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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 23, 1939

|“HITLER SPEAKS”

By Dr. Rauschning

ON HIS FOREIGN

POLICY:

BRITAIN, FRANCE, ITALY AND POLAND

"Then I shall force her. It would be a simple matter for me to partition Poland." I asked Hitler what he meant.

We were discussing Poland and I course," he continued after a pause, had told the Fuehrer that Poland "I shall do everything in my power would hardly be likely to surrender to prevent co-operation between Bri- any of her western territories to Ger- | taln and France. If I succeed In many.

bringing in Italy and Britain on our side, the first part of our struggle for power will be greatly facilitated. Anyhow, we don't for a moment pre- tend to believe that this degenerate Jewish democracy has any more vitality than France or the United States. It will be my mission to see that at least an effort is made to in- herit this disintegrating empire peacefully, so that conflict can be not avoided entirely. But I shall shrink from war with Britain if it is "I could at any time come to an necessary. Where Napoleon failed, I agreement with Soviet Russia," he said shall succeed. To-day there is ΠΟ at last, as he paused and faced me. I such thing as an island. I shall land "I could partition Poland when and on the shores of Britain. I shall

"All our agreements with Po- land have a purely temporary significance. I have no intention of maintaining a serious friendship with Poland. I do not need to share my power with anyone." He paced the room in silence for some minutes.

how I pleased. But I don't want to. It would cost too much. If I can avoid It, I will not do it. I need Poland only so long as I am still menaced by the West."

"Do you seriously intend to fight the West?" I asked.

He stopped and looked at me. "What else do you think we're arm- ing for?" he retorted.

I said that I thought this would surely call forth a hostile coalition against Germany which would be too strong for her.

"That it what I have to prevent. We must proceed step by step, so that no one will impede our ad- How to do this I don't yet But that it will be done

vance.

k low.

is guaranteed by Britain's lack of firmness and France's internal disunity."

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destroy her towns from the mainland. Britain does not yet know how vunerable she is to-day."

"But supposing Britain, France and Russla make an alliance?"

"That would be the end, But oven If wo could not conquer then, we should drag half the world into destruction with us, and leave no one to triumph ovar Germany. There will not be another 1918. We shall not sur- render."

I remarked that the lesson for Ger- many of the last war seemed to me to be this: That it was unwise to rouse all nations against us by our too ambitious political aims, and thus be left in the end without allies.

Hitler lost patience with me. "If Germany is to become a world power, and not merely a continental Hitler then began to talk about his state (and it must become a world favourite subject, the pacifism of Bri- | power if it is to survive), then it tain and France. I have heard him must achieve complete sovereignty and many times reiterate his unshakable independence," he shouted. "Do you conviction that Britain was quite in- understand what that means? Is it capable of waging another war, and not clear to you how tragically that France, in spite of her magni-mutilated we are by the restriction ficent army, could, by the provocation and hemming-in of our vital space, a of internal unrest and disunity in restriction which condemns us to the public opinion, easily be brought-to status of a second-rato-power in..... the point where she would only be Europe? Only nations living indepen- able to use her army too late or not dently in their own space and capable at all. I objected that we might find of military defence can be world ourselves grievously mistaken in our powers. Only such nations are belief in the impotence of Britain and sovereign in the true sense of the France.

word.

Hitler laughed scornfully. He would not live to see Britain again at war with Germany. "Britain needs a strong Germany. Britain and France will never again make common cause against Germany."

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"Do you intend to break the Maginot Line,” I asked, "or will you march into Holland and Belgium? If you do the latter, you will certainly bring Britain in on the side of France."

"If they have time to come in," Hitler returned. "Besides, I shall nelther break through the Maginot Line nor enter Belgium. I shall manoeuvre France right out of her Maginot Line without. losing a single soldier."

I must have looked sceptical, for Hitler added triumphantly:"

"How to do it is my secret! Of-

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"Russia is such a state," he went on, "the United States, Britain but only by artificial means, not at all from the nature of its populated France is such a state up to Why should we be worse

areas. a point. off?"

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"We nood space," he almost shrieked, to make us Indepan- dent of every possible political grouping and alliance. In the east, we must have the mastery as far as the Causasus and Iran. In the west, we need the French coast. - We need Flanders and "Holland. Above all we need Sweden. Wo must become a colonial power. We must have a sea power equal to that of Britain. The material basis for indenpendence · grows, with the increasing demands of

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