DEFEATIST TALK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24326, 17 June 1940, Page 7

DEFEATIST TALK

CLASSED AS CRIMINAL A WAR OF CHARACTER NAZIS’ INEVITABLE DOOM LONDON, June 14. Mr Harold Nicholson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information. in a speech said that defeatism to-day was criminal. The Germans had captured and might destroy Paris, but die .t rench Army was unbroken. “The moment must come when the German armoured divisions will break down and their men drop from latigue,” he said. “ That moment may come as the French entrench south of Fans. “It won’t be on the' dry land of Europe that this war will be won—it wui oe on the seas, in the air, and in distant continents, as soon as the unlimited sources of the British Empire ana the Americas can be mobilised. “ The war will end' as a war of character. The German people don’t possess that strength of character. Momentarily they are flushed with victory and confident of their infallibility and their leader, but when the great Hitler myth is exploded their hearts will quail at the inevitable doom. “ Hitler prophesied that he would occupy Paris by June 15 and bring England to her knees by August 15. He fulfilled the first —the second will not be fulfilled! ”