THE DANZIG SPEECH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 254, 27 October 1939, Page 6

THE DANZIG SPEECH

pHIS England must be a very terrible menace Io the world, if Herr ton liibbeiilrop is to be believed. The way lite English people are setting the peoples of the world at each other's throats in order that these English shall grab all the wealth anil have all the power, is diabolical in its cunning and in its black malice: The average Englishman must be spending most of his spare time singing a secret hymn of hate and wondering whom lie can rob next. Yet it is this same Englishman whom the Nazis affect to despise as an effete creature, not really worthy of i lie attention of a virile race. Hitler has declared that he—that means Germany—did not want to fight England again, and Ribbentrop, after living in England for some years and having the attention of quite a lot of notable people, became convinced that the English wouldn’t fight. So if the Germans don’t want lo fight, and the English wouldn’t in any case, there must have been an era of perfect peace being ushered into the world. But no! these effete English somehow or other have cleared the seas of German shipping, have flown over Berlin, and are getting ready for business on the Western Front, so Herr von Ribbentrop believes that the best service he can perform for Germany is to tell the English a nasty bedside story. That is all that the Danzig speech of this statesman amounts 10.