ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION
CZECHS AND GERMANS lU I’ A —Bv Electric Telegraph—Couvright l (Received 25th January, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 24th January. The Prague correspondent of “The Times” reports that, after hearing an account given by the Foreign Minister, Dr Chvalkovsky, of his talks with Herr Hitler and the German Foreign Minister, Herr von Ribbentrop, the Cabinet instructed the Minister of Commerce and Finance to draw up a programme of economic co-operation with Germany. Germany, it is understood, demanded that Czechoslovakia should repudiate her Russian and French alliances and join the anti-Comintern Pact, to which Dr Chvalkovsky replied that she was ready to do when Germany guaranteed the new frontier. AEROPLANES FOR GERMANY MILITARY COMMISSION AT PRAGUE GENEVA, 24th January. It is learned that a German military commission has arrived at Prague to negotiate a purchase of several million pounds worth of aeroplanes, aero engines and heavy artillery. Payment is to be made in coal from the Czech pits ceded to the Reich.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 25 January 1939, Page 7
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