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...signing of such a treaty was likely so to incense the Führer that, instead of asking merely for the return of the Free City of Danzig and a road across the Polish Corridor as he is now doing, Aggrandizer Hitler would raise the ante and want Polish Silesia, a slice of the Polish Ukraine, the Corridor in toto...
...left of Czechoslovakia was last week split in two. Germany demanded and got a corridor 40 miles long, 197 feet wide through the slim middle of the whittled little nation. Along this strip Adolf Hitler will build one of his Autobahnen, which will run from Breslau in German Silesia south to Vienna and thus provide a direct and short motor connection between the eastern part of Germany and the recently-acquired Ostmark.* The road, to be completed in 1940, is the first section of a great highway which Germany intends to push through the Balkans into Asia Minor, via Belgrade...
...waterway has been dreamed of by pan-Germans, opposed by jealous pre-War German States. But last week when the last ditch, connecting Brunswick and Magdeburg, was officially opened up, no German raised his voice against it. Fear that Ruhr coal might start moving into markets supplied by Upper Silesia was quelled by a pfennig-per-ton-per-kilometer extra canal fee between Magdeburg and Hanover...
...conquest of foreign regions and the subsequent creation of new minorities (for many parts of the Sudeten area include as many Czechoslovaks as Germans). What is more, Hitler, in his "glorious" liberation of the submerged Germans, by carefully avoiding mention of the seven hundred thousand Poles in German Silesia or the three hundred thousand Slavs in East Prussia, proves himself to be anything but a champion of submerged peoples. Likewise, in supporting the claims of Poland and Hungary who are demanding their share of territory, Hitler is overlooking the fact that these two countries are dominating far greater minorities themselves...
...that were threatening the unity of the state that Hitler claimed to be the purpose of the rout of the non-Aryans from Germany (it seems that he considers every Jew a Communist and every Communist a Jew). On the other hand, if questioned about the Poles in German Silesia, he would reply that they were more German than Polish, and hence should continue to live under the swastika. In saying that he would, without realizing it, have hit upon the reason why the complete extinction of racial minorities is not imperative; but he shows at the same time...