Evening star., 1939-01-12
Berlin Reception
y
Honors Creators Of
Munich Accord
:. Peace Without Resort
To Force HuiIed
By Hitler
3y the Associated Press.

j. ~ the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Jan. 12.-Adolf Hitler
and the Berlin diplomatic corps gave
their separate thanks for the peace
Of Munich" today in the traditional
new year reception In the glittering
new wing of the chancellery which
the Nazi fuehrer designed for him.
self.
Wearing plain evening dress,
Prentiss Gilbert, United States
Charge d'Anaires, filled the place
Of Ambassador Hugh r. Wilson, now
in Washington. president Roose-
velt summoned Ambassador Wilson
home to report on the November
anti-Semitic outburst0
Msgr. Cesare Orsenigo, papal
nuncio who headed the foreign Dip
lomats as they entered the sump.
tuous new wing, acted as spokesman
and rendered public honor" to the
record of the courageous creators
Of this CMunich) accord"
Hitler replied that the peace of
Munich" was above all clue to "the
recognition of the fact that neces-
sites were founded upon historical
development and natural needs must
sooner or later be acknowledged and
may not be denied by force
Creators Of Accord Hailed.
Msgr. Orsenigo, after tender
ing the diplomats fluctuations to
the chancellor, said in French:
This day (September 800 on which
the four statesmen met in Germany,
so to speak unexpectedly, in order
IN difficult hour to sign an accord
that was decisive for peace, filled all
people with Joy. As the representa-
tives Of these peoples, who fervently
acclaimed the peace, we are happy
at the end Of this historic year pub
lcly to honor the courageous
creators Of this accord and at the
same time to give expression to the
thanks which every friend of peace
feels himself under obligations to
extend"
He closed with an expression of
hope that such a peaceful proceed
. ure may become the customary
means Of settling all international
points at ISSUE"
Hitler thanked Msgr. Orsenigo for
especially referring to the Munich
accord, then continued:
THE German nation remembers
with the deepest gratitude that the
year 1888 has brought for our peo-
pie, too, the realization Of its in
alienable right to sef-determina-
ton. =
POLICY Of Wise Insight"
IF this has been achieved with
out interrupting the peace of Europe
for q single day considerable credit
is due In fact to the policy of wise
insight on the part Of the powers as
1t found expression in the Munich
accord.
The fact that it was possible to
arrive at the peaceful solution which
we all desired we owe not only to
the will to peace and the conscious
ness Of responsibility of the gov
ernments concerned, but above all
to the recognition of the fact that
necessities founded upon historical
development and natural needs must
sooner or later be acknowledged and
may not be denied for force.
The powers concerned have drawn
the necessary consequences for their
political decisions from this recog-
milton and have thereby duly con-
.tributed not only toward preserving
peace for Europe but also to create
. healthier and happier Europe"
81 Foreign ENJOYS Attend.
The iron cross hung from Hitler's
evening clothes as he received the
81 foreign ENJOYS who attended.
With the Fuehrer were his foreign
minister, Joachim Won Ribbentrop.
other high Nazi ofncials and five
radjutants.
The government has spent many
millions of marks In building and
decorating the new wing in keeping
with the Fuehrer's own ideas and
now it far overshadows even the
snowy Fuehre1haus in Munich, where
the four power conference was held
last September 20.
After passing through q spacious
vestibule, the diplomats entered sue
cessively an enormous red marble
hall known as the Mosaic Room"
which Is ISL by 81 feet; then a
round hall decorated In various
marbles and next a 479-foot-long
gallery which, Nazis declare, puts
the Gallery of Mirrors at Versailles
"in the shade"
Windows about feet high flank