WAY HITLER THINKS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 146, 15 March 1940, Page 10

WAY HITLER THINKS

Democracy Not Understood I British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, jlarcli 13. In a speed) in London, the Dominions Secretary. Mr. Eden, said that Ins personal knowledge of Herr Hitler did not make him unduly depressed by Die fact that the Fuehrer considered his opponents unworthy of him. His ow" reflections on meetings with Herr Hitler. he said, had been that the Fuehrer was constitutionally incapable ol understanding the working in mind or spirit of a free democracy. Mr. Eden said he wished some ot tm. leailers of Nazi Germany might have shared his experience of work wit.l Hie Dominions Governments, tor then they might have been spared some ot tin'’ mistakes they had made and t no world might have been spared Hie war. Il was quite impossible to exaggerate the measure ami spirit of the eollaboration received from Hie o\ei-so.-is Dominions. Dealing with Hie Empire air training scheme, Mr. Eden said that when it was in full working order the output of pilots, air crows and observers was estimated to reach 00.000 a yen). Referring to Ills visit to the men of Hie overseas forces, Mr. Eden said: “All of you would have been impressed bv their attitude of quiet determination. They are men witli a mission ami with a purpose. The Dominions voluntarily decided to enter Hie war to overthrow Nazism. They knew perfectly .well that this was not a European quarrel. They had til) mercenary motives. They knew it was not a contest lie!ween two dynasties, but between two distinct antagonistic conceptions of life and a conflict of standards of wholly divergent moral and spiritual values.”