The Archive · 1939

Rumours Causing Concern

Paris, June 15.

Rumours of German troop movements in Slovakia were causing considerable worry in Warsaw, Paris and London, it was understood today.

If the rumours were authenticated it would mean that the Germans were within a striking distance of the great Polish Silesian industrial area—in which the principal heavy armament industries are located. Hence, in the event of war, Germany would be able to decapitate Polish resistance by seizing and destroying, vital Polish assets, thus making Poland dependent on Britain, France and Russia for war supplies, Likewise, such a movement of German troops in Slovakia would complete a three-sides front on Poland placing the Poles in a vulnerable eric position—United Pres

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