GERMANY'S INACTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 104, 30 October 1939, Page 8

GERMANY'S INACTION

THE REASON SOUGHT

CAUGHT UNPREPARED FOR WAR

TROUBLE IN PARTY?

SPECULATION IN PARIS

*"By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received October 30, 2 p.m.)

/ NEW YORK, October 29. The Paris correspondent of the "New York Times" states that, in contrast with Herr Hitler's past actions, his hesitation on the Western .Front during the past two months has been so marked that it cannot be dismissed as part of a plan. It is argued in Paris that if Germany were ready to strike with prospect of success it would have been done 'long ago. Herr Hitler has always been almost hysterically impatient of delay, and it is concluded that the1 German army was utterly unprepared for the Anglo-French declaration of war. Herr yon Ribbentrop had been assuring Herr Hitler for months that the British would not go to war. Certain internal questions in Germany have complicated matters, the correspondent states. When there, has been trouble within the party Herr Hitler has .always dropped * everything else until it has been settled, usually by a further concentration of power in his own hands. It is believed that he summoned the 41 district leaders last week to test their loyalty and impose further obligations. It is said, withdut confirmation, that a purge is proceeding throughout the army. It is certain that the somersault in policy marked by the pact with the Soviet has not more than 50 per cent, approval even within the party, and Herr Hitler must straighten the matter out at all costs before he risks a major offensive.