ANSWER TO HITLER

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 116, 13 November 1939, Page 7

ANSWER TO HITLER

EMPIRE STANDS FIRM

FUHRER'S FALLACIOUS VIEW

LESSON OF HISTORY

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, November 11.

Manifestations of the free and willing co-operation of all parts of the Empire with the effort Mother Country is making, gives cause for gratification, but not for surprise, 'in Britain, and affords a complete answer to Herr Hitler's familiar denunciation of the British Empire as a conspiracy to reduce weaker people to servitude under the nahie of liberty, or protection.,,

In a broad view of the progress of the war in various parts of the Empire—in the colonies no less than in the great self-governing Dominions — "The Times" says: "That the role of the Dominions and colonies is at present auxiliary, rather than primary, is due, not to any subordinate station, but to the geographical accident that places the British Isles in immediate juxtaposition with the evil forces with which all are at war. "If Nazi aggression - were to show its sinister head in another continent, no doubt one of the Dominions would take the lead in resistance, and Britain would secure the rearward positions. "Day after day news is always 'that the subject people' of the Empire offer of their own accord their various contributions to assist the 'exploiter.' That this should be done, in their own right and judgment by free nations, the aid of a Gestapo or Black Guards, must be an outrage upon the very axioms of Nazi philosophy. If Herr Hitler should ever read history of a little earlier* date than 1919, be may some day discover that his conception of the Empire as a collection of enslaved peoples, all fretting to throw off their chains, contains a fallacy that has led other rulers of Germany to their destruction."

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