HITLER’S MESSAGE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 84, 3 January 1941, Page 8

HITLER’S MESSAGE

Effect Of Roosevelt’s Speech MORE SOBER TONE I British Official Wireless.) (Received January 2. 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, January 1. The significance of President Roosevelt’s talk on Sunday night was not apparently lost on Hitler, whose New Year proclamation to the German people is regarded in London as that of a man whose grandiose calculations have been completely upset by American exposure of his designs and Britisn resistance to their execution.

“The Times” regards the proclamation as more sober than some of Hitler’s recent outpourings and finds in it abundant proof, if proof were needed, “of the malignant militaristic ambitions now so belatedly, dishonestly and inadequately veiled by talk. Where was the new order when Hitler began the war on Poland?” it asks. One feature of the proclamation which has attracted attention is its implicit recognition of the hopelessness of attempts to placate the United States and Hitler’s familiar references to "have” nations were clearly intended to cover the United States. Hitler's attack on the democracies as greedy capitalists “oppressing nations and gathering together their socalled wealth” is obviously designed for internal consumption, since it can hardly be expected to convince those with experience at first hand of Nazi exploitation or spoliation. Germany is in fact now busily engaged in making herself ;t “have Power at the expense of her “have not” neighbours.