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fand the Slovakian secession was engineered to the accompaniment of German army mobilisations on the Austrian border of Bohemia and Moravia. Following a German ultimatum to Prague demanding dismissal from the Ministry of the Prime Minister and General Sirovy, Minister for Defence, the Prague Government has resign- H.K.$ 9.00ed, and yesterday German troops
·H,K.$18.00 were reported to have marched H.K.$36.00 into Vyskytna and were expected Postage Abroad Extra to occupy Brno (Brunn) and other Moravian towns, thus surround- ing Czech Bohemia entirely. The Hong Kong, Saturday, April 29, 1939. "Munich settlement" has liquidat
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ed nothing but itself, and Herr Hitler seems resolved to fulfil his MIRROR OF OPINION "guarantee" of the post-Munich
Czech State by swallowing it. One. Those who had expected the more of the Fuhrer's pledges is line to be formed at the bastion thus dishonoured, and one more of Bohemia counted too much on instance offered to the Western British interest in Central Powers that agreements with Europe. Those who, after Munich, Nazi Germany are writ in water. expected the British line to be "Sydney Morning Herald". drawn only where British im perial interests were immediate- comes a threat to Britain itself.
When he turned to consider re- One clue. to British willingness cent events in Central Europe to stand by Poland is the need of Mussolini was cautious but by the Anglo-French combination to no means uncritical. What hap-
put checks east of Germany. A pened in Czechó Slovakia was Germany with a free hand in the fated to happen," as a year ago east has begun to mean an Italy he observed of the Austrian with too strong a hand in the Anschluss that "when an event west and the Mediterranean. The is inevitable it is better that it forming of a European bloc to should be done with your assent. stop the German drive has been rather than in spite of you or, an almost elusively delicate task worse still, against you." Italy Were that bloc to consist of Bri-would not join in the tears of the tain, France and Russia without democracies however more or less Poland, this close neighbour of becoming they may
seem," not Germany might be drawn toward because Germany's action was the Rome-Berlin axis.
above reproach but because "no- Certainly German pressure on body has the right to throw the Poland would increase because of first stone." (This was honest). Germany's need to balance the In any case, Mussolini declared, forces being arrayed against its in a passage which might almost expansion. If a maximum of re-be interpreted as containing ad- sistance is to be developed, Po-vice to other countries now land becomes a necessary partner threatened by Germany, "if a of Britain and France. But Po-people which has immense" re- land's commitments cannot in-sources in man-power and armedi clude Russia without inviting arsenals is incapable of making trouble with Germany. Before gesture, that shows it is ripe obtaining Polish support Britain for its new destiny." With the must make Poland feel safe in exception of the inevitable affirma- giving that support. Thus the tion of the Axis there was only building of the bloc has centred one other passage which might be around a country which is day taken as a reference, and even by day in increasing danger from warning, to Germany. We may Germany.
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The development of the British The Mediterranean is a vital attitude from one of "hands off" space for Italy, and when we say eastern Europe to one of deter-Mediterranean we include natur- mination to modify events thereally also that gulf which is call- is, a manifestation of two British ed the Adriatic and in which the characteristics which have betterests of Italy are pre-eminent come historic in their relation but not exclusive where the with Continental Europe. One is Slavs are concerned. the psychological response which Does that mean that while Italy blatant exercise of force against is ready to share the Adriatic: helpless peoples usually creates with Yugo Slavia she is not ready among the British people as a to share it with Germany, whose whole. The other is a gift for drive to the south-east now sensing at what point of aggran-threatens Yugo-Slavia and even dizement a Continental Power be Trieste? Is that another of those. comes a threat to Britain itself. signs which are now being put up Many will say that this talent all over Europe: Stop Major has come tardily to British re Road Ahead? If so, it suggests. scue Others will note that it has that although the Axis, in Mus-- come earlier than in the years solini's words, cannot be unhing- immediately before the World ed or bent, it might one day be. War The Third Reich has not broken if Germany leant too hea yet become a naval threat to vily upon it."Manchester Guar-·
dian" Britain, nor a colonial competi
tor. But the impact of Germany's
annexation of Slavic Bohemia At the moment the position is and Moravia, the swiftness of dis difficult for Musso, for what push to Memel, and its symp says does not "go," and is fre tomatic imitation with Poland quently contradicted by his Tue- evidently have been read in Lon-Ihrer g
on as hand-writing on the wall which need not--and must not r await the coming of a Danial to decipher.Christian Scienc
were
itor.
These revealing manoeuvres ccompanied by frenzied Press declamations #the bloodthirsty Czechs
German
roared it was to
“plebiscites".