GERMAN AIM IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 281, 26 August 1942, Page 5

GERMAN AIM IN RUSSIA

Entire Conquest Not Contemplated

SPEECH BY GOEBBELS (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received August 25, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 24. The Istanbul correspondent of “The Times” says that Turkish journalists who have returned from Germany where they were the guests of the German Government, report that food is scarce, but nobody is really starving, The hospitals are full of wounded. Hardly any family is not mourning a member killed or maimed. Shop windows display rich assortments, few, if any, of which can be purchased. ' The Reich Propaganda Minister, Dr. Goebbels, addressing the visitors, declared that Germany never intended to conquer the entire Soviet Union. She aimed to render the Soviet Union harmless, which would be achieved before the winter. Then it was up to the British to decide what to do next. An Allied invasion was absolutely out of the question. The German staff had found it dangerous and impracticable to invade England in 1940 when she was practically disarmed. It would be much more difficult for the Allies if they attempted the reverse process when Germany was fully prepared to receive them.