Show maw EN washington washing ton D C AN INSIDE STORY word trickling back to the diplomatic corps from germany indicates that hitler is beginning to realize that the united states means business and that he made a tragic mistake in not accepting the advice of his more conservative diplomats who warned him of this in the first place in fact the inside story which now can be told is one of the most tragic of the war possibly if it had not been for overweening personal jealousies the war might even have been prevented what happened was that when hans dieckhoff german ambassador to washington returned to berlin in 1938 he brought back a strong report that the tee united states would enter the war eventually if germany became the aggressor he was ready to warn that germany faced a repetition of 1917 18 but foreign minister von would not let him see hitler probably the most ambitious man around der fuehrer and a great friend of himmler wanted to be the funnel for all advice going to hitler also he was feeding him his own kind of aggressive advice not the cooling caution of ambassador dieckhoff in the same cautious school with the ambassador were baron von neurath recently ousted as governor of czechoslovakia because ot of his moderate views hjalmar hialmar schacht governor of the bank now in virtual retirement and capt fritz edemann Wl hinlers Hit lers former commander and more recently consul general at san francisco even field marshal goering was much more moderate than von czech putsch delayed it was captain who around may 1938 chiefly persuaded hitler not to invade czechoslovakia he was then hillers Hit lers military aide aid and attended a meeting of der Fuehr ers inner advisers at which general staff advised caution finally hitler exasperated threw up his arms and ordered them all out of the room but stayed behind and finally persuaded his chief to delay the march into at least until the tall fall of 1938 which was done later it was and his moderates who persuaded hitler to receive chamberlain and deladier Da ladier at munich but by this time it was too late for ambassador dieckhoff to tell his story never forgave for this also his vaunting ambition would permit no rival close clos to hitler so shortly thereafter he ha got transferred to a distant and relatively unimportant german consulate in the USA later when was deported from thit this country it is significant that once again transferred him as tar far as possible from berlin this time to china the foreign minister of germany wants no moderates around I 1 ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN dont be surprised it if a U S warship dis embarks a load of nazi i sailors and turns them over to the justice department to be tried on charges of piracy it is even possible that in the haul may be an armed nazi raider or two that had been operating down brazil way anything may happen these eventful days since the president Presidente enunciated U S determination to maintain freedom of t the lie seas and branded nazi submarines submariner and sur face raiders in american waters as pirates armed nazi ships are prowling american waters and the U S navy has its orders it c can an be revealed that neither the justice nor war department would be surprised it if they had some pirate seamen and pirate craft to deal with soon both have been quietly studying for a week the law and precedents concerning such an eventuality the war department enters the I 1 picture because under the law all war prisoners landed on U S soil come under custody of the army however the U S is not at war so there Is doubt over the ardys jurisdiction no final decision has been reached but the consensus of the legal experts is that any such pirates should be turned over to the justice department one suggested procedure is that ibe he nazis be landed at a U S port and then jailed by the justice department part ment as aliens without passports but most of the legal authorities contend that the nazis should be dealt with squarely as buccaneers bucca |