Evening star., 1938-10-14
new 0BJECT|VES
SET BY GERMANY
Drives Uncompromising|y
Toward Attainment of
New Goals.
By WALLACE r. DEUEL.,

CHICAGO Daily News Foreign Correspondent.
BERLIN, Oct. 14.-Flushed with
their overwhelming success on the
Czech question, the Nazis drove ahead
today with equally uncompromising
vigor toward further new objectives
both at home and abroad.
In foreign policy the regime pushed
on toward liquidation of the Czech
issue, which goes even beyond the
demands that Reichsfuehrer Adolf
Hitler made on Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain at Godesberg, and which
England, France and CzechoSlovakia
said they would fight rather than yield
to; France was warned to mend its
ways and abandon the policies dis
pleasing to the Reich, threats of a
new ornaments race were uttered and
the Nazis prepared to proceed toward
the commercial trade conquestS of
Central and Eastern Europe and the
Balkans as part of which the Jews
IN all these regions are to be driven
out and their places taken by Germans
At home new drive against
Catholics came to head, the relent-
less pressure on. Jews continued, the
Czech minority in Vienna was threat
ened with immediate expulsion and
two alleged spies were executed
bringing the total executions on this
charge for the year to 26-showing
once again the ruthlessness of the
methods whereby the Nazis are pre-
pared to deal and are dealing with
their enemies within the country itself.
Latest Nazi Triumph.
The latest triumph of Nazi policy on
the Czech question is the decision of
the International Commission, which
was set up to carry out the four-power
Munich agreement, that no plebiscite
shall be had after all in Sudeten Ger
man regions to be ceded to the Reich.
With minor adjustments to be agreed
upon by the Germans and Czechs
among themselves, areas now occupied
by German troops are automatically
turned over to the Reich.
Thus, in practice, the sacred prin-
ciple of self-determination, of which
so much has been heard lately. is
honored in this way: That the peo-
pie of Sudeten Germany, including
Czechs and non-Nazi and anti-Nazi
Germans, variously estimated to num-
Der from 100000 to 100000 are
turned over to the Reich without
troubling to give them a chance to
vote on their fate at all, and new
frontier is drawn according to the
languages the people spoke in the
year of grace 1910. This frontier,
furthermore, includes greater terri
tory and more people than the ex-
treme demands that Hitler made at
Godesburg encompassed
All of Htler's further demands at
GodeSberg also have now been met.
not only the demands included in his
memorandum. but also others he made
besides. President Eduard Benes, Pre-
mier Milan HodZa and Foreign Min
lister Kamil Krofta all have disap-
peared from the political scene and
have been replaced by others who are
expected to pursue pro-German poll
cies., The Poles and Hungarians are
busily engaged in carrying out their
share of the dismemberment of
CSechoslovakia. Semi-independent re-
gines have been set up for the Slovaks
and Ruthenians. The Czech alliances
with France and Russia have been
nullified in practice, even if not yet
formally and in theory. And further
trifiing little details are to be settled
by direct negotiations between the
Reich and Czechoslovakia.
France Must Mend Ways.
The government-controlled press for
its part has advised France to mend
rs ways if it wants peace with the
Reich. 1t is no good thinking in terms
Of alliances to counterbalance Ger
manys new-found strength, the press
says, nor talking about strengthening.
French armaments. The time has