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Analysed

The Strategic Aim Of

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LONDON, Apr. 26 (Reuter). -In Stockholm, the "Dagens Nyheter" points out that the German attack on Norway was aimed at strategic bases against England and had even a greater political significance; for it was expected that a German success in Norway would influence the policy of the non-belligerents.

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Now the German press in cam-

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Hitler "The air force, on which pinned his faith, has failed to win Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, the mastery or to prevent an Allled 3rd MAY, 1940 at 11.00 a.m., for the British the purpose of receiving landing. On the contrary, aircraft are conducting offensive as Report of the Directora and the -strong-as-it-was-believed.

Statements of Account-to-aist- Another serious blow is that the Germans are deprived of iron ore, December, 1939, and of declaring the securing of which Was the Dividend, etc. mative of the action in Scandinavia." Ship la Sinking

The "Gothenburg Nytid" зауб that proof that the ship is sinking in Norway is shown by the fact that Quisling men are leaving for Sweden where they hope to be interned.

Budapest papers note the signi- | Beance of the Soviet press giving the same prominence to Allled reports which they now publish exhaustively. American press editorials, discuss-

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ing the general strategy in Norway, THE INDO-CHINA STEAM

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SIR NEVILE HENDERSON

INSTALMENT➡ 6

It was two years ago last month that. Hitler ordered his troops to march into Austria.

Sir Nevile, who was Britain's Ambassador in Berlin until the outbreak of war, to-day reveals for the first time the tense drama that was taking place behind the scenes while Europe stood aghast at the invasion.

He told yesterday how Hitler, hurt and angered by the "distasteful" marriage of his friend Blomberg, felt the "necessity to obliterate its memory by some striking external success."?

It was the turn of Austria.

BACKSTAGE

DRAMA of the

January, 1938, I had

I warned His Majesty's Gov

ernment that Hitler was con- templating some immediate action about Austria,

The 1936 Agreement be- tween Austria and Germany had never been honestly im- plemented on either side.

Nazi propaganda had never censed in Austria, and there were consequently between thirty and forty thousand Austrian Nazis still living in Germany to whom, in view of that propaganda, the Austrian

AUSTRIAN

INVASION

the best manner of solving the Austrian problem.

Government naturally refused What Mussolini

permission to return to their homes.

But there is no doubt that the vón actual

to Herr summons Schuschnigg, the Austrian Chan- cellor, to go to Berchtesgaden on February 12 was part of the which Hitler camouflage under sought to conceal the shock and the deceptions which the Blomberg marriage had caused him.

He was consequently in a far from equable or conciliatory frame of mind, and Herr von Schusch- nigg, according to his own account, was threatened and browbeaten, and under menaces accepted an hc thor- arrangement of which oughly disapproved,

It required the consent of the Govern- Austrian President and ment at Vienna, but this was ob- tained on February 10, and Herr von Schuschnigg made the second of his mistakes his first being to ко Berchtesgaden at all--by re-

to maining in office after an 'accept- ance the effect of which he always intended, us far as possible, to alienate.

Hitler Rages Again

acceptance The news of the reached Berlin in the course of the banquet which the Reich Chan- cellor gives annually to the Diplo- matic Corps.

It gave occasion to the only dispute which I ever had with Baron von Neurath, who, in front of a number of other Ger- man Ministers, vehemently se cused Ills Majesty's Government of having actively encouraged the Austrian Government to re- pudiate the arrangement. .. Equally hotly I denied 1.

It is quite possible that Neurath was genuinely disappointed at the unconcealed British attitude of feared he that, if the ultimate result of which no German ever doubled could not be obtained by subter- rancan propaganda and intrigue, the end would be forcible action with incalculable complications.

disapproval, because The Transfer Books of the Com- They were attended by Lieut.pany will be closed from the 23rd General Tada, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese forces in North China, May to 13th June inclusivo. Vice-Admiral Nankumo

Nomura, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Fleet in North Chino waters, other high Japanese officials and members of the North China Political Affairs Commission.

Wants To Be Allies Mr. Kensuke Sujif; Counsellor of the Japanese. Embassy at Peiping, st the celebration this morning stated that the Chungking Government was now reduced to a purely local ad- ministration, but "the road before us is none too smooth."...

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Enemy Currency

Regulation

According to a new order made under the Trading With the Enemy Ordinance, my money required to be Admiral Nomura stated that it was paid to the Custodian under the pro- Ordinance shall be "Impossible for China and Japan to visions of the

go on fighting each other-we should offered to the Hongkong Government be uliles."

for

nale.

The "Gazette" notification states The King's Exequatur empowering that should such foreign currency be Mr. R. W. Rinden to act as Vice- unobtainable, the sale is to be made Consul of the United States of in Hongkong dollars at the official America at Hongkong has received rate of exchange quoted by the Hong- His Majesty's signature.

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Hitler himself might also have preferred not to use force, and his original plan was gradually to undermine Schuschnigg's position, to procure his overthrow, and to secure his alms comparatively peacefully and less objectionably by means of a pro-Nazi Austrian Government.

evident It was, however, soon that Schuschnigg, who was at heart a loyal servant of the Hops- burgs, had no intention of lending himself to such a manoeuvre and the realisation of this fact caused Hitler his second ft of uncontrol- lable rage of the

Year.

He was auffering from this state of violent excitement and resent- ment when (as mentioned on Sat- urday) I visited him on March 3.

In the event it was Herr von Schurchnigg who, by his third and final mistake, seitled any doubl which Hitler may have had" as to

said

•

On the night of March the Austrion Chancellor suddenly on- nounced to the world by radio that he proposed to hold a plebl- selfe in Austria on the following to Sunday, March 13, to vole ns whether the country wished to re- muin

independent or to be in-

Germany. corporated in

lists had been As no voting its drawn up for several years, only persons over the age of twenty- four would be entitled to voto.

Leipzig and obtained abundant---

opera. evidence that milliary

tlons were afoot, but it was not imtli 6 pm. that the War Minis- try admitted to the Assistant Military Altache that Colonel Mason-Macfarlane had been mis- led in the morning.

Herr von Ribbentrop was at the time in London, whither he had proceeded to present his lettera of recall-another fairly evident proof of the unpremeditated moment of the "rope."

As Minister for Foreign Affairs he would never have absented

ot from Berlin

that himself moment it he could have foreseen it, and he, in fact, endeavoured to return immediately but was told to remain where he wns.

Indeed, the big question which all Germans asked themselves was, "What will England do?"

It to England, however, left words to entry conviction, as Hit-

It was the throw of a desperate gumbler, and it falled. Schusch- nigg's decision was taken without prior consultation, either with his Cabinet as a whole, or with Musler on-March-10 had doubtless fore- solini, who alone was possibly in a

seen.

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One of the Conquerors of Austria. When the Nazis and German army are in control, Goering drives through the streets of Vienna in triumphs.

position, as he had been in 1934, militarlly to support the Austrian Government.

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The Duce's only reply, when he was eventually informed of it, was to the effect that such a proposal bomb which would

Burely in Schuschnigg's own hand burst

The newn of the proposed plebl- scite reached Berlin at midnight on March 9. It afforded Hiller, that master of opportuniam, Just the subterfuge which he was seek. Ing

On the following day he sum-

and advisers

his moned his generals, and late that afternoon took the decision to cut the Gor- dian knot with the sword, and to occupy Austria by force.

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He justified his decision on the

essential ground that it was prevent a plebiscite which, accord- to him and he was undoubt- ing edly correct, for German prepa- ganda would have ensured that he should be would merely lead to bloodshed and the loss of German Ilves.

tho News that troops were on move against Austria renched me in the early morning of Friday, March 11, at once naked the Military Attache. to H.M. Embassy to go round to the Ministry of War 10 ascertain the facts. Colone! Mason-Macfarlano received the unawer that there was no informa-" tion to give, and that no troop movements were taking place.

He Immediately 'motored”; to'

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Nor, Indeed, were His Majesty's Government in a position to have

.

Saturday, APRIL 27, 1940.

"Schuschnigg's Anal mistake”-his radio announcement to the world. that he would hold a plebiscite on Austria's future.

had not yet arrived and was known

to

be attending a full meeting with Hitler.

The

Cabinet

situation was being anxiouя-

ly discussed on all sides, and it was quite obvious that every Ger- man present was wondering what

happening.

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When Mr. Kirkpatrick gate- crashed, with n telegram instruc- ting me

immediate to make an

to communication

Baron von Neurath, one could have heard pin drop in the great hall while 2,000 eyes watched me reading it. Soon, Goering himself appeared, and after shaking hands with a few guests, sat down at the central table, and the music began and was followed by a ballet.

Goering's Note: 'I will explain'

It was one of the mest pain.

at which ful performances have ever been present.

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Every diplomatist and a great number of the Germans them- selves Vero conscious of the tragedy of music and dance, at a moment when all that had been left in 1919 of the old Austrian and Hapsburg Empire was crash- ing to final extinction.

I had myself shaken hands with He Goering very curtly and coldly. was obviously nervous and tuken aback, and, as soon as we had sat down, he tore off the blank half of his programme, wrote en it in pencil, "Ar 1oon as the music is

should over 1

like to

talk to you, and will explain everything to you," and handed it to me across the American Ambassador's wife. The last five words were under- lined thrice, and in fact, as soon as the performance came to an end, he got up hurriedly and waited for mo outside

After a suitable interval I fol- lowed him, and for the next three- quarters of an hour the Field Mar- shal's guests were left wondering what was happening.

The Field Marshal's promised ex- planation consisted in a diatribe against Schuschnigg's lack of good impossibility of any faith, and the other course being taken.

Our conversation, which took place in Goering's private room in the building was an unpleasant one, but the only point that mat tered was that the German troops and acroplanes were already cross- ing the frontier.

Nothing, in fact, could have saved Austrin, or even have res lored her to independent existence, except to a resort by the Western Powers to a war in which probably the greater part of the Austrian youth would have been found on Germany's side.

I Boycott

saved Austria by their actions a

The case against Hitler was not yet a cast-iron one.

Austria was Germany and many Austrians were whole-heartedly in favour of union with the Reich, The love of the British public for Peace was too great for it to ap- prove of a war in respect of which the moral issue was in any possible doubt,

I saw Neurath in the course of Iwo and made him. the day

communications, strongly-worded but verbal protests without the resolute intention to use force if they were disregarded were not going to stop the German troops who were already on the march.

After the reoccupation of the of Rhineland in 1936 the policy hostle words which could not be. by hostile action Implemented

out of date and ineffective, WOR and merely left behind it feelings of bitter resentment.

As it happened, doering had arranged to give a big reception the to some thousand guests on night of March 11 at the "Haus. der Flieger," followed by a per- formance by his State Opera Com- pany.

As it afforded me my only oppor- tunity to see the Field Marshal, 1: reluctantly decided to attend it,

The party began, nt 19 o'clock and when i got there the air was electric, though the Field Marshal

Ceremony

After fighting Schuschning's bat- tle for him to the bitter end, I fin- ally said to Goering that "even supposing the Austrian Chancellor has been unwise, that is no excuse for Germany to be a bully,"

I also took occasion strongly to urge the Field Marshal to do his utmost to see that the anti-Nazl treated with the Austrians wore decency which their loyalty to their country merited.

Had Goering been left to his own devices in Austria, believe that

he would have done his best to carry out such a policy,

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As it was, the embittered Aus trian Nazis, backed up by Him mler's secret police and S.S., very soon undid that which Goering at- tempted to do during his brief visit

Vieana after the occupation. My last remark to Goering 45 we returned to the great hall wa that, if he did not wish that Herr Hitler should read what Delilah public option would think of his had better· Kirango actions, he

· that the English newspapers should not be shown to him for a fortnight,

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I gave the same advice to. Dr. Meissner, the head of the secre tariat of the Reichschancery. It was not drat dwlahed to spare Hitler's feelings, but because I was "consclots of his habit to make those

who lay in his power-in this case the Austrlan anti-Nazis 2by for the resentment provoked by those who were fortunate enough to live outside his jurisdiction.

There was for me one last com- mentary on the proceedings before the act was finally over.

March 13 was the German Hel- the denston, or anniversary for dend of the Great War. In view of what was happening I declined to attend the ceremony, at which all the Heads of Missions were wont

to be present.

Instead, I proceeded to pay o visit to the Austrian Minister.

It was a form of demonstration on my part, and I went there in my motor-car with its large British. flag flying at the bonnet.

I found the Austrian Minister In full uniform, and on the point of

himself, to the Heldensta going ceremony. I heard afterwards that he had given there the Nazi salute and cried Hell Hitler with the others.

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