TYRANNY OF NAZIS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 126, 30 May 1941, Page 8

TYRANNY OF NAZIS

WHY IT WILL COLLAPSE

SYSTEM BUILT ON HATRED

ENSLAVING EUROPE

(Rec. 1.30 a.m.) RUGBY. May 29. "One reason why Nazi tyranny will not endure is because no system built on hate can survive," said Mr. Anthony Eden at the Mansion House.

"The Nazi is an alien and oppressor, Jiated in every land in which he rules. In the endeavour to give a decent covering to the naked policy of terror and robbery on which he embarked Hitler invented the new order which he pretended would bring prosperity and happiness to those countries which he robbed of their liberty and their normal means of livelihood.

"It is not easy to find much definite in Germany's new economic order except a plan by which the more important industries are to be mainly concentrated within Germany itself.

"Meanwhile the satellite and tributary nations are becoming confined to agricultural and other kinds of production which suit the German convenience. Currency devices will fix the terms of exchange between Germany's industrial products and the output of other States so as to maintain a standard of life in Germany much above that of her neighbours. Meanwhile all foreign commerce would become a German monopoly. - LEARNING RESTRICTED. "As part of the 'new order' the citizens of tributary States will doubtless be forbidden to learn engineering or any other modern industrial arts. The permanent destruction of all local universities and technical schools will inevitably follow. In this way intellectual darkness will be added to low physical standards and the national revivals which Hitler fears so much will be indefinitely postponed. "All this could only be a prelude to an extension of the war. which would carry to other continents the imperialistic exploitation which has already devoured Europe." The conception of the Germans as ] a "master race" was clearly laid down in "Main Kampf," said Mr. Eden, and had long been in Hitler's mind. The process of national destruction of a conquered people was the fixed, deliberate policy, and the first step of the "new order" was the creation of slaves, LEAD FROM PRESIDENT. Mr. Eden said his main purpose was not to expose the hollow wickedness of the "new order" on this occasion. While the efforts of Britain were concentrated on winning the war, careful thought had been given as to how moral and material reconstruction was to be brought about throughout the world. "We found in President Roosevelt's message to Congress in January last the keynote of our own purposes." Mr. Eden then recapitulated what the President referred to as "the four essential freedoms —the freedom of speech and of expression, the freedom of every person to worship God in his own way, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear."

Mr. Eden said he would not attempt to elaborate the British view on three of these freedoms, but dwelt at some length on what Mr. Roosevelt described as "economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants."—B.O.W.