Evening star., 1933-03-16
Reused by War Talk.

Talk of war and Of armament races
stirred various European capitals to-
day while the heads of chief nations
were getting together to try to avert
threatening clashes.
Isolated instances. which a few
months ago might have passed almost
unnoticed, aroused fear and suspicion.
Premier Macdonald and Foreign Sec
retary Simon Of England will talk
Saturday in Rome with Premier Mus
solini in the Duce's first international
conference in eight years.
Premier Daladier Of France hastened
10 Geneva last night to see the British
statesmen again after parleys with
then last week end. His decision came
suddenly after the announcement they
were going to Rome.
"Anything Might Happen"
Unconfirmed reports in Rome said
Adolf Hitler of Germany may join the
Mussolini- Macdonald conference while
attempts to confirm this in Berlin
brought the official response that any
thing might happen"
ment plan drawn up as a final offer
ing to break the deadlock in the in
ternational efforts to seek an agree
ment for reductions Disarmament was
officially reported as the subject OF the
conferences between the various
premiers.
But unofhcially a widespread belief
Is voiced, particularly in London. that
q new order of European alliances
such as those that preceded the World
War. is being organized. French gov
ernment leaders are openly seeking an
understanding with Great Britain and
even the United States-calling 1t
"democracies" against relationships"
British leaders. such as Winston
Churchill and Lloyd George. of oppos-
ing political faiths, warn the travelling
British government chiefs not to come
home with "entangling alliances" and
not to discriminate between France and
Germany.
Czech0slovakia Confident.
Herriot of France protested today in
q newspaper article that British charges
that France is militariStic are wrong
Replying to parliamentary ques-
ton. Defense Minister Bradac Of
Observation-Disclosures ally on Ger
he has full confidence in the army's
power Of resistance" THE uncertain
situation abroad" was quoted by his
questioner.
Poland. another nation in close re-
lation with France. and Germany have
momentarily weathered a threatening
crisis involving the free city OF Danzig
and reported troop concentrations in
the Polish Corridor Poland has prom
lsed the League its border military gar
rlsons will be reduced to a minimum
The warlike activities of Hitler's Nazi
storm troopers and the Stahlheim in
Germany and the ...reat of Hitlerites
gaining control in Austria and uniting
the two Germanic nations have their
neighborS worried. France has pro-
tested to Germany against concentra-
tion of Nazi troops in the Rhineland
border area.
Balkans Real Danger.
Italian Deputies launched a broad
side yesterday against the alleged mad
arming" of Yugoslavia and Rumania.
These two countries and Czechoslo-
vakla recently reorganized their little
entente. Hungarian newspapers de-
manded an explanation of reports that
1t included a plan for military occupa-
t1on OF that country and received a
fiat denial
The recent report of arms shipments
to Hungary from Italy via Austria
stirred up suspicious of new triple
alliance among those countries and
Germany. Strong protests from the
little entente and France and England
brought promise that the arms would
be returned.
The Fascist rulers of GERMANY HIM
gary and Italy have made compliment
tary remarks concerning their common
beliefs and it remains to be seen
whether their political xllies can bring
Austria in line with them.
British and French newspapers re-
gard the Balkans, as in 1914, the real
danger snot on the Elirnnean man