Evening star., 1939-01-14
Reich Halls Trend
OF Other Nations
To Anti-Red Pact
Budapest Adherence One
Of Victories Nazis See
For Foreign Policy
Nv WALLACE DEUEL..

BERLIN, Jan. IA .(By HaQlO) -
German foreign policy registered a
series of new victories today.
Hungarys adherence to the So
called "anti-comintern" pact causes
much qualification here. 1t is held
to signify among other things an in
creasing predominance of Germany
In Eastern Europe, implying a cor
responding decline in the influence
of France and England. Count
Stephen Csaky, Hungarian foreign
minister, is due here Monday for a
two-day visit, during which further
coordination of Hungarian and
German foreign policies is expected
to be discussed.
Tendencies in other countries in
dicate a trend toward agreement
with the "anti-comintern" policy, it
Is suggested in official quarters, and
adherence to the pact by further
governments is looked forward to-
Yugoslavia, Czecho-Slovakia and
Spain-when the civil war has been
won by Rebel Generalissimo Fran
cisco Franco, as the Nazis conf1-
dently assume it will be-are men,
toned in this connection.
Franco Drive Satisfactory.
The continued successes OF Gen.
Frances current offensive in Spain
are also noted here with satisfac-
ton. Germany and Italy are ac-
quiring an ally who will be of incal-
culable value to them in the future,
as it is seen here-and of incalcula-
BILE harm to France and England
The Nazis can still hardly believe
the evidence of their senses, point
Ing as 1t does to what seems to be
a policy of imperial suicide on the
part of France and England in re-
spect to Spain, but they are gratified
even If sometimes baffled.
In Memel, too, the Nazi policy is
making steady progress. For the
first time since the autonomous dis
trict of Memel was created, a Ger
man now has been intrusted with
formation of the Memel directorate.
He is Willy Bertuleit, deputy
fuehrer of the Memel Nazi party.
Bertuleit was arrested in March,
1884. charged with being one OF the
ringleaders in Nazi plot to detach
the territory from Lithuania and
turn it over to the Reich. He was
sentenced to u years penal servi-
tude in 1885 but was amnestied with
his fellow prisoners in February,
1898.
At the same time, DR.. Ernst Neu-
mann, Memel Nazi fuehrer, has set
about organizing an "order service
OF 10000 men in the territory which
will be the local equivalent of the
German S. A. (Storm Troops. The
Lithuanian authorities are with
drawing Lithuanian police officers
from the territory and negotiations
are under way looking toward the
reinstatement of German ofhcials
dismissed in the past on suspicion
of disloyalty to the state.
Happy Augury at Rome.
The visit to Rome of British Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain and
his foreign secretary. Viscount Hall
fax, Is also regarded here as a happy
augury for the future of the German
foreign policy. For Mr. Chamberlain
and Lord Halifax to 60 to Rome at
all under present circumstances, no
matter what, if anything, has been
accomplished during the visit, is a
sign that England is prepared to go
still farther along the path of ZAP
peasement," it is thought in Berlin
a willingness which most certainly
will be taken advantage of in the
future.
Relations between the United
States and Germany, meanwhile, are
in one Of those blind alleys in which
they have ended up so often since
the Nazis came to power. In new
note the Reich stands fast on its
policy of discriminating against
American Jews in the face of WASH
ington's claims that treaty rights
forbid such discrimination. The Nazi
press continues to snipe at the United
States. The Ambassador of each
country to the other is still away
from his post.
On the other hand, the new Naxi
note on the question of discrimina-
ton is model of tact, dignity and
courtesy, expresses willingness to
discuss any alleged cases of actual
discrimination against American
citizens, and points out-a fact veri-
fled by independent observation
that American Jews are at least
treated better than German Jews.
The most savage and venomous of
recent press attacks has ceased mo-
mentarily. And while DR.. Hans
Dieckhoff, German Ambassador to
the United States, and Mrs. Dieck-
hof are here, Mrs. Hugh R. Wilson,
wife of the American Ambassador,
now in Washington, has returned to
Berlin after a holiday in Paris.
Meaning of Return Pondercd.
Observers with passion for
Machiavellian calculations are rack
ing their brains trying to decide
what Mrs. Wilson's return to Berlin
means. Is it intended to be trial
balloon? A gesture Of conciliation?
Or-horrid thought-does 1t mean
anything at all?
1t is a pretty problem for special
:sts in these weighty matters and
there is much subdued buZzing in
what are sometimes conveniently
referred to as diplomatic quarters"
Negotiations are proceeding be-
tween American representatives Of
the Inter- Governmental Committee
for Political Refugees and the Nazi
authorities. George Rublee, Ameri-
can director of the committee, had
s. second talk with DR.. Hjalmar
Schacht, president of the Reichs-
bank, late yesterday during which
several points were cleared up, and
conversations are now proceeding
between Robert T. Pell assistant di-
rector. and Joseph Cotton, financial
adviser, on the one hand. and DR..
Karl Blessing, a director of the
Reichsbank, on the other hand.
(Copyrisht, 1889, by Chicago Daily News,