Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-19
Allies F|ay Nazis.
Prepare Defenses
AGAINST New War
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declared Rumania is mobilizing five
army corps and Germany has mo-
bilized % divisions as an eastern
striking force.
Meanwhile, France followed Brit
aims lead in recalling her ambaS-
ssdor. Robert Coullondrc. from
Germany.
Joseph P. Kennedy American
ambassador to Great Britain, palo
his second visit in "a hours to
Viscount Halifax, foreign secre-
tary, to discuss the Czechosloyak
situation, as Great Britain and
France announced their protests,
In Washington, the state depart
ment had advised Secretary OF
Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
that it acknowledged "de facto
German administration of Czecho-
slovak areas but refused TO con-
cede the legality of Nazi rule.
Viscount Halifax was visited to-
day by Herbert Won Dircksen, Ger
man ambassador; Charles Andre
Oorgin, French ambassador and
Ivan Maisky, Russian ambassador.
There were strong indications
that Britain was drawing the pow
erful Soviet union, with an army
estimated now to total 100000
men or more INTO a stop Hitler
combination of "peace loving" ma
tons.
France announced her protest to
Berlin as Premier Edouard Dala
dier staked the life of his cabinet
on a demand for dictatorial cabi-
net powers to prepare the country
for war. He won preliminary votes
of confidence, on a motion to adj
journ debate, by 334 to 258.
Prime Minister Neville Cham
berlain, in speech last night
which showed plainly that Great
Britain was now at last thoroughly
alarmed at Hitler's policies, asked
rhetorically whether Hitler'5 move
against Czechosloyakis was the
END of an old adventure or
the beginning of a new
Today the news reached officis-
quarters that in the last three oil
four days DR.. Hellmuth WOhlthat
chief of German economic mis-
sion sent to, Bucharest, presented
the following proposals to the Ru-
msnian government in the name
of NaZi Germany:
/. That Rumania gradually CEASE
all efforts to build up her nationa
industry, gradually close down ex-
| isting factories, and thus make
herself an agricultural country on,
ly.
2. That Rumania's exports o.
grain, oil, lumber, cattle and food.
stuffs, all vital TO German econo'
my, go only TO Germany.
3. That if Rumania agreed t.
these terms Germany was ready
to guarantee Rumania'S territoria
integrity and independence.
King Carol and his governmen
at once rejected the proposals com
pletely and moved to include al
political leaders, including DR.. Ju
liu Manu-. president of the power
ful peasant party and former pre-
mier, in national patriotic gov
ernment.
1t was recalled that during th,
World war the Rumanians, over.
whelmed by the central powers
fought bitterly. Before the enem,
armies reached the country's ricf
oil wells. Rumanians set fire +,
them and dropped heavy tools int
their shafts. The result was tha
the fuel, vitality necessary to tn
blockaded powers, was shut off an,
the wells were only just beginninl
TO produce again when the Worlt
war ended.
At Budapest, meanwhile. dis
patches said Hungarian troop.
were reported at noon today Il
have completed occupation of Al
Carpath- Ukraine. The chief of tn,
general staff reported 81 officer,
and soldiers killed and 1T wound.
ed during the occupation. Admira
Nicholas Horthy, regent, is visit
ing the occupied area.
From Berlin, Col. Gen. Hermann
Wilhelm Goering, head of the Naz
air force, ordered the immediat
establishment of a new air fore,
command with headquarters il
Vienna. 1t will include the newly
fcquired territories of Ostmarl
Austria), Bohemia, Moravian part
u the Sudetenland and parts O