The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-29

shaken.
 There was grave danger that the swirl of war around the Monocacy might result in sudden disaster for the gunboat; lead to another explo- sive incident such as shocked America when the U. s. s. Panay, her machine guns still firing, went down under a hail of bombs from Japanese war planes.
 But for the moment the march of events on grand scale ln Eu- rope over -shadowed everything else along the worlds trouble fronts.
 Means Another War
 Great Britain, taking the offen- sive at last by throwing her full military, moral and diplomatic in kucnce behind the fight for peace, forcibly followed up Sir John Sinaon's warning that any sudden German blow against the Czechs probably would mean another world war.
 Usually unimpeachable sources said that the London government, uncertain that the Simon speech had been effective, had warned Fuehrer Adolf Hitler directly of the possib elconsequences of aggression against Czechoslovakia.
 Even more important in many respects, was authoritative word that General Joseph Vuillemin, chief of the French air force, had fiatly told German Field Marshal Hermann Goaring that France would go to the aid of the Czechs if they were attacked. That action, synchronized with similar warnings from other Czech allies, was intended to im- press forcibly on Germany that it would be better to cooperate in a peaceful solution of the quarrel than to attempt a sudden Coup-an at tempt which many diplomats feared might be planned to coincide with the Nazi party rally at Nuremberg September 5.
 Position of Poland
 The position of Poland, a key country in the present lineup, re- mained vague. For months Warsaw has been swerving first toward Ger many and then toward France or Russia with the prime objective of preventing a war being fought with Poland as the battle-ground.
 Outside the diplomatic maneuv- erIng, there were more spectacular and concrete developments.
 Hitler. accompanied by eight gen. erals, appeared suddenly at Kehl, on an inspection tour of military man. euvers in the Rhineland and along the newly fortified French frontier, part of his visit to military centers in which a million Nazis are under arms now.
 Seventy miles away, French troops massed for war games at point where experts have long predicted the first thrust would come in event of war with the reich The parallel maneuvers were coincidence but none -the-less significant as the sud- den British order last Friday for transfer of the fleet to its North Sea battle base.
 British Cabinet Called
 In London, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain summoned cabinet ministers and high naval officials to meet Sir Neville Henderson, am- bassador to Berlin, hurried home by airplane to answer directly the ques- tion plaguing his government: Does Hitler plan to strike now? The Lon- don stock market, particularly bonds of various governments directly in- volved, shuddered downward.
 In Paris, Premier Edouard Dala- dier likewise called his cabinet, pri- marily to discuss labor problems but also to be ready. France, torn by internal quarrels, began forgetting domestic controversy as the nation united in the face of an interna- tional threat.
 In Prague, Viscount Runciman, the British mediator in the Nazi- Czech minority dispute, was understood to have warned Nazi Leader Konrad Henlein that there was danger of war if concessions were not made soon in order to compromise the quarrel.