NAZI NOTIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1939, Page 6

NAZI NOTIONS

BRITAIN AS ARCHWILLAIN 'OF WAR ' VON RIBBENTROP’S ORATION AT DANZIG. GERMAN VIEW OF MUNICH. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) DANZIG, October 24. Heralded by rolling drums and all the pageantry typical of a Nazi rally, Herr von Ribbentrop told the Danzigers, in his speech today, that Britain was responsible for the war by her anti-German Press campaign, secondly by her guarantee to Poland and thirdly by her rejection of Herr Hitler’s peace proposals on October 6. “There is not the slightest doubt,” Herr von Ribbentrop declared, “that the French did not want war and would prefer peace today rather than tomorrow. England forced the war on the. French. The British Government is now playing a dangerous game with the future of its Empire and if it persists may go down in history as the grave digger of the British Empire.” Herr con Ribbentrop said part of the world praised Munich as Mr Chamberlain’s great work for peace. Nothing could be more false. Britain's promise of assistance to the Czechs transformed into a European crisis a problem which, without interference, would have been solved overnight. Mr Chamberlain went home and presented a gigantic armaments programme.” “I can prove beyond all doubt that this war was systematically and secretly prepared for years by the British Government,” Herr von Ribbentrop declared. “Mr Chamberlain went to Munich not to prevent war, but to postpone it till British rearmament had been completed.”