INTERVIEW WITH DR GOEBBELS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 January 1940, Page 5

INTERVIEW WITH DR GOEBBELS

“NEGATIVE BRITISH WAR AIMS” SOME ADMISSIONS MADE UNWITTINGLY LAME DENIAL OF DICTATORSHIP [U.P.A.~By Electric Teiefraph-Copyrtfbt] (Received 12th January, 12.35 p.m.) NEW YORK, llth January. Mr Lathrop Stoddard, famous American author, exclusively interviewed Dr. Goebbels for the North American Newspaper Alliance. The interview, aside from the antiEnglish fulminations and vaunts of German victory (which statement* were to be expected), was perhaps most notable for the admissions it makes unconsciously. Dr. Goebbels opened with the angry remonstrance that it was high time forty million people stopped dictating to eighty million as to when they should have a cup of coffee. “It i* human beings that count, not just material resources.” Dr. Goebbels, answering a remark by Mr Stoddard who said that the English seem to be trying to make the world believe that this is a struggle between democracy and dictatorship, said significantly: “The more you examine the British war aims the more negative they appear. The English admit they have nothing tangible to get out of this war, but that they have a lot to lose. We on the contrary have nothing to lose and everything to gain.” Dr. Goebbels having thus tacitly admitted that the Allied cause does not seek materiel aggrandisement, concluded the interview with the lame denial that Germany is a dictatorship. It is, he averred, “a political discipline forced on us by pressure of circumstances.”