NAZI CRIME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1940, Page 6

NAZI CRIME

BASE ATTACK ON PEACEFUL COUNTRY NORWEGIAN MINISTER'S DENUNCIATION. MUCH DESTRUCTION SEEN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) RUGBY, May 15. Professor Koht, the Norwegian Foreign Minister, in a broadcast to the Norwegian people, said he had come to London to confer with the British Government as to the best way of helping Norway. He also is going to Paris before returning to Norway. He said: "I have seen a lot of destruction by the German military'machine. In Norway their bombs have devastated beautiful and peaceful places in the valleys and fiords. 1 have seen weeping women and children take shelter in woods and cellars. What the Germans do not venture to do against the nations with which they are al war, they have done against us who had no wish other than to be neutral. That is how they treat Germanic-Nor-dic people who will not submit themselves to the German yoke. Many ask: •Could the country have been spared, but the question was no longer whether we could have remained neutral, but ' which of the belligerent, great Powers wc should join. It has been complained that we were too strictly neutral. That is the best proof of our absolute neutrality. But. Germany wanted to drag us into the war at any price and occupied the most important, strategic points five or six hours befote delivery of a Note to the Norwegian Government on April 9. Nobody reading the 13 points of the memorandum placed before Norway can doubt that it was bound to lead to war with the Allies.”