The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-11

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 Previously all British army leave in Egypt, opposite Italian Libya. had been cancelled and Malta's anti-aircraft defenses had been manned.
 Indicative of the nervousness all over Europe, the Netherlands today called up several battalions of troops to reinforce garrisons on the Ger man frontier, after successive pre- cautionary measures during the week end presumably due to rumors of German troop movements.
 It appeared that Prime Minister Chamberlain had two days in which to decide his course, before the emergency meeting of the house of commons which he summoned back from it's Easter holiday.
 Chamberlain postponed Wednes- days cabinet meeting until Thurs day, a few hours before the opening of parliament, so that he would have as much time as possible to work for some sort of arrangement WAbAA ANAdSooOlnA.
 Chamberlain To Report
 It was understood that Chamber lain would report to the cabinet, and then to the house of commons:
 1.-The future of the British-Ital- ian friendship agreement.
 &The prospects of an early large scale withdrawal of Italian troops from Spain.
 3The nature of guarantees to Greece and Turkey.
 What new naval dispositions were necessary in the Mediterran- can to meet the situation caused by Italy's occupation of Albania.
 Some Members Favor
 Some members of the cabinet fa- vored announcement of the Greek and Turkish alliances despite any negotiations with Mussolini. They were said to favor also denunciation of the friendship agreement with Italy, provided negotiations failed
 It appeared that Chamberlain was again taking his own course in seeking an agreement with Mussolini at the moment when the British fleet was obviously ready for action He seemed to feel that if it proved impossible to make any arrange ment he would have lost nothing and that if he succeeded in linking up troop withdrawal from Spain with Adriatic assurances he would have accomplished a great real.
 Disturbing reports regarding Spain continued to circulate, prin- cipally in Paris-that more Italian troops had arrived; that Mussolini and Adolf Hitler had no inten- tion of withdrawing their troops and that the Spanish nationalists might even enter some sort of mili- tary alliance with the axis powers.
 Lord Halifax, Chamberlain and the heads of the British forces were in almost constant consultation Earl Stanhope, first lord of the admiralty, Admiral Lord Chatfield minister for coordination of de- fense; Leslie Hore-Belisha, war sec- retary; Sir Kingsley Wood, air minister; and others conferred du- ing the afternoon.
 Although the British French na- val precautions but teeth into Brit aims decision to give guarantees to Turkey and Greece if necessary, some opposition sources expressed fear that further attempts to deal with Mussolini would merely give the Italian premier time tO make another lightning move against the Balkans. Persistent reports, including those from British and French in- telligence services, have been that Italy envisages a thrust through Greece at Salonika.
 The Manchester Guardian diplo- matic correspondent also reported that Germany and Italy had agreed on the partitioning of Jugoslavia, with the Nazi to take over the Cro- atian area and Italy to dominate the Dalmatian coast.