"VERSAILLES IS DEAD"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 38, 8 November 1937, Page 7

"VERSAILLES IS DEAD"

Hitler's Service to the World GOEBBELS ON NEW GERMANY (Eeceived 8, 8.45 a.m.) BERLUST, Nov. 6. Remarking tkat he had ixo sensations to announeej Dr. Goebbels told 17,000 people at the Sports Palaee that the.. world was surprised at Germany's aetions only because it did not hnow Germany. Since 1933 Germany had. not paid a Ted eent with regard to its Yorsaillos obligation. If Other eountries had not pressed for payment it was because they hnew that the answer %ould make thenl lose their sight and hearing. Europe had to realise that Versailles was dead. Serr Hitler had tfmdered a great^ service to the world by tearing it ttp page by page. If Europe would be Stupid enough to ab low the Bolshevik experiment in Spain • tliey must know that Germany would not tolerate it. Apai't frOm attacks on the foreign Press, Eoman Catholicism. and the opposition to the chureh in Eussia} the Spe6ch contained Uo fireworks, Di*. Goebbels predicted that Germany would be self-sufficient in from two to tliree years. After admitting a scarcity of foodstuffe, Dr. Goebbels declared: "HOW different is the position in wealthy Great Britain and wealthy Pranco. They possess whole continents; thcy are living in abundance; yot they tell us that Germany has the highest standard of living. In Germany thore prevails at least law and order. Here no*one needs to sleep on the pavements and cOver himself with newspapers. ' '