For more than year before the outbreak of the war. in Europe Bereh= tesyaden, Godesburg, Munich, and other places selected by Herr Hiller were the meeting places of the statesmen of Europe. Dr, Kurt von Schuschnigy, the Austrian Chan= cellor, made desperate efforts to save his cow try by a personal appeal to Mitler. The prime ministers of France and Britain, and even the Dictator of Moly waited upon the Nazi ihrer {in attempts to check his policy. Dr. Hacha oxperienced the "same disappointment as" Dr Schuvehnigg. "And Tater the excuse that Polish plenipotentiary arrived in Berlin to aive Hitler the same opportunity to refuse his reaqects, wax made the excuse for the eampalan which the war had its origin, It is probable that there was no single man in Europe so strong as the German Fuhrer at that time. It Is a paradox that at the present hour, in spite of his overrunning of western Europe, his partition of Poland, and his steady penetration of the Balkans, the world ig not looking to him for the next move but to the Dictator of the Kremlin who has, afler one costly and. only partially successful campaign, that against Finland, reached the position of the of Continental Europe without fung.
Moscow is the world's meeting place. Stalin hax the whole world, including Hitler and Mussolini, suessing. It ig signifeant that before the momentous meeting at the Brenner Pass between Hitler and Mussolini, the results of which are only now becoming apparent in the moves in the Balkans, Ribbentrop made a mysterious visit to Moscow-—so mysterious that his movements were untraceable, The mystery probably was necessitated by the desire to Ieeep dark from the world the fact that the heads of the Nazi and Fascist states had to ask Moscow's permission before they could make their next move, The two men who intended to dominate the world, found themselves in the position of having to go humbly to the man they had mised so roundly' for years and make sure that he would not actively object fo their plans.
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