HITLER’S SPEECH

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21836, 13 December 1940, Page 7

HITLER’S SPEECH

More Subdued Tone Views Of British Press British Official Wireless (.Received December 12, 7.30 p.m.) RUGBY, December 11. Familiar features of Hitler’s speeches, such as his tirades against Britain and his falsification of history, reappeared in yesterday’s utterance, but there is general agreement that it was pitched in a more subdued tone than usual, and that he w 7 as on the defensive and was lacking in his usual display of confidence. Lack of confidence in ultimate victory was detected in Hitler’s discussion of prospects in the event of defeat but, says “The Times,” “it can only be because Hitler reads British policy in the light of his own designs that he predicts that the loss of the war by Germany will mean the end of the German people and the dispersal of the German nation. This view already has been refuted in a British statement on the purposes for which Britain entered the war. Refutation will find an appropriate place in any future definition of British war terms, and every effort should be made to bring it to the knowledge of the German people. It is no part of British interests or British intentions to destroy Germany, or, as Hitler alleges, to impose a Westphalian peace. No European order can be complete from which Germany is excluded, and among the most important of Britain’s war aims is a Europe in which Germany occupies an equal but not a dominate place. This aim can be achieved only through the overthrow of Hitler and Hitlerism.” Inferiority Complex Regarding Hitler’s vigorous repudiation of the suggestion that he is feeling inferiority towards England, the “Daily Telegraph” says:—“When a man vows he never had any inferiority complex he gives the clearest of all proofs that the feat has him in its grip.” The “Daily Herald” says:—“lf Hitler believes that the masses in this country hanker for the destruction of their trade unions, the suppression of free

speech and free voting, for concentration camps and all bestialities of the Gestapo, he fools himsef. It is much more probable that he is trying only to fool his hearers.” It is assumed that Hitler was attempting an essay in lighter vein whe he declared that there was a world of difference between Eton College and Adolph Hitler school, “The Times” remarks. “That is true enough though it is perhaps worth recalling that the present Nazi Foreign Minister, during his residence in England, made some effort to send his two sons to that particular institution which Hitler appears to regard as further from his own ideal. Unlike Nazi Germany, Britain recognises the virtue of more than one form of education.”