AMERICAN POLICY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 67, 21 March 1939, Page 11

AMERICAN POLICY

NOTE TO GERMANY DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS MAY BE BROKEN SPECULATION IN U.S. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) WASHINGTON, March 19. The Acting Secretary of State, Mr. Sumner Welles, in collaboration with President Roosevelt, has completed the draft of a vigorous formal Note to Germany condemning the annexation of Czecho-Slovakia and indicating further parallel action with England and France "to stop Hitler's drive." The Note will probably be published here and in Berlin tomorrow. It is believed'here that it may result in severing diplomatic relations. It is understood that the Note may go further than Mr. Welles's informal denunciation, even excoriating the Nazis as a menace to civilisation. Speculation is at present centring on whether the United States will drop the thin remnants of traditional aloofness from European affairs to participate in a conference with England, France, and Russia to determine ways and means of halting Herr Hitler's march to the East. American participation in such a conference would be certain to meet with stiff Congresisional opposition, and it is possible that the Administration will not chance it, preferring to aid in a less direct manner.