Evening star., 1939-03-19
Berlin
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ABOUT one 0ay, IN the course OF Eu.
ropean complications, re-establish.
ment Of the Versailles (pre- -Munich)
Czecho-Slovakia."
Tonight the returning British en-.
voy, Sir Neville Henderson, took 9
train to London to report on de.
velopments in Central Europe.
Un London it was said Won
Dirksen, Ambassador to Britain
since last April l. was expected
to leave tomorrow. Besides re-
porting on Britain's reaction to
Germany's invasion of Czecho-
Slovakia, it was said the envoy
probably would be asked to re-
port on an incident involving
Hitler in the House of Commons
Thursday.
(Alfred Duff Cooper, former
first lord of the admiralty,
termed Hitler a ''thrice-perjured
traitor and breaker of oaths."
German circles in London ex-
pected Berlin to protest failure
of the Speaker of the House to
object to the remark.)
Hitler Returning Home.
While all Europe anxiously
watched the lengthening shadow
of the swastika, Hitler rode from
Vienna amid tumultous "heils" to a
secret stopping place on his way to
Berlin. He left to lieutenants the
task of imposing the Nazi will on
Bohemia -Moravia and ironing out
relations with Slovakia, Germany s
new protectorates.
The Fuehrer was expected to
make a triumphal entry into Ber-
lin at 7:30 pm. 1:30 pm. Eastern
standard time) Sunday. Huge red
flags bearing the black and white
Nazi sWastika fluttered all over Ber-
lin tonight as the capital waited to
welcome back the conquering chan
cellor.
Nazi formations were out tonight
practicing for the welcome to the
Fuehrer which, by coincidence, is
scheduled for the eve of Germany S
army day." when the military ma
chine will be paraded before the
populace. Marshal Goering will de-
liver the welcoming address.
Fireworks and a 2l-gun salute
were ordered to greet the chancel-
lor's entry into the city. Anti-air-
craft searchlights will glare in a
dome Of light over Unter den Linden
as he rides down Berlin's central
boulevard and thousands of lights
will burn in the windows of public
buildings.
In celebration, Berlin police lifted
the usual 3 am. curfew from cafes
and night clubs and Propaganda
Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels ap-
pealed to the populace for a swastika
in every window.
Hitler named Baron Konstantir
Won Neurath, former German for.
eign minister and president of the
Secret Cabinet Council, as Reichs.
protector of Bohemia -Moravia. Vor
Neurath, responsible only to the
Fuehrer, will have supreme power
over 100000 Czechs who have be-
come German subjects.
Rumania Fearful.
Meanwhile, Rumania feared fol
her fertile wheat fields and oil wells
alarm was reported in Lithuania
concern was shown in Poland, sus-
picion grew of a coup detat ir
Danzig and the possibility was men,
toned of German aggression against
Hungary.
Helmuth Wohlthat, adviser to
Marshal Goering, NaZi economic die
tator, was in Bucharest, apparently
attempting to tighten. Germany's
economic sway in Southeastern
Europe.
A government spokesman, how
ever, described as "arrant nonsense
reports that Rumania and Hungary
were slated to follow Czecho-Sl
vakia in Hitler's book of conquests
1t was denied that there had been
any ultimatium to Rumania.
OF British and French charges
that the Munich accord of last Sep
tember 20 had been disregarded in
German occupation of Bohemia
Moravia, a foreign Office spokesman
declared. I'VE can only say that it
was done legally"
The Nazi answer to the condemna-
ton was that Prague had violated
the spirit of Munich, that the man.
ner OF Incorporating the protecto.
rates was within Hitler's policy ot
pan-Germanism, that Germany
never had renounced her right to 8
dominating role In Central Europe
and that there was no more cause
Tor Hitler to consult British Prime
Minister Chamberlain in advance