HITLER’S AIMS

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20918, 25 September 1939, Page 7

HITLER’S AIMS

TRIUMPH OR WAR TACTICS OF THE NAZIS DEMAND FOR WHITE PAPER (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 23 The Government White Paper giving a record of the diplomatic exchanges between Britain and Germany preceding the war is proving a best seller. Copies were being bought yesterday at the rate of 1000 an hour. The demand continues to be heavy to-day. Although the documents, collected in volume form, are primarily for the historian’s patient study, the general public interest has been deeply stirred by the graphic presentation of the sequence of events in the tragic drama. The curious study in the character and tactics of the Nazi leaders which the documents reveal is another feature upon which newspapers comment. The Times says: “The virtues of the German people as we have learned to know them in the years when they were permitted to be our friends, and to respect them even when they were our stubborn foes, are pre-eminently those of solidity and sobriety. That they should come to be officially represented by this clique of febrile and hysterical rhetoricians is a bewildering paradox which, in less tragic times, would be a cause for mirth. Same Boast by Nero “But when Hitler describes himself to Sir Nevile Henderson as, by nature, an artist and not a politician, laughter is damped by reflection that the same boast was made by Nero." The Manchester Gu'ardian concentrates its attention on the exchanges during the last few hours before war, which, it says, reveal that there was scarcely any pretence that the German Government had ever meant to negotiate. The whole world knows that Hitler was determined to have a triumph or war. He wanted a gesture from Britain, but that gesture was the surrender of the Polish people at his will. The Istanbul correspondent of the Exchange states that the Government is asking the Assembly to pass military credits totalling 20,000,000 Turkish pounds.