“NOT TO BE DUPED.”

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 116, 17 April 1939, Page 7

“NOT TO BE DUPED.”

LIKELY REJECTION OF APPEAL. MUNICH DISCUSSIONS. AIUNICH, April Jo. Herr Hitler arrived here to-day from Berehtesgaden in order to discuss President Roosevelt’s message with Herr von Ribbentrop (German Foreign Alinister), who had a long telephone conversation with Count Ciano (Italian Foreign Alinister). The German public first learned of President Roosevelt’s message through the British Broadcasting Corporation’s German language broadcast. The official text is not known to Wilhelmstrasse officials because the message reached Herr Hitler direct at Alunieh.

It is semi-officially stated in Munich that Herr Hitler will turn down the proposals. A spokesman declared that Germany would never allow herself to be duped, as once before by President Wilson’s 14 points.

He added that President Roosevelt first stirred up a fear of war “and now he is playing the opposite game and adopting President Wilson’s role. As long as Bolshevism is to be treated as an equal partner, Germany will be unable to sit at any conference tables.”

Diplomatic circles are intrigued by tlie fact that Danzig is not mentioned in Air Roosevelt's message.

Tlie newspaper Der Angriff declares that the British Empire appears to be determined to dig its own grave. Germany gave Britain a chance to emerge from the situation in September without loss of prestige. She will not give her a second chance. “AIISEEABLE PAAIPHLET.’’

A London message says the reactions to President Roosevelt’s appeal indicate Herr Hitler’s rejection. His journal, the Volkischer Bocbacliter, describes the message as “a miserable propaganda pamphlet.” The Duetsche Allegmeino Zeitung denounces it as pharisaical. Bitter typical headlines in other journals arc: ‘“Roosevelt Copies Wilson,” “Roosevelt’s Publicity Stunt,” “Roosevelt Directs bis Alessage to the Wrong Address.” AIOST CUNNING. A Berlin report states that FielilMarshal Goenng’s National Zeitung says: “President Roosevelt’s message is one of tlie most cunning ever addressed by ‘the democratic world .saviours’ to the axis Powers, precisely when Britain is endeavouring to lead Bolshevism back into the European arena as a partner in the encirclement of German v.

“President Roosevelt appeals to tlie nations of order—Germany and Italy—to sit down at a conference table. Germany doesn’t dream of swearing eternal peace to those who have engaged .Moscow to fight tho totalitarian Powers.”