FUTURE POLICY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 22, 27 January 1939, Page 7

FUTURE POLICY.

HITLER UNDECIDED. LatnteMnff of Huge Armament Expenditure. BIXTIIH CABINET MEETING. United Ptom Association.—Copyright. LONDON, January 26. The British Cabinet considered the international situation for three hours, including the implications of the dismissal of Dr. Schacht from the Reiehsbank and of Captain Weidenann, Herr Hitler's personal aide, ••Jβ the diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph." It ii understood the Cabinet concluded that Germany has launched further gigantic armaments expenditure irrespective of the economic consequences. The available information suggests that Herr Hitler is undecided about future policy. The "Daily Herald" says heavy concentrations of German troops in various Krts of Austria are causing alarm, ontier farms have been evacuated and patrols have taken up strategic points. It in reported from Vienna that all Germans of military age have been forbidden to leave the country. It is felt in some quarters this may be a prelude to a march on Prague in order to impress the Czechs with the ujgency of closer co-ordination with the German political system.

Mr. ('limn her la in will make an important wjieeph at Birmingham on HatnrdHv. before which the French Foreign Minister. M. Bonnet, will have •poken in the Chamber of Deputies. The Cabinet decided to change the Honnal business of the House of Commons upon its reopenirir on Tuesday to allow of a full-dreg* debate in which Mr, Chamberlain will 'ndicate the