NAZI NEW ORDER

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24135, 29 November 1941, Page 12

NAZI NEW ORDER

REPLY TO RIBBENTROP PICTURE OF EUROPE TO-DAY MR. ANTHONY EDEN'S ADDRESS (Becd. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 27 A picture of what German rule means in Europe to-day was given in the House of Commons by the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, says a British official wireless message. The picture was built up from figures officially admitted by c the Germans. ! In Czecho-Slovakia, from September 27 to October 29, there were 332 i executions, and 1308 persons were handed over to the Gestapo. In Yugo- i slavia, since the occupation there had I been 1132 executions. In France, since c August 13 there had been 250 executions. A German order of June 23 re- c ported that 100 Serbs were executed for 1 the assassination of two German sol- 1 diers, and so on. J "These are German figures, not ours,'' Mr. Eden said. "I think the ' House would probably be not far wrong 1 if it assumed that killings in Yugo- 1 slavia alone since the German occupa- 1 tion numbered 35,000. This is German ' rule in Europe. j No Assurance by Russia (

"In Berlin yesterday, there was a ] luncheon party of Axis Quislings, pre- j sided over by the German _ Foreign Secretary, Ribbentrop. In his speech, Ribbentrop made the statement that in 1 1940 we had received an assurance that < Soviet Russia would come into the war i on the side of Britain. We never received siich assurances at all. Had there been such an assurance, the whole' history of the Balkan campaign _ and its outcome would have been very different. On the contrary, we were handicapped continuously by the fact that Russia held strenuously to her obligations under the German-Soviet pact. \ "Not until German troops had crossed the Russian frontier wore there any conversations, military or political, between us and the Russian Government.- I have spoken of this not merely to deny the ■ trend of Ribbentrop's observations, hut because I want to refer to what I believe is_ probably the underlying purpose of this conference. Peace Offensive Planned "It was to seek to prepare for a peace offensive. I do not mean by that an offer bv Hitler. Mr. Churchill at the Mansion House dealt so faithfully with any manoeuvre of that kind that we need not expect an offer. Hitler's plan is different. "He finds himself confronted by continuous vigorous Russian resistance. His plans, which were laid on the early de* feat of Russia, are to that extent awry. Therefore he has need of a respite, and is trying to persuade the nations of Europe that the only way they can get peace is by coming into his new order. "By joining him, he says, they will be successful in bringing Britain and Russia to terms. Well, h® is wrong. Whatever other countries may do about the new order, will not affect our policy one jot. We know only too well what Hitler's new order means. I would remind all remaining neutrals that this new order is based on the principle of 'herrenvolk,' Gyeat Slave Market of World "Plans are perfected, we know, for moving large populations from one part lof Europe to another. Industrial activity is going to be concentrated in the eastern territories for the exclusive profit of Germanv. President Roosevelt has well said that Berlin is the! great slave market of the world. _ "A great part of the German mind and energies has been devoted to the creation of a military machine, whose force would" impose the German wdl on other nations, These are horrible doctrines which have led to five attacks on other nations in Europe. For 150 years they have been built up, and I find their final expression in Nazi tyranny.