GERMANY’S WISH

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 98, 19 January 1935, Page 7

GERMANY’S WISH

Hitler Voices Desire For Peace RIGHT TO EQUALITY Condition of Country’s Return to League ASSURANCE TO FRANCE By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received January 18, 7.15 p.m.) London, January 17. “Do you think it possible to preach peace to a people for 10 years and then suddenly to launch them into war,” said Herr Hitler, when interviewed by Mr. Ward Price, the English journalist, at Munich, when replying to a suggestion heard in France that the policy of reconciliation would last only until the Reichswehr was sufficiently strong to start another war. Herr Hitler added: “When I talk peace I am expressing the Germans’ most profound and sincerest wish. I know the horrors of war too well. No possible results can justify its sacrifices and sufferings. Moreover, *nother general bout of European slaughter would be even more catastrophic than hitherto and the only gainers would be the Communists. I have not fought them for 15 years in order eventually to establish their mad rule. My aim is the well-being of my people. “I say plainly that Germany will never break the peace, but if anyone attacks us they will fall on a hornet’s nest because we love freedom as much as peace. Simultaneously I solemnly affirm that no pressure will lead us to sacrifice honour and the right to equality. Without compulsion I have given France an assurance that we have voluntarily abandoned all notions of revenge. Germany will return to the League only when treated completely with equality.”