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...France in pledging ''mutual assistance" against "unprovoked aggression," will find WELCOME written on the doormat signed last week in Paris. It specifically takes care of the Hitler crochet which made Der Führer say he would sign up for non-aggression "with any country except Lithuania" month and a half ago. In the new treaty all European countries east of Germany except Lithuania are made eligible and urged to sign. Scratch their heads as they would this week, most neutral European statesmen could see no reason why Germany should not be anxious to sign, unless...
Next the Smetona Government announced with as little alarmism as circumstances permitted, that Lithuania's Army is accepting volunteers "since last year's enlistment resulted in a decline of army capacity...
...Lithuania the implications of this statement have been slowly sinking in. Last week grave, cautious President Antanas Smetona ordered Lithuanian youths whose term of military service normally would expire May 31 to remain with the colors another 60 days...
Same day in Memel Territory, which Germany aspires to repossess from Lithuania, the District Governor ordered all able-bodied men who received military training last year to "report for re-examination...
...Berlin, the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment promptly pointed out that Realmleader Hitler, in designating Lithuania as the only nation he will not promise not to invade at the moment, added that "after the Memel question is settled" he will be willing to sign a pact of non-aggression with Lithuania...