DEEP INDIGNATION IN BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22661, 16 March 1939, Page 11

DEEP INDIGNATION IN BRITAIN

“Affront To Civilised World” HITLER SEEN AS ENEMY OF FREEDOM (TTWTSD raise ASSOCILTIO1 — comioaT.) (Received March 15, 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, March 15. “The Times” says in a leading article: — “For the moment opinion in Britain, as in France, can only register its reprobation of this ruthless treatment of a small, industrial, friendly nation for the estab- . lishment of whose independence British and French efforts in war were jointly responsible. “Herr Hitler’s influence is dominant in Central Europe and is proving itself consistently hostile to political freedom as the western democracies understand it. They on their part can only continue, with increased energy to look to their own security.” “The News Chronicle” says: “Poland and Hungary will shortly have a common frontier. Germany has advanced much nearer the Black Sea. The question, now more urgent than ever, is: When is a halt going to be called to this triumphant march of aggression?” The “Daily Telegraph,” discussing the German occupation of part of Moravia, says: “By this act Germany , has made herself guilty of the most flagrant and impudent act of unprovoked aggression witnessed in Europe in modern times. Though no moral or legal obligation rests on us to aid the victim of this aggression, we can no longer have any doubt regarding the character of the Power confronting us in Central Europe. Germany has perpetrated an affront to the whole civilised world which will not readily be forgotten.”