The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-03
HITLER RESTATES
CERMANY'S HOPES
Continued From Page One)

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tary of state lunched with DR..
Hjalmar Schacht, formerly minis
ter of economics and president of
the Reichsbank; met the American
colony at the home of American
Charge d'Affaires Alexander Kirk
dined with Baron Ernst Won Weiz-
saecker, state secretary in the for.
eign office; and rounded out the
day by listening to Mozart's "Figa-
ro," at the State Opera house.
May See Goering
Tomorrow he is expected to see
Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm
Goering, who just has returned
from the front, and possibly will
confer with Rudolf Hess, deputy
Nazi party leader.
1t was understood he would leave
shortly after Z p. m. Il p. m.
EST) tomorrow for Paris and Lon
don by way of Switzerland.
Persons who know the fuehrer's
mind gave this picture of his talk
with Welles:
Hitler has an international repu-
tation for adapting himself to the
psychology of the person to whom
he is speaking, yet aggressively de-
Tending the German position.
Welles' visit was no exception.
Just as the United States, as
the largest and most powerful ma
ton of the western hemisphere,
America so far as interference from
European or Asiatic powers is con-
cerned, Germany-so Hitler's argu-
ment is said to have run-consid-
ers it her moral obligation to see
to it that her central European
living space be guaranteed once
and for all from ever-recurring in.
reference by Great Britain and
France.
With American illustrations eve
handy, Hitler is said to have asked
Welles what the United States
would do if some Asiatic Or Euro
pean power tried to stir up trouble
in Mexico.
Whether Welles answered was
not disclosed nor was there any
indication to what extent he felt
himself authorized to answer any
rhetorical questions.
Stay Out of Balkans
In other words, Hitler demanded
permanent German hegemony over
Observation-Disclosures, Slovakia, POLAND
and Hungary-with a joint popula'
ton of about 10000, OO0-and guar
antees that Great Britain anc
France would not stir up Balkan
or Scandinavian countries.
But that was only one, although
an important, phase OF the IN
formation given Welles, informed
sources said.
Equally important was his lnsls
tence on freedom of the seas.
Here,-as, indeed, on numerous
noints-Hitler is believed to have
invoked the fourteen points O.
Woodrow Wilson and
their fulfillment as a CONDITION u
an orderly governed postwar Worlu
It is the fuehrer's thesis that the
seas never can be considered fret
so long as Britain has mllltar9
control of all the important traoe
lanes in Europe and Asia n cal
at any time choke off young as
piring nations such as Fascist Italy
,pd Nazi erman
In this connection. he IS alo y
have put another poser to Welles
"How would the United states IN
it if some non-American power na'
control of the Panama canal!
Disarmament Talked
This discussion naturally led u
the question of disarmament, Whlcl
Germany knows is especially oea
to President Roosevelt, Cordell huil
limited States secretary OF state
and the American people.
The fuehrer's viewpoint was ie
ported reliably to be that II Is pu.
ting the cart before the morse !
one constantly talks about reuoe