The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-14
British, German Break Again Drawing Close
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text-the text which, distributed nj confidence and in advance to news paper correspondents, caused the boycott.
 Ostensibly, it was the criticism of German newspapers alone which impelled the Germans to remain away from the banquet, given by the Foreign Press association. Nazi Govt. Annoyed
 But there were reports that the Nazi government was equally aS1- noyed by reference which Cham berlain made to the transitory na- ture of such regimes as that of the Nazis. Hitler and his men have made 8 point of impressing on Ger mans that Nazism will never die and that its buildings are construct ed SO as to live for thousands of years.
 Usually well informed sources re- ported that Hitler himself ordered the boycott, after having been ad- yised of what Chamberlain intended saying.
 Under the unhappy augury of the banquet boycott, Dr. HJalmar Schacht, head of the German Reichbank and world authority on finance, arrived today to negotiate with Montagu Norman, governor or the Bank of England, and to dis cuss financial matters of urgent im- portance.
 Schacht intended to talk over the possibility of an international agree ment for emigration of German Jews under plan that would permit Jews to take fragment of their possessions with them and would re- suit in Germany getting gigantic orders abroad for export goods.
 Plans Up in Air
 It seemed hardly likely that any plans which required the approval of the government, and of the Brit ish people, would be forwarded by the banquet incident.
 Whatever the facts, it was indicat- ed that Chamberlain's speech, and the boycott, had served to show first the smouldering resentment in Great Britain against the Munich surrender to Germany ov e T CzechoSlovakia, secondly the h- creasing sentiment in favor of ab- solute cooperation with France and thirdly the magnitude of the prime minister's Self-appointed task-one to which he rededicated himself in his speech-of seeking friendship with the totahtarian nations.
 Cheered Four Minutes
 When Chamberlain made his re- marks about German newspapers, his auditors stood and cheered him for four mintes.
 There was applause hardly less im- pressive when he said at another point:
 Our relations with France are so close as to pass beyond mere legal obligations"
 As regards Italy, there was an- other angle to last nights banquet. It was reported that the Germans telephoned the Italian embassy to inform the Italians due to attend to the banquet that there was boy colt, and tacitly inviting the Italians to join it as a sign of the strength of the Berlin-Rome axis. The Ital- ians attended the dinner.
 German Embassy Statement
 Recognizing the importance which its boycott had assumed, the Ger man embassy issued an official state ment on it:
 "The viewpoint of the German embassy is that it was a matter of regret that members of the embassy were unable to attend the dinner. But 1t should be borne in mind that German journalists in London, as members of the Foreign Press asso- ciation, were themselves associated with the invitation issued to guests of the association. That being SO, 1t vas felt an embarrassing situation might arise if in the course of the evening, mention was made of sub- jects entailing criticism of German affairs"
 It was learned that the Herman ambassador disliked, for one thing, caricatures printed on the menu of the dinner. One German newspaper man said:
 l Ambassador Annoyed '"The ambassador was most an- royed. The menu showed Field Mar stal Herman Goering (Nazi No. 9 as huntsman, wearing an Alpine hat, with a rifle slung over his shoulder and . bird hanging by .