MUST BE KILLED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 13 November 1939, Page 10

MUST BE KILLED

SPIRIT OF HITLERISM

OBJECTIVES OF BRITAIN

PEACE BASED ON CONSENT

FREEDOM & PROSPERITY

(British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY. Nov. 11. The Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Information, Sir Edward Grill, in a speech, said that Hitlerism, which we had pledged ourselves to destroy, was something much stronger and more penetrative than the mind and character of-a single-man. - There would be no Hitler to-day if tlie German people were not susceptible to the crude and brutal leadership of the type he represented. There would be no Hitler, to-day if there had not been in every German town and village a number of men ready and willing to inflict upon their own compatriots the awful cruelties and tyrannies which mark his regime. Evil things in Germany at present dominated the good, and there was only one means by which that satanie spirit in Germany could be destroyed. That was the arbitrament to which it has itself appealed, the arbitrament of the sword.

"Destroy it we must and will, but what then?” • continued the speaker. "The question is being asked all over the world.

No Territorial Ambitions “Britain has no territorial ambitions of any kind and she has no desire to maintain a position of exclusive ijrivilege under which the great resources she commands will be denied to the rest of the world. “It is tune and, more than time, that the nations of Europe regarded their civilisation in Europe and elsewhere as a common charge, and we want no exclusive control of the wealth of other Contingents for ourselves.

“We seek no dictated peace, but peace by .agreement in which all peoples, including German, will play their part. We seek a peace which is guaranteed by -general acceptance, not a peace guaranteed by the strength of two or three dominant Powers while other people remain weak and disarmed. There must be force behind all law, but the wider the consent on which the law is based the less the danger that force will have to be used. Economic Welfare .

“The -third principle is that we shall strive for-..economic -welfare, not merely of the victorious countries, but of -Europe as' a whole. The greatest weakness of the Treaty of Versailles and the sister treaties was their blindness to the economic needs of various new States which they set up.

“The Stales of Europe will, I hope, come to realise that,-without co-opera-tion on a scale unknown. in the past, they cannot hope to be either safe or prosperous. We must strive to bring that about by making every possible contribution to the common good.

“It is being said by Germany and Russia that we entered this war to maintain Imperialistic domination over Europe and other parts of the world. That is a.lie. We want nothing but the extending of freedom, a higher standard of living, and an ample and abundant life for our own people and for ifll people's.”