BRITISH AIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1939, Page 5

BRITISH AIMS

JUST & ENDURING PEACE WORTHLESSNESS OF NAZI | ASSURANCES. REPLY TO MARSHAL GOERING. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY, September 11. The Ministry of Information states that official circles consider that Air-Marshal Goering’s speech revealed a bankruptcy of German policy. Herr Hitler has made many promises to foreign countries, but none have been kept. It. is therefore not surprising that no confidence is placed in any assurance he may give and Britain is justified in requiring that peace should be concluded with a German Government whose word may be trusted. The German Government has also misled the German people who were promised “peace and honour.” They have not got peace because Germany deliberately pursues a policy of violence which made war inevitable. They have not got honour, because the world recognises the crudity and falseness of the German charges against Poland. The “sickening technique,” as the British Prime Minister called it, has become too familiar. There is no country in Europe which does not regard the present German Government as pursuing a dishonourable policy, which is a menace to the security and independence of all. Britain is fighting for a return to decency in international relations. Until this is achieved no country is safe. Germany may say she has no aims in the West, but the tale of limited German territorial am, bitions has been told too often to inspire the slightest confidence. Britain does not desire another Versailles, as Marshal Goering falsely alleges, nor a collapse of Germany, but a just and enduring peace with any honourable German Government. The statement is interpreted as a further rejection of any peace offers by the present Nazi regime. GERMANY SECURE ACCORDING TO GAYDA. SAYS BLOCKADE IS DOOMED TO FAILURE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) ROME, September 11. In the “Giornale d’ltalia” Signor Virginio Gayda says: “The starving of Germany by an economic blockade is doomed to failure, due to Germany’s economic preparations for war and the possibility of getting raw materials from Russia. Britain is not only attempting morally and economically to isolate Germany in Europe and the world, but is trying to reduce a revolt of the German people against Herr Hitler and National Socialism. Germany is united and disciplined. The economy of the past six years has aimed at self-sufficiency and the results are prodigious.” GERMAN SOCIALISTS PEACE EFFORTS CONTINUED. IN SPITE' OF GESTAPO. (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) LONDON, September 11. The German Independent Socialists have smuggled a message to the Independent Labour Party in which it is stated that despite the ruthless surveillance of the Gestapo, fortification workers have distributed a pamphlet urging the people to fight against Hitler’s policy of aggression and war. I