Evening star., 1939-07-16
Hitler Standing PAT
On Danzig Issue,
ha!is Declare
Free City's NuI|ifieotion
Of Versailles Stutus
Expected First
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS
MUNICH, July 15.-Nazi leaders
assembled here with Reichsfuehrer
Hitler expressed the opinion today
that Germany is standing pat on the
Polish question and intends that at
least Danzig shall become part of
the Reich "as soon as it is con-
venient."
Recent indications were that Hit
ler would be satisfied with the re-
turn of the Free City as the first
step toward obtaining greater con-
cessions from Poland in Pomorze-
the Polish Corridor, which separates
East Prussia from Germany proper.
The most talked-about method
for bringing about the proposed
union of Danzig and Germany
is that of a declaration by the
Danzigers that they no longer are
bound by the Free City constitution
as created by the treaty of Versailles
and that they henceforth are a part
of the Reich.
Corridor Issue in Allegiance.
Nazis then would see what, if any
thing, happened from the side OF
Poland and her British and French
allies.
Although the larger Corridor prob
lem has not been played up in Ger
many recently as much as has even
tual union of the Free City with
Germany, informed quarters ex-
pressed belief it had by no means
been postponed but merely was be-
ing held in allegiance for tactical
reasons.
The German public has not been
permitted to forget that East Prus-
sia is cut off from Germany by
the Corridor. Hundreds of young
officers are en- route from five diff
ferent military schools to Tannen-
berg, in East Prussia.
There next Thursday Colleen.
Walther Won Brauchitsch, chief OF
staff of the army, will address them
on the site of the 1914 battlefield
where Germany was victorious over
Russian troops. Hitler also will
speak thereon August lin cele-
bration of the 25th anniversary Of
the battle
Hitler to Speak on Art.
Today the Fuehrer gave himself
over to art, listening to an address
by Propaganda Minister Paul JOS
eph Goebbels,, at the German art
week convention, on the mean
ing and development of art in the
Third Reich. Hitler himself will
speak to the convention at II a m.
(5 am. E. S. TO tomorrow.
Goebbels in his address declared
the advent of Nazi-ism enriched
German culture and brought the
masses into the concert halls, thea
tiers and museums"
He described German culture of
postwar days as a period during
which Jews established their tyr
amy of art" Because of this he
said "the German people took a
diminishing interest in art in gen.
eral" He added: Jews lack any
deep understanding for beauty. Typ
ical Jewish art glorifles the degen-
crate, it abhors heroisn."
Ribbentrop Due Today.
Danzig Nazi Leader Albert Foer-
ster, who had long talks with Hit
Ter yesterday and Thursday, still
was participating in the art cere-
monies, but as far as could be
learned the two today did not con-
tinue their conversations.
However. Foreign Minister Joach-
i'm Won Ribbentrop is due tomorrow
from near Salzburg, where he is
resting, and it was expected he
would confer with both Hitler and
Forester.
Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm
Goering, Hitler's right-hand man
is about the only top-ranking Off
cial absent from the Munich art
celebration He has been sailing
Greater Germany's inland water
ways in yacht, going from river
to river and canal to canal, inspect
ING their caDacitieS