The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-05
ALLEGED MAP OF
 EUROPE ANCERS

gone up in the world if during Welles's visito to Berlin we had pho- tographed him with a map showing London separated from the rest ot England, the west coast of England given to Ireland, huge German indentation into France and Bur- gundy hacked to pieces!"
 The NaZiS charged that the map published here was Reynauds idea of the frontiers the Allies would impose after the war.
 "Reynaud confirms wish: Com plete dismemberment of the Reich,' headlined the Voelkischer Beobach- ter, organ of the Nazi party.
 "This is how the Reich would be hacked up: Land robbery against Italy and Russia" was the Loka- lanZeiger headline.
 "The German sword will do away with these plan makers and estab- fish basis for a Europe which will look considerably different from the hopeful picture of Reynaud and his British masters" said the Boer- sen-zeitung editorially.
 Newspapermen See It
 Paris, April 5-CUP) Premier Paul Reynaud today opened his of- flee to neWspapermen for study of the now famous map which Nazis charged illustrated Allied plans for redraWing Europe'S frontiers.
 The map-the same one it was as- serted, which was photographed with Reynaud and Sumner Welles sitting in front of it (CO)-Ap- peared to me to be an ordinary map of Europe, dated 1919, on which were Reynaud's hand drawn lines in red ink showing the German ab- sorption of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Memel.
 There were no lines visible that would show any plans for rear ranging the frontiers of Europe on the map seen by newspapermen or for supporting charges made in Berlin that it indicated plans for giving generous slices of other na- tions territory to friends of the AL lied powers.
 Using yellow crayon, Reynaud had blocked off the gains by Rus sia in Finland, Poland and the Bal tic states.
 No Alterations
 Except for the German and Rus sian gains, there were no altera- tions on the map. Reynaud has long warned that German expan- sion was a threat to France and has kept regular record on the map of the Nazi territorial gains.
 There was no change in the front iers of Italy, France, Scandinavia or the Balkan states. The map was edited and published originally by the army geographical service. It did not correspond to the re- touched map-deScribed by officials as a crude job-which appeared in the magazine illustration, with Rev. maud and Welles seated before it. The magazine map was colored, whereas the map in Reynaud's of- flee is grey.
 The margin of Reynaud's map contained cryptic trade figures which the premier had jotted down.
 The map is five feet by four feet and stands on an easel. Foreign office officials prohibited photo from taking pictures of it, asserting that they did not want to make the same spectacle that was made in Berlin" by Nazi pro- paganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.
 Paul Robinet, a member of Rey- nauds staff, had previously said that a retoucher with little knowl- edge of Europe was responsible for German and Italian anger over the map as it appeared in illustration.
 As photographed in Reynaud's fi- nance ministry office before he be- came premier, Robinet said, the map was an ordinary one of Europe before Germany seized Incidentally, he said, the map was photographed in black and white, not in color, and hence Ger many and Russia showed up in the same tone with no frontier between them.
 Some retoucher inaccurately in- serted Is frontier lines for all of Europe, Robinet said, making Ger many appear to have absorbed Dem mark and Luxembourg, moving the Adriatic Sea inland almost as far as the Brenner pass and giving Aus tria sea front on the Adriatic.
 Fantastic Nonsense
 Washington, April 5-(UP)-Un- dersecretary of State Sumner WelleS last night described as fantastic nonsense" reports that French Premier Paul Reynaud had traced on map for him the secret, post war aims of the Allies.
 The reports came from Berlin