OUTSPOKEN NAZI CLAIM

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 150, 21 March 1939, Page 9

OUTSPOKEN NAZI CLAIM

“Entitled To Act As > We Like” BRITAIN REGARDED AS AN ENEMY Attitude Turned To Hatred (Received March 20, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 20. “The earthquake which shook England and France last week has turned their attitude toward Germany into hatred,” declares the official German radio. It goes on: <f The era of Western democracies has ended. Germany is the greatest central European Power, responsible for the maintenance of peace, and is entitled to act as she considers expedient.” Official circles in Berlin are startled at the British and French refusal to recognize the annexation of Czechoslovakia, but no official conunent lias yet been made. The “National Zeitung” says that if the termination of the Munich agreement represents the wishes of Britain, the people of Britain must be regarded as the enemy of Germany’s existence. It is officially stated that the British and French Ambassadors were informed that Germany is not in a position to accept the protests regarding Czechoslovakia because they are “devoid of any political, legal or moral basis.” It is reported that Herr Hitler advised Signor Mussolini not to press his claims on France at present, but to seek concessions in Tunisia, enabling him to emulate Herr Hitler’s technique in the Sudetenland.