GOERING SPEECH

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 236, 6 October 1942, Page 3

GOERING SPEECH

"SHEER NONSENSE"

Analysis Of Rccent Talks By

Nazi Leaders Special Correspondent Rec 1030 a.m. LONDON. Oct. 5. Considerable interest has been taken in Goering's speech, which is the fourth delivered by German leaders recently, the others being by Hitler, Ribbentrop and Goebbels. It. is interesting to observe what both Ffitler and Goering did and did not fay about America. Hitler made a contemptuous reference, while Goering talked sheer nonsense, thus, "The facade of America is glittering, but if you look behind it j'ou will see it is on the verge of breaking down. This, Roose-i velt knows himself." Also, "I would be the last, to underrate American 1 rearmament. Technically the Americans have done colossal things. They have done quite a lot in regard to motor cars, radio and razor blades, but that is not enough for rearmament programmes. American rearmament will be no quicker than in Germany, but slower. One cannot simultaneously put up an army of millions and treble the number of, industrial workers. In respect to bluff, the Americans, from the President to the last nigger, are unsurpassed. The Americans are probably quite gallant soldiers, but so far their ambitions have been in other fields." Both Hitler and Goering betray the extent to which fears about American armament capacity have been instilled into the minds of the German people. For men who are telling their country that things will be better, it is an interesting insight into their minds that they should make such puerile references to one of their strongest enemies. It amounts to the fact that. Germans do not like to hear the truth about the Allies' mounting power. Pride In Plunder of Rus*i;i Another interesting point is Goering's naked pride in plundering Russia and the gains to be deprived from it—oil for the fat ration "from the vast areas of the Kuban and Don, with their miles and miles of sunflower fields which give even a better yield of oil than our homefrown rape seed," also iron and coal. It so happens that both food and raw materials are lying together in territory we have taken from the Bolshevists." said Goering. Thus Germany, with all Europe under her heel, must, even so, draw on her Russian conquests. One inference from the speech is that Germany's food reserves are running low. There is untold potential suffering for Europe in the phrase. "I do not want to see the populations of ♦he occupied territories suffer from hunger and privation, but if, through enemy measures, privation is unavoidable, it will in no circumstances affec' Germany. German workers and the German agricultural labourer will be fed better than any others."

Having previously declared that Germany could not. be blockaded, it i.-> a matter for speculation what he regards as enemy measures, and the infrrence is that the people in occupied countric- will go short of food sn.v 'vny