REAL GERMAN MENACE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25053, 17 November 1944, Page 3

REAL GERMAN MENACE

MARSHALS AND GENERALS The marshals and the generals of' the Wehrmachi who sought to remove Hitler from tbo scene —the very generals who are now urging from Russia that the German people rise up against him —are not seeking his overthrow becauso of their detestation of the abominations of his Government or of the ruin which he has brought to the rest of the world, says Mr Sumner Welles in a recent article in an American journal. It was they themselves who throughout 11 years applauded the most criminal excesses of Nazism. It was they themselves who conceived the plans lor the German domination of the world which resulted in the second world war. It was they themselves who selected Hitler as the tool by which they thought those plans could bo best realised. Hitler has failed. The solo reason why they are today ttirning against him is because of his colossal failure. They seek now to take back into their own hands the control of German destinies. Thej; are trying to salvage what they may in the day of defeat. They hope, if they destroy Nazism, to secure treatment comparable to that accorded Marshal Badoglio and other leaders in the Italian .Army* Hitlerism is only the front. It is German militarism itself which is, and which will long remain, /fchereal menace* j