Evening star., 1938-10-03
BERLIN ADVANCES
8 NEW DEMANDS
Peace Program Invites U. S.
to Participate in Debt,
Trade Concessions.
BY WALLACE r. DEUEL..

BY WALLACE r. DEUEL.,
chicaEo Daily News Foreign CORRESPONDENT.
BERLIN, Oct. 3.-Speaking through
the government-c controlled press, the
Nazis today brought forward eight
points of program for implementing
the peace of Munich" The eight
presented today by no means exhaust
the list Of things the Berlin Rome axis
thinks the other powers should now
agree to, but they will suffice for the
time being.
Americans will doubtless be gratified
to discover that they, too, are invited
to make thanks offering on the
altar of the new peace" in the form
OF debt, trade and credit concessions
The eight points of today's peace
program" are as follows:
l.. Prague is called upon to adopt
pro-German policy both at home and
abroad.
q England and France are to grant
formal recognition to the Italian con-
quest of Ethiopia.
8. England and France are to agree
to satisfactory" solution" of the
Spanish question, meaning victory for
rebel Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
Soviet Alliances Opposed.
4. Russia is to be formally excluded
from Europe. This involves the cere-
monial remuneration of their alliances
with the Soviets by both France and
Czechoslovakia.
5. What is left of Germany's foreign
debts is to be scaled down once again
meaning that both principal and in
terest are to be reduced.
6. New foreign credits are to be
granted the Reich.
7. New foreign markets are to be
opened up to German exports.
8. Germany's colonial demands are
to be taken up as soon as possible.
1T Is now necessary to wait and
See how the Czech government, but
above all the Czech people itself, now
intends to regulate future relations
with the Reich" says the Berliner
Boersen zeitung in calling upon
Prague to be good neighbor'' to
Germany. 1T is hard to imagine
that 1t Is intended that these rela-
tions are to be marked by the same
negative character as in the past
The distinction which the Boersen-
zitung makes between the Czech
people and the present Czech govern
ment is typical of the Nazi belief that
probably both President Benes and
Premier Gen. Syrovy should and will
disappear politically-if in no other
sense-during the process of liquidat-
ing independent Czechoslovakia.
Spain Chief Problem.
In discussing both the Ethiopian
and Spanish questions, the Deutsche
Allgemeine zeitung says, in a dispatch
from Rome:
The chief problem between italy
and England, just as between Italy
and France, is the Spanish question.
The coming efforts of the concert of |
european powers will, therefore, have |
to be devoted to this question. it is
held in Rome.
The Spanish question also has pre- |
vented, up to the present, the nor
malizing Of Italo-F French relations. as
shown by the lack, fot year, of
any French Ambassador to Rome. The
FORMAL cause of this diplomatic ab- !
normallty is the failure of France to |
recognize the Fascist empire, which
now appears all the more absurd in |
view OF the fact that, at Munich. the
French Premier collaborated in a
great work of European peace with |
the founder of that empire"
1t is the financial editor of the
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung who
voices most clearly the hopes which
the Nazis now have for a new eco
nomic and financial deal:
The atmosphere has now become
more propitious for an arrangement
on what remains of Germany's (for-
eign) debt" he writes, "an initiative
Tor an increase in German-British
trade now finds favorable soil. There
is possibility of giving more scope to
the granting of international trade
credits" and, finally, "it may very we'll
be thought that the trade policy of
the United States also will no longer
stand sulking in corner, but will wish
to participate in the economic conse-
quences of the peace of Munich"
The Frankfurter Zeitung, for its part,
addressed fatherly words of warning
and advice to France and England
and makes the point that it was only
by threatening general war that
Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler was able to
get what he wanted out of the other
powers.
In normal times" the Frankfurter
Zeitung says, "the democratic-p -parlia-
mentary system does not permit speedy
and drastic dealing. The gravest crisis,
even the awful aspect of war, had to be
conjured up to make the great West
ern democracies able and willing to
act. It may be harsh to establish this
fact. but it is true. Without pressure,
Germany would not have achieved its
goal during the practicable future. The
world does not hear this gladly, but it
Is So.' (Copyright. 1889
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