TERMS OF DECLARATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 41, 16 August 1941, Page 9

TERMS OF DECLARATION

WITHHELD BY NAZIS

GOOD REASON FOR RETICENCE

(Rec. 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY, August 15. German propagandists, commenting on the Roosevelt-Churchill declaration, have felt it inadvisable to publish its terms to their own people. They have summed up their comment by saying that there is still the old dream of preparing an infinitely worse Versailles for Germany. However, free people who-have had full opportunity to read the terms of this declaration will appreciate the reason'for Nazi reticence. { As "The Times" declares, "Freedom from fear and want is now established as a world objective, but it is an objective which cannot be attained by the German peoples as long as Hitler holds sway -in that unhappy country." Examining the war aims, "The Times" states: "Our war aims exclude arbitrary territorial changes and terri-: torial and material ambitions, and this is ■ | now reaffirmed. ' And when the de- | claration refei-s to the recognition of 'the rights of all peoples to choose their own form of government,' 'choose' is the governing word. "For we cannot again stand by and allow the suppression of .liberties in one country to threaten the liberties of others. One day, genuine peace may and must find expression in the disarmament of aggressors, without which no peace could be more than an illusion. "The fact that there is nothing unexpected, or even unfamiliar, in the declaration takes nothing from its crucial importance. In the first place, it is a joint formal declaration. This means that the United States and the British Empire will be jointly concerned in the conditions of peace. "Secondly, the unity of purpose which is announced and defined, while forming a new bond between the American and the British peoples, also sets a goal for the friends of liberty in all countries. The contrast between the principles defined in the declaration and the Nazi principle of a master race (Jictating to • slave peoples speaks for itself."-—8.0.W.