NAZI PLANS FOR DEFEAT

Patea Mail, 9 May 1941, Page 2

NAZI PLANS FOR DEFEAT

It is the conviction of the best informed opinion at Washington that Germany will not hesitate to provoke the United States into a declaration of war, or its equivalent in actual combataney, whenever the tide of her battle with Britain begins* to go against her as a consequence of American aid, writes the Washington correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald. ‘The writer recalls a conversation with a leading agent of America’s intelligence service, one responsible for the watch of German subversive activities in the United States, a former Gorman hiuiself, and perhaps one of the best informed men in Nazi philosophy. He said: “A thing but little understood in America is the course of procedure which the Nazi Party keeps in reserve in the event of defeat. Its published literature, from ‘Mein Kampf ’ down to the last printed instruction to the teacher in a German kindergarten, only retails how to win the ‘struggle.’ But their secret tenets involve a definite course of action 'n the event victory i»* impossible. It is, ‘lf you cannot defeat your enemy, pull him down with you. ’ Here bea a significance that has escaped those who foresee the defeat of Germany, ’*