GOERING BROADCASTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1939, Page 5

GOERING BROADCASTS

MINGLING OF BOMBAST & PEACE TALK

SAYS GERMANY CANNOT BE BLOCKADED.

ABUSE OF GREAT BRITAIN

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON September 9. The lietitl of the German Council of Defence, Air Marshal Goering, in a- speech to munition workers, said : “The British reason for war is nothing- but nonsensical chatter. Surely Britain should have said that our demands against Boland were just and urged her to give way quickly, but ’ the Poles are of as little interest to Britain as the Turks. There is nothing more important to Britain than herself.

“She lies today in stating that she must make war against brute force. A nation dares to say this despite the fact that it was built up by naked oppression of innumerable nations and races. They say Germany is mortally vulnerable in the economic and internal political spheres. When I started the four-year plan my object was to form a protection that could not be beaten. Today I can say Germany is the best-armed State in the world. No power commands such munitions as we do.

“No oilier Power has such experts and such united workers. We possess all we need to defeat our enemies. The enemy asserts that a long war will weaken us, but it will make us stronger. We certainly must be prepared for a hard time, but we are unbeatable if we remain united. We can promise Britain that 1918 will never be repeated.”' Addressing Mr Chamberlain Marshal Goering said: “ You cannot doubt the will to peace of the German people. It is great and deep. We are ready for peace. It rests with you. Will you give a word for life or death? Then give it, and we will accept the offer; but never again shall there be a Versailles. BLOCKADE PROJECTS. “The prospect of a blockade is different from the last war 1 , when we were surrounded on every side by our enemies. In the north they cannot blockade us' because they run against the neutrality agreements, while in the east we have no enemy. If the British assert we will not have raw materials, they cannot assert that ■ the Russians, have not got them. . “We are not sufficiently shut in in the south, too. We still have Rumania, Yugoslavia and other countries. They remain neutral because they dre sensible. If they dared to attack they would quickly learn what it meant to touch Germany. The British can therefore cut us off only from America, with whom, statistics show, our trade is pitiable in any event. “We want nothing from the French. We shall defend our frontiers like iron, but shall not attack. If we are attacked we hit back.” HITLER SERIOBUSLY UPSET. After declaring that it was a lie that Poland did not receive the German demands before the, war and that Hen Hitler was seriously upset at haying to go to war. Marshal Goering added: •■We did not want war. We want nothing from France, whose frontiers we have guaranteed, forever. It M Daladier does not believe that it is his affair. We do not want to shoot Frenchmen. We do not want to conquer Britain or France. We want peace. T chatter about attack and the violence of Nazism means nothing to us, but don’t confuse offers, of peace with weakness. If you want peace you can have it. Mr Chamberlain. -The Fuehrer has ordered that open towns must not be Bombed. _ I have even refrained from attacking mos important military objectives because they are too close to towns. We- ha g given our word that we won t ki peaceful people unnecessarily, but people think they can do that to u„ there will be terrible consequence A German short wave radio todaji broadcast in English: “Just a monrorA British soldiers. Are you willing to laj down your lives for a pack ot lies. The German soldiers admired your pluck and courage in the last war Now handful of politicians say the Poles aic your dearest friends, for whom you must be willing to die though the British Empire is not threatened. BRITAIN’S STAND REPLY TO GOERING'S HINTS. NO PEACE TILL GERMANS LEAVE POLAND. ' NEW YORK, September 9. The London correspondent of the United Press of America states that in response to Marshal Goerings hints that Germany is ready

fer an “honourable” peace, an official spokesman announced that Britain is not ready to negotiate until the German troops are entirely withdrawn from Poland. The.. London., correspondent of the “New York Times,” commenting on the speech and the British announcement concerning a three years’ war, states: “This is Britain’s emphatic and unmistakable answer to Air-Marshal Goering’s suggestion that Britain'might be prepared to reconsider the position and is also a reply,to the wishful thinkers who arc accepting at face value the rumours of discontent in Germany. It is known that there is discontent, but well-informed quarters feel it will be a long time before it is serious enough to count as a real factor. “The war is unpopular in Germany, but it is not believed that Nazism will crack till Germany is hit so hard that the Germans are ready to brave the Gestapo in order to discard Nazism. “Officially, the emphasis is laid less on the assumption that the war will last three years than on the pledges that Britain is determined to see it through. There is not the slightest doubt the Government has expressed the nation's firm resolve. “The real point of Air-Marshal Goering’s speech lies in his appeal to Mr Chamberlain. Evidently the German leaders are still hoping that the French and British resolution to fight Nazism to the bitter end is not irrevocable. They will learn the mistakenness of that hope ” FRENCH REPLY GOERING’S APPARENT FEARS. FANTASTIC STORY TOLD TO AMERICA. (Received This Day, 9.5, a.mJ PARIS, September 10. The French Ministry of Information says Marshal Goering’s warning to the workers to prepare for siege and privation shows that ho apparently fears such a condition as might tend towards internal disintegration. For Ihe first time in history a statesman has asked for sacrifices from his people, not for the defence of their country or for an ideal, but to conquer another’s;

goods. Marshal Goering insults Poland by describing her as a plunderer— Poland who thrice was partitioned by Prussia and was attacked on the present occasion without, an ultimatum. Marshal Goering’s speech was broadcast in several languages and a special appeal was made to America, urging the Americans no longer to sympathise with Britain, who had wilfully sunk the Athenia with hundreds ot Americans on board.