GERMANY & SPAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1939, Page 5

GERMANY & SPAIN

HITLER GREETS RETURNED TROOPS MORE WILD TALK ABOUT ENGLAND “BLACKMAILING ATTEMPTS.” By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) BERLIN, June 6. Herr Hitler, addressing German Legionaries returned from Spain in the Lustgarten, said: “The Spanish civil war threated to set Europe aflame with a Bolshevist revolution, so I decided to join in the struggle in July, 1936, and assist a country that was determined to fight for her independence. Despite the blackmailing attempts of England and France, we stood shoulder to shoulder with Italy, but the Western Democracies tried to circumvent this ideological co-opera-tion with lies, declaring that we wanted to conquer Spain. These ideas are natural to England, which is accustomed to stealing colonies. You fought in fulfilment of my will. Germany is thankful to you.” Herr Hitler also declared that, in answering General Franco’s appeal to himself and to Signor Mussolini for help, he had thanked him for Spain’s neutrality in the Great War, despite Britain’s efforts to bring her in. Warmongers should now realise that every attempt to attack Germany would meet with a resistance of which the encirclers “have no conception.” Field Marshal Goering declared that all General Franco’s important victories were obtained with the help of Germans.

FRANCO COMPLAINS CHARGES AGAINST FRANCE AND BRITAIN. SECRET OFFENSIVE ALLEGED. LONDON, June 6. The Burgos correspondent of the British United Press says that addressing the Falange Espanola (Fascist Party), General Franco complained that France was fulfilling the agreement between General Jordana, for Spain, and General Berard, for France, with reluctant slowness, damaging Spain’s economic interests. A great part of the securities belonging to the Spanish banks remained Britain in sequestration or subject to litigation due to the monstrous survival of a fictitious beneficiary which the Reds created in the last days of their flight. General Franco added, “There is a secret offensive against Spain, fostered by those wno foisted the horrible crimes of Marxism on Spain. We must resist this encirclement.” The speech is believed to be a prelude to the adoption of law against the syndicates and of a self-sufficien-cy programme in consonance with the axis powers.