Evening star., 1939-05-05
Danzig Nazi Chiefs
Are Reported on
Way 10 See Hitler
Bosis for Negotiations
Lacking, Says Reich
Press Service
By the''Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, May 5.-Adolf Hitler and
his foreign minister, Joachim Won
Ribbentrop, conferred today on Po-
lish Foreign Minister Col. Joseph
Beck's answer to the Fuehrer's lone
and only" demand for Danzig and
an extra-territorial route for Ger
many through the Polish Corridor.
Reports from Bavaria said Hitler
also had summoned Albert Forster,
Nazi district leader in Danzig, and
Arthur Greiser, a NaI leader and
president of the Free City's Senate.
These reports, however, lacked Of
fetal confirmation. In Danzig 1t
was said that Greiser was going to
Hamburg and Forster only to Nazi
leaders meeting in Munich, near
Hitler's Obersalzberg retreat.
Basis for Talks Denied.
Germany does not consider that
Col. Beck's address furnishes basis
for further negotiations, declared the
authoritative commentary service,
Dienst aus Deutschland.
Informed observers believed its
declaration indicated the trend of
official reaction.
Dienst aus Deutschland said OF
Col. Beck's speech that lit seems
very much as though Poland had
as regards the Danzig question, run
into blind alley from which there
is no escape"
The service added:
However, the blind alley into
which Poland drove of her own &C.
cord is no reason for Germany tc
renounce the necessity for a solu-
ton of the Danzig question.
For if Poland points to her honor
this applies in much larger de-
gree also to Germany"
The editor of Dienst aus Deutsch-
land indicated that it had been ir
close touch with the foreign office.
Prince Stefan Lubomirsky, Polish
charge d'affaires, presented Poland.
counter note to Germany's denuncia.
ton of the 1894 Polish German non-
aggression treaty to Baron Ernst Won
Weiszaecker, German foreign Office
undersecretary.
Will Go On to Italy.
After the conference with Hitler
Won Ribbentrop is to go to Lake
Como for talks with Italian Foreign
Minister Count GaleazZo Ciano.
Won Ribbentrop did not arrive in
Berchtesgaden quite in time to listen
to Beck's speech at Hitler's side, but
was able to tune in on the broad
cast from Warsaw in his hotel.
In Berlin officials in the foreign
Office and the propaganda ministry
also listened eagerly to Col. Beck S
words and had them translated
quickly by experts
Authorities in the capital, how
ever, refrained from comment, stat
ing that "only the highest quarter"
could express Germany's reaction in
so grave matter.
Special Applause Cited.
A report from DNB Official Ger
man news agency on Col. Beck's
address emphasized that the Depu-
ties interrupted Beck with special
applause whenever he turned
against Germany and addressed
compliments to England"
1t also featured the presence at
the Polish Parliament session of spe-
cial correspondents from all parts
of the world" and called attention
to the fact that the diplomatic box
was occupied to the last seat and
that the entire Polish cabinet was
present.
With Won Ribbentrop went the So
year-old legal expert of the foreign
Office, DR.. Friedrich Gaus, who is
nearly always present when impor..
tant documents are to be drawn up
His presence lent weight to the
belief that the meeting between Won
Ribbentrop and Count Ciano would
mean more than a mere reaffirma-
ton of axis solidarity.
Already In Italy were Field Mar
shal Hermann Goering and the Ger
man chief Of staff of the army, Col
Gen. Walther Won Brauchitsch.
Two Pacts Near Conclusion.
Before leaving, the fast-moving
foreign minister had brought al
most to the signing point non-ag-
gression treaties with Latvia and
Estonia.
The press almost unanimously In
fnrnretnd the treo tinc os on "onsx,ny
to Roosevelt" referring to Presi-
dent Roosevelt's April IS suggestion
that Germany offer non-aggression
assurances to 81 nations.
Won Ribbentrop's departure fol-
lowed information from q well-in-
formed diplomat that an uncom-
promising tone by Col. Beck in hii
speech today might be the signal Ton
(See BERLIN, Page A-4.)