Evening star., 1939-03-16
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

BY BLAIR BOLLES.
Ignoring instructions delivered to
him from the German Embassy, DR..
Vladimir Hurban. Czecho- -Slovakian
Minister to the United States, today
declined to turn his legation over
to German representatives in the
absence of direct. written orders
from his own government in Prague.
DR.. Hurban consented to the low
ering of the Czech flag over the
legation. but refused to fly the Nazi
swastika flag. At the same time
the German Embassy announced
that 1t was assuming control of the
legation, it took charge of the Czech
consulates throughout the United
States.
The defiant Czech Minister, who
has been representing the Prague
government in Washington since
December 80. 1885. issued this state
ment to the press services shortly
after noon:
Order Read by DR.. Rosenberg.
'The first secretary of the Ger
man Embassy, DR.. Karl Rosenberg,
came to see me and read to me an
order from the German foreign office
asking the German Embassy to take
over the Czecho- -Slovak Legation
and consulate.
MY reply was:
"I have not received any order
from my government in Prague
which appointed me-the only au-
thority which could issue such an
order to me. I must have a written
not acknowledgements, signed
by President Hacha, stating that the
Czecho-Slovak government of its
own will relinquished its authority
to the German Reich"
A German omcial said President
Hacha or the former Foreign Minis
ter Chvalkovsky would be asked at
once to send the necessary instruc-
tions. ,,+.
DR.. Rosenberg visited the Legation
at the order Of DR.. Hans Thomson,
German Charge d'Anaires here.
Under the German plan DR.. Hurban
and the other Czech diplomats
would temporarily be attached to
the German Embassy. The Legation
stands at 2349 Massachusetts ave-
nue. NV, next door to the Austrian
Legation, which was taken over by
Germany year ago.
The Consulates which pass to
Berlin's control from Czecho-
Slovakia are located at Los Angeles,
San Francisco. Chicago, New Or
leans, Baltimore, Minneapolis, ST..
Louis, New York City, Cleveland,
Philadelphia. Pittsburgh, Houston,
Seattle and Manila, P. 1.
New Confusion Arises.
Hitler's institution of a German
protectorate over the state of Slo-
vakia, set up In the Czecho- -Slo-
vakian partition. brought new con-
fusion over the future status of the
Czech Legation.
AS a German protectorate, the
country may be represented abroad
through the Berlin foreign ofice
instead of by emissaries Of its own.
The German charge d'affaires'
action toward Minister Hurban was
predicated on Berlin's assumption
OF control of the foreign affairs of
Bohemia and Moravia, the other
"protectorate" carved from Czecho-
Slovakia.
Congress Gets Protests.
Protests from several New Eng
land members of Congress today
added a new problem to the political
questions involved.
Representative Rogers, Repub-
lican, Of Massachusetts, said she
would introduce a resolution calling
for cancellation Of the trade agree
ment between the United States and
Czecho- -Slovakia.
Representative Connery, Demo-
| crat, of Massachusetts, appealed to
Secretary Hull to direct customs Of
f1cials to require all goods manufac-
tured by Czechs to be marked Made
In Germany"
The Rogers resolution is expected
to have little more than political
(see HURBAN, Page A-4.)