WHAT HITLER WANTS

Grey River Argus, 29 August 1939, Page 7

WHAT HITLER WANTS

Corridor with Danzig POLAND’S FATE OF NO ACCOUNT? LONDON, August 28. The Berlin Propaganda Ministry has issued the text of the personal letter from Herr Hitler to M. Daladier. which included the words:— “I make clear the demand that Danzig and the Corridor must be returned. If fate should force us to figh4 again, I should be fighting to right ai wrong. I am aware of the consequences, the heaviest of which would fall on Poland, because, however the light ended, Poland would not exist as the same State.’’ The British United Press Berlin correspondent says that the publication of the letter is interpreted in many quarters as a decisive refusal to negotiate regarding Danzig and the Corridor. (Received August 28, 7.30 p.m.) BERLIN, August 28. Herr Hitler threw down the gauntlet and challenged the world for Danzig and the Corridor in his letter to M. Daladier, French Premier, in which he rejected M. Daladier’s appeal of Friday last for one more direct bid fox- peace. Herr Hitler said: "I have made clear the demand that Danzig and the Corridor must return to Germany. I see no means of moving Poland t 0 a peaceful solution, as she feels that she cannot be attacked under the protection of her guarantors. I would have little hope of an honourable future for my people if, under such circumstances, we were not determined to solve these questions in one way or another. If fate, then, forces our two nations to light, it would be from different motives. I would fight with my people to rectify a wrong. Others would fight to maintain that .justice. I believe that Poland would suffer most, because, regardless of the outcome of war, the Polish State would be obliterated in one way or another.”

Daladier’s Picture . OF WAR’S MEANING. LETTER TO HITLER. (Received August 28, 11.40 p.m.) PARIS, August 27. In his letter to Herr Hitler, the French Prime Minister, M. Daladier, concluded: “You and I were fighters at the front in the last war. There-1 fore we know the abhorrence and the condemnation i n such wars, that devastations left behind in the peoples conscience. “The concept which I am able to form of Your Excellency’s role as one leading the German people on the path of peace towards the completion of their task in the joint work of civilisation induces me to request a reply to this proposal. If French and German blood flows anew, as it did years ago, in a still longer and more murderous war, then each of the two nations will fight confident in its own victory—but destruction and barbarity will be the surest victors.”

BERLIN PRESS. DISPLAYS HITLER-DALADIER LETTERS. (Received Aug. 29, 1.30 a.m.) ’ BERLIN, August 28.The publication. of the Hitler-Dala-dier letters was made under' huge headlines. It surprised the German people, who are not accustomed to being so informed on such important matters.