Press On Fuehrer's Tirade Of Whines, Threats

Northern Advocate, 1 February 1940, Page 5

Press On Fuehrer's Tirade Of Whines , Threats

(Received 2.80 p.m.) Rt Tt IS Y, January 81. VERY FULL REPORTS OF HITLER’S SPEECH ARE PUBLISHED IN THE LEADING NEWSPAPERS, WHICH. HOWEVER, REGARDED IT AS A SINGULARLY UNINSPIRING UTTERANCE, DESPITE ITS VAGUE THREAT AND JEERS, FOR THE LEADER OF A NATION IN TIME OF WAR. Most of it was but a dull repetition of what tie has always said dozens of times in the past few years.

The Old Caricature. « “The Times’’ says: “Hitler spoke again of the Allies as having forced the war upon Germany, and again he fails to show why, if that be true, they did not launch the war upon her long before her armaments reached the perfection of which Hitler now boasts. “We have the old caricature of the British Empire pictured as the possessor of 44,000,000 people and of British policy in the past. “But his perception of history has been refuted times without number. “Last night’s tirade of whines, threats and hatred is interesting only as an example of the systematic mendacity upon which the German morale is apparently built.” Betrayed Dread of Britain. The “Daily Telegraph” says: "We may be well satisfied to find ourselves the special object of his abuse. “Each shriek of it betrays his dread of British power and his consciousness of German inferiority in the contest which he has provoked, and on which he has staked his all.

“He knows, and cannot refrain from blurting out, his uneasy knowledge that he has aroused the whole world against his regime. “Today the whole world is shouting Germany must be destroyed.’ Could the leader of a nation make a more complete or more ignominious confession of failure?” Rant of Man Unbalanced.

The “Yorkshire Post” says: “Hitler’s speech was the rant of a man unbalanced. “Studying it for analytical treatment one recalls with some surprise how many of us used to hang upon his words, and perhaps convince ourselves of the humane peace-seeking purpose behind them. “This morning we see the old hypocrisy trying the discredited old tricks. ■ “Once more this destroyer of liberty, this torturer of innumerable victims assumes the air of the wronged innocent. “He wants us to believe he would have done no harm to anyone if he had not been provoked by Britain and French hatred. Warfare on Truth. The “Yorkshire Post” adds: “Hitler, in closing his boastful speech admitted, if only for rhetorical effect, that Germany might fall—there is no doubt about it if we and the French maintain our nerve and hold on with all our strength. “His latest speech—a piece of unrestricted warfare upon, truth—will strengthen our resolve.” The “Daily Mail” says: “This speech is as worthless as all the others. “It does not matter.

“If the Germans are content with these outpourings, they must indeed be a patient and credulous people.” “Will Never Lower Flag.”

Concluding his speech yesterday, Hitler said:

“Eighty million people are now stepping to the front.

“The number of our enemies is about the same, but our people have strong faith. “I am merely the nation’s spokesman.

“My person is not at stake, but I am not one who would ever lower the flag.

“At the beginning of the eighth year of the National-Socialist revolution our hearts turn to the future.

“We shall fight and conquer, but never capitulate. Begged for Justice

“Germany has been unable to obtain justice, although she begged it for years.

“Territorial changes could have been produced peacefully had Britain and France not wanted war and not refused offers to negotiate. “Britain and France were determined to take up the cudgels from the moment of the Reich’s awakening. “Devil With Prayer Book” “Britain, for three centuries, pursued a policy of preventing the consolidation of Germany. “Britain’s history refutes Chamberlain’s war aims. “When Chamberlain walks about, Bible in hand, preaching his war aims,

he reminds me of the Devil with a prayer-book, stalking a human soul. Praise for Churchill “It is all obsolete stuff, no longer believable. “Compared with this attitude, I praise Churchill, who has uttered what Chamberlain secretly thinks. “We cannot longer tolerate Britain’s possession of a quarter of the globe, or France’s disproportionate holding. “This problem must be solved."