WAR OBJECTIVE
DESTROYING BRITAIN PRELUDE TO PEACE DO NOT FEAR ATTACK
WILL NOT BE GOADED (Elec. Td!. Copyright—TTinte.l Tress Assn.) (Reed. Nov. IT. 1.40 p.m.) LONDON. Nov. Hi. It is reported from Berlin that Germany is going to carry on the war "until the British supremacy ir. destroyed." This is according to a statement by an authorised spokesman.
He added: “When we have won the war. it will be time to discuss peace terms. We are as ready to fight as we were lor peace."
Asked why Germany had not attacked, he said: “Speculators assert that we need to attack to keep up the morale of Germany. It is said that wo might even have to attack to the south-east, because Herr Von Ribbentrop needs success to show the Fuehrer.
“We do not fear attack, but arc content to let military judgment choose the time and we will not be goaded m: by foreign propaganda."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20097, 17 November 1939, Page 8
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155WAR OBJECTIVE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20097, 17 November 1939, Page 8
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