Be that as it may, the true t to the events of August 4999 was the occupation of Prague on 15 of this year, the callous of the hard and the origin of war has been due to the ating up by the latter serap of paper. To the iniquities system which employed the bar-of middle ages in its Jews, which sub-lie priests: and alike "to the in-out, the German As I''had reported' to our Lórdship, at the beginning of the part from the complete. political year se riy dee r objectives, id economic domination of Czecho-Slovakia and the eventual restoration of German colonies, were Danzig and Memel.. Herr Hitler felt that it the] would mot add much to the general fait ah March. if he settled these ex of his aggression and ill-
two problems simultaneously with Prage. "The Democracies were, he thought, 66 averse to war that they would accept any fait accompli. They Jess disturbed if everything was done at once. Thereafter, the tion would, he anticipated, tually subside until, after consolidating his gains, he was once in a position to strike again.
ith his plan in view the Lithuanian Government was at once ropuu into surrendering Memel.
e same method was employed at warsaw; but the Poles were made of soul. Negotiations had been proceeding ever since Munich forsa settlement of the Danzig and the Cottidor question. After Prague Herr Hitler decided that they musi be abruptly concluded, and Herr von Ribbentrop peremptorily dictated to the, Polish Ambassador the terms Which Herr Hitler would be pleased on the Polish Government.
e reply of the latter was given on March 26 "and constituted a refusal to accept a Dictate, while expressing readiness ío continue free and equal discussion. Alarmed at the threatening attitude adopted by the German Government in consequence of this refusal, the Polish Government mobilized part of its forces (the German army was already largely mobilized), and the British guarantee to Poland was given on March 31.
The Ides of March constituted intact the parting of the ways and were directly responsible for everything which happened thereafter Thenceforward no small nation in Europe could feel itself secure from sóme new adaptation of Nazi racial superiority and jungle law. The Polish guarantee was followed by wmilatera] guarantees on Britain's part to Greece and Rumania as well as by an attempt on the part of the British and French Governments to join in a faith and oppression. ernment, for its part and with considerable success in Germany, represented this attempt as a renewal of the alleged pre-war British policy of encirclement. As a war-cry for the German people it was exceedingly effective up to the signature of the Russo-German non-aggression pact on August, 23. The rest of Nazi pronda was on two entirely-contradictory lines either of which was destined, according to the development of the situation, to serve Herr Hitler's purpose, The first spread the persistent report that Britain would never go to war for the sake of Danzig. It was calculated to undermine the confidence of the Poles and to shake the faith of the smaller Powers as well as of the United States of America, in the determination of Britain to resist any further German aggression. The second represented Britain as resolved to make war at the first opportunity on Germany in any case and in order to crush her before she became a too formidable political and economic rival Both were fallacies, but the Germans are a credulous race and, since the first has failed, it is the latter argumentation which forms the basis of Germany's present war propaganda,
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