Stalin seriously misgauged the situation when on March 10, he declared before the All-Soviet Communist Congress in Moscow that Germany had changed her drive from the east to the west, to demand the return of her old colonies, the "Asahi" declares.
The "Japan Advertiser," American owned and managed newspaper, laments that what is most tragi about the continued dismemberment of Czechoslovakia is that no effort, or even pretence, is made any longer to protect the integrity of Czechoslovakia.
Czechoslovakia, which has been gradually dismembered in the past six months since the Munich Conference, seems now likely to lose its integrity altogether if Herr Hitler has his way in the present dispute over Slovakia—and there seems to be no one prepared to prevent Herr Hitler from having it, the "Japan Advertiser" declares.—Reuter.
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