NAZI THREAT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23507, 18 November 1939, Page 11

NAZI THREAT

TERMS FOR PEACE "AFTER VICTORY" MILITARY JUDGMENT WILL NOT BE GOADED By Telegraph—Press Association —.Copyright LONDON, Nov. 10 " Germany is going to carry on the war until British supremacy is destroyed," stated an authorised spokesman in Berlin. " When we have won the war it will be time to discuss peace terms. We are as ready to fight as we were for peace." Asked why Germany had not attacked, he said: " Speculators assert that we need to attack in order to keep up the morale of Germany. It is sakl that we might even have to attack in the south-east because Kibbentrop needs a success to show to the Fuehrer. " We do not fear to attack, but we intend to let military judgment choose the time and not be goaded on by foreign propaganda." Official circles in Brussels say they believe that Hitler will send a personal communication to King Leopold and Queen Wilhelmina, in answer to their recent joint mediation appeal. The Dutch press suggests that if Britain and France explained that their replies were not intended as brusque negatives there would be no ground for the German refusal to continue the negotiations.

SUMMARY REJECTION NAZI ACTION REGRETTED HITLER'S POLICY CLEAR YOKE ON SMALLER POWERS LONDON, Nov. 16 The Leader of the Opposition, Mr. C. R. Attlee, said in the House of Commons that all members regretted that the peace efforts of the two monarchs of the Low Countries had been so summarily rejected by Germany. They joined in the hope that those peaceful peoples would not be drawn into the war.

The Liberal Leader, Sir Archibald Sinclair, said that Britain had delivered to the Dutch and Belgian initiative a reply which seemed to him and his Liberal friends to bo admirable. " No one dares to suggest that the aggressor should be left with the spoils of aggression, or that we should make peace before the countries which have been victims of Nazi aggression are liberated," he said. " Some people suggest that if only we would negotiate now with Hitler we could achieve that purpose without going on with the war. " Britain and France have answered that they do not want to continue the war a day longer than is necessary to achieve their object. They have welcomed Queen Wilhelmina's initiative. Hitler has refused even to answer the Queen's original letter, and it is now abundantly clear to the whole world that Hitler is continuing this war for no other reason than to fasten the Nazi yoke firmly on the Czechs and Poles. The sole responsibility for refusing the negotiations rests on him."

ALLIED CAUSE RECENT STRENGTHENING COLLABORATION WITH POLES J British Wireless LONDON, Nov. 16 "Developments during the past fortnight have strengthened the position of the Allies," said Sir John Simon in the course of the war review read in the House of Commons. "In particular, the United States has, by recent legislation, restored to us the right to purchase the abundant supplies they are able to offer lis." deferring to the breakdown of the Finnish-Soviet negotiations, which he described as a less satisfactory incident, Sir John Simon said it had, however, been, emphasised in official circles in Finland that it did not represent a final rupture between the two countries, and that the negotiations might he resumed at a later stage. "Fresh evidence of close and friendly collaboration between ourselves and our Allies is afforded by the official visit which the Polish Prime Minister and Foreign Minister are now paying to ibis country," he continued. " A detachment of the Polish Navy is already giving valuable service in cooperation with the Royal Navy, and we hope it will be possible to take early steps in consultation with the French Government to organise a self-con-tained Polish military force for service in France. Such forces will, in addition to their intrinsic military value, be symbolic of the right to independent national existence which it_ is the purpose of the struggle to vindicate on behalf of the gallant Polish people."

JEWS IN POLAND BERLIN, Nov. 16 The official news agency states that tlio Jewish districts in Poland are segregated and strongly guarded because they arc dangerous centres of contagion. Vaccination of all civilians has been ordered.