NO LEAD GIVEN

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 109, 1 February 1940, Page 9

NO LEAD GIVEN

Note Of Frustration And Bitterness

VIEWS ON ADDRESS (British Official Wireless.) (Received January 31. 7.5 pan.) RUGBY, January 30. The impression created in London by the speech made in Berlin tonight by Herr Hitler is that it is more noteworthy for its note of intensified bitterness and sense ot frustration than for any lead it could give to what is felt here must be by now a sadly bewildered German public opinion or for any indication of the intentions of the Nazi leaders in the face of the difficulties and dangers in which they have involved their country.

To observers in London it does not seem that the petty sarcasm which constituted the note of the speech, marked by shrill protests, provides the necessary indication to maintain the morale of a people who are being asked to accept an indefinite prolongation of the sacrifices which have been theirs ever since Herr Hitler seized power in the Reich. Herr Hitler seemed to recognize that the Nazis have succeeded in rallying the whole world against Germany—with the exception of his Communist ally—but he offered no coherent explanation of what it did not seem to occur to him must be a surprising and disturbing phenomenon to the German people who have formerly been told that the Nazi leaders had restored their country to a proud and respected position in the world. There has been no time for any considered reaction in official circles here, but a point which on superficial examination of the speech seems to have secured chief notice is that the speech contains unmistakable evidence that Herr Hitler has at last learnt the folly of trying to separate France from Britain.