The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-14

free hand in central Europe by Great Britain and France, which kept hands of of Hitler's sudden move to force full cooperation" by the Prague regime. His general theory appeared to be based on the old Roman slogan of divide and rule" and was apparently due to Prague's resistance of various Nazi demands in recent months.
 The declaration of an independ- ent Slovakia cut the Czech states of Bohemia and Moravia off from the easternmost tip of the republic --Carpatho- -Ukraine-and made it inevitable that that state would either become independent or fall to Hungary. Slovakia is the center section of the long sausage-like combination that made up the post war Republic of Czechslovakia.
 Specific Details
 Information in Slovak sources concerning impending Germ a n troop movements purported to give specific details.
 The informant asserted that Ger man troops were expected to occupy Brno, center of the Czechoslovak arms industry, and Iglau, both Ger man Language islands, in Czecho- slovak territory, and that the same course probably would be followed as regards Pilsen and Maehrisch- Ostrau.
 It was reported from Vienna that German troops probably would hove into Czechoslovakia along the Vi- enna- -Breslau line, already ceded to Germany by Czechoslovakia for an express highway connecting Austria and Germany through Czechslovak territory. This would mean driving a corridor between Czech and Slo- yak areas.
 The United Press Vienna bureau reported that an unusually large number of German military air. planes had been flying over and near Vienna since dawn.
 This information came after re- ports from Vienna that Germany had moved large numbers of gen. darmes and police to the Czech and Slovak frontiers and that all regu- lar troop garrisons had been at full strength for weeks.
 Hitler Is Determined
 It was evident from all reports that Adolf Hitler was determined on final solution of the "Czecho- slovak problem"
 He was awaiting at his chancel- lery here an expected declaration of independence by the Slovak parlia- ment, which had been summoned at his suggestion in emergency ses- sion.
 A United Press Vienna dispatch said gendarmes and police, crack militarized units of well trained men, began to move up to the Czech and Slovak frontiers last night to reinforce frontier guards.
 The Slovak source supplemented this by his report that German troops, under an apparently ar ranged plan, would move directly into Czech territory to preserve or- der"
 Brno, the center of the Czech arms industry, and Iglau, in south ern Czechos1ovakia, have large Ger man minoritieS, and Nazi newSpa- perS today charged Czech "atroci- CieS" against these Germans.
 Brno lies directly along the line of march between Vienna and Bres- lau which the German armies would have taken in September, but for the Munich conference, to cut of Bohemia and Moravia, the Czech areas from Slovakia.
 Germans May Go This Route
 Some sources reported today that German troops would take this route today, to establish a corridor between Bohemia on the west, and Moravia, Slovakia and Carpatho- Ukrainia on the east. Thus Czechs would be isolated from others in the state. It was said in three reports that Germany would explain its ac- tion as necessary to prevent con- stant border incidents between Czechs and Slovaks.
 PilSen is in western Czechoslova- kia and Maehrisch- -Ostrau is at the northeastern corner.
 Well informed sources said troop movements so far were on an ex- ceedingly small scale. But it was added that German frontier garri- sson ringing Bohemia and Moravia from the tip of Silesia to the south ern side opposite Vienna, were nor mally at such strength that no re- Inducements were needed for an op- eration such as was anticipated. There was little expectation of re- sistance by Czech troops.
 G0ering On Hand
 Field Marshal Hermann Goering, Hitler's right hand man, was speed ing across Austria and Germany in a special train to Berlin and was here during the afternoon. He had been recalled urgently from a vacation at San Reno, Italy.
 Vienna reports said that 5000 German refugees from Brns, Czecho- slovakia, ware expected at the frontier this afternoon and that the Ax@ A4<xa