OUTBURSTS BY HITLER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1938, Page 6

OUTBURSTS BY HITLER

“WAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST GERMANY” DENUNCIATION OF BRITISH STATESMEN. TAUNTS ABOUT PALESTINE. (Received This Day, 1.40 p.m.) MUNICH, November 8. Herr Hitler, speaking to old fighters assembled in the massive cellar where the 1923 putsch was planned, justified Germany’s armed strength. He said: ‘Endeavours are being made again to lead us into traps. I remain cool in face of the sirens’ songs. It would be lovely if the world could change its course and take up new attitudes towards us, but I see only a world rearming. Germany, in a rearming world, will not wander about carrying an olive branch. We shall enforce our peace. I have no. intention of changing foreign constitutions. Let them keep their democracies. We shall keep our National Socialism. Nevertheless I shall not allow the British Parliament to dictate to me, saying it won’t destroy the German people but only their dictatorship. That could have been said in 1918, but not since then. I warn Germany that I see a war campaign being started agains,'. her. I often said we don’t want anything from them except the return of those colonies wrenched from us under false pretences. There will be no war about that. We want nothing apart from that except trade with them. There are in England and France men at' the helm who desire peace, but there are others outside the Government who want war. The Opposition today may be the Government tomorrow. If Mr Churchill says ‘I don’t hate the Germans, they are only a danger to us,’ I reply ‘That’s the same here.’ If one of the Opposition leaders says he wishes only to destroy the regime and not the people, I reply: ‘You’ll have to destroy the whole German people before succeeding in moving this regime.’ ” Herr Hitler added: “If Mr Eden says he wants to liberate the German people, I say: ‘You are not authorised to speak for Germany’.” Referring to Mr Greenwood’s statement that he had destroyed two democracies, Herr Hitler said: “I say it is a lie. I have not destroyed two democracies. I destroyed two dictatorships—those of Schushnigg and Benes. I Tried to remove them by invoking the rights of self-determina-tion. I am afraid I failed in this.” Her Hitler taunted British Parliamentarians with not knowing much about Central Europe. He confessed that Germans did not know much about Palestine, but why did not the British employ their wisdom, intelligence and insight there, “for it seems to me that happenings in Palestine smell much of violence and little of democracy.”