LOT TO LOSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 10, 12 January 1940, Page 7

LOT TO LOSE.

AS RESULT OF WAR.

Goebbels Admits Allies Do Not

Seek Material Gain.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 12.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 11. Mr. Lathrop Stoddard, well-known American author, exclusively interviewed Dr. Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda chief, for the North American Newspaper Alliance. The interview, aside from anti-British fulniillations and vaunts of German victory, such as one would (Jxpect, is perhaps most notable for the admissions it makes unconsciously.

Dr. Goebbels opens with the angry remonstrance that it is high time 40,000,000 people stopped dictating to 80,000,000 when they should have a cup of coffee. "It is human beings who count, not just material resources," said Dr. Goebbels.

Under prodding iby Mr. Stoddard, who said "the British seem to be trying to make tlio world believe this struggle is between democracy and dictatorship," Dr. GoeWjels remarked significantly, "the more you examine the British war aims the more negative they appear. The British admit they have nothing tangible to get out of this war, but that they have a lot to lose. We, on the contrary, have nothing to lose and everything to gain."

Dr. Goebbels, having tlius tacitly admitted the Allied cause does not seek material aggrandisement, concluded the interview with a lame denial that Germany is a dictatorship.

"It is," lie averred, rather "political discipline forced on us by the pressure of circumstances."