“SMUG ENGLAND”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19980, 4 July 1939, Page 5

“SMUG ENGLAND”

ANOTHER BITTER SPEECH NEW VERSION OF MUNICH LONDON, June 23. Dr. Goebbel's, .the German Minister of Propaganda, in a speech in Berlin, offered a sensational interpretation of the historic Munich conference. His speech is regarded as an open smack in the face for the British Prime Minister. Mr. Neville Chamberlain. Dr. Goebbels said: “During last summer intellectuals constantly nagged and criticised the NationalSocialist .regime’s course of action. ‘What would have happened if Chamberlain had not come to Munich?’ they asked. I say that Chamberlain came because he bad to come. He came because we had him so cornered that he was, to use a chess term, ‘in check.’

“We could not confide our course of action to the intellectuals three months before. It was enough that we wanted to open the way on the chessboard to the English King, and that the way would toe found.” Dr. Goebbels’ speech lasted an hour and kept an audience of 15,000 students and workers in the vast Sportpalast giggling at the expense of the democracies, chiefly Britain. Dr. Goebbels roared: “Smug England goes to church on Sundays while at the same time she drops bombs on iArab villages. We have torn the .mask off this morality, saying that we are not satisfied with things ns .they are and that, as men created the present system, men also can change it.”