NAZIS' TASK

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 92, 19 April 1941, Page 9

NAZIS' TASK

MUST BEAT BRITAIN

"CANNOT BE DONE"

AMERICAN ARSENAL

(British Official Wireless.) (Received April 19, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, April 18

The Minister for War, Captain D. Margesson, broadcasting to Latin America, said that Latin Americans who had seen the battered hulk of the Admiral Graf Spec knew that Germany could not win on the sea.

"You have read how the R.A.F., much weaker relatively then than now, met and broke the German air force last autumn," he said, "and you will know that Germany cannot win in the air. Can Germany win on land? I tell you that she cannot.

"With her enormous army magnificently equipped she will have successes against small nations, but until she has beaten Britain those victories cannot be decisive.

"The British nation is united in its determination to resist. Every one of you can undei'stand that the decision of the United States to become an arsenal for free men means that sooner or later Germany must lose."

Captain Margesson concluded that the first consequence of a British victory must be tremendous relief from an evil world menace, but there must be material as well as moral consequences.

"Of one thing I am sure," he said, "and it is your affair as much as ours, that the world cannot ever again afford to allow widespread poverty among primary producers. After the war there must be an end to poverty in the midst of plenty."