The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH AND INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, The Echo and The Sun. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1942 RIBBENTROP'S WARNING TO US

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 230, 29 September 1942, Page 2

The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH AND INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, The Echo and The Sun. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1942 RIBBENTROP'S WARNING TO US

yifE Axis, says Rlbbentrop, "in every respect is now master of the situation." This remark was made, avowedly, for the discouragement nJ S,a,cs ' aml u ma >' bc an important indication of the tillection of (icimaii propaganda in the near future. If the Russians can >e deprived of offensive power, then the (Jermans may be expected to use all the emphasis ami .skill of their publicity apparatus in sayingwn.v tlo vou Americans continue sending supplies and troops to Britain' It is useless for we cannot be beaten. Having knocked out Russia we n r " IW ,, W /" <l( ' al With iiny att( ' mpt yoU and the Britis h may .; k Ithri- to defeat our armies or to wear us down. Why make the willhn r n,aStl ' rS ° UI ' I , ,PC wc can outmatch you." Thus confidently over ill w'n-TT a , nd th " SC Wh ° tak ° ° nly 3 hasty view of the tcrrlt' ri'.ii ~ V- ° U tempted to believe them. Militarilv, and first tiro V i \' C,t ' nnun adlicvcm ent is dazzling. But this is not the months of unT)7T a ' S so al thc cnd of 1017. and in the early months of 1018, but by the end of that year Germany had been defeated.

Hibb?nlrf?,Vs S< s P eech NV thLn e thLTh°r r S SC if n ° thing more be said of chooses to treat assumptionsaS f«ct< P r ,°P agancla ' and that he and if it is ranturpH th« dCts * Stalingrad has not been captured, not be in consequences to Russia, although grievous may destruction nf Lv« n ' i die that Hitler planned the military military destruct n b,,1 , military power; that he planned the He may vet succeed full J~l ' ' S gont ' far tow ards accomplishing it. of offensive cffJA Thin n n lnay «V cc , ee( ' in makin « «ussia incapable All ies In t lie VVosf Jt r i~I7 whlle , hl!f forces arc recuperating, the boasting will not appear to bl -^-"^bentrop's

answer 1 'h;is' 1 'been^civcn^!h 'th*' °V f ° r 3 secon(! front - an(l pre,per Russia's rlpfp.t ~t liat a . price must l»e paid for nf nrit■ ,1 ,'u r C t i »' av tnat price, so the leaders and the peoples or Bi it.iln and the (. nited States must face the fact that thev cannot rWp-ir Germany cheaply, in a military sense thev have not even beeun to ficrhr as they fought in the last war. Until thev do It wUI pructent to nSI such speeches as Ribbcntrop's as warnings— to ns of consequences of failure to understand the grim business of war al onr enemies understand it, and as Russia understands it.