NAZI INFAMY REALISED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 120, 19 April 1940, Page 7

NAZI INFAMY REALISED

NEUTRALS TAKE PRECAUTIONS REICH’S POWER WEAKENED (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received April 19, 9.45 a.m. RUGBY, April IS. There is a growing recognition in most neutral countries , of the magnitude and significance of the British naval and air ' successes since the opening of the Norwegian campaign, the development of which is awaited with intense interest. Meanwhile attention is being closely directed to detailed accounts of the plot by which the Germans effected the invasion of Norway.

STERN MEASURES. The Daily Telegraph says that signs multiply that the Norwegian plot has weakened German power. “On the new front tiie prospect for them is dark,” says the paper, “and the neutral btates are bent on stern precautions to ensure that treaclierv within shall not open their defences to the barbarian. All over Europe the dupes and hirelings who compose the vanguard of modern Germany's warfare are being dealt with faithfully. What was done in Oslo with all its shameless lying and- brutality is no more than Hitler and the other leaders whom Germany serves have proclaimed “To weaken friendly States for destruction by planting the canker of treason, by giving false assurances, by resort to the tricks of the underworld of crime all this is in the Nazi textbooks of policy. Never before has it all been employed in one elaborate infamy and exposed immediately beyond denial. “The countries within reach of the German fangs f would he blind if they could not learn front so glaring an example of what is intended against them.”