SPEECH BY HITLER

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 70, 20 September 1939, Page 9

SPEECH BY HITLER

FAMILIAR LINES

DEMOCRACIES ATTACKED

LEAD TO THE POLES

THE UNDERSTANDING WITH RUSSIA

(Daventry Broadcast.)

LONDON, Tuesday Night. Herr Hitler made a speech at Danzig which followed familiar lines. After attacking the Treaty of Versailles, he repeated familiar German propaganda, and turned to what he called the madness of the creation of the Polish State. He again painted a picture of terrorism in Poland, and said that even the Polish people had been suppressed. He attacked Britain and France and said that they were responsible for the intractability of the Poles. He represented himself as having made every reasonable offer for a settlement by peaceful negotiations, and said thai it was intolerable that Germany should suffer at the hands of a country greatly inferior to herself. He attacked the democracies, and recalled a speech of his in which he said that Mr. Churchill and Mr. DuffCooper would come into power and try to bring about a war. "That has taken place," he said. "I warned the world about it." REJECTED MEDIATION OFFER. He alleged that the British Government had rejected out of hand Signor Mussolini's offer of mediation even after the French Government had accepted it. He said that the Germans in Poland had used humane methods, but alleged indescribable things by the other side. He referred to the advance of the Russian troops, and said that Russia remained Bolshevist and Germany Nazi, but they found it best to have an understanding with each* other. He denied that Germany intended to annex the Ukraine, and said that it was a matter for Germany and Russia, as the two countries interested, to see' to the future of Poland. The Reich and the Soviet were agreed that Poland would not rise again in the form laid down in the Treaty of Versailles. Their understanding was proof that Germany's aspirations were limited. He declared that he had nothing to ask of Britain and France. If Britain went'on with the war her aim must be to destroy the German Government, from which its people would never be parted, but Germany would not capitulate even if the war took seven years. USUAL CRASS MISSTATEMENTS. An official commentary issued in London points out that Herr Hitler's speech was full of his usual crass misstatements. The tale of Herr Hitler's broken promises was so long that he could scarcely expect Britain to believe that Germany's aspirations were limited, and that she had no further aspirations in the west. In defending Britain's economic warfare, it is stated that there can be no question of Britain waging war on German women and children since the German Government has declared they have ample stores of food. The commentary states that Herr Hitler's account of the circumstances leading to the outbreak of war is a travesty of facts. He was determined on war, in the hope that Great Britain would j not fulfil her treaty obligations to Poland. . |