PEACE TERMS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4430, 26 May 1941, Page 5

PEACE TERMS

GERMANY STATES HER AIMS. PLUNDER OF EUROPE. (Official Service.) LONDON, 2nd May. “ What our victorious armies conquer we must preserve and admjnis ter for ever.”—(Dr Baure, Neue Tag. 17th October, 1940.) “ Axis Powers actually control territory they wish to organise, and therefore make beginning with their New Order.” —(Frankfurter Zeitung, 26th November, 1940.) “ Peace-time economy must guarantee to the greater German Reich the maximum of economic security of the German people, and the maximum consumption of goods, in order to increase the welfare of the people. European economics must be directed to this end. —. (Herr Funk, Reich Economic Minister, 25th July, 1940.) “ A country that is part of the greater German regional economy cannot be permitted to be better off than Germany itself.”—(Dr Disch - boech, German Kom'missar of the Netherlands.) “ Our people are destined to be the pivot and leaders of Europe’s new era. Post-war armaments will go on at the present rate, bringing new world pdWer to Germany, since she will take over the military defence and security of the entire European continent.” (Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 2nd September, 1940.) “ German labour and German capi - tal will have to be invested in every country in qroer to create economic unity. The German entrepeneur will assist in maintaining political aims.” (Kolnische Zeitung; “ From National Economy to Colonial Economy.”) Peace there will be only “ when the most superior type of manhood will have succeeded in subjugating the world to such an extent that this type is the sole master of the earth.” —.(Hitler in “Mein Kampf.”) “SWORD OF THE PEOPLE.” “ Peace that would be guaranteed . by the triumphant sword of people endowed with the power to master the world.” —Hitler. “ The German race: that is our faith.—lt has higher rights than all others.”—.(Dr Ley.) That Germany puts her- aims into practice can be affirmed by every country that has accepted Nazi “ peace.” Tens of thousands of Poles and Czechs have been rendered homeless in order to make way for incoming Germans, who in their turn “overtake ” all form of business and industry. Only the master-minded Germans are considered capable of “ managing ” conquered and protected countries. “ Germans alone can obtain higher education in Poland and Czecho-slo-vakia. In both countries universities and higher technical schools have been obliged to close by German order.”—(German communique, 17th of November, 1940.) “ In the higher administration no Pole sare employed.—(Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 6th October, 1940.) “ As regards Polish legal rights, practice shows that the strictest limitation is necessary.” (Ostdeutsche Beobachter, 26th October, 1940.) In point of fact, the Poles have no legal rights. The treatment of the victims of forcible transported labour to Germany i s shocking the civilised World. Scenes reminiscent of the slave markets of the Middle Ages are taking place daily. “ Germans are issued 'with red ration cards entitling them to quantities often double or more those allowed the green cards issued to Poles.”— (Litzmann Staedter Zeitung, 25th of April, 1940.) In December, 1940, Mueller Menhasu told the Wannsee Nazi Party School in Bremen; “The purpose of the New Order in Europe is to ensure the existence of oui - own people.” True to that promise, the “ love ” of the- Fuehrer is extended to Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France, and we might add to the Axis partner Italy in many respects. But that’s another story. LOWER STANDARD. “ The standard of living of the Dutch people must be lowered if the conquered country is to supply Germany with food.”—.(E'er Deutsche Volkswirt, 17th May, 1940.) So Holland, like all the rest, goes short of food and other commodities on which Germany’s greedy eyes have lighted. The Frankfurter Zeitung in August, 1940, told the Germans: “ In Norway, whenever one meets Norwegians, the main topic is the standard of living Wages used to be high, working hours short. There was plenty to eat, and plenty of good clothing. Since the beginning of the century Norway has had a period of almost uninterrupted prosperity. Can this last ? The German ‘ guest and foreigner ’ answers with as much assurance as is seemly—‘ it cannot last.’ ” The Wirtschaftsdienst puts it in plain language: “ Norway will be adjusted to the Continental price level; wages will be reduced, and Norway will no longer be allowed a higher standard of living than Continental countries.” Tc-day we hear there are no food reserves of any kind. Fish, always one of the main foods in Norway, is one of the few items not rationed but Norwegians are allowed only second-grade fish —all first-grade fish goes to Germany. INCREASED HATRED. The Nazis’ and Quislings’ highhanded treatment of the Norwegians has increased their hatred. In the words of their Prime Minister, Mr J. Nygaard Void; “ Hate of the oppressors is growing- every day in Czechoslovakia, Poland, the .Netherlands, Belgium, and France, aS well as in Norway, One day this hate will burst into a, blazing flame with decisive results.” Contrast Germany’s assertions with those of her victims. “ There can be no question of transport difficulty being added to the rigours of this winter for Germans, since Germany now

has under control the ruling stock of the greater part of Europe.”— (Deutsche Allegemeine Zeitung, 14th October, 1940.) The pathetic voice of Denmark: “ The shortage of goods wagons is causing the railways the greatest difficulties. Factories are in some cases stopping production and dismissing work people owing to their inability to secure wagons.”—(Vestkysten, Esbjerg, Denmark, 18th October, 1940.) The bully’s voice again: “ There is no fear of fuel difficulties in Germany during the coming winter. This was made possible by employing tens ol thousands of foreign coal miners.”— (Trans-Ocean, 23rd October, 1940.) FOOD RATIONS. Belgium sorrowfully admits that Belgians generally are finding their food rations insufficient, and there is considerable sickness. The food situation is aggravated by transport difficulties. Much of the first-class roiling stock is now in Germany. The fuel shortage is acute, and is rendered more so by the inability of the miners to work properly on their inadequate food rationings. Schools are closing down owing to lack of coal for heating. The plight of the population is deplorable, and they face with dread the long winter months. RUTHLESS EXPLOITATION. Germany ruthlessly exploits the workmen of France. More than one hundred thousand of them have been given a choice between unemployment and starvation in the home, and manual labour under appalling conditions and ruled by the mailed fist of the German overseer in Germany. France’s food supplies were plundered and her people left to suffer hunger and the illnesses that follow in the wake of under-nourishment. While German-controlled “ radioParis ” gives French housewives advice as to how to pickle horse-flesh, German menus offer to the Master Race the poultry and meat pilfered from France. What more evidence does the world need to be convinced that, reduced to a phrase, Germany’s aim is to grow fat on the life-blood of other nations ?