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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 245, 14 September 1938, Page 9

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REFLECTED IN BRITISH PRESS. “HITLER TALKS NONSENSE.” TIMES'S TERSE COMMENT. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received Sept. 14, 9.38 a.m. RUGBY, Sept. 13. “There has been no relaxation in the European tension as a result of a first study of Herr Hitler’s speech, which is undergoing further examination by the leading Ministers. It is generally recognised that there must be no : slackening of vigilance, and the j Press reflects the continued anxiety in regard to the situation which is displayed among the public generally no less than in i informed circles. . The Times says: “The object of the speech was apparently to put the onus of a settlement on Czechoslovakia, though anything more that the Government can do within the structure of the present State could only be to place the German minority in a highly privileged position and ac cord to it power to influence Czech policy out of all proportion to its numbers. Herr Hitier spoke of 7,000,000 Czechs torturing 3,500,000 Germans—a absurd perversion of the truth, which can hardly have deceived his own docile and devoted audience. He even exclaimed that there was a desire to annihilate them. It j is lamentable, indeed, that the head of a great country like Germany should talk such nonsense.” The Daily Telegraph says: “No word of Herr Hitler’s frenzied speech can be regarded as helpful to peace. Respite is afforded from the immediate danger of war, but it is a disagreeable thought that for possibly months to come Europe is to be kept in full tension awaiting tlic moment when Herr Hitler may approve, or disapprove, the outcome of negotiations from which he demands self-determination for the Sudeten Germans. That is a situation full of every kind of danger.”