[When] the Fuehrer received the Polish Foreign Minister at Berchtesgaden shortly after New Years's - on January 5, 1939 - he was not yet prepared to give him the treatment which he had meted out to Schuschnigg and was shortly to apply to President Hacha. The rest of Czechoslovakia would have to be liquidated first. Hitler, as the secret Polish and German minutes of the meeting make clear, was in one of his more conciliatory moods. He was "quite ready," he bagan, "to be at Beck's service." Was there anything "special," he asked, on the Polish Foerign Minister's mind? Beck replied that Danzig was on his mind. It became obvious that it had also been on Hitler's.
"Danzig is German," the Fuehrer reminded his guest, "will always remain German, and will sooner or later become part of Germany." He could give the assurance, however, that "no fait accompli would be engineerered in Danzig."
He wanted Danzig and he wanted a German highway and railroad across the Corridor. If he and Beck would "depart from old patterns and seek solutions along entirely new lines," he was sure they could reach an agreement which would do justice to both countries.
Beck was not so sure. Though, as he confided to Ribentrop the next day, he did not want to be too blunt with the Fuhree, he had replied that "the Danzig problem was a very difficult one." He did not see in the Chancllor's suggestion any "equivalent" for Poland. Hitler thereupon pointed out the "great advantage" to Poland "of having her frontier with Germany, including the corridor, secured by treaty." This apparently did not impress Beck, but in thh end he agreed to think the problem over further.
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall fo the Third Reich , p. 457.
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Looks like New Zealand is cutting imports drastically. Though the article title singles out Japan, it looks like they are hitting everyone.
Czech plan for 10,000 refugees - Jan 5, 1939
Ten thousand refugees from Germany, Austria and the Sudeten areas are to leave Czechoslovakia in the near future. The emigration will be largely financed out of the British £10,000,000 loan to Czechoslovakia.
More here - Telegraph - UK
If I remember, FDR first told everyone he would not run in 1940, but then it transpired as the convention grew close that his party "demanded" he stand for reelection, and so, well, what else could he do? ;-)
From the tone of these articles, the US sounds so locked in the grip of liberalism, it makes you dizzy & gasping for breath. Or maybe that's just the NY Times, then as now?
Reading the long article on NY Gov. Lehman’s programs was a hoot. Especially Lehman’s plan to convene a “special commission” to study the growth of “bureaucracy.” Hahahahahaha! Like that worked out real well!