"A HOSTILE ACT"
POLISH COMMUNIQUE
WITHDRAWN UPON GERMAN
DEMAND
(Received March 23, noon.)
LONDON, March 22
The Warsaw correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company, in revealing the German tactics, says that a Polish communique last night describing the German demands as a direct violation of the Memel Statute was withdrawn early this morning. It was explained that it lacked the Government's approval.
Actually, the German Foreign Minister, Herr yon Ribbentrop, demanded its withdrawal, as he considered the issuing of it an act hostile to Germany. The alternative was that Kaunas would be bombed. Previously the Lithuanian Foreign Minister, M. Urbzys, declined, on March 21, to sign a document similar to tthat which 'was obtained from the President of Czechoslovakia, Dr. Hacha, beseeching German protection.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 69, 23 March 1939, Page 9
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