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Show Germany Rejoices Over Diplomatic Victory of Hitler By JOE ALEX MORRIS Copyright 1938 by United Press Europe surrendered to Adolf Hitler today the key to Nazi dominance of central Europe. The Czechoslovak cabinet, acknowledging the "irresistable pressure' of Great Britain and France, announced that it agreed "with pain" to give Germany the rich Sudeten mountain district as the price of holding off Nazi .troops, massed across, the border. Whether the Czech army or populace, pop-ulace, swept by mounting patriotic patri-otic fervor, might object remained' uncertain. Germany risen from the ashes of the World war rejoiced. Czechoslovakia shuddered under un-der the danger, of army rebellion. France uncertainly watched collapse col-lapse of 20 years work of postwar post-war security alliances. "Selling Out" Soviet Russia thundered that the Democracies were setting out to "sable ratlers" today only to make certain a great war tomorrow. tomor-row. Italy backed up the. increasingly increasing-ly vigorous demands of Hungary and Poland for further dismem-I dismem-I bermenf. of Czechoslovakia. But Great Britain, certain that she is choosing the only alternative alterna-tive for a war that would destroy Europe, will send Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to the Rhine-land Rhine-land town of Godesberg the hill of the gods tomorrow to make Hitler the most powerful man in many generations of continental war and peace. The crisis over the Sudeten minority in Czechoslovakia admittedly ad-mittedly is a turning point in Europe's post-war history. The fate of the Sudetens themselves is incidental. The significance of the conflict lies in its bearing on Hitler's ::Drang Nach Osten" the famous march to the east by which he expects to re-establish the Reich as a great, if not the greatest, world power. |