TOPICS OF THE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20890, 23 August 1939, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY

Reply to Herr Hiller “If we were really sincere about the men who risk their lives in submarines,” writes Mr Emrys Hughes in Forward, “and by men I mean Germans and Italians as well as British and French, we would act on the assumption that when Hitler and the German Press sent their message they too meant what they said when they expressed their sympathy with the men who were choked to death in the Thetis. And if we had any imagination at all we would send a reply to Hitler and say, 'Yes, in building these submarines to sink each other's ships and drown and suffocate each other's sailors we are acting like a lot of cowards. What can we do about it ?’ If the British Government suddenly went mad (or sane?) and decided to do this, would there be no response in Germany ? It would at least test Hitler and the German Press. 1 believe that if a British Government would do something like this there would be response. For when the writer in the Volkischcr Beobachter wrote: 'Such events unite all —beyond political and other divisions—in a communal hope,' he was expressing the sincere feelings of millions of Germans too.”