THREAT BY HITLER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1941, Page 5

THREAT BY HITLER

“CONVOYS MEAN WAR” REPORTED ULTIMATUM TO U.S.A. ATTACK ON THE AMERICAS RIDICULED. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) MONTREAL, June 6. A copyright message to the North American Newspaper Alliance states that the former United States Ambassador to Belgium, Mr Cudahy, who is now in Europe, had an interview with Hitler. "Convoying means war,” Mr Cudahy says Hitler stated. The Fuehrer insisted that the Anglo-Saxon maritime Powers had set the precedent for a long time that the escorting of munitions to the enemy with armed naval forces was a warlike act. Hitler laughed at the idea that Germany planned the conquest of the Western Hemisphere and said it was about as fantastic as an invasion of the moon. He believed the idea was being furthered by warmongers who wanted war because it would be profitable for business. He was confident the Navy and Army chiefs of the United States, like the German chiefs, considered invasion of the Americas wildlj' imaginary. The combined shipping of the United States, Britain and Germany would be insufficient to transport the army of millions which would be required for that. The Fuehrer said he had never heard anybody in Germany say the Mississippi River was a German frontier in the same spirit' as the Australian Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, had referred to the Rhine as a frontier of Australia, but since the Rhine was their frontier he had decided to send some of the Australian prisoners to the Rhine so that they might acquaint themselves with the frontier atmosphere. ' | NAZI LIES EXPOSED AND SMASHED BY MR ROOSEVELT. LONDON, June 6. President Roosevelt exposed and smashed today tv/o orders issued by the German propaganda agency to Nazis and Fascists in the United States. The first 1 order was for Nazis and Fascists to propagate the idea that Germany had no thought of taking any action against any country in the Western Hemisphere. The second was that Nazis and Fascists, as soon as Mr Winant returned to Washington, should spread reports that the British were just about all in and were talking of peace proposals. Mr Roosevelt said his observations could be taken not as a denial, but as an accusation of lying on the part of the authors of these stories. Mr Winant had returned in the first place to report on many items relating to Britain’s conduct of the war and on a number of matters about defence.