COMPLETE TRAVESTY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20078, 26 October 1939, Page 5

COMPLETE TRAVESTY

LONDON PRESS VIEW CHARGES EXPOSED FANTASTIC THEMES (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 12 noon RUGBY, Oct. 25. Although delivered too late for general comment in the morning newspapers, Herr von Ribbentrop’s rpeech at Danzig yesterday is reproduced with headlines Indicating their views on what is described as the extraordinary tirade against Britain, which, says the Badly Mail, completely travestied the events leading to the Allied declaration of war.

The view of The Times that Herr von Ribbentrop’s charges that Britain prepared the war are fantastic is developed by other newspapers The News Chronicle says that the speech was calculated to have the greatest effect inside Germany where there are fewer facilities for checking historical facts. “Nothing that Herr von Ribbentrop said weakens the main count against the Nazis that, in-the pursuance of their ambitions, they sabotaged all hope of a peaceful settlement and, time niter time, resorted to aggression in breach* of their pledged word,” states the NewsChronicle. “Nothing in the speech can alter the determination of the Allies to redress the wrongs that the Nazis have done and free Europe from the recurring threat of arbitrary and unscrupulous attack.” The Daily Mail states: “The truth is thrown more sharply into relief against the background of Nazi falsehood. The British White Papers are sufficient answer to the absurd charge that this country worked systematically for war with Germany and that we signed the Munich agreement because we had not rearmed. Herr von Ribbentrop repeats the clumsy manoeuvre of trying to separate Britain and France. Let M. Daladier, the Premier of France, speak for the democracies: ’Germany’s conquests were but stages on the road which would have led France and Europe to direct slavery, 1 ’