GLOOMY FORECAST

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 83, 10 April 1939, Page 7

GLOOMY FORECAST

AMERICAN OFFICIALS •

"GENERAL WAR WITHIN A

WEEK"

TEST IN FURTHER NAZI EFFORT

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)

WASHINGTON, April 8

President Roosevelt and Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, today denounced the Italian invasion of Albania as constituting a threat to world peace.

Mr. Hull issued the following formal statement after talking to the President over the telephone from Warm

Springs

"The forcible and violent invasion of Albania is unquestionably an additional threat to the peace of the world. It would be short-sighted not to take notice of this further development. Any threat to world peace seriously concerns all nations and violates the will of all the peoples of the world that their Governments shall lead them not towards war but along the paths lof peace.

i "It is scarcely necessary to add that ithe inevitable effect of thi* incident, Jtaken with other similar incidents, is further to destroy the confidence and undermine the economic stability of every country in the world, thus ■ affecting our own welfare."

X Military officials in Washington are convinced that Europe will face the isj;ue of general war within a week, expecting the test to come with a Gerrtran attempt to seize Danzig and the I polish corridor, which they regard as a of "when," rather than "if."

'.This forecast is based on the belief thiat the totalitarian States are hard pireissed financially, and on the opinion thai Germany is in a position where the' longer she waits the less chance she-si would have of succeeding.

IXhey also consider it most likely tlbat Germany will attempt simulfcuneously to occupy part or all of Pbtlish Silesia. Poland will probably resist and the Anglo-French assurances of support will be put to the teist. Thus Germany will probably consider that an invasion of Silesia we (old involve no greater risks and

promise richer results,

Diplomatic and military officials generally regard the Italian invasion of as a prelude to larger military operations by the totalitarian Powers, expressing the opinion that the ventuice may be a design to attract worldK attention in order to screen a larger*' and more important military move -or to frighten Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, , Hungary, and Rumania from the Aiai?lo-French bloc to the Hitler bloc.

Senator Borah yesterday told the Senate that the proposed changes in the nation's conduct of foreign affairs were tl »c "most subtle way yet designed to ;?et this nation into war." "It seems that the proponents of these measures want us to become the moral censors of the world and to decide which n lation or nations is in the wrong in the cjase of war and then to punish the one or the ones we decide to be in the w prong," he said. "If this nation wants to- get involved in war, I can [think of- no better way than to adopt this policy."

Meanvrhile, Mr. Faik Konitza, the Albaniart Minister in the United States, conferred with Mr. Cordell Hull He denounctfcd Italy's lack of chivalry in invading the country when the Queen had just jgiven birth to a baby.