FUTURE GERMANY

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 143, 13 December 1940, Page 7

FUTURE GERMANY

EQUALITY WITH OTHER STATES REPLY TO HITLER'S SPEECH BRITAIN'S AIM j (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 11. Familiar features in Herr Hitler's speeches, such as his tirades against Britain and his falsification of history, reappeared in yesterday's utterance, but there is general agreement that it was pitched in a more subdued tone than usual, and that he was on the defensive and lacking in his usual display of confidence. Lack of confidence in ultimate victory was detected in Herr Hitler's discussion of the prospects in the event of defeat, but, says "The Times," "it can only be because Hitler reads British policy in the light of his own designs that he predicts that loss of the war by Germany will mean the end of the German people and the dispersal of the German nation. "This view nas already been refuted in the British statements of the purposes for which Britain entered the war," "The Times" continues. "The refutation will find its appropriate place in any future definition of British war terms, and every effort should be made to bring it to the knowledge of the German people. j|| "It is no part of British interest or British intentions to destroy Germany or, as Hitler alleges, to impose a Westphalian peace. No European order can be complete from which Germany is excluded, and among the most important of Britain's war aims is a Europe in which Germany will occupy an equal but not a dominant place. The aim can be achieved only through the overthrow of Hitler and Hitlerism."

Regarding Herr Hitler's vigorous repudiation of the suggestion that he has a feeling of inferiority towards England, the "Daily Telegraph" says: "When a man vows that he has never had any inferiority complex he gives the clearest of all proofs that fear has him in its grip." • The "Daily Herald" says: "If Hitler believes that the masses in this country hanker for the destruction of their trade unions and the suppression of free speech and free voting for concentration camps and all the bestialities of the Gestapo, he fools himself. It is much more probable that he is trying only to fool his hearers." It is assumed that Herr Hitler was attempting to essay lighter vein when he declared that there is a world of difference between Eton College and the Adolf Hitler school. "The Times" remarks: "That is true enough, though it is perhaps worth recalling that the present Nazi -Foreign Minister during his residence in England made some effort to send his own son to that particular institution- which Hitler appears to regard as further from his own ideal. Unlike Nazi Germany, Britain recognises the virtue of more than one form of education."