The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-07

TOpG&u HN uSISnSG bEchVyp py WHAOA f. the principal powers would poo !, their air forces to blast the territory of any aggressor with bombs. Before Hitler had finished speak ing, hardly before his battalion' had grounded arms in the Rhine land, news of his defiance and hii , offer had reached every chancellerJ in Europe.
 French cabinet leaders called ir members of the general staff tc consider the situation and talked oi calling on emergency meeting of the league council for Tuesday. / Then came news that Italy had Y accepted in principle--even if bound o with reservations--a league offer tc negotiate 6 peaceful settlement o1 its var on Ethiopia, and thus left itself inside the diplomatic frame work for delicate, anxious days to come.
 All over Europe statesmen met to talk over the situation. Tele- q phone and telegraph wires and cables flashed diplomatic dispatches 2 Diplomatic couriers were started on a race through Europe by train motor car and airplane. .@ The diplomats had before them 1. the material for war or for peace 7 for Q new effort to end the jeal- ousies, fears and hates that have I. endured for more than 17 years since the World War ended-or for months or years more of pickering
 After he handed the diplomatists of the Lacarno powers copies of memoranda, and gave other envoys r copies through the foreign office Hitler drove to the Reichstag meet '' ing In the Kroll opera house, used in place of the old Reichstag build ing whose burning-allegedly by communists him from normal constitutional leadership to dicta- torship.
 ' Relchstag Had Business President Hermann Goering call- cd the Reichstag to order. Two deputies who had died were com memorated and Wilhelm Gustloff, Nazi leader in Switzerland, was memoralized as having been killed by "cowardly assassin" He was shot to death at Davos, Switzer- land.
 Then Hitler rose. He started quietly by saying that the Reich- stag had been convened to give deputies an opportunity to hear government declaration which l am sure you and the whole nation 2 will consider important, and which may be decisive"
 He went back to the dark days of 1918 and said:
 Germany more than other na- tions felt the wisdom of Woodrow Wilson's policy. Germany had the misfortune to be defeated. Wilson's articles (the 14 points for Q just peace) were Germany's last hope in her despair"
 Then the present:
 To-day everywhere guns roar, where peace bells should be ringing
 History will show that the earth went through crisis after the war such as has visited humankind only once in a thousand years"
 Germany Bled While
 Germany, Hitler said, was bled white by the huge post war poli- tical debts of Versailles.
 "The present European crisis, V he said, "is due to the glaring un- reason with which the vital inter- ests of epoples were ignored. l would like the German people to learn from this unreason that It IS insupportable to allow discrepancy between realities and the vital iil- terests of people.
 All European nations are mem bers of @ family, though they may quarrel. Their fate is inseparably united, culturally and economically statesmen who are unaware of this fact, who refuse to adjust differ ences by compromise, will cause an explosion.
 Tt is impossible in such & small territory as Europe to maintain & system of unequal rights. This VIII create bitterness on one hand and a psychosis of anxiety on the other.
 Many people talk today Of the sderman question: With that Is connected the German regime. re- ? armamcnt,' the German nations for war,'--or 'Germany's intention to attack
 "Nol Gentlemenl The German question is different. We are a densely populated nation of t36 per- bons per square kiloIneter.
 CThat Is. 624 persons per square pile. Tn the United States there hFe 4i.--EdJ
 we are not iess industrious. not @ intelligent. than other people. aAao are not less loving of our
 Hitler Was Cheered
 Here the deputies cheeFcd vig- lrOusly.
 p ~our campaign for equality has