Evening star., 1939-03-13
Hitler Sees DePosed Premier
Of S|ovokio as Germans Plan
Intervention Against Czechs
Tiso and Fuehrer
Have Extended
Conference
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Since diSmemberment OF
Csecho- -SloDakia in Munich
peace last September Czechs and
Slopdks hdue been set against
each other. Last Friday Prague
government acted quickly to
suppress SloUak separdtist mloDe-
ment. President Emil Hdcha
ousted Premier Joseph Tiso and
later appointed Karl Sidor as
head OF an entirely ne1D Slouak
cabinet.
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 13.-Chancellor
Hitler received DR.. Joseph Tiso, de-
posed Slovak premier, for an "ex-
tended" conference today amid
acknowledgment by official sources
that Germany would make some sort
of intervention in the Czecho-S Slovak
situation.
DR.. Tiso, who was ousted from the
premiership of autonomous Slovakia
by the Prague central government
Friday because of agitation for
Slovak independence. arrived at Ber-
Inns Tempelhof Airdrome late this
afternoon.
Nazi elite guard troops, with a
band, accorded him honors usually
extended to a premier in Office. He
was driven directly to the chancel-
lery, where a propaganda ministry
spokesman said he was received by
Chancellor Hitler for lengthy con-
ference.
Stronger Action Is Indicated.
The mildest form of German inter-
vention in the situation would be
diplomatic representations. but the
possibility of stronger action II
necessary" also was mentioned by
foreign Office spokesman.
German citizens, recalling the
action taken during last September
crisis over -Slocakia's Su-
detland, speculated whether new
German expedition into the neigh
boring republic was in the offing.
Many believed that only complete
capitulation by President Emil
Hacha to the Slovaks could avert
German Intervention.
The fact that the Fuehrer received
DR.. Tiso was taken as an unmis-
taxable sign of where official Ger
man sympathies lie in the con-
troversy between the Czechs and
Slovaks.
Before his departure from Slo-
vakia, Dr. Tiso, Catholic priest,
announced he was making the
trip to Berlin at Hitler's invita-
tion.)
Refugees on Move.
DNB German official news
agency meanwhile reported in
dispatch from Engeru that Slovak
refugees were reaching that South
eastern border city and asserted the
Czech military had closed the bride
heads of Engerau and Theben, which
is in Slovakia on the German from
tier
DNB quoted the refugees as re-
porting the massing of Czech ar
mored cars at Bratislava, Slovak
Capital and Blumenau.
The foreign Office spokesman would
not commit himself as to whether
the desired result of German inter-
vention would be an "independent"
Slovakia.
On Wednesday, the spokesman
said, Chancellor Hitler would appear
at big parade in Vienna, just "a
miles from Bratislava, the Slovak
capital.
Nazi Units on Move.
When asked whether not only
army units but also detachments
of S. S. and S. A. (Nazi uniformed
guard units) were moving to the
southeast, he replied aff1rmatively.
He said also that nothing was
known here about contentious made
in Bratislava that a German ennis
sary had made overtures to leaders
of the Slovak separatist movement
long before the present difficulties
developed.
Der Angriff, newspaper of DR.. Paul
Joseph Goebbels, minister of propa-
ganda, in commenting on the sit
uation in Czecho- -Slovakia, declared:
May Prague leaders be expressly
warned that this condition of affairs
Is untenable"
The newspaper observed that "the
result of this week end of terror is
dreadful"
Brutal Terror" Charged.
The controlled Nazi press used
phrases like those employed in the
September crisis to describe what
they called "bru.al Czech terror" in
Czecho- -Slovakia.
A defiant anti-Czech broadcast
was made from Vienna by DR.. Ferdi-
nand Durcansky, communications
minister in DR.. Tiso's deposed
cabinet.
Headlines and the tone of news
dispatches today also showed Nazi
sympathy for Slovakia, where new
cabinet headed by Karl Sidor was
appointed Saturday to replace DR..
Tiso's government.
In Berlin foreign Office circles it
was said Czecho-Slovak President
Hacha's action in deposing DR..
Tiso and two other ministers and
Its repercussions were being watched
with the "gravest concern"
Cabinet Rejection Urged.
Durcansky called on Slovaks to
reject the new Slovak cabinet and
ito prepare for. the decisive hour
which may come at any moment"
The newspaper Voelkischer Beo-
bachter, the leading Nazi party
organ, spoke of Czech outrages
hostile to Germans" and other
newspapers headlined dispatches
thus: Brutal Czech Attacks on
Germans in Brunn," "Monstrous
Czech Terror" and German Ma
tionals Clubbed Down."