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Show Hftler Sets Colonies Balkan Control As Price for Peace Fuehrer Tells Sumner Welles Nazis Will Fight Until England Loosens Stranglehold On Sealanes; Wants Friendship of America BERLINlMarchJXAPl , Germany will fight until Britain Brit-ain and France recognize a "German Monroe doctrine for central Europe" and restore her war-lostcoloniesJhiijrM -de?, scribed by sources who know Adolf Hitler's mind as the burden bur-den of the message he delivered deliv-ered today to President Roose- velt'i a miliary,,,. Snmnar Welles. Another point in the message given by the fuehrer to the American undersecretary of state in their 94-minute conference con-ference in the chancellery was understood to be that England must renounce "her stranglehold strangle-hold control" of the strategic lanes to the world's raw materials. mate-rials. Germany's price of peace, according ac-cording to this version of Hitler's declaration, includes permanent German hegemony political dominationover domi-nationover Bohemia Moravia, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, making the relch a solid bloc of about 130,000,000 population. Demands Guarantees Furthermore, It was said, he wanted guarantees that Britain and France would not stir up the Balkans or Scandinavia. Hitler was said to have argued futher that disarmament must begin be-gin by England relinquishing military mili-tary control of Gibraltar, the Sues canal and other strategic points held in the midst of non-British territories. Improvement of German-American relations also was declared to be moat desirable, according to this version of Hitler's talk, but to be impossible so long as Washington declines to. name an ambassador for the now-vacant post In the Berlin Ber-lin embassy. Welles, accompanied by Alexander Alexan-der C Kirk, United States charge d'affaires, both in formal morning clothes, entered Hitler's chancellery chancel-lery at 10:53 a. m. Welle Receives Honor A company of honor saluted Welles, which nazls said was sn unusual honor for one not a state visitor. At 11 a. m. the Americans Ameri-cans began their meeting with the nazi chieftain, who was supported by. Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Authorized German sources expressed ex-pressed satisfaction over the meeting, meet-ing, saying it was conducted In a friendly spirit throughout and gave the fuehrer an opportunity to restate Germany's cause. Informed persons said the uncompromising, un-compromising, aggressive fuehrer, with American Illustrations ever at hand, asked Welles what the United SUtes would do if, say, some Asiatic or European power tried to stir up trouble in Mexico. It waa not disclosed whether Welles replied. Hitler's thesis was said to be that the seas never can be considered con-sidered free as long as Britain has military control of all the lm-' lm-' (coatinuod m Ft Two) I Column Oin HITLER, WELLES MEETINBERLIH (Ooatmet rra Pas OaO portent trade lanes of Europe and Asia, and eaa at any time choke est aspiring young nations tuck at fascist Italy and nasi Germany. In this connection. Hitler wat aid to have asked Wellet how the United States would like for tome non-American power to have control con-trol of the Panama canaL Hitler was reported to have lived up to a reputation for adapting himself to tho psychology of the person with whom he confers while at the tame time defending Germany's Ger-many's position aggressively. Hit argument wat said to have tun to this effect: Just as the United States, largest and moat powerful nation of the western hemisphere, hss assumed obligations for all of America to far at interference from European or Asiatic power Is concerned, to Germany considers It her moral obligation to tee thst central European Eu-ropean living apace be guaranteed once and for all from the Interference Inter-ference of Britain and France. Demands Lest Celenlee Hitler reportedly Insisted that German colonies be returned, aad at the tame time Impressed on Wellet that ht considers Germany ' unbeatable economically In the erar with Britain and France because be-cause of the German arrangements with the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, he was described as emphasising that Germany still wants her colonies as a matter mat-ter of Justice and as a means of enjoying life's amenities in other words, the use of tropical products of tuch colonies. On the question of disarmament, the fuehrer's view wat described reliably as being that first such British fortresses at Gibraltar, Malta and Singapore mutt bo dismantled. dis-mantled. Such i pots at these art regarded by Germany at "pirate hangouts," It was said. Peney Article Retailed If, at presumed likely, Wellet asked Hitler why Germany was embarked on autarchy and whether wheth-er the relch was ready to go along with U. S. Secretary of State Hull on hit trade policies, the answer was said already to have been gtvenOslmost a month ago by aa inspired and carefully considered consid-ered article from the pen of Karl Megerle of the Boersen Zeltung, chief editorial mouthpiece of the foreign office. . He defended autarchy as "the most social system of international economy la the 20th century." Here it what Megerle wrote: "For all nations desiring to merge from permanent dependence depend-ence upon the 'haves,' auUrchy It not an stuck but a defense of Independence; In-dependence; It Isn't Imperialism but a self-imposed limitation for self-help and for a condition of equality among nations. "Beyond that It it aa essential protection for the working population popula-tion against the ups and downs of business, against the crises of spec- uiatlon, derangement of currencies and arbitrary rule of gold. -Expiates Aatarehy Alms "It (autarchy) compels people to tot their hands to work to use their heads la order to make the utmost possible use of what they have aad to use eoonomloally what hat been allotted to them. It It taut a creative principle. Ethical justification for autarchic policies It therefore aa undeniable as Is the system of clearing and direct barter bar-ter developed by Germany In trading trad-ing with ether nations. "It guarantees honest exchange of goods tor goods oven to the weakest economic partner, to national na-tional economies at yet undeveloped. undevel-oped. That meant an honest ex-- ex-- change of honest labor for honest labor It achieved. "This system know no capitalistic capital-istic exploitation of the weaker, and thereby also no political influence in-fluence It exerted via tho detour of capitalistic loans and Investments. Invest-ments. ' "It creates natural working cooperatives co-operatives and tolld, lasting economic eco-nomic bases. "Autarchy and tho clearing system sys-tem are the most Soda) systsms of International economy of the twentieth twen-tieth century." BERLIN. March 1 lt An authoritative au-thoritative source said today United States Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles wat expected to visit tomorrow with Field Marshal Hermann WUhelm Goering and later to confer with Rudolf Hess, deputy nan party leader. President Roosevelt's fact finder, who conferred with Adolf Hitler today. Is scheduled to leave Berlin shortly after 7 p. m. il p. m. eastern east-ern standard time) tomorrow, It was said. -. |