"BAD CONSCIENCE"

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1941, Page 7

"BAD CONSCIENCE"

GERMAN COMMENT

OFFICIAL SILENCE KEPT

LONDON, December 31

Informed circles in Berlin, commenting on President Roosevelt's speech, said everyone in Germany asked what was the reason for his nervousness and irritation. "We have one answer," it was stated. "It is Roosevelt's own bad conscience. He should be regarded along with Churchill as equally guilty and responsible for the present situation in England, which he himself evidently already regards as lost."

The morning papers in Berlin did not publish or mention Mr. Roosevelt's speech. An official silence is also maintained, though other United States news, such as an appeal to Mr. Roosevelt against involvement in war, has been issued copiously by the official news agency. Berlin papers virulently attack Mr. Roosevelt. For example, , the "Volkischer Beobachter" says: "Roosevelt preaches blind hate against the Axis, invents German plans for world domination, and brazenly falsifies Hitler's words in the, best style of a Jewish journalist from the lowest class." The German radio stated that Mr. Roosevelt misconstrued Hitler's words: "I" can beat any Power in the world with my gold, which is the work of German labour," to mean, "Hitler is seeking world _ domination." It added: "Roosevelt, as the result of his false interpretation of the Fuhrer's statement, believes also that the Reich is threatening America."