CZECHS TURN TO GERMANY.

Western Star, 18 October 1938, Page 3

CZECHS TURN TO GERMANY.

—:<^__- ENVOY TALKS WITH HITLER." PROSPECTS FOR AMICABLE RELATIONS. LONDON, October 14. The British United Press Berlin correspondent says that Herr Hitler, , the Czech .Foreign Minister (M. Chvalkoveky), and Herr >von Ribbentrop, merman Foreign Minister, had a conference lasting an hour and a-half. The official German agency \ reports that M. Chvalkovsky assured . xierr Hitler that Czechoslovakia would adopt a loyal attitude t o > Germany. Jtlerr Hitler expressed satisfaction with this assurance and added .that he regretted the Hungarian, dispute had mot ueen solved but hoped for an early settlement. The German Foreign Office issued a statement that future relations between Germany and Czechoslovakia, depended on the/ manner in which Czechoslovakia endeavoured to mould her neighbourliness towards Germany. The preliminary condition.'remained that Germany might be assured that' the policy to be pursued by .Czechoslovakia would not lead to a situation liarming Germany.

. Showing the trend, to Germany the Prague correspondent of The Times eays it is significant that while the jtlightist newspapers are ■ advocating the abolition of all political parties in la-vour of a national union bloc, the Liberal journals are reluctant in tneir support of the democratic principle*

which have been sacrosanct for 20 years. Growing anti-Semitism, also shows the way the wind is blowing.

The Jewish Committee of . Social Welfare has .closed down and Cabinet is i planning compulsory . labour <amps similar to those in Germany. The Parliamentary Under-Secret a.ry for Foreign Affairs '(Mr JJ. A. Butler) informed a deputation from the -National Council of Labour that the Government was fully alive to the urgent necessity for finding means to assist (Sternum refugees from the Sudeten areas and that it \.\..s giving ei nJilcn.tion to the problem of their future. Ijl view of the- ■decision announced from IJeiliu that there would be no result from a plebiscite for the lmal determination of the new frontiers between Germany and Czechoslovakia. the British Legion had been informed that the services of the force which volunteered fo r police duly in the plebiscite areas would not now be required. In conveying this information the Forcv'gn Secretary (Viscount Halifax) expressed high appreciation of Ihe public spirit of the legion and its members in offering to undertake tin's outy. i

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