German Papers Suppress Speech

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 1, 2 January 1941, Page 7

German Papers Suppress Speech

APPEAL TO LOWEST AMERICAN INSTINCTS Received Wednesdav, 7.20 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 31. The Berlin morning papers did not publish or mention President Roosevelt’s speech. Official silence is also maintained, although other United States nows, such as Verne Marshal’s appeal to President Roosevelt against involvement in the war, was issued copiously by the DNB radio.

Informed sources said the German press reaction will described Mr. Roosevelt’s speech as ‘’very aggressive and an appeal to the lowest instincts of the American people, also unworthy in tone, not strong in arguments and unconvincing.”

Tho press could bo regarded as tho only direct German reaction to the speech. Hitler’s Order of the Day could not be so regarded. The German radio stated that Roosevelt misconstrued Hitler’s “I can beat any Power in the world with my gold, which is the work of German labour” to mean that “Hitler was seeking world domination,” and added: “Roosevelt, as the result of a false interpretation of the Fuhrer’s statement, believes also that the Reich is threatening America. ’ ’