HITLER’S RAGE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 239, 6 September 1940, Page 7

HITLER’S RAGE

SIGN OF DEFEATISM NO INVASION DATE. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received September 6, 9.30 a.m. RUGBY, Sept. 5.

Trans-Atlantic reports showing that Hitler’s speech has been read there as an outburst of uncontrollable anger aroused by the transfer of the fifty destroyers fb Britain, by the anxieties which the Nazi leaders are feeling regarding the effect on' German morale of the havoc wrought by the R.A.P. in Germany, and by the growing stranglehold of the blockade are reproduced in London.

The Daily Telegraph says: “No country could desire its chief enemy to betray himself more completely. Even the most faithful Nazis must wonder what hope remains in Hitler’s seething mind of invasion now that he has been reduced to tell them that he can set no date for the collapse of England, but that they must still be sure it will come.”

The Daily Telegraph thinks “nothing but raging fear of his overthrow could have produced his confession to the world of the havoc which Germany lias suffered from the air war.” PREMIER’S CONFIDENCE. Several commentators suggest that Hitler’s tirade 'had its proper answer in the words which Mr Churchill addressed informally to the New Zealand troops: “If some people think that that bad man is inclined to try his venture, we feel sure we shall give a good account of ourselves again.” . “We are now bearing the accumulated weight of the enemy’s malice and tyranny, but we do not feel overweighted by it,” added the Premier. “When you first arrived four months ago a comparatively small enemy army might have wrought havoc before they were finished off, but now we have most powerful armies, and if, as some people think.' that bad man is- inclined to try his venture, I feel sure we will give a good account of ourselves. “We do not feel lonely when the .sons from the Dominions overseas, where they breed the finest fighters, come here or go to other parts of the Empire to bear their part in this greatest- of all wars we have ever fought. None has been nobler and more right eons than this, and from none shall we with a greater sense of our duty done.” “A FIVE-YEAR WAR.”

The Times gives the following version of Hitler s speech: “’the British once said the war would last lor three years, but at the time I told Marshal Goering to prepare everytuing tor a fiveyear war. I hat did not mean I thought the war would last that long. “Come what may, Britain will collapse. I know no other end than this We must do away once and for all with the absurd state of affairs which enables one nation to blockade (an entire continent at its own sweet will. “I prefer to fight until a definite and final decision is reached. We are prepared for everything. The hour will strike when one of us breaks. That won’t be National Socialist Germany.”