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...hrer Hitler took Memel last week with enough flourish to make it seem valuable. It is not. The district is a homespun, colorless countryside 1,099 square miles in area bounded by East Prussia, the Baltic Sea and Lithuania. The population is a piddling 152,000, some 78% of them claimed by Germany. Memel has no industries important enough for the Nazis to boast of and Germany has many better ports. To Lithuania, however, it represents one-sixth of her industry, and it was the nation's only good outlet to the sea. With Memel gone, Lithuania...
...taking Memel, Führer Hitler reaffirmed the old principle (temporarily forgotten in Czecho-Slovakia) of bringing back all the German "children" into the Reich's fold. Once decided on, the occupation of Memel was carried out with the Führer's usual one-two-three precision...
What distinguished the actual occupation was that the Führer personally "struck" from the sea. As if playing at naval conquest, he traveled to Memel on the pocket battleship Deutschland, followed by 60 other fighting vessels including two battleships, three cruisers, two destroyer flotillas, three torpedo-boat flotillas, numerous small craft. In the face of this attack the Lithuanian Navy, consisting of one 22-year-old, 500-ton patrol ship (a rebuilt German minesweeper), which mounts two three-inch guns and three machine guns, puffed out to sea for destination unknown, as homeless as the Flying Dutchman. Herr Hitler...
...simply disgusting to us." The Berliner Lokalanzeiger used an entire page to describe British "falsehood and hypocrisy, violation of rights and oppression, robbery and atrocity of every sort." Der Angriff ran in installments a piece on the Boer War subtitled: "Inhumanities Britain Has on Her Conscience." The Führer's Volkischer Beobachter described British naval aggression in 1807 at Copenhagen...
...which, in effect, converted Rumania from an independent nation to a German dependency. In no instance of modern times has one State made such humiliating, far-reaching economic concessions to another as Rumania's King Carol II made in Bucharest last week to Dr. Helmuth Wohlthat, Führer Hitler's traveling salesman...