NAZIS FEAR DELAY

Evening Star, Issue 23560, 26 April 1940, Page 3

NAZIS FEAR DELAY

ACTION URGED WAR INITIATIVE LONDON, April 7. “To-day the whole of the German nation knows: that the struggle is fog ‘ its national existence.- Therefore, Germany is prepared for any sacrifice,” declared the German Minister for Propaganda, Dr Goebbels; when receiving representatives of the German Pres* on Friday, x < Nevertheless, the Rotterdam correspondent of 4 The Times ’ notes that ■ public opinion in Germany appears to be growing impatient for the decisiv* blow “ delivered with the full weigh* of the German clenched fist,’’ which i* ■ to end the war in a few months. The decision which the -Allied Governments are believed,to have made for a more vigorous prosecution of th* war seems to have inspired a fear les* the initiative may pass from German bands. . , The belief is, currently expressed than the German High Command is bound to pass to rapid action ■; very soon, if i* is to prevent the Allies from getting their blow in first. . The correspondent of ‘The Times" states General von Brauchitach. th* Commander-in-Chief of the, German Army, has been making a detailed inspection of the French front during th* last few days. He is now back in Berlin. and it is expected that, in th* course of the coming week, he and other military chiefs will he called into consultation by Hitler in order that a , fateful decision may be made.