HITLER MENACE

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21486, 30 July 1941, Page 5

HITLER MENACE

MUST BE DESTROYED PEACE MOVE LIKELY GERMANS MUST UNLEARN I (Official Wireless) (Received July 30, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, July 29 Mr Anthony Eden, speaking in London, said: “Four great communities are moving ever closer together in their determination to withstand the common menace, Hitler, and of any who work for him. Russia, China, the United States and the British Empire are surely pretty formidable obstacles to aggression. It may be this sense of events to come which is causing a new note to creep into Hitler propaganda, covertly for the present, but we may be sure more openly later on. “Hitler has broken countless promises. He has betrayed in turn every nation to which he has given pledges. “But now for the first time there ■ is a change. Now he is trying desperately to keep a promise. It is 1 the promise he made to the German people—a promise that the war shall end this year in a victorious German { peace. Hitler’s time-table is plainly ; cut of joint. “The Russians are putting up a magnificent resistance, which clearly exceeds the German calculations and many other calculations also.” “Peace Blitz” Soon Mr Eden added that a “peace, blitz” would soon be hurled at the Allies, and he repeated the assurance that the British Government is not > prepared to negotiate with Hitler at any time on any subject. The offer of a compromise peace would be a monument of moderation and sweet reasonableness—and hypocrisy. “Every nation will have to remain at war stations so as not to be caught unawares by a sudden attack launched without warning. We could never demobilise, we could never relax our war preparations and war restrictions. The fortifications round our coasts could not be removed. Our factories would have to continue the manufacture of munitions of war to keep up with those which Hitler would be piling up in secret for the next war—the next bid for world domination. “Hitler is not a rare and transient phenomenon in German history. He is a symptom. He is the expression cf the present German will and temper, which have shown themselves over and over again in German history. “If we are to have peace in our lifetime the German people must learn to unlearn all that they have been taught, not only by Hitler but by his predecessors for the last hundred years. “They can never even start to do this until Hitler, the great warmaker, has been exposed as a fraud and deposed as a failure.” Plans for the Future Speaking of the future, Mr Eden said that although military measures are essential it is not part of the British purpose to cause Germany or any other country to collapse economically. He said this was not out of any love for Germany, but because a starving and bankrupt Germany in the midst of Europe would poison all her neighbours. “While keeping watch and ward,” said Mr Eden, “it will be our duty to start at once upon the fashioning of a world in such a shape that the causes of rivalry and hatred may gradually be removed and, we pray, eventually eradicated. Here in London are the Governments of many Allied powers. They form an invaluable nucleus for the work we have to do. “We are already meeting and discussing our problems, though not always publicly. If we can look forward in all this work to the sympathy and co-operation of the United States, and indeed the American continent as a whole, then we can feel that we are building on a solid foundation.”