ANTI-COMINTERN PACT

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22610, 16 January 1939, Page 9

ANTI-COMINTERN PACT

HUNGARY’S ADHERENCE ANNOUNCED

POLICY OF GERMANY TO EASTERN EUROPE

(Received January 15, 7.15 p.m.)

BERLIN, January 13

It is officially announced that Hungary has joined the Anti-Comin-tern Pact.

Count Csaky (Hungarian Foreign Minister) will go to Berlin on February 15 for discussions with the German Foreign Minister (Herr von Ribbentrop).

It was announced at a Government Party meeting in Budapest that Hungary would join the AntiComintern Pact if invited. This would involve her withdrawal from the League of Nations. The Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph,” commenting on Hungary’s adherence to the AntiComintern bloc, says that since there is at present no prospect of Poland joining, further progress must be made, either through Ruthenia, Rumania, Lithuania, or Latvia. The Czech Foreign Minister (M. Chvalkovsky) and the Lithuanian Foreign Minister (M. Urbsys) are expected to go to Berlin at the end of January. By the beginning of February, therefore, the lines of Germany’s policy in eastern Europe should be more clearly defined. The Berlin correspondent of the' “Daily Mail” says that Hungary’s decision to join the Anti-Comintern Pact is welcomed in Berlin, where it is cautiously predicted that Poland will be the next adherent, creating a five-Power bloc and greatly strengthening the original RomeBerlin axis.