POSSIBLE DANZIG MOVES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20014, 12 August 1939, Page 6

POSSIBLE DANZIG MOVES

NEGOTIATION OF FORCE

LONDON PRESS OPINIONS

PHRASES OF FOERSTEK

(Klee. Tel. Copyright—Uniicd Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.)

Rccd. 12.40 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 11. The British press comment on the speech made at Danzig yesterday by the Nazi leader, Herr Foerster, notes that while the speech was- phrased in the accustomed language of violence calculated further lo inflame the existing tension, it does not in itself announce a new stage in the crisis.

The Daily Telegraph says that, as might be expected, it leaves the next word with Herr Hitler, of whose voice Herr Foerster is- regarded' as an echo. “Not until Herr Hitler chooses to speak shall we know what is the meaning of the phrases in which Herr Foerster proclaims the hour of liberation is at hand and that Danzig will again return to the Reich and promises that there will be obedience, on -the part of the Danzigcrs, to every order that the Fuehrer gives,” says the Telegraph. “Much of the speech casts the whole of the blame for the present situation upon the Poles and is a transparent travesty of the re'eent history of the Free City.

"At this critical moment there is, on Herr Foerster’s part, no attempt to emulate the restraint which Marshal Snugley-Rydz exhibited on Sunday. That, however, was scarcely ‘to -be expected- from our knowledge of the manner in which the -campaign at Danzig has been -conducted and of 'the sources from which it derived inspiration. “It is left to Ilerr Hitler lo show Europe the inner meaning of the oratorical phrases and upon, his interpretation of them. —whether they mean negotiations as to the future of the Free City or an endeavour to restore it to the Reich by force — depends -the issue of peace or war.”