Observers pointed out that such action by the nations of the Western. Hemisphere would support the apparent plan of Britain and France to take Chancellor Hitler at his word. Britain and France are reported planning to accept Chancellor Hitler's invitation for non-aggression pacts with Germany.
Such collaborated action by the Democratic Powers, it was pointed cut, would place Chancellor Hitler in a position where he either must negotiate and honour non-aggression pacts withythe nations of Europe or accept the responsibility for rejecting the friendly peace offers of the Reich's neighbours.
Congressional, official and press reaction to Chancellor Adolf Hitler's speech before the Reichstag continued to show confusion yesterday, but a conclusion upon which many informed quarters agreed was that the Polish question now overshadows all other European problems.
Chancellor Hitlers statement of policies or intentions in other directions was regarded as secondary to his denunciation of the Polish-German mon-aggression pact and his announcement of Nazi demands upon Warsaw.
Oficial quarters indicated that the immediate effects of Chancellor Hitler's speech upon the United States would be the intensification of the American rearmament programme, especially air and naval forces, in anticipation of a major world crisis.
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