Evening star., 1939-03-23

ViSit 70 tnlS 0altlc port, latest
addition to his expanding realm,
when he departed ut 1 pm. no
am. E. S. IT, today aboard the
torpedo boat Leopold for an un-
disclosed destination.
By the Associated Press.
MEMEL, March 23.-Adolf Hitler
today indicated that Germany's
swift absorption of one stretch after
another Of European territory may
have come to a halt.
The Fuehrer gave this indication
in an 8-minute speech to Mcneil
landers after he had stepped tri-
umphantly ashore from a German
battleship in this regained Baltic
seaport.
II believe that now, in the main,
we have arrived at an end of this
unique process Of reparation," Hit
Ter declared.
Previously he had explained that
Germany, while wanting to harm
no one, had been compelled to re-
pair the damage" that had been
done to Germany.
Hitler concluded a two-hour visit
at pm. 90 am, E. S. to,
departing aboard the torpedo boat
Leopard for an undisclosed desti-
nation.
He had arrived in Memel Harbor
aboard the 10,000-ton pocket battle
ship Deutschland just day after
Lithuania had consented to return
the 1,099-square-mile Baltic terri
tory which was detached from Ger
many after the World War.
But his assertion that the period
OF reparation might be at an end
was not unconditional. His phrase
in the MAN," left loophole for
possible further 'reparations."
There are two major ones still
possible on the Fuehrer's list-Ger-
manys former colonial empire and
the Polish corridar-besides such
small ones as Eupen and Malmedy,
400 square miles ceded to Belgium,
and North Schleswig. 1912 square
miles ceded to Denmark.
A few minutes after the Fuehrer
landed at his new Baltic port he
told Memellanders from a theater
Balcony:
I'm the name of the entire Ger
man people I greet you and accept
you into the great German
Reich.
Even if our course does not
please another world, for this new
Germany some 100000 stand
sponsor"
You are a frontier land and will
best appreciate having q great ma
ton behind you.
"A new community has sprung
from need and adversely.
THAT no other power shall ever
subjugate us-for this we shall
look out.
80 I greet today as old volks-
genossen-members of the German
community-and as the youngest
citizens.
And just as in this minute
throughout the whole German
Reich, so, too, we here want to give
expression to our faith and our con-
t1dence in the word, 'Seig Heil!'"
Not Aim to Do Harm.
While warning the world that no
nation on earth could tear the uni
fed German nation asunder, Hitler
declared:
I'VE Germans have no intention
of doing harm to the rest of the
world.
"The damage which that other
world did to Germany, however, had
to be repaired again.
Il believe that now, in the main,
we have arrived at an end to this
unique process of reparation."
This was interpreted as an effort
to appease a nervous world and
especially Poland.
The Fuehrer finished speaking at
2:39 pm. (8:39 am, Eastern stand
ard time). Enthusiastic singing of
the Reich's national anthems fol-
lowed.
Hitler's reception by Memel, the
northernmost German city he ever
has visited, was on q par with en-
thusiastic greetings he received in
other centers when they were
brought "home into the Reich" It
was a day of holiday and merry
making for a population ordinarily
given only to hard work.
Hitler gace his latest subjects an
impressive demonstration of what
Germany's might is by arriving with
a large part of the German feet, by
having units of the 1st Army Corps
march into the city and by letting
warplanes roar overhead.
He also had his trusted head of
(See MEMEL, Page A-4)