HITLER’S WAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1940, Page 3

HITLER’S WAR

AND FORCES THAT WILL BREAK HIM

MR L. S. AMERY’S SURVEY. ADDRESS TO GERMAN PEOPLE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 1. The Secretary of State for India, Mr L. S. Amery, in the 8.8. C. German news service last night, addressed himself to German people and victims of Hitler’s policy, which “has made wars and aggressions ends in themselves.” He told the Germans that the war which was devastating Europe had in fact been begun by Hitler seven years ago. It was in very fact Hitler's war.

"Hitler has broken the armies of his Continental neighbours,” said Mr Amery. “But great issues in world history are not settled by armies alone. He has raised in the conquered countries and outside, and not in Europe only, moral forces the resistance of which, in the long run. will count for more than all his armoured divisions and all his aeroplanes. “What is more, ho has still to deal with us and with the resources of our Empire. For us the war is only just beginning. Hitler may stand today where Napoleon stood after Austerlitz. The same increasing moral resistance from those he has conquered, the same need to break, the fetters of England's blockade, the same inability to go back upon his career of aggression will break him as they broke Napoleon, but they will break Hitler much sooner.

"Do you realise that the tide is beginning to turn already? What has become of the much-heralded invasion and conquest of England? Now you realise that it is already beginning to peter out in a series of inconclusive air raids, each one of which proves the superiority of our air force in quality and brings us nearer the day when we shall enjoy superiority of numbers as well and can strike home at Germany far more effectively than we have done so far.

“When that day comes, all lions Hiller has captured in order to be nearer to strike at us will make it easier foi - us to strike at his forces and at the resources upon which he depends. Every conquest ho has made so far has only helped to make our blockade more effective.

"You were promised a short war. You have had one winter. What of the prospects of next winter? What of the prospects of next year, when our air force will have gained the upper hand and when we shall at last have an army ready to strike home wherever the over-strained fabric of the German military occupation shows signs of cracking. How long is Germany prepared to go on sustaining an impossible effort? We shall go on to the end and we know that we shall win.”