MR. CHAMBERLAIN’S SPEECH
I IL\ M tIEHLALX'S speech was along lines that were to have been expected. In a sense they run parallel to the lines of his previous speech, intimating Britain’s position in respect to the present conflict. Hiller wants peace, but there is no guarantee that he will keep it. Hitler wants a conference, but that only means that the world shall endorse his brigandage in Czechoslovakia and Poland. Hiller wants friendship with England, but only in order to isolate her from her allies and then attack either France or England. Hitler's speech was a notice of his intention to pursue the aggressive path that he has trodden ever since he (‘merged on to Hie world stage. The economic plan of Dr. Schacht tor neutrals is no more than a proposal for their economic enslavement. It provides an earnest of the kind of peace that would be acceptable to Nazi Germany. When a'regime makes war on the best elements of its own country, when it abolishes law and order, when security is• destroyed, when human life and human rights are not held, to be sacred within its own borders that country can know no peace and it cannot engage in a peaceful policy abroad. With the Germany of to-day there can be no peace, for peace with Germany is an impossibility.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 244, 16 October 1939, Page 6
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