THE CHINA MAİL, DECEMBER 23, 1939
GOEBBELS COMMISERATES OVER CHRISTMAS
Berlin, To-day.
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"EITHER WE RESIGN AS A greater power or we win this war," declared Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Pro- paganda Minister, addressing a political Christ- THIS mas party at which Germans, repatriated Ger- mans from the Baltic countries and evacuees from the Saar were present.
Dr. Goebbels said the German people would never be
separated from their Fuehrer, and continued: "Germany celebrates this Christmas with that pro- found faith which is always a prerequisite of vic-
tory.
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"HITLER SPEAKS"
(Continued from Page 10) tehnique and armament. We can- not, like Bismarck, limit ourselves to national alma. We must rule Europe or fall apart as a nation, fall back Into the chaos of small states. Now do you understand why cannot be limited, either in the east or in the west?" Hitler paced the room in great ex- citement.
of
Referring to the repatriation Germans from the Baltic, Dr. Goeb- bels said he knew it meant suffering for many, but hard suffering inevitable in these times.
was
There was hardly anybody in Ger- many who was not suffering difficul- ties and hardships, and certainly no- body who didn't want to suffer!
"Germany's very existence is at stake," Dr. Goebbels exclaim- ed.
"If, during the first weeks of the war the Allied politicians tried to persuade the world that they were fighting against Hitlerism, without wanting to injure the German people, nobody is, trying to conceal to-day that it is their goal to strike Germany down.
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Then with prodigious self-suffi- on these plans, ciency, he enlarged which at the time were all the more astonishing since they seemed to lack In the slightest hope of realisation. 1934 they were madness: in 1940 they It is not sur- will perhaps be fact. prising that a man who has been able
realise so
many of his dreams should be drunk with power und be- lieve himself a god.
"A new Empire never rises other wise than by blood and iron, by n firm will and brutal force. In the
"It isn't really important to know centre I shall place the steely core of who wanted this war we are at a Greater Germany welded into an
war, and this is the all-important indissoluble unity. Then Austria, fact." Reuter. Bohemia, and Moravia, western Pq- land. A block of one hundred million. indestructible, without an alien ele- ment, the firm foundation of our alliance: an Eastern power. Then Poland, the Baltic states, Hungary, the Balkan states, the Ukraine, the Volga basin, Georgia. An alliance, but not of equal partners; it will be an alliance of vassal states, with no army, no separate policy, no separate economy. I have no intention of making con cessions on sentimental grounds, such as re-establishing Hungary, for exam- ple. I make no distinction between friends and enemies. The day of small states is past, in the west as well. 1 shall have a Western Union too, of Holland, Flanders, Northern France. and a Northern Union of Denmark, Sweden and Norway."
Hitler was silent for a little, lost in the contemplation of his vision.
X'MAS
1939
To
All Motorists
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS
From
The Management
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Hitler's Imagination ranged over the entire world. He would attack Britain at all her weakest points, Но India no less than Canada. planned the occupation of Sweden as well as Holland.
The latter country, in particular, seemed to him a valuable jumping-off ground for air and submarine attack on England,
"In less than eight hours we shall break through to their coast," he tolo me, in a tone of malignant triumph. A situation might arise, he explained, in which he might risk a great war. In that case, he would remain on the de- fensive, and leave it to the enemy to take the first aggressive step. On the enemy's doing so, he would then seize on Holland, Denmark, Switzerland and the Scandinavian states, improve his strategic positions, and propose peace under certain guarantees.
"If they don't like it, they can try to drive me out. In any case they wi). have to bear the main burden of al- tack."
On my
suggesting that another blockade of Germany would bring de.eat, he laugned derisively.
"The day of Britain's might at son is past. Aircraft and the U-boat have turned aurface fiesta into the obsolete playthings of the wealthy democracies. They are, no longer a serious weapon in de- cisive warfare."
One other item in this conversation with Hitler seemed to me remarkable, and that was his view of Italy. He. spoke of Fascism with almost hostile contempt, as a half-measure.
era.
real
"The Italians can never be trained to become a warlike people, nor has Fascism ever understood the meaning of the great upheaval of our Of course we can make tempor- ary alliances with Italy; but ulumate- ly we National Sociausts stand alone, as the only ones who know 'the secre. or these giganuc, cnang«s, and toere- tore as those chosen to set their seal. on the coming age.”
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