Allies Have Hopes But Axis Have Fears

Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 51, 2 March 1943, Page 5

Allies Have Hopes But Axis Have Fears

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 28.

Contrasting present conditions with those ruling a year ago, the DeputyPrime Minister (Mr. Attlee), in a speech to electors in Lancashire, said the attitude of mind both in Britain and Germany had changed with the war situation.

In Germany and the countries called her allies, there had been a change from confidence in victory to a gloomy realisation of eventual defeat. Instead of talking of the new order, they were going to establish, the Nazis were asking their people to contemplate the terrible things which would happen if they were defeated. They were employing the stimulus of fear instead of the stimulus of hope. In Britain and the countries of the United Nations, there was an increase of confidence in the certainty of ulti mate victory. While they knew hard battles had still to be fought, they were looking far beyond the war and contemplating conditions when normal life would be taken up again. The Allies did not desire to exterminate Germany, but after the way the Germans had acted to the conquered peoples, there could be no easy way out for them. There was yet no evidence that they had undergone a change of heart, and it would be a long and difficult task to re-educate those whose whole natures had been so deliberately distorted by Nazi doctrines. The first step was total defeat. After that the Allies must accept the burdens and responsibilities of guarding against future aggression.