RIBBENTROP CRY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20078, 26 October 1939, Page 7

RIBBENTROP CRY

ALLEGED AGGRESSION CHAMBERLAIN AIM WORLD TO JUDGE CASE WHITEHALL CONTENT (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 2.45 p.m. RUGBY, Oct. 24. While no official criticism has been made of the speech delivered by the German Foreign Minister, Herr von Ribbentrop, at a Nazi rally in Danzig to-day, responsible opinion takes the view that the Nazi Minister introduced no new element into the situation, nor is the speech considered to have any particular importance, composed as it would seem to be, for internal consumption in Danzig and Germany. As observers in London see it, it is felt that the same attempts are made to divide Britain from France and the same stupid falsehool about the aggressive intentions of Britain—intentions which, as everyone outside Germany fully understands, exist only in the imagination Of the Nazi Government.

In the desperate efforts to maintain the German people in isolation from the truth, Herr von Ribbentrop does not, it is commented, hesitate to spread- falsehoods about Mr. Neville Chamberlain’s policy at the time of the Munich meeting in 1938, winch may well be thought too stupid to deceive even tne most credulous.

It pointed out that the British policy has been made clear by official documents which have been made public in recent weeks. These documents were carefully kept from the Germans, but have been the subject of exhaustive study throughout tne resi of the world.

The British Government, it is thought, will be well content to allow the world to form its own view now that the case has been made public as to who, whether Britain or France on the one hand, or Germany on the other, is the aggressor in the present war.