The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-05
STOP HITLER!" DRIVE
IS GOAL OF FUTURE


Mr.. Cnamberlaln's Stop Hit
Ter" drive started out with colorS
flying and bands playing. But, as
some astute observers anticipated,
the march rapidly slowed down.
1t may be possible on some future
day to really round up the pow
ers in a united front against Der
Fuehrer-but, at this writing, it
certainly isn't an imminent pos
Sibility.
Poland Has Ace In Hole
The drive involved obtaining
declarations opposing further
German aggression, and threaten
ing economic and military action
against the Reich in case she
again stepped off the reserva-
ton, from France, the Soviet
Union, Poland, Rumania, and a
number of lesser powers. France
agreed eagerly-never in her
long history has she been in so
dangerous a position as today,
with enemies facing her on three
t fronts. But with France, en-
thuslastlc cooperation came to an
end. The SOvietS were Interest,"
ed, but were distinctly distant
Stain makes no bones of the fact
that he regards MIR. Chamberlain
IN particular, and British foreign
policy in general, with extreme
doubt as TO its basic motives.
Poland, key nation if the agree
ment were TO be worth the paper
1t was to be written on, said No.
The Polish foreign minister, Josef
Beck, has been called. rightly or
wrongly, the most astute and
most INSCRIPTIONS foreign minis
ter in Europe, and he is fairly
well satisfied to let Britain and
France sweat. His ace in the
hole Is a nOn-aggression pact with
. Germany whose expiration date
IS 1914, and he apparently be-
lieveS it IS to Hitler'S interest to
keep his word to the letter in Po-
lands case.
Rumania In Ticklish Position
RtIInania was in the difficult
position CT wanting to say Yes.
and not being able to. For King
Carols rich, little kingdom is to-
day in the most precariouS posi-
ton of any European power. If
he threw in his lot whole hog,
with Britain and France, there is
definite danger that Germany
would attack-and Carol seems to
be somewhat dubious as to
whether his proposed allies, put
to the acid test, would do any
more for him than they did for
dissolved CZechoslovakia. And
there is always the chance, he
feels. that if he plays ball with
Hitler, his country will maints in
at least a nominal independence.
Carol is playing ball with Hit
Ter, and with vengeance, as the
terms of the new German u-
manian economic treaty, disclos-
ed IN synopsis form on March Is,
attest As an AP dispatch phrases
it, Germany viii soon have her
fingers SO deep IN Rumanla's eco
nOmic and industrial life that the
influence of other nations there
will become negligible. The
treaty gives the Reich virtually
free access to Rumania's agricuI-
tural, oil, metal and timber re-
Sources-all of which she needs.
And the contamination of this
immensely important treaty
brings up the question of Ger
man-RuSsian relations again.
Peace With Russia?
1t has been widely believed
that Hitler desired Soviet Ukraine
above all else. But, with the
grasp he now has on Rumanian
raw materials, the experts are
coming to the opinion that he
win not find the Ukraine neces-
sary. And that may mean that he
viii at last seek peace with Rus
sia- This might take the terms
of non-aggression pact, such as
he has with Poland And If that