GERMANY ADAMANT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 82, 5 March 1938, Page 9

GERMANY ADAMANT

NOT ANXIOUS FOR TALKS. PRESS RESTRICTION WANTED. KERR HITLER’S ATTITUDE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received March 5, 11.40 a.m. LONDON* March 4. The Australian Associated Press says: The series of happenings in the past 24 hours has anything but cased the European tension. The chief of them is that Sir Neville Henderson has so far been unsuccessful in his attempt to prepare the way for conversations between England and Germany. Added to this is the non-intervention deadlock, closely followed by Dr Hodza’s provocation to Germany arousing considerable uneasiness here.

Germany is not at all anxious to confer with Britain. No further conversations in this connection have been arranged. It is believed that Sir Neville Henderson carried tentative proposals, but Herr Hitler occupied almost the entire interview, requesting what was tantamount to a censorship of the British Press in all its criticism.

It is gathered that Herr Hitler is very angry over the widespread publicity in the British Press to the earlier rumours of a further purge, simultaneously with reports that lie was closing the frontier. He virtually indicated that he cannot confer with Britain unless she will control the Press.

Anxiety regarding Dr Hodza arises not altogether because of the abruptness of the challenge to Germany, hut because his speech was inevitably followed by close consultation with the French, who have reaffirmed their obligations to stand by Czechoslovakia if she is threatened with aggression.