TIGHTER YET

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1944, Page 5

TIGHTER YET

TALK BY GOEBBELS

LONDON, July 26.

Dr. Goebbels talked to the German people tonight over the radio. He gave them what he called a sober and unvarnished report about the attack on Hitler, and Ai'ent on in a highly dramatic fashion to say nothing more than had been told before—about the obstructionist general, the neurotic general, the coAvardly and disgraced general. Count Stauffenberg. All these conspirators, nameless except for Stauffenberg, were rounded up in the Berlin military headquarters without offering any resistance, and were shot out of hand. Goebbels asked to be spared from giving further details. He then came to the main purpose oi his speech, Avhich Avas designed (1) to absolve the German army as a whole for blame for the attempt to kill Hitler; (2) to give the fighting forces an assurance that they ivould get badlyneeded reinforcements and supplies; (3) to prepare the German civilians for still more restrictions and privations and for yet more demands on them; and (4) to resuscitate German morale by hopes of the so-called victory weapons, the flying bombs and so on. and what they ivould do. Goebbels told the German civilians that they had to be prepared to do everything and put up with everything to give the soldiers ivhat they needed. All else must be sacrificed to this. If : they did not succeed in doing that, he | added, they ivould all be lost.