Herr Hitler's questionnaire to the small states surrounding Germany, as a result of President Roosevelt's peace plea, and the answers which up to the present he has received to it, seer suggest that the governments of the smaller nations are not without a sense of humour. Der Fuehrer undoubtedly sought to receive as~ surances from them that they did not consider themselves as threatened by German aggression, and the replies are for the most part clever in the extreme. Switzerland is cor ident that there would' be respect for Swi neutrality, which "the Confederation would defend with its army, and which Germany and other States had emphatically recognized. Lithuania quotes the recent Lithuanian-Ger man treaty regarding the cession of Memel, in which Germany shoulders the obligation never to Fesort to or support a force against Lithuania, The Netherlands do ov consider they are threatened by Germany, though 3
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