FANATICAL RESOLVE

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22154, 28 September 1943, Page 3

FANATICAL RESOLVE

HITLER’S DETERMINATION LONDON, Sept. 27 A message from Hitler, in which he asserted his “fanatical resolve to continue the struggle,” was read by the Reich Commissioner, Terboven, at a meeting at Oslo yesterday of the leading members of the Quisling Party. In a message quoted by the Oslo radio. Hitler said: “We are engaged in a life and death struggle against Bolshevism and its plutocratic helpmates. The German people are bearing the decisive burden of this struggle, with its heavy sacrifices in blc-od and property. I am aware that the issue of this battle will decide the destiny, not only of the German Reich, but also of the Germanic peoples and the entire Continent for centuries to come. “It is fanatically resolved,” the message said, “to continue these sacrifices in the unshakable conviction that this resolute firmness will in the end lead to victory and thus create the conditions necessary for the construction of a pacified Europe. U is the Fuehrer’s unchangeable will that after the victorious conclusion of this fateful struggle National Sccia’ist Norway should arise in liberty and independence, surrendering on the higher plane of the European community those functions only which are essential for the security of Europe for all time.” Harder U-boat Warfare The belief that the Nazis will reopen U-boat warfare in a final attempt to forestall the opening of a second front is expressed by diplomatic quarters who maintain close contact with Germany, says the Istanbul correspondent of the Herald-Tribune. These quarters say that Germany has abandoned the hope that submarines can starve England into sub--1 mission, but hope heavy attacks by technically improved U-boats may make the Allied shipping position as serious as last spring, in which event the more cautious Allied leaders might postpone the opening of a second front, thus increasing friction between the democracies and Russia. The Wehrmacht would withdraw in Russia to the line of approximately the frontiers of 1941. The Nazis would attempt to utilise Allied dissension to persuade tne Russians, since all Soviet territory was liberated, that a second front would not be .opened, and the Russians would do well to sign an armistice or arrive at a tacit understanding under which the Eastern Front offensive would cease. There is no hint so f*7.r from Russian quarters of any such arrangement being contemplated.