POLITICAL FIELD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25802, 24 March 1945, Page 7

POLITICAL FIELD

ADVANTAGES WITH GERMANY GOEBBELS STILL BOASTFUL (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, Mar. 23. “ We have become poor in the means necessary to wage war, but we shall try to make up for this deficiency by bold and grandiose improvisations,” writes Goebbels in the latest issue of Das Reich. “We shall beat our enemies in the east and the west. The present military situation almost entirely favours our enemies, and the military and political crisis of this war is likely to become still more acute in the immediate future. However, in the political field the advantages are all on the German side. Claiming political unity, the Allies ended with a determination to destroy Germany.” Goebbels declared that beyond this point there were rooted differences among the Allies all along the line. The approach of danger to the soil of Germany had again called forth in the nation the famous Furor Teutonicus —that holy wrath which had overcome the initial paralysing horror. “That we have suffered defeats is’due solely to the enemy’s material superiority. We suffer bitterly at the thought that the enemy is now fighting on our soil in the east and the west, but we are determined to exploit our tactical and strategic advantages arising from this fact, regardless of the cost. If the enemy tries to force us to our knees by terror, we shall react with equally effective — nay, more effective—counter terror.”