The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-09
nancy corps into the frontier forts.

Similar movements were in pro- gross on the German side Of the frontier, and the German strength in the Rhineland already equalled that of the days of the Kaiser. Ger many moved several thousand troops today into the Saar, which technically, under the agreement when 1t was turned over by France after the plebiscite, should have been kept demilitarized like the Rhineland. When Adolf Hitler ac- cepted the Saar, he undertook to keep 1t demilitarized and then de- clared there were no longer any points of difference with France.
 AS troop movements continued throughout the day the sixth regi- ment of Moroccan Tiralleurs moved from the Rhine valley to Montme- dy. Other movements were effected by railway within the sixth, seventh and Fist regions where troops were moved closer to the frontier to the East and North.
 Europe At Cross Roads
 There remained no doubt that Adolf Hitler's dispatch of troops into the German Rhincland, within shot of French troops ready for war on the other side of the frontier, was the final act which brought Europe to q definite turning point in It's diplomacy.
 From noon last Saturday when the first troops marched into Co., logne, events of the next days and weeks, French leaders believe, will turn Europe unalterably toward Q great war or toward a real peace.
 France has received firm assur- anccs of support from Poland and from Italy, from the little entente nations of Czechoslovakia, Rouma- mia and JugoslaVia. Soviet Russia's army of 100000 men is behind her. Her great line of maginot forts on the German frontier is fully man. ned for instant action. She Is pre- pared, 1t was learned, to call up new classes of army reservists at any moment.
 All around militarist Germany there arc armies ready to strike.
 So grave is the emergency that Fascist Italy, having accepted League plea for peace with Ethiopia, has almost suspended all activities in East Africa.
 MOment0us Time Table
 The time table in q week that will be packed with momentous events is as follows:
 Today-British cabinet meets to decide policy, believing that it's ac- ton on Hitler's def will lead to war or peace. Italian chamber meets to approve $400,000,000 war budget. Anthony Eden addresses British house of commons on crisis this afternoon.
 Tomorrow - Locarno signatories meet here to consider policy on Ger manys violation of Locarno and Versailles treaties. Premier Albert Sarrault addresses French chamber of deputies.
 Wednesday--League of Nations council sitting as committee of 13 without Italy, meets at Geneva to consider Italian Ethiopian situation both as regards peace moves and in light of the German crisis.
 Friday--League council, including Italy, meets in compliance with French Belgian demand that it act against Germany by imposing fi- nancial and economic if not even more harsh penalties against Ger many.
 All Capitals Busy
 Sandwiched in among these for nal meetings there will be urgent consultations in every capital of Eu- rope. After years of scheming in which governments have played one country against another. European powers faced finally the necessity of lining up irretrievably on one side or the other, possibly for war, possibly for peace.
 Foreign office techniclans pre- pared today the agenda for the meeting of the Locarno powers to- morrow. The meeting will start at Il a. m. (6 fl. m. EST). Foreign ministers Pierre Etienne Flandin of France and Anthony Eden of Great Britain, Premier Paul Van Zeeland of Belgium and VittOri0 Cerruti, Italian ambassador, will attend.
 Germany Is Strong
 Even though held back for years by the Versailles treaty Germany's armed strength is formidable. Gen, Henri Albert Niessel, one of Frances foremost soldiers, published, in cons uection with the new crisis, a Bemi- official estimate which places Ger. many's present effective armed strength at 2,427 600 men.
 The United Press confirmed today at WaTsaw that Foreign Minister Joseph Beck assured Leon Noel. French ambaWad0r. that Poland was ready tO fulnll its obligations as an ally Of France in event 0f . cons nict with Germany. Premier Bentl0 Inuss0lini H undergtO0d Co have given such assurance spontaneously end unegulyOcally.
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