Evening star., 1939-05-02
Nazi Officials Discuss
SIovakia's Future
With Hungarians
Further Concessions
To Cement Axis Link
Hinted in Berlin
By LOUIS P. LOCHNER.

BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER.
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
BERLIN, May 2.-Nazi officials
said today that Slovakia was dis
cussed, among other matters, during
a three-day state visit of two Hun
garian officials, Premier Count Paul
Teleky and Foreign Minister Count
Stephen Csaky. The Hungarians
left Berlin today.
Government authorities refused to
commit themselves beyond the state
ment that naturally, Slovakia was
talked about, too," and what agree
ments, if any, were made to bring
nominally independent Slovakla
more closely into line with Hungary
probably will remain secret for some
time.
Hungary has coveted Slovakia,
now under German protection, fol-
lowing the breakup last November
of Czecho- -Slovakia, and Informed
quarters discussed the possibility
that Hungary might get more OF
it in return for closer cooperation
with Germany.
On April Hungary and Slovakla
signed a protocol fixing their new
frontier, with Hungary getting title
to most of the Slovak territory
which Hungarian troops occupied IN
frontier warfare March 1925, and
some additional areas for total OF
about 1856 square miles and a popula-
ton of $4,000.
ExnulSion Order Attacked,
AS a sequel to the Munich confer
ence, Hungary received 4,593 square
miles, with population of approx
mately 1035,272, mostly from Slo-
vakia. A small part of the area lay
in Carpatho- Ukraine, the eastern
most section of former Czecho-
Slovakia.
Chancellor Hitler's newspaper,
Voelkischer Beobachter, meanwhile
promised an answer for what it
called the shabby" treatment OF
nine Germans ordered expelled
from Great Britain; Warsaw press
demands for Polish protectorate
over the Free City of Danzig aroused
interest here; and Hitler left for his
mountain home near Berchtesgaden.
officials said the Fuehrer had no
engagements at present with foreign
statesmen, and that he would calmly
await further developments at his
Alpine retreat.
In his Reichstag address last Fri
day, Hitler said that he had sug-
gested to the Polish government
that Poland, with Hungary and
Germany, guarantee the independ-
ence of Slovakia. With this offer
rejected, political circles believed
that Germany could give Hungary
more attractive terms regarding Slo-
vakia along economic lines If no
other.
Beck Speech Awaited.
The impression was given by for
eign office spokesmen that some OF
the questions between Hungary and
Germany were left open until after
Col. Joseph Beck, Polish Foreign
Minister, has delivered his eagerly
awaited speech on foreign policy be-
fore the Sejm (parliament) in War
saw on Friday. =.
1--WE have had our say-:t Is up to
the other powers to make the next
move" one spokesman said.
The German government, he
added, knew nothing regarding pos
sible counter proposals by Col. Beck
regarding Danzig, foreshadowed yes
terday by Count jerry Potocki,
Polish Ambassador to Washington.
In New York Count Potocki
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Poland a 25-year guarantee OF
her borders and Slovak inde-
pendence in return for German
sovereignty over Danzig and
German highway across the
Polish Corridor to East Prussia.
The envoy said the German de-
mands were inspired by de-
sire to rob Poland of her eco
nomic and political independence
and that Poland would never
yield to them)
Hans Won Moltke, German Am
bassador to Poland, was not given
any message to the Polish govern
fnent before Col Beck's coming
speech, it was said authoritatively.
Friendship Advanced.
That Hungarian-G German friend
ship was advanced still further dur
ing the visit of Counts Teleky and
Csaky was indicated by the fact
that the two statesmen were guests
of Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick
and Mrs. Frick in Berlin. Ordinarily
interior ministers do not entertain
tot &c
ments.
Frick, however, is charged with
looking after groups of German
born persons in foreign countries
who have become citizens of the
lands of their adoption, but who keep
up cultural ties with the Reich.
One "Volksgruppe" group of people)
hitherto not officially recognized by
its government was that of the Ger
mans in Hungary.