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...There have been two occasions in which Germany feared France. One was at the time of the reoccupation of the Rhineland and the other on the occasion of the official proclamation announcing Germany's rearmament. I can admit quite frankly today that . . . The Führer and we all were in fear and anxiety then. Today those fears have passed! There can no longer be any question of a 'promenade' from Paris to Berlin. That was once- but will never be again...
...French Army, Navy and Air Force were recently coordinated for quick action in emergencies under a new Super General Staff (TIME, Jan. 31), and a reason given for this was that lack of such coordination had "paralyzed" what might otherwise have been quick French action after Hitler invaded the Rhineland. But there was last week no Cabinet in France at the moment, and to the Austrian Government, calling frantically from Vienna, the Quai d'Orsay had to reply that "in the circumstances" no action likely to check the German advance could be taken by France...
...Last fall Belgium negotiated treaties with Germany, Britain and France (1 reviving the Locarno Pact smashed by Germany's remilitarization of the Rhineland, 2 setting up reciprocal trade arrangements like those Secretary Hull has gained for the U. S., 3 guaranteeing her neutrality, 4 forbidding the use of poison gas in any future war involving Belgium, 5 pledging mutual armed assistance in case...
...penetrate the Danube basin economically. To sell their new solidarity to Britain and France, Mussolini and von Neurath were believed by newshawks last week to have discussed a new security pact for Western Europe, which Britain and France would be asked to join, guaranteeing the safety of the Rhineland. As the discussions continued, the German Foreign Minister emphasized that Germany had no intention of returning to the League of Nations, and Mussolini sympathetically indicated that Italy, though still a member of the League, would have no truck with Geneva until the Italian conquest of Ethiopia is recognized...
Northern Entente? Until 1918 the Scandinavian countries-Norway, Denmark, Sweden-were neutral. Then, like Belgium, they yielded to idealism, joined the League of Nations. That ideal was shattered when Germany marched into the Rhineland, when Mussolini invaded Ethiopia. It was during Mussolini's African adventure that the famed Oslo group got down to business. The Scandinavian countries, headed by Sweden, decided they had better look out for themselves. A German and Russian clash might come and the Baltic would be the danger zone. Accordingly the Foreign Ministers of the Scandinavian countries continue to meet from time to time...