Evening star., 1933-01-30
HITLER MAY KEEP
FOREIGN POLICIES
Only Serious Consequences of
Nazi Victory May Be in
Polish Corridor Fight.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The coming into Office Of Adolph
Hitler as chancellor Of Germany had
been discounted for such long time
that 1t did not cause any furry in the
State Department today The fact that
Herr Konstantin Won Neurath Is main
tained as foreign secretary is consid-
cred as an indication that. for the time
being at least. the new German govern
ment does not intend to change its for
eign policies.
OF course, the appointment of Hitler
may have serious repercussions later
when the Disarmament Conference
meets again Hitler and the rest Of the
members Of the new German cabinet
are known to oppose openly the Versail-
les treaty, and Germany having OBJ
tanned already a reduction equivalent to
cancellation of her reparations, the new
the cancellation Of the whole treaty by
Conference to grant Germany the right
to equal ornaments.
Plans Nazi Militia.
Hitler has already made 1t known
that he intends to incorporate his Nazis
as a national militia The number OF
the Hitler adherents who form the
storm troops is believed to be over
100000 men. Should he decide to
change their status from a private into
q national organization, trouble with
France might be expected.
The only really serious consequence
of Hitler's coming into office may be
the reaction on Poland.
Hitler and his confederates have been
saying openly that Germany cannot tol-
crate much longer the situation created
by the existence Of the Danzig Corridor
His troops have been causing incidents
in several instances on the border OF
the Corridor, and the Poles are worried
lest the coming to power OF the chief OF
the Nazis might precipitate renewal
of such incidents OF much more Sc
riouS character.
Secret Parleys Rumored.
For the last IL months, according to
reliable reports. there have been secret
discussions between German and Polish
unofficial representatives about the pos
sibility of settling the corridor dispute
in some amicable manner. 1t Is said
that the Germans have suggested to
the Poles a solution whereby In ex-
change for the corridor Germany would
support the Polish claims on Memel
which would give as adequate an out
let to the Poles to the sea as the cor
ridor is giving them now.
These negotiations have been denied
repeatedly by the Polish Government
and the denials are correct inasmuch
as that the government. as such. claims
not to be interested in revising the
treaty which gave the corridor. How
ever, a number of leading Polish states
men and military men are of the opin-
ion that it might be preferable to come
to friendly agreement with Germany
instead of running the risk of an armed
conflict, which seems inevitable to oc-
cur as soon as Germany has an army
strong enough to support her claims.
Hitler faces difficult internal situ-
alton. He is pledged to certain re-
forms which he may find impossible
to accomplish. The question Of the
solution Of the corridor problem is one
of the outstanding portions Of his
political platform. It is possible that
when Hitler discovers that he cannot
fulfill the promises he has made to
the German people in connection with
the solution Of the internal crisis he
may be compelled to turn the attention
of his people toward the corridor. And
this is cnsidered about the only serious
troubling element in the coming into
Office OF the German Nazis.