cross-section answered “yes” to this question: “If Germany and Italy go to war against England and France do you think we should do everything possible to help England and France win, except go to war ourselves?” One “method short of war” which the President has never mentioned, but which existing statutes place in his hands, is that of the trade boycott. A 49-year-old law provides that: “Whenever the President shall be satisfied that unjust discriminations are made by . . . any foreign state against the importation . . . of any products of the United States, he may direct that such products of such foreign state . . . as he may deem proper shall be excluded from importation.” Neither the President nor any other official has hinted that use of this power has been considered, although in many minds there is no doubt that Germany's Peculiar foreign trade system does discriminate against American commerce.

. 4 Bills Introduced

As to revision of the so-called Neutrality Act, four bills amending or repea ing the act have been introduced in the Senate, but none of them apparently with Administration sanction. The President ardently desires the severing of some of the strings attached by the Neutrality Act to his conduct of. foreign policy. The delay in pressing the neutrality issue may have been caused by a fear that the so-called “neutrality bloc”’—Senators Vandenberg, Clark, Nye and others—might be able to defeat the President. Even Senator Nye concedes frankly that the Neutrality Act is misnamed—he says it could be better called the keep-out-of-war act. In any event the cash-and-carry section of the act—the part dealing with exports of materials other

to the advanced flying school at ~ Kelly Field, Tex.

IN INDIANAPOL

Here ls the Traffic Record

County Deaths |Reckless (to Date) driving .... 1939 ......... 4 1938 ......... 23

City Deaths (To Date)

Running preferential streets

Running red lights ...... 10

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March 18 Injured Accidents . Dead cs e0 0000p Arrests ...... 3% Speeding .... 11

Drunken

driving ..., 1

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MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are trom official records tn the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.)

Edward Stephens, 57, City; Annie Mitcheli, 50, City. ~ Charles Carson, 24, 3410 English; Edna Hayse, 22, 1645 Churchman. Kenneth Conklin, 27, O.; Irene Hinkle, 30, City. nneth Locke, 18, 126 N. Euclid; MarWolf, 18, 944 N. Tacoma. Hazel

Monclova,

Ke jorie Louis Lamra. 45, Evans, 41, 331 Fulton.

Herschel Hood. 22; 2131 ine Smith, 1g, 1937 Colleg Arthur Green Jr., 25, 346 N. Davidson;

Morristown;

39, Capital;

Anna Zahn, 26, 327 Bicking. : Bernice Hamilton. 45, 3284 Schofield; Leola Green, 43, 3282 Hovey. Edison Kime, 43, City; Alice Hill, Bridgeport. y508 bert Womack, 23. 19 . Lo Tohnson: 19, 1931 Yandes. Joséph Rogers, 26, City; Emma Vanderhoff, 22, City. "Cleon Hubbard, 36,:505 E. 60th; Dorothy Lewis, 27, Lawrence. Maurice Collins. 38, R. R. 5: Janice Woods, 27, 360 Grand. Richard Pierson, -31, Blanchester, O.; Dorothy Schroeder, 28, 1638 Broadway. Jesse Robinson. 23, 1515 E, 19th; Mary Boone, 21, 2305 Ralston. Gilbert Cox, 26. R. R. 4; “Norma Stout, 19, 1079 Oliver. : : Albert Clark. 45, 3109 N. Meridian; Mag-. gie Garrett, 45, 1903 Highland. 4 BIRTHS Boys , Anna Monahan, at St. Vincent’s. foun Leotta Nolan. at St. n, Lois Myers, at 2741 Columbia. ng ‘Dorothy Foster, at 1128 N. Misouri. : y otha Hudson, at 2194 Gent. BE Soret Anderson, at 1520 Shepard. Charlie, Mary Taylor, at 132 N. Miley. Wiley. Rose Parrish. at 1973 Hillside. Girls Harvey, Ivis Anderson, at 725 Douglas.

Harvey, Jonnie Taylor, at 428 W. 16t! lace. : : . |

Carrollton; Paule, . P.

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than arms, ammunition and emplements of war—expires on Mdy 1.

Lester, Myrtle Tate, at 311 W. New York. Harlan, Mary Tucker, at 1849 S. East. Delbert, Ruth Duncan, at 719 N. Shef-

eld. Earl, Marcella Sheets, at 310 Cleveland f Frank, Audrey Wilson, at 446 N. ornia. Franklyn. Lalla Reel, at 931 Bates. Ernest. Erma Robinson, at 1335 Udell. Lee, Florence at 325 N. W;

Long, at Charles, Frances Gilpin, alcott.

DEATHS

Thomas Proctor, 71, Long, bronchopneumonia. Maurine Fansler, 42, at Methodist. carinoma

Benjamin Albert Neville. 76; at 1040 N. Goodlet. chronic myocarditis. Price Satterfield, 171, Central Indiana. acute myocarditis. Gus Johnson, 81, cerebral apoplexy. y. E. Isaacs. cerebral hemorrhage. Viola Sexton,. 35. at City,

tuberculosis. . 76, at Long. coronary

Bernice Laurence, 44, at 1906 S. Delaware. carcinoma. Effie Thomas, 68, at 1902 N. Illinois, bronchopneumonia. E. Flora, 51, at 1318 N. Pershing. lobar pneumonia. Charles H. Webster, 79, at 5845 Dewey, mitral insufficiency. Butler, 42, at St. Vincent's, peri-

S. inda E. Young, 82, at 220 N. Illinois; bronchopneumonia. 3 a Simpson, 66, at City, bronchopneumonia, ; > (Effie Smith, 57, at Methodist, carcinoma. Miranda Crouch, 88. at 1161 W. 37th. arteriosclerosis. Rich Burcham, 9 month, at Riley. bronchopneumonia. Georgia Summers, 84, at 2027 Boulevard lace. influenza, nna Reiman, 75, at Methodist, chronic interstitial nephritis. . 3 ohn F., Weiland, 64, at 543 Highland. cerebral hemorrhage. Charles W. Haves. 71, at 2353 Central, angina pectoris. Margaret Bourgonne. 92. at 722 E. Morris. chronic myocarditis. - ames E. Clark. 34. at Flower Mission, pulmonary tuberculosis. . William E. Masterson. 76, at St. Vincent’s. cerebral thrombosis.

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INCORPORATIONS, ~

Rex Manufacturifig Co., Inc., Connersvie; amendment of articles of incorporation.

Women’s Association of La Porte, La Porte; dissolution. David Johnson Ce., Inc., 738 Chicago St., ‘Hammond; resident agent, Harold D. Johnson, 1162 May St., Hammond; capital stock, 500 shares of $100 par value: to Ldeal in fuels; David A. Johnson, Minnie Johrson, Harold D. Johnson. Bremen Gray Iron Foundry, Inc. men; resident agent, Harold S. Heckaman. Bremen; capital stock, 600 shares of $25 ar value; operate foundry: Harold S. eckaman, Charles W. Kling, Eliis Brown. . Marion County Farm Bureau Co-opera-tive Assn., Jnc. IndianapoMs; amendment increasing common stock to 5000, shares of $5 par value. ; Carl A. Seibel and Carl S. Seibel, Ft. Wayne; registration of trademark, “Heatmaker,” class 1: coal. The Great American Tea Co., New York corporation: change of resident agent to E. Mueller, 650 Virginia Ave., Jndiafiapolis. Monte Carlo Sports Club, Inc., 873 Indiana Ave., Indianapolis; no capital stock: 3 Graham, Shir; Ww. Shiv ly.

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Czechoslovakia and distance from Slovakia to Kiev after conquest of Czech state, illustrating how, in less than a week, Hitler extended his authority almost fo the Ukrainian border. Only tiny Ruthenia, now

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DALADIER WAITS CHAMBER VOTE

Impresses Statesmen With Need for Power to | Act Swiftly. |

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to any length to turn out implements of war; 3. Rewrite pacts and alliances with: any nations; 4. Buy war materials abroad; 5. Conscript all industries needed in defense works. ; Most important to Premier Daladier was the power to act secretly. He believed that the chief advantage of dictatorships over democracies was that dictators could strike suddenly, without warning, whereas military activities of the demadcracies are disclosed to the world by parliamentary debate. “ want to be able to fight at east iin equal arms and regimes whose success is due to the fact that they are able to take decisions secretly,” he said. The Chamber's Finance Committee was in session most of the night studying the act, and voted 26 to 17 tol approve it. Finance Minister Reynaud insisted that France’s firiance reserves were sufficient to meet the emergency. .

4 Communists Oppose Act

Communist and Socialist deputies opposed the act and demanded a National Unity Cabinet including all Parties. Their protests, when debaty started yesterday evening, were soon silenced, however, by the grave tone of M. Daladier’s appeal. Premier Daladier said the circumstances were most grave. He was fighting against time because on March 26, Premier Mussolini of Italy iis expected to make his longawaited demands on France. Anticipating these demands, M. Daladier said: “In reply to certain intrigues abroad, I declare that we won't cede to force or ruse, either a single one of our rights or an inch of our territory. We've made sacYifices for peace in Europe for 20 years.”

RERORTS STRIKE AT LA PORTE SETTLED

t * Max Schafer, Indiana Labor Division Soneiistar. today had reported a strike of 100 employees at the Rayne Corporation at La Porte had been settled. He said salary

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The | Inlow Foundation, Inc., 120 W. ‘Washington St., Shelbyville: no capital stock; | to maintain organization to promote graduate education in medicine ancl

various medical specialties: William De low, C. Fred Inlow, Herbert H. In

Ohio Fuel Supply Co., Ohio corpoi admitted to Indiana to engage in

iness. mercial Discoint Corp.. suite 1511 Indianapolis;

ints Bank Building, ident agent, Jacob S. te, same ad- : (capital stock, . 1000 shares of $25 value: dealing in securities and com- : int «G. Dederick,

. Dower. nd Co., Whiting; nary dissolution,

Equipment Co., Inc., 2821 Roosee., Indianapolis; resident agent, er, same address; capital stock, 100 (no par value: manufacturing.wheel ent: George S. Humes, B. E. Rader, er,

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HITLER DELAYS RETURN HOME

Pauses in Linz as Berlin, ~ Angry at British, Sets Huge Welcome.

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Chamberlain’s bitter speech last night. : There was little surprise registered at the United States’ denunciation of the Fuehrer’s policies. An official statement to the German press said that Mr. Chamberlain’s speech “failed to judge events objectively” and that proof of the single-mindedness of the British attitude lies in the British claim that the Munich policy was first deserted by Germany. Charging British statesmen with regarding the role of the small

as being identical with their role before Munich, the statement said: “That this deviation from the Munich line was especially well understood in Praha will be as clear in England as in France. During this time there was no lack of warning in the German press. “No objective observer of the press of the Westérn powers could deny that during this period, instead of warning Czechoslovakia they did their best to enable Praha to forget that through Munich, the Versailles conception of the relationship between the Western powers and the middle and Eastern European powers was liquidated.” Hitler named Dr. Konstantin von Neurath, president of his secret Cabinet as “Reich Protector” of the Czech areas of Bohemia and Moravia. It was noticeable that the average Berliner was completely apathetic as regards events of the last few days. Some even ventured the comment that there had not been 2 sufficient propaganda buildup for the Czech move. Germans who oil Sunday, Monday and Tuesday read screaming newspaper headlines denouncing “barbaric Czech terrorism” now seemed puzzled when they

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Czechs into the fold of the greater Nazi Germany. Government Set Up

For Seized Provinces

VIENNA, March 18 (U. P).— Adolf Hitler left for Berlin today to

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his Czechoslovak triumph. Before he left, he was understood to have completed plans for Government of the German-seized provinces of the former Czechoslovak republic. . Ferdinand Durcansky, foreign minister in the new Slovak Government, and Sano Mach, chief of propaganda, left Bratislava last night: for Vienna to consult Hitler and receive his orders. The official newspaper Slovenska Swoboda of Brgtislava announced today appointment of Prof. Mattus Cernak as minister to Berlin; Dr. Josef -Zvrskovec as minister to

| Rome; Dr. Karol Klinovsky as min3

ister to Warsaw, and Dr. Ivan Milez as minister to Budapest. Negotiations regarding Slovakia were reported to be due to the reticence of Monsignor Josef Tiso, presi-dent-premier of Slovakia, to accept too firm a Nazi protectorate over his devoutly Catholic homeland.

All Key Points in South Africa Guarded

PRETORIA, South Africa, March 18 (U. P.).—All key points throughout Souwth Africa were heavily guarded today after the Govern-

ment had refused to allow a shipload of German immigrants to disembark. Urgent orders’ were issued mobilizing all South African police reserves, including Europeans, Asiatic and Africans. Units of the South African Air Force were held in readiness to

‘proceed to Southwest Africa, Ger-

many’s former colony, where it was

feared a state of emergency might!

southeastern states after Munich.

Chamberlain Abandons His ‘Umbrella of Peace’

By WEBB MILLER , (Copyright, 1939, LONDON, March 18.—Prime Minister Chamberlain’s speech last ‘night on Adolf Hitler and Herr Hitler's dissection of the Czechoslovak republic marks the most important reorientation of British foreign

by United: Press)

War, it was generally believed today.

Mr. Chamberlain’s speech marked the complete abandonment of his

as it concerne¢ Germany, and the of Anglo-German relations which

ominously resembled the status of relations in the few years before

As one commentator put it: “Chamberlain has hung up his umbrella and shouldered a gun.” Incidentally, he did not take his amous “appeasement” - umbrella with him to Birmingham.

Admits Munich Shattered

In his speech, the most bitter reproaches that any British Prime Minister in peace time memory had addressed to the head of a foreign state, Mr. Chamberlain tacitly admitted that his policy of appeasement had collapsed. His injection of the question whether Czechoslovakia’s annexation was a step in the direction of world domination by force constitues another parallel with the state of Anglo-German relations in the period preceding the World War. 7 One immediate effect of Herr Hitler’s tearing up of the Munich agreement is likely to be an even closer British rapprochement with France, commencing with the state visit of President Lebrun to London Tuesday, and a closer AngloFrench military tieup tantamount to definite military alliance. The speedup of arrangements for the constitution of a British expeditionary force of about 300,000 men for use on the Continent in event of war also was expected.

Chamberlain Gains Support

Other effects as foreseen today were: i 1. Intensification of popular demand that the Government institute some form of conscription of Britain’s man power, which Mr. Chamberlain previously had said would not be done without consultation with the electorate. 2. A general revision of British foreign policy consequent on the collapse of the appeasement policy. 3. A general speedup in the tempo of rearmament. . Revision of foreign policy may include tentative overtures to Soviet Russia, starting with the trade mission which is due at Moscow soon. It was believed that in due time Britain and France probably would make a renewed effort to weaken the Berlin-Rome axis by overtures to Benito Mussolini, who is believed here to be not too happy about events in Central Europe. Although the Daily Herald, the Labor Party organ, repeated today a demand for Mr. Chamberlain’s resignation, the first efforts of his speech seemed to be to refortify his popularity. Mass opihion seemed to be that Mr. Chamberlain’s policy had failed not because of any fault of his but because his plan was let down" by (Herr Hitler. ’

GUARD PADEREWSKI AFTER NAZI BLAST

CHICAGO, March 18 (U. P.).— Police placed a guard around the 79-year-old pianist and statesman, Ignace Jan Paderewski, today because he had expressed indignation at Germany's seizure of the provinces of Bohemia and Moravia. They feared American Nazis would demonstrate against him. Mr. Paderewski, first premier of modern Poland, sent a letter to former President Eduard Benes of the former nation of Czechoslovakia,

action to the fate of Mr. Benes’ nation, > ; ~The police guard was placed around the pianist’s private railroad car on the order of Mayor Edward J. Kelly. Mr. Paderewski plays in concert here tomorrow. “The most sacred rights of a nation to independent life have been stampeded by marching troops,” Mr. Paderewski wrote to Ex-Presi-dent Benes.

expressing in strong terms his re-|

ITALY GETS SET FOR AIR RAIDS

Citizens of Rome Are Told How to Act in Drills, Lights Shaded.

ROME, March 18 (U. P.).—Instructions were sent throughout Italy today telling the people how

" _|to act during air raid drills and it

was reported persistently that reserve officers were being called to the colors. Every fifth street light in Rome was painted blue in preparation for “blackouts” expected to start in the next night or two. During air raid drills and in wartime, except after an air raid alarm when cities are darkened completely, the blue lights are left on to afford a slight measure of visibility. It was regarded as almost certain that Premier Mussolini would discuss Italy’s “natural aspirations” in his Fascist Combat Corps anniversary speech March 26, officially opening the campaign against France for colonies. It was also reported that King Victor Emmanuel might mention the “aspirations” March 23 when he speaks from the throne inaugurating the new Fascist Chamber of Fasces and Corporations. It was reported that the calling out of reserve officers and technicians had been the subject of a conversation yesterday between Sir Noel Charles, British charge d’affaires, and Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano.

GARPATHO-UKRAINE YIELDS TO HUNGARY

BUDAPEST, Hungary, March 18 (U. P.).—Hungarian troops were reported at noon today to have completed occupation of all CarpathoUkraine, The chief of the General Staff reported 37 officers and sol-

diers killed and 117 wounded during the occupation. Admiral Horthy, Regent, is visiting the occupied area.

King Carol, the Standard said, suggested that if Britain, France and Russia back him, he can rally Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and Jugoslavia to his support. ,

The paper claimed the Rumanian

. | minister informed Britain that aft-

er the Crown Council had decisively rejected Germany’s demands last night, they were submitted again today in slightly modified form. Joseph P. Kennedy, American Ambassador to Great Britain, paid his second visit in 24 hours to Viscount Halifax, Foreign Secretary, to discuss the Czechoslovak situation, as Great Britain and France announced their protests. In Washington, the State Department had advised Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau that it acknowledged “de facto” German administration of Czechoslovak areas but refused to concede the legality of Nazi rule. The United States suspends. mail delivery to Czechoslovakia. Viscount Halifax was visited today by Herbert von Dircksen, German Ambassador; Charles Andre Corgin, French Ambassador, and Ivan Maisky, Russian Ambassador. There were strong indications that Britain was drawing the powerful Soviet Union, with an army estimated now to total 2,000,000 men or more, into a “Stop Hitler” combination of “peace loving’ nations,

Daladier Wins Vote

France announced her protest to Berlin as Premier Daladier staked the life of his cabinet on a demand for dictatorial cabinet powers to prepare the country for war. He won a preliminary vote of confidence, on a motion to adjourn debate, by 334 to 258. Sir Nevile Henderson, the British ambassador to Germany, was instructed to inform the German Government: . “The British Government regards as without legal basis the changes effected by Germany military action in Czechoslovakia.” This means that in the minds of Great Britain—and France—Hitler’s new conquest assumes the status of Japan’s seizure of Chinese Manchuria, which the at democratic powers have not ye nized after more than seven years, and of Benito Mussolini’s conquest of Ethiopia, which nearly brought war in Europe. Sir Nevile was further instructed to convey to the German Government the British Government's view: 3 “The recent events represent a complete repudiation of the Munich agreement and undertakings of peaceful co-operation exchanged at that time by the parties to it.” The “parties” were Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy. Adolf Hitler, on his way by railroad from Vienna to Berlin, to receive the acclaim of his Nazis tonight, was reported to intend to summon the Reichstag perhaps Tuesday, to hear his report of his Czechoslovak march and his future intentions. At Pretoria, South Africa, it was announced that all South African police reserves had been called out, apparently as the result of German Government representations against alleged discrimination against immigration of Germans to southwest Africa, a former German colony under South African mandate. Today the news reached official quarters that in the last three or

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guarantee Rumania’s territorial ine tegrity and independence. There were strong indications that

encouragement for, summoning an international conference of “peace loving” nations in hope that a come mon front could be formed against expansionist nations. 3

Writes Consultation

Mr. Chamberlain, in his speech at Birmingham last night, asked of Hitler’s latest move: | “Is this the end of an old advens ture or is it the beginning of a new? Is this the last attack upen

by others? Is this, in fact, a step in

dominate the world by force?” " Mr. Chamberlain said he would not try to answer these questions, “But I am sure,” he added, “that they will require grave and serious consideration, not only of Gere many'’s neighbors but of others per=haps even beyond the confines of Europe. . . . We ourselves will nat- .

the British commonwealth of nations and to France, to whom ‘we are so closely bound, and I have no doubt that others, too, knowing that we are not disinterested in what goes on in southeastern Europe will wish to have our counsel and advice.” % British newspapers all gave prom= inent position to the United States statement condemning Hitler, but it arrived too late for editorial comment in any but one, the Dail Express, which said: 5 “Welles has spoken words of cone demnation which say with more em= phasis all that Chamberlain uttered last night. We recognize that the guiding principle of American policy is and remains isolation. Yet we can hope that the mighty moral and material influence of the United States will be exerted on the side of peaceful and righteous dealings among the nations of the world. It was believed entirely possible that national conscription might be voted by Parliament soon. A The importance of such a move would be evident, with the recollec= tion that Britain did not resort to it until the World War had reached the half-way mark.

|Arrests in Praha

Near 12,000 Total

man Nazis, busily absorbing this | Czech capital and imprisoning thoue sands of its citizens, were shocked today by news to British Prime Minister Chamberlain’s vehement speech yesterday.

The first word of it reached here during the night while German officers were celebrating in a few cabarets they had permitted to stay open for ,their own amusement. Officers of the Gestapo, the Secret Police, had arrested approximately 12,000 persons in Praha yesterday. The foreign consulates were overwhelmed with refugees seeking visas. The borders of Moravia and Bohemia were reopened today but blue cards, stamped by the Army High Command, were necessary for crossing. All British subjects were advised to get blue cards today as they might not be available over the wéek-end. : Thousands of Jews were pleading for blue cards.

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