POLAND SAYS “NO” TO GERMANY
A Terse Reply To Dr. Goebbel’s Speech READY TO BEAR ALL CONSEQUENCES By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. WARSAW, June 20. The Government spokesman last night said: “To all Dr. Goebbels’s talk, Poland says a firm ‘No,’ and she is ready to bear all the consequences of such an answer.” Poland has rejected a Nazi protest against the alleged provocative behaviour of Polish Customs agents. The agents declared that the accusation was unfounded. Calling on the citizens of Danzig to hold out pending the return of the Free City to the Reich, Dr. Goebbels, the German Minister of Propaganda, on his arrival at Danzig on Sunday, said that, according to Warsaw, towns at the mouths of rivers belong to the countries through which the rivers flow; therefore, Rotterdam ‘belonged to Germany, because the Rhine was German. This method of solving matters was lame, and almost comical. “Lord Halifax-declares that he waists the Danzig question settled in a friendly manner; therefore, Britain has given Poland a blank cheque and is attempting to encircle Italy and Germany in order to revive her policy of 1914. They err if they believe they are confronted by a weak, bourgeois Germany,” Dr. Goebbels said.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 226, 22 June 1939, Page 9
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