Germany Could Defy Blockade

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 212, 8 September 1938, Page 7

Germany Could Defy Blockade

Hitler’s Claim at Congress “TREMENDOUS ARMED FORCES” United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. NUREMBERG, Sept. 6. Herr Hitler’s proclamation at the Nuremberg Congress was read by the Fuhrer *s ‘radio double,’ Adolf Wagner, iu the presence of 22,000 party delegates from all over Germany. Herr Hitler traced the growth of the , Nazi Party, declaring that the nation had been cleansed of parasites and had begun its struggle against the greatest enemy threatening to destroy G-erraany —international Jewry. Tremendous armed forces, he added, protected the Reich by land, sea and air. Tho Nazis had succeeded in unfastening shackle after shackle of peace treaties, which were intended to destroy Germany for all time. Herr Hitler added: “English news- 1 paper reports that I Lave a burning 1 desire to conclude a pact with several c npt.Vns are false Wo at present 1 nave only two economic worries— Insufficient merr trained for industry and insufficient for agricultural work." i The proclamation glorified the cou ( rage and heroism of the common sol- s dier and contrasted it with the alleg- ( ed cowardice of the leaders in the ( Great War. He declared that the at- t tempt to rebuild Germany demanded ’ the extermination of old leaders. ‘ “The establishment of the Nazi or- 1 ganisation in Ostmark (Austria) is 1 complete. Unemployment will be com- a pletely overcome by the end of 1939,” the proclamation proceeded. “United Germany will continue to cling to the principle that she would rather suffer restrictions than again depend on foreign countries for supplies. The security of the nation must be placed before everything. “The idea that Germany can be blockaded can be abandoned as a totally ineffectual weapon. We have been blessed with a good harvest and have large reserve* of grain which will free us for years ahead from food anxieties. “Germany is deeply gratified tha another great world power is acting on her own experience and, by its own decision, is practising the same anti-Jcwish doctrine with admirable energy,”