FRANTIC NAZI FURY

Southland Times, Issue 23949, 16 October 1939, Page 7

FRANTIC NAZI FURY

Disillusionment In Germany

MR CHAMBERLAIN CONDEMNED (British Officia Wireless) (Received October 15, 9.30 p.m.) RUGBY, October 14. The morning newspapers deal with the German reactions to Mr Chamberlain’s speech. The News Chronicle s comment on the Nazi official statement that the speech is “an insult to Germany” and that Britain’s object is ‘to destroy the German people,” asks why, if this be so, was free publication of the speech held up in Germany and whether it was customary to suppress the enemy’s insults. “It would be difficult,” says the News Chronicle, “to invent a more fantastic perversion. Take one sentence in Mr Chamberlain’s speech: ‘I am certain that all the peoples of Europe, including the people of Germany, long for peace—-a peace which will enable them to live

their lives without fear and devote their energies and gifts to the development of their culture, the pursuit of their ideals and the improvement of their material prosperity.’ Does that sound like a threat to destroy the German people; is that insulting?” The Daily Telegraph says: “Judging by the reactions which he excited, Mr Chamberlain has every reason to be satisfied with the reply he made to Herr Hitler’s so-called ‘peace proposals.’ “The speech was applauded in France and in the Dominions and almost unreservedly approved by neutral States, including the United States. Not even the Rome radio was hostile.

“Noting that Mr Chamberlain, while maintaining his point of view did not definitely reject the possibility of peace, an Italian commentator declares: ‘ltaly’s position as a neutral remains unchanged.’ Violently contrasted with this manifestation of neutral countries, is the outbursts of frantic fury in Germany—fury embittered it seems by painful disillusionment. “Evidently Germany had persuaded itself that France and Britain would collapse at the blast of Herr Hitler’s trumpets like the walls of Jericho falling before the trumpets of Joshua. It was complacently supposed that Poland having been crushed and dismembered, nothing remained but to celebrate one more characteristic Hitler triumph and assimilate the spoil at leisure before staging another smash and grab assault upon neighbours’ freedom.” The Daily Telegraph adds: “If Herr Hitler were sincere in his desire for a stable peace he could find in Mr Chamberlain’s reply ample opportunity for putting forward proposals worthy of consideration. If he is not sincere then it would be in the last degree imprudent to be drawn into a net of mere make-believe negotiations.” The Daily Herald says: “Fortunately, in the rest of the world where the writ of Hitlerism does not run, the purpose of the British policy is understood and appreciated. Some day it may be understood by the people of Germany also and then it will be possible to negotiate with the free men and women of a new Reich, a decent and lasting peace.”

RUTHLESS GERMAN INTENTION SEVERE “CLEANSING” OF POLAND (Received October 15, 8.30 p.m.) BERLIN, October 14. Herr Albert Foerster, Herr Hitler’s deputy in the Polish Corridor, speaking at Bromberg, declared the intention of ruthlessly cleansing Poland of scoundrels, robbers and Jews. “We do not want history to charge us with missing an historic hour,” he said. “We cannot be severe enough; softness would be a mistake.”

A German High Command communique states that troop movements towards the Russo-German frontier have ended.

CANADIAN SOLDIERS FOR OVERSEAS SERVICE

(Received October 15, 9.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, October 14,

Informed circles state that the first overseas division of 16,000 men will go to England within two months to complete their training. They will spend the winter in England.