Washington, Oct. 12.
Increasing German economic expansion in Central Europe and the Balkan States, will bring the United States to make considerable efforts to maintain their trade interests in that region, amounting to $170,000,- 000 annually.
American experts are preparing the defensive against the "Hitlerite commercial legions" as Washington is convinced that the occupation of Sudetenland is the prelude to a large-scale German economic offend sive in Central Europe and. the Balkan States.
It'is hoped in well-informed circles that the United States, Great Britain, and France will make a great effort to prevent these countries from being submitted to German economic domination.
The United States has been preparing a trade treaty with Turkey for the past few months but negotiations were made difficult by German trade arrangements with Turkey.
Washington will furthermore enter into trade conversations with several of the Central European States, and competent quarters expect that the American trade attaches in those: countries will be instructed shortly to improve and increase trade exchanges with the United States—Havas.
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