Roosevelt Worries Hitler

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 2, 3 January 1941, Page 7

Roosevelt Worries Hitler

Grandiese Calculations Completely Upset FUHRER’S NEW YEAR OUTBURST ANALYSED (British Official Wireless.) Received Thursday, 9.20 p.m. RUGBY, .Tan. 1. The significance of President Roosc vclt’s talk on Sunday night has not apparently been lost on Hitler, whose New Year proclamation to the German people is regarded in London as that of a man whose grandiose calculations have been completely upset by the American exposure of his designs and the British resistance to their execution. The Times regards the proclamation as more sober than some of Hitler’s recent outpourings and finds in it abundant proof, if proof were needed, “of tho malignant militaristic ambitions now so belatedly, dishonestly and inadequately veiled by talk. Where was the New Order when Hitler began the war on Poland?” it asks. One feature of the proclamation which attracted attention is its implicit recognition of the hopelessness of attempts to placate the United Stales and his familiar references to the “have” nations were clearly intended to cover the United fitates. Hitler’s attack on the democracies as greedy capitalists “oppressing nations and gathering together their so-called wealth” is obviously designed for internal conscmption since it can hardly be expected to convince those wilh experience at first hand of Nazi exploitation or spoilation. Germany is in fact now busily engaged in making herself a “have” Power at the expense of her “have not” neighbours. The American Associated Press Washington correspondent says high defence production experts have reluctantly termed the C. 1.0. ’a 500-plane production plan impractical due to the difficulty of obtaining sufficient machine tools either new or old, also the impossibility of obtaining sufficient aluminium products and the allocation of automobile plants to other major “defence programme undertakings.